Designing Dol Guldur: Introducing Weta Workshop's

Little big plans are afoot at the Workshop. Right now, we're working on a whole new range of 1:30 scale dioramas and collectible figures, starting with the iconic Battle of Dol Guldur. What will be next? Have your say at www.wetanz.com/shop/130-scale...

[@SIMoretonNorthInc]

Awesome - have visited Weta Workshop six times (after each of the screenings of the movie's from LOTR and The Hobbit), have several collectibles of my own and have shared this You Tube with others around the world. Thanks Weta Team you are amazing. Namaste Chris Knight

[@danteharbridgerobinson]

Please make terrain pieces in 1:58 scale! It would fit perfectly with Games Workshop's 28mm miniatures. There's nothing like having a diorama or terrain piece that can actually be used in a wargame as well as look good on the display shelf. Hope you are listening Weta!

[@iamrlaxed]

"Balins grave", whole fellowship waiting for the orcs to arrive would be amazing!

[@trickc11]

I love to see these folks smiling and laughing while working, that they're all such fans themselves and give the collectors and audience so much consideration and respect. They have the right idea about everything, it seems!!🥰🥰🥰💯💯

[@attackoftheants]

Awesome. Cave troll battle in Moria with the Fellowhship would be awesome or the Bridge of Khazad Dum.

[@milk2-d292]

Something involving Aragons speech at the black gate would be awesome, also the scene in unexpected journey where Biblo opens the door and all the dwarves fall in with Gandalf peering into the room, could make for a cool 2 part piece with both perspectives. :)

[@adronator]

I'd love anything from Moria in this scale. Also, my favourite scene, Amon Hen. I'd love to set up Boromir and Lurts with the hobbits being taken.

[@FilmforchangeAotearoa]

Very cool!!! Fantastic for collectors.

[@josuemartinez9688]

Awesome! i like the new ogres that you have introduced in the last battle

[@MoonshineGraffiti]

I know action scenes will be the most likely for 1:30 candidates, but I would be stoked to have the unexpected party with 13 dwarves, gandalf and bilbo in bag end, with modular rooms with open ceilings you could look down into. The final piece might be the entrance hall and doorstep, where you could place a dwarf or two ringing the bell from outside. Oh, the possibilities! Weta could even throw us a bone and release a few rooms we haven't seen in the films, to match with our floor plan of bag end.

[@joparisindy4204]

the prancing pony would be awesome!

[@katetavari6473]

Pretty please a figure of Galadriel in action! Galadriel is so powerful! Any scene involving the elves and exquisite surrounds of Rivendell or Lothlorien :)

[@Leni135]

I'm speechless. You're doing an incredible job. Amazing !

[@thebadger1756]

Looks amazing can't wait

[@fmfagan]

The council table at Rivendell once Frodo and Sam had made it there and attended by what would become the Fellowship of the Ring in addition to Lord Elrond and several others. Great scene!

[@Greentreeanduril]

Can't wait to see more of this range, and hopefully more videos like this, amazing to se some of the work that goes into these pieces of art. I would love to see an interior of the Green Dragon diorama, packed out with Hobbits ( Merry and Pip dancing on the tables )

[@Sasjuh1992]

I would like to see Hobbiton & Rivendell ^^. Hope the 1:30 scale models will be affordable, in that case I would definitely buy one or even a few pieces.

[@directhit310jl]

The battle of the 5 armies with the ringworms,elves,Azog up top,thorin etc... behind the wall the whole scene and Dain Ironfoot right in the middle of it all

[@BloodyFlowerFilms]

I love to see Riddles in the Dark with Gollum and Bilbo.

[@LoderMike]

I want the big rabbits on the table!

[@anthonybrancati4475]

GANDALF COMING DOWN THE HILL WITH THE ROHIRRIM AT HELMS DEEP. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[@qwertyTRiG]

Anthony Brancati Erkenbrand!

[@goldgabich6863]

I would love to see something from helms Deep, in the Two Towers.

[@mae_kunoichi0961]

This is so cool ....

[@eleanortaylor4389]

The balrog would be great in small scale!

[@robertdanenhower4284]

wow! I'd do anything to get a ringwrath ! only in my dreams though I think.. 😧

[@SebasPosada]

Gil Galad in the last alliance! the death of elendil and the fal of sauron!

[@clawhooks]

the sleigh in Krampus with many of the elves and the hellmouth

[@chironicle1755]

First thing that comes to my mind War Mumak of Harad.

[@jimibar12]

I would love to see any scenes from the Hobbit and LoTR as a 1:30 scale. But what about the Games Workshop range of product for them ? Ok, they are 1:60 scale and mostly used to play as a battle game but still collectibles ;) Does that means that GW will stop produce them ?

[@donnaw1548]

The dwarves charge out of the gates Erebor or Thorin vs Azog outside Ravenhill.

[@davidmadden6048]

I thought of one scene I think I would like to see is Bilbo Finally going to the land of the Elves with the ship and Gandalf etc .......................

[@warlord9759]

Rivendell!

[@InfiniteWorld1]

Make us VR spaces to explore!

[@michaelr3226]

Why does the vinyl pop figure of King Arthur seem so appropriate?

[@glen3898]

So what happened to these... 4 years later and no other environments ever came out... Also would have loved the Radagast with his sled and rabbits!!!... Keep going with these please WETA!!!!!..

[@ThatKiwiDudeTV]

Helms Deep for sure fullahs

[@EmilyCheetham]

how about a lake town set or riddles in the dark (Golums cave)

[@SylvioLoureiro]

I really need Funko to do the other Lord of the Rings Pops. I do not have the money to collect Hot Toys, but Funkos anyone can collect. My dream is to have the Pops of Elrond, Gimli, Galadriel, Gandalf the White and Boromir. Sauron deserves more versions of Funko Pop. Will I have all before I die? :)

[@godslilhelper]

i would like you guys to do some of stuff game workshop did i want make full scale battles with these

[@nickbonavita1379]

So what happened to the Radagast the Brown and his rabbit sled ? Then how about his tree house to go along with it.

[@FrankMcCauley]

Moria

[@lordofthecollections7822]

They should have done Weathertop and this line would have done better.

[@burger9708]

I went here once

[@roygfs]

What happened to these? Not available anymore...not even in the back catalogue.

[@Talos1963]

Awesome! Games Workshop have dropped the ball badly with figure support for the game. Perhaps this is an opportunity for gamers to have access to a much better range of models (cheaper please!) for skirmish battles. GW insist on casting the LotR figures in their Finecast resin and it is hideous!

[@vworpin9945]

I need it plz

[@vworpin9945]

I JUST RELIAASIZD LOTR D&D MINIS OHH BABYSAadad

[@karstenvonfjellheim5321]

Because of that they did with The Hobbit, they will never get to put The Silmarillion on the silver screen.

[@NimbusAngelo]

They never had the rights to The Silmarillion and if they did it would be almost impossible to film since that book is mostly just Middle-earth history. The Silmarillion has very little narrative to make compelling films and would feel more like a documentary. Also, J.R.R Tolkien's son Christopher Tolkien hates Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and said that they did not respect the work of his father. Christopher Tolkien was also not pleased when WB announced that they were planning on filming The Hobbit. However, The Hobbit Trilogy earned almost 3 billion dollars for WB and much of that went towards New Zealand. For many decades Tolkien's other books have been off limits which is the reason why the public has only been exposed to LOTR and Hobbit cartoons and movies. Basically this was all the magic that we were ever going to get of Middle-earth.

[@karstenvonfjellheim5321]

The Silmarillion is not financially feasible, but maybe a 50-100 episode TV series by HBO, set in middle-Earth (with The Silmarillion) would work. Some of the reasons The Hobbit movies didn't start filming when planned was The Tolkien estate said "no, not until you pay us what is owed[LotR]", and the fact that WB had licensed out middle-Earth to everything from gambling games to other whoreish enterprises. But The Hobbit movies had a sort of blessing, a "go ahead" from The Tolkien estate. They have yet to comment on the results, the atrocious Hobbit Trilogy, or have they? I doubt they are complaining about the money being driven by trucks up to their estate. I remember now, someone has the rights to "The Tale of Beren and Lúthien", and a movie is in "the works". But this was news after the dreadful Hobbit movies, so maybe they lost the spirit/funding. The rights for a Beren and Lúthien were bought many years ago, but I can't recall the details.

[@remischolliers8594]

smaug attacking Dale of lake town

[@meandjulie]

shut up and take my money

[@nickyviolaguitar]

Not a fan of the little pieces. Another Cave Troll statue would be so cool!

[@halfvader8015]

"Bespoke pieces" - wtf?! Does he even know what that means? So marketing with the catchphrases...

[@RapaciousUT]

Action scenes with lots of stress and conflict are amusing for a few seconds, but they quickly become tiresome. Snapshot action scenes clamp down on your imagination; they're claustrophobic. Think of the Mona Lisa's quiet reflection. Think of David's pensive pause before he took that cheap shot at Goliath. Characters should be in quiet repose, not even a raised glass; the imagination will add the toast.Quiet, happy times are best for sculpture. Make it a place where you mind wants to dwell for a long lime.(1) The dwarves with Bilbo and Gandalf together in the Parlour at Bag-end(2) Happy times with the hobbits at the Green Dragon(3) Having a pint at the Prancing Pony; and for heaven's and Tolkien's sake, make it cheerful, not gloomy (4) The Council of Elrond(5) Reunion at Rivendell(6) "Where are you, thief in the shadows?"(7) "... if I might have a wee moment of your time?"