The Wonderful World of Weta

On Wednesday we went to the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds to see the Wonderful World of WETA exhibition. I heard some bloke talking about it in the pub the other night (!) and we've never been there before, plus it's free to get in, apart from the family day Rover bus and train ticket, £8.50, which is, after all, cheaper than the cinema for 4 of us. (£15 if you please). 'Cept we didn't use the bus as there isn't a bus there from the station, just a very long walk, well 20 minutes (for an adult, more like 40 I recon).


I can't show you any pictures of the props from Lord of the Rings and Narnia as I wasn't allowed to take any, so here is an elephant...

Well, they were quite fascinated, especially Fergus. We had seen Prince Caspian only last week and there was Peter's suit of armour and Susan's bow and arrows, along the white witch's wand, Frodo's sword and Gandalf's sword, and... you get the picture.
We had a look at the knight section, as Fergus liked the look of it. I liked the tents (!) and suits of armour.
There's a scary array of weaponry in the spiral stair tower bit. Freddie didn't want to walk down the stairs for some reason. We went up via the transparent lift, which I can do without going dizzy. There was no cold water to be found in the whole huge place, which you could easily spend a day in, apart from the expensive plastic bottled variety, and we had drunk the drink I brought along with hastily made peanut butter sandwiches on the train.

We missed the horse display which was in the morning, but went to see the horses, and birds before we left.






"ARMS & ARMOUR FROM THE MOVIES
The Wonderful World of Weta
12 JULY UNTIL 16 NOVEMBER 2008
Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds
New Zealand's Weta Workshop has won countless awards for its work on major films such as The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe ..."