ComicCon


May 20, 2013

Collecting The Precious – The Bridge Direct Comic-Con 2013 Exclusive Figure Announcement

Last year for Comic-Con the folks at The Bridge Direct lead off their line of figures for The...
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April 23, 2013

Collecting The Precious – The Bridge Direct ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’

The Bridge Direct fresh off the success of their line of figures for The Hobbit: An Unexpected...
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April 1, 2013

Peter Jackson to begin wearing glasses again

From Weta Digital, comes this exciting press release about a certain something all fans of Sir...
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March 31, 2013

Our Special Desolation of Smaug Panel TODAY at WonderCon in Anaheim!

HAPPY EASTER and welcome to WonderCon! Join us today as we bring amazing Hobbity goodness to all...
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March 28, 2013

Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Bombur Statue Review

The final of the six statues that Weta Workshop had displayed at Comic-Con 2012 has arrived to many...
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March 15, 2013

2013: The Year of the Cosplay

Cons, movies, cosplay days, and more! 2013 is turning out to be a geektastic year for me and my...
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February 26, 2013

Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Bombur Statue

The Comic-Con six are now complete. At last years Comic-Con Weta Workshop had displayed six statues...
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October 28, 2012

Collecting The Precious – Sideshow Collectibles Sauron Premium Format

For Sideshow Collectibles the month of October means their annual Spooktacular event. Now the event...
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October 21, 2012

Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Bilbo Baggins Statue Review

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit We got...
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September 5, 2012

Getting to know Nicole Roberts

Welcome to our latest “Getting to know” questions that need answering. This month...
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September 4, 2012

Collecting The Precious: Gentle Giant Thorin Oakenshield mini-bust review

“May the hair on his toes never fall off!” -Thorin talking about their burglar Bilbo...
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September 1, 2012

Collecting The Precious – The Bridge Direct The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Figures Up For Pre-Order

We revealed in July during HobbitCon 2012 that pre-sales for The Bridge Direct’s line of...
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August 28, 2012

Have you Snagged EMPIRE’s US iPad Edition Yet?

Have you snagged your copy yet? One of our very favorite magazines and supporter of our Road to...
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August 18, 2012

Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Thorin Oakenshield Statue Review

“and this is our leader, Thorin Oakenshield.”             -Gandalf to Bilbo...
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August 1, 2012

Collecting The Precious: Gentle Giant’s Comic-Con booth

Our final look at the booths of Comic-Con 2012 ends with Gentle Giant. Gentle Giant will be doing...
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July 30, 2012

TORn Message Boards Weekly Roundup – July 30, 2012

Welcome to our collection of TORn’s hottest topics for the past week. If you’ve fallen...
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July 28, 2012

Shakespeare inspires Armitage’s Thorin Oakenshield

Meredith Woerner of io9.com posted a video interview with Richard Armitage talking at Comic-Con...
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July 26, 2012

Third ‘Hobbit’ movie: How? What? When? Why?

I admit, when I first heard talk of “a third ‘Hobbit’ movie” from the floor...
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July 25, 2012

TheOneRing.net Exclusive first look at EMPIRE’s ‘Hobbit Edition’

One of our very favorite magazines, EMPIRE Magazine, is publishing their ‘The Hobbit: An...
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July 24, 2012

Our staff react to the Comic-Con Hobbit showreel

As well as busily staffing the TORn booths at Comic-con, a handful of our staff were mad devoted...
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July 24, 2012

LA Times: Third ‘Hobbit’ movie may be coming from Peter Jackson

The LA Times writes more on the speculation that Warner Bros. and Peter Jackson are looking to...
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July 19, 2012

Comic-Con ‘Hobbit’ press conference transcript

Ringer Kellyduck sends us this link to what appears to be a substantial partial transcript of the...
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July 19, 2012

Mondo’s stunning LoTR-themed posters

Mondo, the Alamo Drafthouse’s poster house, debuted a set of three new posters at Comic-Con,...
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July 18, 2012

Video: Mythbusters’ Adam Savage the ringwraith

Weve already seen some fantastic photos of Adam Savage convincingly disguised as a Nazgul for this...
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July 17, 2012

Nimpentoad authors out and about at Hobbitcon!

If you’ve not heard of Nimpentoad, it’s a wonderful children’s fantasy story by...
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July 16, 2012

Dr Grordbort: the misadventures of Lord Cockswain

Those who watched TORn’s live Comic Con HobbitCon feed might have Weta Workshop’s Greg...
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July 16, 2012

Peter Jackson On Doing Away With Miniature Photography For The Hobbit

Given the awe-inspiring miniatures and “bigatures” used for The Lord of the...
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July 16, 2012

Richard Armitage on being Thorin Oakenshield

Our own Cliff “Quickbeam” Broadway got the chance to have a few words with Richard...
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July 16, 2012

Deadline.com’s Q&A With Peter Jackson On The Hobbit

Mike Fleming over at Deadline.com has a great Q&A with Peter Jackson post the 12.5 minute...
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July 16, 2012

Full transcript of Comic-Con Hobbit Panel Q&A!

In case you don’t have much bandwidth, or can’t get to Youtube for whatever reason,...
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