Statue Weta Announces Barad-Dur

[carbo-fation]

This looks incredible! Any side by side pics with Orthanc?

 

[Petrolos]

Gorgeous, just gorgeous! And that base!

Btw, you can see Orthanc in the background on the right. It seems to be quite a bit smaller, though it is positioned lower so it's hard to tell exactly.

We need more pics!!!

 

[cstojano]

I agree this looks awesome but I am shocked they have so much flat base in the front. Seems that would add lots of weight and cost with little payoff. Definite buy nonetheless. Can anyone rationalize why they have so much flat black there?

 

[Gwindor]

Can anyone rationalize why they have so much flat black there?

My guess is that the base needs to be rather thick to be able to make the moat around the fortress.
I do agree that it could have some rock texture added to it but then again the Bag End exclusive
just had a lot of black in the "cut through"...

As for size (height), I read somewhere that Tim from Weta mentioned that it would be 55cm high

EDIT:

Realized now that you probably mean the plain "ground part" in front of the fortress? My guess is that
they wanted to keep the oval shaped base to be consistent with the other environments and poly
figures. (If the base would obmit the plain ground it looks like it would be almost round(?)) I think it
looks great and the plain ground somehow "balances out" the proportions of the overall collectible.
It may even be somewhat hollow and not add much to the weight.

 

[gagaliya]

eye or no eye?

 

[VASith]

Looks stunning!!!

 

[Adoptedscot]

Found this in the Barad-dûr thread on The Shadow and Flame:

Too awesome
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[Bucky Underbelly]

Beautiful! Gorgeous!

Loving it!

We need more pics! Close ups! Wide angles! Medium shots! And preferably one with a human in the foreground for some scale!

This is a good day.

 

[Isildur's bane]

That looks AMAZING! MORE PICS!!!!

One thing to Weta:

 

[FrodoEyes]

I also wondered about the big base.... yes it needs to be that deep for the moat, and i'm glad they have a bit of 'nothing', as it IS the land of shadow after all!

 

[minastirith]

 

[carbo-fation]

Is the lava painted or light-up?

 

[Justified]

It looks like painted.. No eye then??

 

[VASith]

Is the lava painted or light-up?

Painted I believe. Looks brilliant though..def one of the top five items from this sdcc.

 

[Drakul]

very impressive piece from this pic.

 

[gagaliya]

looks good but no eye

 

[Isildur's bane]

looks good and no eye

Fixed

 

[Bucky Underbelly]

No they didn't do a sculpted eye. But Weta did release a free smartphone app that apparently plugs in a CG eye when you look at the statue through your phone's camera.

I think.

Haven't seen any pictures of anybody using the app yet.

 

[Moriaman]

Well this is a statue of a building,if the eye was included it would be solid,and would look nothing like the eye in the films,personally i think it looks better without

 

[hardyakka_mate]

Has anyone tried the Barad-dur app on the environment? From memory, I read somewhere that it will only work with the environment.