If you’ve been thinking about grabbing yourself a copy of The Desolation of Smaug 2014 Annual, the folks…
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There are a few movie spoiler images. In particular, if you’re avoiding Bear Beorn, you’ll want to look away now. We’ve previously covered the spoiler contents of the book. If you’re interested in those, check out this post from last month. Continue reading “New images from and review of The Desolation of Smaug 2014 Annual”
Artwork for the Lego Lake-town chase set has been around for a while.
The set, which has just five mini-figs — Bard the Bowman, Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, a Lake-town Guard and the Master of Lake-town — also features several Lake-town buildings, and a boat. I’d forgotten about it entirely until Ringer Sander recently reminded me of the existence of the Lake-town Chase set. Looking over the artwork again, I got thinking about the significance of that boat and exactly what this Lake-town chase might be, and its relation to what we saw in the trailer itself. So, from here on in, we’ll be talking about movie spoilers! Continue reading “Spoiler analysis: Lake-town Chase Lego set and the Hobbit trailer offer some story deviation clues”
Our friends at Weta Workshop have released their latest newsletter and its jam packed with information. Tonight, we get two new pre-orders and a run down of when we will start seeing items for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The first item that came up for pre-order is the next Hobbit Hole helping fans create their own Hobbiton with Gandalf’s Cutting. This great little piece is named for being the Hobbit Hole that is nearest when Gandalf enters Hobbiton. The other item that went up for pre-order is a beatuiful art print capturing The Argonath. This stunning print was created by Gust Hunter and captures the Kings of Old as the Fellowship goes by. You can order Gandalf’s Cutting for $40 and it will ship in late November and you can also order The Argonath art print for $35 which is in-stock.
Also within tonights newsletter, Weta tells fans when they can expect to start ordering products that are tied in with the second film in the Hobbit Trilogy. These products will start to be released from next Monday afternoon here in the US, which is next Tuesday morning in New Zealand/Australia. So starting from next week fans can expect to order at least one new statue, which will be the Elven King Thranduil himself.
Here is the full comment from tonight’s newsletter:
Next week signals the launch of the first items from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
We have previously launched Bilbo and Bombur Barrel Riders as exclusive preview products, but 15 October signals the start of our range proper!
We have a range of products lined up for the next few months and while we want to keep some of them a surprise, one or two have seen the light of day at conventions and events.
King Thranduil 1/6 scale statue is one such piece and we will start taking orders for this striking Limited Edition piece:
Tuesday 15 October at 9AM NZ time!
Around the World that means the following times:
US West Coast: Monday 14 October at 1pm
US East Coast: Monday 14 October at 4pm
Central Europe: Monday 14 October at 10pm
Sydney, Australia: Tuesday 15 October at 7am
If you’re a bit of a completist (like me), you’ve probably been waiting on clean artwork for ALL the banners that debuted last week alongside the trailer. So, here they all are in high-resolution for your viewing — and desktopping — pleasure. Download and enjoy. Continue reading “Clean artwork for all five new banners for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”
This weekend (Saturday at 6pm ET) the Hall of Fire will be detouring from our regular book chats back into movie-land as we head into spoiler-land and pull apart the new trailer for The Desolation of Smaug in what’s sure to be an entertaining and enlightening discussion.
Bard: You have no right to enter that mountain!
Thorin: I have every right.
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug trailer chat and analysis! Continue reading “Hall of Fire chat today: Hobbit trailer discussion and analysis!”
Here’s high-resolution clean versions of the Hobbit artwork that has just debuted today on the official Hobbit website. Download and enjoy. We think they make great desktop artwork! Continue reading “Elves! Dwarves! Hobbit! Brand-new artwork for The Desolation of Smaug”