Weta Morgul Code

[Guest]

[Ed... Van Halen]

Does anyone in the UK have a Fopp store nearby?? My local store in cardiff has the TTT Gify set for £25...not sure if thats good or not...
EVH

[Quickbeam]

I saw the Two Towers Sets at those prices too and the one in WHS was thirty quid prior to the ROTK Set being released and I think it was a bit higher afterwards ... not 100% on that but I heard someone comment on the price as they walked past it.
A friend of mine up in Leeds got me a second TTT Set a few months ago and I bet there'll be people quietly kicking themselves that they didn't get them to sell on later at a profit.
The Derby HMV used to stock all the LOTR merchandise ... t-shirts, mugs, glasses etc, the same with Another World before they sold out to Forbidden Planet ~ neither carry those items anymore. Virgin used to have some stuff but the shop's gone altogether!
I feel like I'm living in a LOTR void here!!
The nearest place which has any kind of selection is the Cinema Store over in Nottingham and they're expensive.
Small wonder I get most items from eBay then is it?

I do think that the ROTK Set was released in much smaller quantities worldwide and I'd be very interested to know a figure on that amount.

From what I've seen on eBay the UK (PAL) versions of the EEs must be fairly short production as they sell for quite a pretty penny (or is that a pence?). Here in the US I still regularly see FOTR EE Gift Sets at Mall stores as well as TT ones so it seems they produced more than enough to meet demand here. I think they underestimate Brits mania for LOTR in this case bigtime. Y'all seem to be a market unto yourselves over there, I'm constantly amazed at some of the cool stuff you get over there, I get many packages from eBay stuff from the UK let me tell you!

QB

[Nienna]

That's a good price Ed ... the ones I've seen here have all been at least £30, if not more.
The only problem with the US versions is that you have to have a multi-region DVD player to be able to play the discs or get the player unlocked to all regions (which you can't always do with the more expensive ones) ~ and not everyone has the knowledge or ability do that!
The shipping costs for the Collectors Sets to have them sent over is prohibitive too because of the weight, so that might be why us Brits stick to buying them this side of the pond!

[Roz]

Yep you are right there QB, I had an American flatmate (from Arizona) last year and he used to say that he thought LOTR was a LOT more popular over here than over there!

However HE wasn't here when the first movie of Potter came out - jeez you couldn't catch a bus or look at a single bill board without seeing Potter - it was everywhere.... I think LOTR has had the last laugh though - the LOTR movies are out of this world

[savage727]

Now Roz I will have to disagree with you on that.  First off Arizona is a small State population wise and is a desert for crying out loud!  You can't expect much from that!    The entire LOTR's franchise has been huge here in the United States and I would venture to say that the vast majority of money generated on all things LOTR's was spent by LOTR's fans here due to our population base if for no other reason.   Another indicator is to look at who wins the various ebay auctions and where they are from.  Now I am talking about the U.S. ebay site in the main here but I have seen many, many U.K. ebay auctions won by folks from this side of the pond.  Does this make us more fanatical about the LOTR's than U.K. fans - definately not!!  It is just a matter of numbers that is all.