An Orc-some exhibition - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Essex · 10-23-2003, 04:29 AM

I went on the first day it was open to the public with my wife and 4 year old son.<P>It was amazing to see the costumes, but I only realised they weren't 'copies' until I saw Aragorn's costume and it mentioned his own running repairs he did on it, and Gimli's costume THAT WAS NOT THERE because it was still being used in filming!!!! (they had another dwarf's costume from the film).<P>The only thing that I didn't look at in great detail were the videos running all around the exhibit. the reason why is that I reckon all of these have been taken from the TT EE dvd (except some of the older ones that I recognised from lotr ee dvd) and I didn't want to spoil my enjoyment this coming November 18th!<P>All in all a brilliant display, but the £3 per hour parking charge outside the museum was a little annoying!!!!<P>ps If you've got a small kid don't bother to do the gandalf cart picture as it doesn't work that well, and the pictures you get are pretty small.

10-23-2003, 04:29 AM	#29
Essex Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 886	I went on the first day it was open to the public with my wife and 4 year old son.<P>It was amazing to see the costumes, but I only realised they weren't 'copies' until I saw Aragorn's costume and it mentioned his own running repairs he did on it, and Gimli's costume THAT WAS NOT THERE because it was still being used in filming!!!! (they had another dwarf's costume from the film).<P>The only thing that I didn't look at in great detail were the videos running all around the exhibit. the reason why is that I reckon all of these have been taken from the TT EE dvd (except some of the older ones that I recognised from lotr ee dvd) and I didn't want to spoil my enjoyment this coming November 18th!<P>All in all a brilliant display, but the £3 per hour parking charge outside the museum was a little annoying!!!!<P>ps If you've got a small kid don't bother to do the gandalf cart picture as it doesn't work that well, and the pictures you get are pretty small.