Thursday 25 July 2013

New Weta Hobbit Statues from the Barrel Rider Scene

Weta have create a number of new Hobbit statues and figurines to display around your home and they are now available in the UK. Their series of Barrel Rider statues started with the release of Bilbo Baggins featuring a scene from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug™ to be released December 2013. Where Bilbo, Gandalf and the Dwarves continue their journey to win back the Dwarves home.

The Bilbo barrel statue was sculpted by Brigitte Wuest and created by the same artists who worked on the movie. It measures at 2.7 inches in height x 4.1 inches wide x 4.1 inches deep that's 6.8 cm x 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm for those working in metric. Take a look at the photos below and click on this Bilbo Baggins Barrel Rider link for more info or to purchase.

 

 
 
The next Barrel Rider statue to be released was Bombur at the resent San Diego ComicCon. This is also now available to order in the UK from our website. Similar to the above Bilbo statue, if features Bombur floating down stream this time inside one of the barrels. It's another really nice collectors piece which has been sculpted by Steven Saunders and created by the same artists who worked on the movie.

The Bombur collectable statue measures at 2.7" in height x 4.1" in width x 4.1" depth which in metric is 6.8 cm x 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm. Pictures are featured below and if you are looking for more info or want to purchase click our Hobbit Bombur Statue link to be directed t our site.





There will be a whole set of these created within the next year more details will come out shortly and closer to the release of the next Hobbit movie. Watch this space...