Hobbit Production Blog #8

Fishlegs · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:27 pm

http://www.facebook.com/PeterJacksonNZ
Contains shots of comicon and lots of snippets from the film. I spotted the following new things:
Radagast's house
More elven cavalry
Dwarf shield wall
Fights against orcs/ goblins
Goblin town
Dale
Smaug pronounced "Smorg"
Wargs
Possible shot of the new female elf

tlotrsbg · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:52 pm

what an excellent link thanks alot I have watched one vid already

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:07 pm

You did not mention Stone Giants :!:

Dwarf pikes :?:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151131427226807
Boar spears http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_spear

Erurainon the Trombonist · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:09 pm

So excited!!!

I love the look of the Dwarf warriors, and Dale... and everything else :-D

Drumstick · **Joined:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:57 am **Posts:** 1223

epic, that's the word. The experience of making the film looks so rewarding.

Drum

Fishlegs · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:52 am

I took some screen prints:
Stone Giant

New Elf Character

Radagast's House

Goblin Town

Dwarves with Pikes

Dwarf Heroes

Dale

Beorn's House

Beorn?

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

Only 5 more months to go!

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:28 pm

Wow the dwarves with spears look a bit similar to GW's Khazad Guard. Also there's a scene in there of Legolas in action, I think in a new outfit, not sure.

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:17 pm

Quote:

Unread postby Sacrilege83 » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:28 pm
Wow the dwarves with spears look a bit similar to GW's Khazad Guard.

Did you notice there are 12 :lol:

Joking a side, I am glad to see boar spears as a weapon choice :wink:

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:18 am

Now the Khazad were never a plastic sprue, yet! Maybe these guys would definitely fit in a box set! They do look awesome and you can probably convert Khazad guards to be like them if one is impatient to get the proper models. So Oldman you're going to continue along buying the new product line at perhaps full price?

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:53 am

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So Oldman you're going to continue along buying the new product line at perhaps full price?

I really don't know :roll:

I don't like the price. However, Finecast is a bigger issue for me. I am most certainly not going to buy finecast spear units. I don't like GW plastic so I don't think there will be many more GW purchases in my future. I will probably buy some. I have already decided I am no longer going to collect the whole line like I usually do.

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:42 pm

I like what I saw in the blog. I assume you have all heard that PJ intents to make The Hobbit and the associated Necromancer storylines into 3 films, not 2? So 2012, 2013 and 2014 releases. GW will be pleased. They can get about 6 price increases in by 2014... :sad:

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:35 pm

Oldman Willow wrote:

Quote:

So Oldman you're going to continue along buying the new product line at perhaps full price?

I really don't know :roll:

I don't like the price. However, Finecast is a bigger issue for me. I am most certainly not going to buy finecast spear units. I don't like GW plastic so I don't think there will be many more GW purchases in my future. I will probably buy some. I have already decided I am no longer going to collect the whole line like I usually do.

I'm right there with you. With Lotr I've collected miniatures mostly based off of the films first, off of the books second, and only a few GW original concept third. Now with Hobbit I'll be more strict in what I buy and at what time I buy it. I won't have a large wishlist as I did before. Hopefully there will also be news about their upgrade in quality of their Finecast models in the future. If not then shame.

Lorindol · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:12 pm

Beorn?

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This is Thorin! Can't be Beorn because he's not up until the second movie so they won't show him.

Fishlegs · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:05 am

Beorn is definitely in the first movie. After all he comes in before Mirkwood and we have seen footage of Mirkwood and the barrel riding (+ Beorn's house)

rutger · **Joined:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:45 pm **Posts:** 99

I would love to se some dwarf warriors with spears

And al new dwarf heroes and other and finally a stone giant for my goblin army :-D

Already putting some money apart to get alot of the new stuff at december

Lord Hurin · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:28 pm

Lorindol wrote:

Beorn?

This is Thorin! Can't be Beorn because he's not up until the second movie so they won't show him.[/quote]

It's definitely Thorin. The actor behind the hair and make up is Richard Armitage.

This blog made me REALLY excited for the films. I heard they were doing Dec. 2012, Dec. 2013 and Jun. 2014. A little more dragged out, but at least it isn't a full year between the second and third parts!

ElfGeneral · **Joined:** Fri May 11, 2012 6:04 pm **Posts:** 336

This is great even from a gaming point of view a another (cheap) Mirkwood hero is great especially with warbands but one thing worries me I don't remember Dale being a sort of Quasi-Mediterranean town I thought it would be more like a cross between Rohan and Gondor not something new altogether, does anyone know the description of Dale from the book

Draugluin · **Posted:** Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:57 pm

Dale was pretty much destroyed when the group got there, so I don't think it was ever really described. I think it would be different than the other nations because 1. They were never part of Gondor and 2. The Rohirrim hadn't lived in the region for a long time.

Draugluin · **Posted:** Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:58 pm

And Beorn will be shown in the first movie, that picture of Thorin is actually in Beorn's house.

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