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tattooed_dwarf
Rivendell
Feb 9 2015, 4:16pm
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BOTFA collectibles?
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Is there anything coming? Weta has Bard statue and staff of Saruman, that's it? Where is Dain stuff, Beorn statue. Dain funko would be great too.
(This post was edited by tattooed_dwarf on Feb 9 2015, 4:17pm)
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Feb 9 2015, 4:46pm
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Is Weta producing a Lake-town environment?
"The Great Scaly One protects us from alien invaders and ourselves with his fiery atomic love. It can be a tough love - the “folly of man” and all that - but Godzilla is a fair god.
"Godzilla is totally accepting of all people and faiths. For it is written that liberal or conservative, Christian or Muslim or Jew, straight or gay, all people sound pretty much the identical as they are crushed beneath his mighty feet." - Tony Isabella, The First Church of Godzilla (Reform)
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Foedhrass
The Shire
Feb 9 2015, 6:46pm
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... there is more to come. They just don't announce and release everything at once ;)
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FrodoEyes
Rivendell
Feb 9 2015, 7:38pm
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They usually show their big stuff at San Diego Comic Con, and I believe they've said Dain is a must.
Plus we have Bolg going up for order very soon.
'I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.'
'So do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.'
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FrodoEyes
Rivendell
Feb 9 2015, 7:40pm
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Lake Town is surely too big for an environment, kinda like Osgiliath, but parts of it maybe.
'I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.'
'So do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.'
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Feb 9 2015, 10:37pm
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Lake Town is surely too big for an environment, kinda like Osgiliath, but parts of it maybe.
I don't know. Rivendell was a good-sized environment. Of course, the Lake-town of the films was larger than Tolkien indicated, so you might be right.
"The Great Scaly One protects us from alien invaders and ourselves with his fiery atomic love. It can be a tough love - the “folly of man” and all that - but Godzilla is a fair god.
"Godzilla is totally accepting of all people and faiths. For it is written that liberal or conservative, Christian or Muslim or Jew, straight or gay, all people sound pretty much the identical as they are crushed beneath his mighty feet." - Tony Isabella, The First Church of Godzilla (Reform)
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Avandel
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Feb 27 2015, 6:03am
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A sword of my dreams - kinda - UC protype of Thorin's "raven sword" in catalogue
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I've dreamed of what I call the "raven sword" as an affordable replica, preferably made by United Cutlery because I figured it would be metal. So nice to companion the Orcrist replica.
So I just tripped over the UC catalogue and lo, looks like in January UC put pictures and preorders for my "dream sword replica" - called the Regal Sword of Thorin Oakenshield.
Except it's not steel. UC is making the replica out of polyresin. It looks amazing, with a dwarf shield mount. But, as some FB complaints already point out, what's up with the plastic? To their credit, UC freely states it would cost too much to make such a heavy sword out of steel.
But this replica is not cheap, and as far as I know polyresin is heavy, and brittle. It's one thing for a figurine, but a sword? I know materials cost has gone up, but find it hard to believe the cost of basic cutlery steel - such as is used for Orcrist - has gone that high. I wish I could talk to a blacksmith or metal worker and get an opinion, or a knife maker.
I would have to think hard about spending that much for a replica sword that is not metal, as I would have thought. WETA seems to use urethane for replicas and I assume this isn't as brittle and heavy as polyresin. Anyway, for all I know I could find someone to make me a replica *Sigh*. The regal sword of Thorin is something I don't see as plastic.
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