{"id":77504,"date":"2013-08-23T06:34:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T11:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=77504"},"modified":"2013-08-24T01:25:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T06:25:11","slug":"fake-moments-in-comic-con-hall-h-the-1970s-lotr-and-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/08\/23\/77504-fake-moments-in-comic-con-hall-h-the-1970s-lotr-and-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake moments in Comic-con Hall H &#8211; the 1970s LOTR and Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-77510 no-lazyload\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-08-03 at 2.13.13 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-03-at-2.13.13-PM-300x268.png\" width=\"210\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-03-at-2.13.13-PM-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-03-at-2.13.13-PM-600x537.png 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-03-at-2.13.13-PM.png 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>After seeing Geoff Boucher at Entertainment Weekly start a Twitter hashtag earlier this month called &#8220;Great Moments in Fake Hall H history&#8221; TORn staffer Justin wondered what a similar series based around The Hobbit animated movies of the &#8217;70s would have looked like. Here are his thoughts.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our friend at EW, Geoff Boucher, started a twitter hashtag a few days ago &#8220;Great Moments in Fake Hall H history&#8221; &#8212; basically what it would fandom have looked like if early conventions were the size and scope of today&#8217;s massive marketing showcases.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by this, we tried to re-imagine what a Hall H panel would have looked like in 1977, &#8217;78 and &#8217;79 while The Hobbit animated movies were in progress. \u00a0What do you fans think? Did hardcore fans react positively to all three animated films? Was anyone there at SDCC in those years?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Animated LOTR from Bakshi\/Beagle conquers the 1978 holiday box office with $30 Million. Budget was just $4M<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TheOneRing.net (@theoneringnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theoneringnet\/statuses\/361712713447129088\">July 29, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\n1979 Hobbit panel:\u00a0Orson Bean\u00a0John Huston\u00a0Roddy McDowall\u00a0Paul Frees\u00a0Casey Kasem\u00a0Jules Bass\u00a0Art Rankin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23GreatMomentsInFakeHallHhistory&amp;src=hash\">#GreatMomentsInFakeHallHhistory<\/a> \u2014 TheOneRing.net (@theoneringnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theoneringnet\/statuses\/361711783599292417\">July 29, 2013<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\n1979: Jules Bass, Art Rankin with all star panel announce ROTK on ABC. Capacity crowd ERUPTS to &#8220;no roto&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23GreatMomentsInFakeHallHhistory&amp;src=hash\">#GreatMomentsInFakeHallHhistory<\/a> \u2014 TheOneRing.net (@theoneringnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theoneringnet\/statuses\/361710888744529921\">July 29, 2013<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>1978: Fans roar with excitement as Ralph Bakshi and Peter S Beagle screen first footage from LOTR <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23GreatMomentsInFakeHallHhistory&amp;src=hash\">#GreatMomentsInFakeHallHhistory<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 TheOneRing.net (@theoneringnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theoneringnet\/statuses\/361708873675051010\">July 29, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>1977: First glimpse of animated Bilbo has fans more curious than excited. NBC enters PR crisis mode. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23GreatMomentsInFakeHallHhistory&amp;src=hash\">#GreatMomentsInFakeHallHhistory<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014 TheOneRing.net (@theoneringnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theoneringnet\/statuses\/361707983928967168\">July 29, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing Geoff Boucher at Entertainment Weekly start a Twitter hashtag earlier this month called &#8220;Great Moments in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":77510,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,16,14,197,736,4,2008,148,159,1548],"tags":[2120,2121,1262,221],"class_list":["post-77504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-comiccon","category-events-conventions","category-events","category-fans","category-fool","category-hobbit-movie","category-parodies","category-hobbit","category-torn-community","category-torn-tuesdays-live","tag-fake-moment-in-sdcc-hall-h","tag-joke","tag-ralph-bakshi","tag-the-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-03-at-2.13.13-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-ka4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77504"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77559,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504\/revisions\/77559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}