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RT Tours Weta Workshop and The Real Narnia - A Photo Tour
by Joanna Cohen
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Inside WETA

Also lying on the desk for our grubby mitts to play with was Lucy's vial. Lucy received this vial of life-giving cordial as one of her gifts in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. It was designed by Weta Workshop designer, Christian Pearce.

The stopper is a lion's head, much the same as Peter's sword and Lucy's dagger. The colours are red and gold which are the colours used to symbolise Aslan. Amazingly, when you open it up, on the inside there is delicate design and illustration that will never be seen in detail in the film. Weta Workshop designers don't create something just to be pretty; it must have a reason for existing. The design has Lucy's monogram, surrounded by a stylised image. In order for the designer to construct that image he had to think about the justification for it. In one of the other Narnia books, it is mentions that the contents of the vial are made from fire-berry flowers. The fire-berry flower only grows in the Mountains of the Sun so part of the illustration is of a bird bring the flower back from the mountain.

Sadly this is as far as we could go at Weta, despite asking, then pleading, closely followed by attempted acts of subterfuge, we could not get ourselves into the privacy-clad workshop.

Never-mind, the next step on our behind-the-scenes tour of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian would prove itself to be quite the adventure...

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Patch_IGN_AU
Patch_IGN_AU writes:
on Dec 01 2008 06:56 PM

Awesome! So jealous right now.


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jazzebration
jazzebration writes:
on Dec 01 2008 06:59 PM

It's like being invited to Rivendell... only with less fruity elves. Awesome!

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ElDan
ElDan writes:
on Dec 01 2008 07:03 PM

That's awesome, so jealous.

Thanks for the pics!


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Naz IGN
Naz IGN writes:
on Dec 01 2008 07:07 PM

I want to be legally adopted by Weta.

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Bibs
Bibs writes:
on Dec 01 2008 07:09 PM

Weta Workshop = ALL my favorite TV shows and movies crammed into one little weatherboard weaponry store !!!!!
I am defiantly going next time I%u2019m in NZ%u2026..


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planetawesome
planetawesome writes:
on Dec 01 2008 07:34 PM

Luckyyyy!

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LillyVon
LillyVon writes:
on Dec 01 2008 09:33 PM

What a thrill - I'll add to the line of people very jealous! What a dream to see all that and meet the WETA team!

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Bane Of Anubis
Bane Of Anubis writes:
on Dec 01 2008 10:11 PM

Just going to New Zealand is awesome w/o the cool trip to Weta

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Alterran
Alterran writes:
on Dec 01 2008 11:09 PM

The mere thought of visiting Weta workshop makes me drool.

Also, I want to move to New Zealand.



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Bulletproof_Animal
Bulletproof_Animal writes:
on Dec 02 2008 02:17 AM

That picture of Keira Knightley on page 2 is just wrong!

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manofthemovie16
manofthemovie16 writes:
on Dec 02 2008 07:31 PM

Wow, that was quite a tour! I know I'll go to Weta's Cave when I am able to, with even more reason to from what our Lucky RT Editor got to divulge to us.

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Jacob G.
Jacob G. writes:
on Dec 03 2008 04:34 AM

I live in Wellington about 15 minutes away from WETA cave :)

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