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In lugnet.castle, David Gowing writes:
> I would therefore suggest that a "Lord of the Rings" line would be far more
> appropriate for TLG to be developing. The film is due for release in
> December 2002. It is truly fantasy based, mediaeval, full of knights,
> wizards, castles, dragons, etc.. I agree that the size of the Hobbits could
> be a problem, but what the heck, they are fantasy figures, so there is more
> scope for imagination.
Actually, the first of three LotR movies is out Decemeber 14, 2001. About
309 days from now, give or take a few hours. Not that I'm counting, or
anything. :)
I think that sets based on LotR would be super-cool, and I'd probably buy
all of them, even if horrid, much like the die-hard SW fans are buying all
the SW sets.
Of course, if SW is any predictor, we won't get any orcs until the 3rd year
of the license, and then we'll get 1 in a $50 Cirith Ungol playset. :(
And of course, there's the other great thing about Lego... you don't have to
wait, you can build your own. :)
Hmm...
James
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In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> Actually, the first of three LotR movies is out Decemeber 14, 2001. About
> 309 days from now, give or take a few hours. Not that I'm counting, or
> anything. :)
I seem to be having trouble accessing the official site, and you seem like
the person to ask, given your understated anticipation of the film! Is
there a mirror site available? The last time I went on it I couldn't get
much info without downloading a .mov file; is there a simple press release page?
Thanks for your help!
Dave!
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In lugnet.castle, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
>
> > Actually, the first of three LotR movies is out Decemeber 14, 2001. About
> > 309 days from now, give or take a few hours. Not that I'm counting, or
> > anything. :)
>
> I seem to be having trouble accessing the official site, and you seem like
> the person to ask, given your understated anticipation of the film! Is
> there a mirror site available? The last time I went on it I couldn't get
> much info without downloading a .mov file; is there a simple press release page?
The official site is very pretty and generally quite neat, but also pretty
darn useless unless your browser has good Real* support. Newline has an
agreement with RealMedia, it seems. :(
The good news is that they have updated the site to include some stuff in
Quicktime, including the theatrical trailer (which is pretty much just a
teaser, but does have some nice eye candy).
I tend to get most of my fix...er...news, yeah, that's it... news at
http://www.theonering.com
It's a pretty good fansite that collects news & stuff. They've also got a
messageboard, but I don't read it much because it's mostly arguments about
how accurate and/or sacriligeous the movie will be. I'm not as fanatic as
some people out there - yikes!
James
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Dave Schuler at orrex@excite.com wrote:
> I seem to be having trouble accessing the official site, and you seem like
> the person to ask, given your understated anticipation of the film! Is
> there a mirror site available? The last time I went on it I couldn't get
> much info without downloading a .mov file; is there a simple press release
> page?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Dave!
There's gobs of info here:
http://www.theonering.net
~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin
--
Mark's Lego Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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