InArt: The Lord of the Rings - Frodo and Sam

[HyperDrive]

I’m so stoked!!

My favorite characters in LOTR. If they’re only offered as a 2-pack, no problem for me. I was planning on getting the both of them anyway. With Gandalf and now Frodo and Sam, my LOTR display is almost complete, I’d only need Gollum/Sméagol.

I hope they also throw in their regular Shire cloaks as well, especially since one of the primary displays I want to do is Gandalf and Frodo like this picture:

But sure, most of the time I’d have Frodo and Sam together in their Elven cloaks.

 

[Fuzzy Pickles]

I understand the idea that smaller = cheaper, but regardless of scale, they still require the same development costs for sculpting, bodies, cloth and tailoring, paint, etc. I don’t know that the materials costs for the plastic bodies is wildly different from 6 inches to 12 inches. The diorama bases seem to help add value and I like the designs quite a lot.

If Inart is limited to the Fellowship of the Ring license, I think that the line is headed in the right direction.

Frodo and Sam opens the door for Merry and Pippin, maybe Bilbo is a possibility. With Gimli hinted at, hopefully Boromir isn’t far behind.

I would like to see a few more characters, including Saruman, Elrond, Galadriel, Arwen, Lurtz, and Sauron. Anything after that would be gravy.

 

[HyperDrive]

I’d bet a Frodo and Sam rooted 2-pack would be $800 minimum lol

 

[scarecrow jim]

Awesome news! Can't believe we are so close to getting Sam I will definitely get both of these whether it's a two pack or sold separately. Hopefully Gimli isn't too far away from being announced

 

[chrisstbh]

Definitely looks like a double pack with the way it’s laid out.

Can’t have Frodo without Sam anyway.

 

[Cap'n Cook]

Awesome news! Can't believe we are so close to getting Sam I will definitely get both of these whether it's a two pack or sold separately. Hopefully Gimli isn't too far away from being announced

So close but likely 6months to 1 year for reveal and another year/year and a half for production.

 

[AssassinHood]

So close but likely 6months to 1 year for reveal and another year/year and a half for production.

Good. My wallet needs recovery.

 

[lordnastrond]

Good. My wallet needs recovery.

 

[DioramaMaker]

I was really hoping they'd approach these like the Potter kids, where each one has a massive backdrop that would ultimately make Bag End's door.

But the realist in me knew it was always going to be a two pack. Not mad about it though.

 

[MGS_OldBoy57]

Oh no! Inart’s killing me..

 

[Nyhargo Dirge]

Oh no! Inart’s killing me..

 

[Chopper Face]

Can’t have Frodo without Sam anyway.

I’m in for everything LOTR so, if a two pack helps with costs, I support it.
I expect them to offer a range of options though like individual standard, sculpted options and a premium rooted 2-pack.

 

[Deinonychus]

The thing is Austin and Woods are not actually hobbits in real life, they’re bigger than they were made out to he in the LotR movies. I noticed it watching ‘green Street Hooligans’. So how do you scale them in 1/6 I wonder.

 

[Hologram AI]

The thing is Austin and Woods are not actually hobbits in real life, they’re bigger than they were made out to he in the LotR movies. I noticed it watching ‘green Street Hooligans’. So how do you scale them in 1/6 I wonder.

Everything just needs to be properly proportioned with the shorter height. Big problem with all the hobbits that Asmus have done is that they overblow the sizes for the feet, hand and head. You're essentially making a Harry Potter figure. The height will be a little tough since it changes around so much.

 

[DeboDillon]

I took the liberty of watching FOTR extended edition today and man having the
whole gang in the next coming years gets me so excited! I might go crazy and actually get a moducase for the fellowship.

 

[vspectra]

I wonder what expression they'll end up with.

 

[DioramaMaker]

Everything just needs to be properly proportioned with the shorter height. Big problem with all the hobbits that Asmus have done is that they overblow the sizes for the feet, hand and head. You're essentially making a Harry Potter figure. The height will be a little tough since it changes around so much.

The problem with the asmus ones is that they themselves said they wanted to achieve "child proportions", and that's why the heads and hands are wacky. When in reality, Hobbits are just scaled down humans.

I genuinely wonder if they'll just use the Potter bodies. I would encourage them to craft new ones for the Hobbits....but I would understand if they used them.

 

[ObiGlennKenobi]

Hnnnnnnn!!

2pk would have an exclusive item.
Singles not.

Great to seeing InArt going all in now..

 

[cmiller99]

I have no sales data, but the InArt Harry Potter kids seemed to do just fine, and weren't offered in a 3-pack, or locked behind some other multi-pack scenario.

The Starace Potter kids were less expensive as I recall. $160-180? The 3zero Stranger Things kids about the same price I think. And there were still complaints that a kid figure should cost half of an adult figure.

We’ll see how many balk at a near $1000 Inart 2 pack
Edit: But I guess the Inart Potter figures have sold well and they’re about $500 each right?

The Inart HP figures seemed to do ok, but Kit said that Harry sold fewer units than the LOTR and DC offerings at the time (so Ledger, Battinson, Gandalf and Aragorn) but sold a bit more than Pennywise. However, it's kind of unclear whether this is because the figures weren't perceived as being good value for money, or if there's just less interest in the license amongst 1/6 collectors. I'd think the latter is a bigger factor.

And they didn't lock them behind a multi-pack, but they did include a large backdrop diorama in the rooted versions, which I suspect was used to justify raising the price of the premiums to around $475-490 before shipping ($595 from OSK for Harry and roughly the same for the other two). The standard sculpted versions of Harry was $350 and Ron was $420 (!!) at OSK. Whereas, for a comparison, the standard Aragorn was $335. So there's a $100 hike for standard Ron that brings him up to the same price as the premium Aragorn, and that was Inart's doing, not Kit's. So the standard versions were not cheap figures by any means, and I wouldn't be surprised if the bodies were a factor in that.

I'm not sure what this means for Frodo and Sam, but Inart will be raked over the coals if they re-use the Harry Potter bodies as they're so clearly wrong scale-wise. So I'd be shocked if they aren't developing dedicated bodies, and a two-pack seems like the best way to offer 'value for money' (as much as we ever get value for money, with these inflated prices) while covering their costs. Yeah, I'm bracing myself for paying a premium for Frodo and Sam.

 

[Chopper Face]

I’ve mathed the math.

Elijah Wood is about 5’6/7, 168cm.
Hobbits in the movies are shorter than in the book.
Book Frodo is listed at 4’1” but I’m putting movie Frodo at 3’6”, 106cm based on Pippin stating in TTT that Merry is 3’6”.

Merry is the tallest Hobbit but only by a human inch at real scale so, at Hobbit heights it’s negligible and I won’t hold InArt to capturing the minute variance between all four hobbits’ heights.
One custom body will suffice so make it 3’6”.

That’s a size reduction of 37%.

An accurately scaled 1/6 Elijah Wood figure would be 28cm so Frodo and the other hobbits should be a perfectly proportionate 17.5-18cms adults.

Essentially a standard 1/10 body makes for a perfectly scaled hobbit.

And yes, this is smaller than the Potter children.