{"id":61686,"date":"2012-09-09T03:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T08:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=61686"},"modified":"2012-09-09T03:15:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T08:15:45","slug":"why-rings-museum-was-ditched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/09\/09\/61686-why-rings-museum-was-ditched\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rings museum was ditched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.stuff.co.nz\/1347012293\/148\/7463148.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"250\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" class=\"no-lazyload\"> From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff.co.nz<\/a>: Sir Peter Jackson&#8217;s plans to build a world-class film museum in Shelly Bay were scuppered when Sir Ngatata Love&#8217;s partner sought $750,000 in consultancy fees to help secure the land.<\/p>\n<p>Months before the Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust gained the right to buy the former air force base on the Miramar Peninsula from the Crown, Jackson wrote to Sir Ngatata outlining a plan to create a permanent home for his vast array of Lord of the Rings props. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have always thought that Shelly Bay would be an ideal site for a state-of-the-art exhibition building of international standard,&#8221; Jackson wrote in March 2008. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/entertainment\/film\/7636786\/Why-LOTR-museum-was-ditched\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stuff.co.nz: Sir Peter Jackson&#8217;s plans to build a world-class film museum in Shelly Bay were scuppered when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,99,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr-movies","category-lotr-production","category-jackson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From Stuff.co.nz: Sir Peter Jackson&#039;s plans to build a world-class film museum in Shelly Bay were scuppered when Sir Ngatata Love&#039;s partner sought $750,000 in consultancy fees to help secure the land. 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