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The L0tR Motion Picture Trilogy Exhibition

Posted by timothy on from the toys-to-drool-over-but-not-on dept.

cremegg writes " BBC News has a story on the upcoming exhibition at the London Science Museum where fans of the trilogy will be able to explore the high-tech toys used to create the special effects in this epic project."

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  1. L0tR? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since when did Slashdot get l33t headlines?

    1. Re:L0tR? by los+furtive · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Shouldn't it be LotR...why does of get to be uppercased when the isn't?

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  2. December==Autumn? by WTFmonkey · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The family exhibition, which will open before the eagerly awaited final instalment of the film trilogy this Autumn, will allow visitors to explore for themselves the fantastic world created for The Lord of the Rings films.
    What does "autumn" mean in the UK? I thought the movie comes out in December?
  3. Still can't beat the books by fox2mike · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Somehow LOTR has an amazing feel when your reading the book...but not when your seeing the movie as such. Its been that way with almost *all* movies made from books...the book was better than the movie.

    Nevertheless need to give credit to the guys for making a movie out of such a huge book :) sadly I guess am too far off to be visiting the exhibition.

  4. high tech? by hangingonwords · · Score: 1, Interesting

    i took a look at the link, skimmed through the little article and i must admit, the the suits of armor in the picture i saw looked VERY high tech... i'm sure any knight these days would love to replace his old rusty 20th century suit of armor with one of the high tech one's shown in the picture...

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  5. Great timing! by FrostedWheat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just the right time for those traveling to the Linux Expo 2003. Sweet!

    And here was me thinking this country was boring. :)

  6. Yawn :-) by traskjd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is old, we had the exhibition here in NZ for a year or so.

    It is a good one however - I highly recomend everyone who can see it to go and see it :)

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  7. What's the point? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    For years after the original "Star Wars" trilogy, the media fawned over Lucas's talent for special effects. Oooh, aaah, stop-motion model animation and claymation and hand-drawn elements. I remember the documentaries on the making of "Return of the Jedi"--all about models of Jabba's barge and such.

    So when "The Phantom Menace" arrives, we get our reward for years of patting George on the head and saying "Good BOY!": brilliant special effects that scream THIS IS A SPECIAL EFFECT, and a script apparently adapted from a group of six-year-old boys playing Jedi Knights in their back yard.

    Didn't we learn anything from "The Wizard of Oz"? What you find behind the curtain is always a disappointment.

  8. Been there, done that... a year ago! by mindslip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a great exhibition. I saw it when it came out in Wellington, NZ.

    Give yourself at *least* 2 hours to really appreciate the detail in all the costumes, etc. It's amazing the work Weta has put into it.

    mindslip

  9. Re:Also at the London Science Museum... by reddish · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was there last Wednesday - the Differential Engine II is built according to the specs Babbage laid out but they were unable to build it in his time - the Science Museum commisioned it I believe.

    Apart from the Babbage stuff, the computer department wasn't too impressive IMHO. I did like the real WW2 V2 rocket they have on display - I didn't realize it was so huge till I saw it! And the actual Apollo 8 capsule that went around the moon (test-driving for the Apollo 11) was also neat.

    Their display of seventeenth/eighteenth century measurement equipment on the third floor is also rather impressive, if you like that kind of stuff. I've had the pleasure to do some work on remote sensing measurement equipment calibration in the last years, so I can appreciate the difficulties that these guys had to overcome back then. They came up with quite a lot of clever tricks!

    One nice feature of the science museum is that it is free to enter (as in beer ;-)) .... You have to pay a couple of pounds though for the LoTR exhibit.