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Title: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: Fellfrosch on May 20, 2004, 11:47:41 AM

http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=39039&frame=Ourgames

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on May 20, 2004, 12:13:40 PM

darn, I was hoping for hobbit-clix.

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: 42 on May 20, 2004, 12:26:16 PM

Well, um...hmmm. Not sure what to think about this. No hobbit-clix. I wonder if the one ring will be it's own figure.

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: Slant on May 22, 2004, 10:57:39 PM

What I wouldn't do for a nice, in-scale Smaug clix.....

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on May 23, 2004, 02:33:23 AM

I'd hate to see what you would do for one.  :P

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on June 02, 2004, 04:24:08 PM

talk about missing the marketing boat...

the movie got released last october not this one....

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on June 02, 2004, 04:45:51 PM

ah, but the DVD was just released and the special edition DVD will come out THIS November. Don't think there won't be a media drive over that.

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on June 02, 2004, 05:49:52 PM

Nothing as huge as the movie release though....

nothing as huge as the movie...

Plus the market was over-saturated with LOTR stuff after TT.

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: Fellfrosch on June 02, 2004, 08:52:01 PM

I think it just took them this long to get hold of the license. Games Workshop has tabletop rights for LotR, which were spun down into a clix-ish game made by Sabretooth (a GW subsidiary). It probably took WizKids a long time to convince them that their game was different enough.

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: Fellfrosch on June 22, 2004, 06:39:32 PM

And it all comes crashing down again.

http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=39137&frame=Ourgames

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: 42 on June 22, 2004, 10:03:17 PM

Well, that was a flash in the pan.

Title: Re: WizKids does Lord of the Rings?
Post by: Spriggan on June 23, 2004, 12:06:45 AM

Probaly a lincence problem.