The Hobbit toys will probably suck...

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Warner Bros. Consumer Products is pleased to announce today that it has awarded the worldwide master toy and game licensing rights for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again to The Bridge Direct, Inc., the global children’s consumer products company. The Bridge will develop an exciting array of products inspired by the two films being directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson—who previously brought Middle-earth to life with the award-winning blockbuster The Lord of the Rings trilogy—including action figures, playsets, and role play accessories, which are expected to debut at retail in fall 2012 prior to the December 14 release of the first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

“We’re thrilled about our partnership with The Bridge Direct, which produces engaging products that will recreate the storyline with stunning detail,” said Karen McTier, Executive Vice President of Domestic Licensing and Worldwide Marketing for Warner Bros. Consumer Products. “Thanks to many of the same creative minds behind The Lord of the Rings trilogy products, we’re looking forward to unveiling a robust toy line for the two films that captures the excitement of the beloved adventure and delights loyal fans of the series.”

This article pretty much sums up my fear/dread

Basically this is the same company that put out Zhu Zhu pets & the fucking Justin Beiber dolls.

I kinda knew no existing company could be on par with what ToyBiz accomplished with their LOTR line, so whoever got it would probably fuck it up.
Except maybe if NECA went mainstream.

God dammit

Ah Christ! No-one will ever beat Toybiz's version still my favourite toy line to date!

NECA should have applied for the damn license This company pisses me off with their lack luster drive for greatness

At least the license wasn't awarded to playmates

I actually expected it to be them. Them or Mattel, but since their Avatar toys flopped I'm not suprised it's not.

But at least with Playmates we KNOW they'll be awful. Maybe this company will suprise us. I hope anyway.
The new Behind the Scenes videos we've been seeing have me 100% pumped for next year. Dammit we need a Balrog-sized Smaug!

Warner do all the Harry Potter merchandise which is top quality. They farmed out the Deathly Hallows action figure license to NECA so its likely they'll do the same again

Gollum wrote:

I actually expected it to be them. Them or Mattel, but since their Avatar toys flopped I'm not suprised it's not.

But at least with Playmates we KNOW they'll be awful. Maybe this company will suprise us. I hope anyway.
The new Behind the Scenes videos we've been seeing have me 100% pumped for next year. Dammit we need a Balrog-sized Smaug!

Apparently the CEO of the Bridge was the founder & President of Play Along who did the Armies of Middle Earth line a few years back, so I'm mildly hopeful that the figures won't be complete crap.

I'm mildly hopefully

This distracted me

Liar you were having a Ken Dodd moment

The Doris needs a paperbag

ironmanfan wrote:

Liar you were having a Ken Dodd moment

The Doris needs a paperbag

Getting midgets to play with my tickling stick?

With b bs like that I ain't caring what the face looks like

I suppose you didn't notice she has weeds growing out of her head either

I just figured that was cosplay & she was pretending to be an Ent

Erotic naughty teacher?

An Ent like Treebeard.

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Eccentric northern twat

ironmanfan wrote:

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Eccentric northern twat

Is there any other kind

That's surely a rhetorical question

I hope the trees appear in the new film. Fuck knows if they're in the book, I never got past the 1st chapter

when I saw the thickness of LOTR i laughed at my brother for sitting there reading it whilst I was out playing football and seeing my mates slip into comas after overdosing on drugs....yet he earns a lot of money and I dont...guess he got the last laugh bastard!!

TNI have a first look at the figures.

http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=317&itemid=18907

Not bad. A lot better than expected not TB but still good enough

They do look decent, but I'm not sure whether I'll bother.

Depends on the price I think. I won't bother with any figs I already have from the TB era

TBH I think I'm sticking with the lego Hobbit range.

I'm not surprised mate. They are grand the lego ones

& I probably won't have any money left after buying them