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Oct. 20th, 2004 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfan I had a chance to go again and talk to some of the people who've been working the exhibit, and I found out a few things.
* The skeleton and things in alcohol in Saruman's display belong to the local museum, because you can't ship biologicals.
* It takes six people to lift Boromir and the boat.
* Some pieces were built just for the exhibit. Not just the Moria like entryway and the Argonath, and the troll in Moria diaorama, but also a half-size Treebeard (Yikes! That's HALF SIZE!) and Lurtz.
* The detail work on the Hobbiton Mill goes most of the way around the back as well as on the "front" side.
* The Museum of Science has more of the artwork on the wall than any of the previous displays.
* Most of the swords in the displays are the real thing. And the orc tools are heavy.
* Sauron's armor is so sharp that it can cut people. And has. (Which explains that tattered cloak!)
* People don't look up, so most of them miss Gilgalad's spear. And the banners from Edoras too.
* The sealing wax in the Rohan display is really wax. A lot of the bottles are empty, but some of them had stuff inside.
* Elrond's telescope, alas, does not work.
* Arwen's sword (Throng Cleaver) is the same sword that Elrond was carrying in the prologue.
* Galadriel's dress is made of handmade fabric. Only twenty yards were ever made.
* The pile of "library" papers by Gandalf includes production blueprints and invitations to Bilbo's party. And yes, that's Gandalf's handkerchief!
* It's hard to make the two Sam-pack's match because the masses of the things in them are so different.
www.mos.org, if you haven't gone and want to try to score a ticket. They release a few day of, but most of them go by internet.
Some genius of a high school teacher had brought his/her class to the exhibit (with question papers to find answers to.) That kind of homework I could have done!
* The skeleton and things in alcohol in Saruman's display belong to the local museum, because you can't ship biologicals.
* It takes six people to lift Boromir and the boat.
* Some pieces were built just for the exhibit. Not just the Moria like entryway and the Argonath, and the troll in Moria diaorama, but also a half-size Treebeard (Yikes! That's HALF SIZE!) and Lurtz.
* The detail work on the Hobbiton Mill goes most of the way around the back as well as on the "front" side.
* The Museum of Science has more of the artwork on the wall than any of the previous displays.
* Most of the swords in the displays are the real thing. And the orc tools are heavy.
* Sauron's armor is so sharp that it can cut people. And has. (Which explains that tattered cloak!)
* People don't look up, so most of them miss Gilgalad's spear. And the banners from Edoras too.
* The sealing wax in the Rohan display is really wax. A lot of the bottles are empty, but some of them had stuff inside.
* Elrond's telescope, alas, does not work.
* Arwen's sword (Throng Cleaver) is the same sword that Elrond was carrying in the prologue.
* Galadriel's dress is made of handmade fabric. Only twenty yards were ever made.
* The pile of "library" papers by Gandalf includes production blueprints and invitations to Bilbo's party. And yes, that's Gandalf's handkerchief!
* It's hard to make the two Sam-pack's match because the masses of the things in them are so different.
www.mos.org, if you haven't gone and want to try to score a ticket. They release a few day of, but most of them go by internet.
Some genius of a high school teacher had brought his/her class to the exhibit (with question papers to find answers to.) That kind of homework I could have done!
