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[Wetanut]

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To my thinking, the revival of the environments line by Weta might reflect on them bridging the LOTR-Hobbit collectibles. Of the new pieces, both Bag End and Rivendell are strongly featured in both books. Luckily, the fanbase surveyed overwhelmingly requested both of these as the start pieces. Can't imagine Weta folks not immediately figuring out that they can get a jump on Hobbit collectibles by revisiting LOTR, even before they're officially given (or....IF given) the license.

As much as I would be pleased that the higher-end collectibles go to Weta, dunno if their business model or set up at this time could handle the potential flood. IF Weta does get the license (and I cannot imagine why not), they might wind up repeating the previous collaborative effort of SS & Weta or Weta & some other reputable company to help them take some of the load (they provide the initial sculpts and manufacture/distribution to be handled by the other company). Will be very interesting how this will play out.

 

[The Josh]

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However it shakes out I can't wait.

 

[cstojano]

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Yeah bring on da (wallet) pain already.

Maybe time moves slowly with anticipation but I feel like we really should be hearing about licensing come spring time. If SS or Weta or whoever does not show Hobbit material at SDCC won't they be missing out on a huge marketing opportunity? Furthermore, isn't SDCC this year going to be THE year for the Hobbit since it opens that December. Mania should be full blown by July (earlier this year for some reason).

 

[FrodoEyes]

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I think the LOTR collectible announcement was made well before the first film came out, so i would think we'd see something at Comic-Con at least.
Just as an example, last Comic-Con Weta had Tintin and Wind in the Willows statues, well before the films came out.

A Sideshow/Weta re-visit would be awesome, maybe then Sideshow could do the human likenesses (Trevor!!) and Weta could do what they're best at, the creatures, and they could agree to use the same bases, giving us the ultimate Hobbit collectible range! As long as they stay far, far away from the HUGE edition sizes of the ROTK stuff!

Or am i just dreaming now?

 

[The Josh]

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That would be great if it did happen. I do agree that we'll see something either at Toy Fair or Comic-Con at the latest and that the ES of the pieces need to stay where SS has the LOTR items at right now. No, 9500 or 8500 ES pieces.

 

[cstojano]

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So what happened toward the end there. I vaguely recall stuff being released but wasn't following the hobby nearly as closely then. So ROTK statues were released at a time when after market prices were skyrocketing for things like the Balrog (near 3k all time high I think) and SSW decided to keep a bigger piece of the pie? Was there grumbling about high ES back then? One thing's for sure, you don't see anywhere near 9500 Saurons showing up on eBay. Sometimes I wonder if they actually made the whole lot.

 

[The Josh]

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The Balrog hit a bit higher than 3k and AP's hit 5k a few times. Things were going so well that the ES just got really high and were just too many even with the attention still being on LOTR quite a bit. Yeah, there was a decent rumble of talk about the ES being too large but it would have been much higher now. Well, some people have kept theirs or sold them on sites other than ebay. Plus its what 6-7 years since that statue came out so I wouldn't expect to see as many out now as there was when it first hit.

 

[azurepred]

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Just imagine a LSF Balrog, now that would be crazy. I wouldn't buy it unless I won the lotto, but it would be crazy to see if it were like 3ft tall. A new Balrog is over due..

 

[The Josh]

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Yeah, we need a new big Balrog and I expect that to come in the statue line for sure.

 

[ecanes09]

Don't know if this has been posted yet but I guess this is part of the pf

It's from the 2012 SSC calendar

 

[vorpoll]

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Don't know if this has been posted yet but I guess this is part of the pf

It's from the 2012 SSC calendar

I've seen the picture before but now I notice the calender date under it. I wonder if that means it will be a pre-order next year and then available in 2013.

 

[Anubis]

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It has been posted, but it's for a new Indiana Jones statue.

 

[ecanes09]

It has been posted, but it's for a new Indiana Jones statue.

Alright thanks bad post lol

 

[Anubis]

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Alright thanks bad post lol

That's alright. I just hope we hear something about this PF soon.

 

[ecanes09]

That's alright. I just hope we hear something about this PF soon.

Same here it should be massive I don't want half a horse representation

 

[marker2037]

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It's been said it's full horse so no worries

 

[azurepred]

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it's going to look a lot like this except his left hand will be reaching out like he's trying to grab someone

 

[slynger]

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I remember wanting the Weta ROS when I first saw it, with most of my collection focused on PFs, I think I may have to get this one - a centerpiece it will be for sure.

 

[vorpoll]

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I am hooked on the PF bad guys from this line and I can't wait to see this up for order

 

[marker2037]

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Hey azurepred is this confirmed? That the pose is similar to that?