ROTTEN TOMATOES: RT Tours Weta Workshop and The Real Narnia

RT Tours Weta Workshop and The Real Narnia - A Photo Tour

Celebrating the DVD release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

by Joanna Cohen | December 01, 2008

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The Weta Cave

To celebrate the release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, RT went all the way to Narnia, or at least New Zealand, to bring you back a glimpse of a world that really does seem to exist on the other side of the wardrobe.

In a tiny, suburban nook of Wellington, New Zealand there stands a simple weatherboard house. It is differentiated from the other homey cottages in the area by the fact that it is filled with enough weaponry for numerous mythical armies. That and the two wrought-iron dragons that guard its doors. Here stands the Weta Cave, home to the five time Academy Award winning Weta Workshop and one of the coolest museums of movie collectibles and memorabilia in the Southern Hemisphere.

Weta Workshop worked closely with The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian director, Andrew Adamson and the Los Angeles based creative team leaders, production designer Roger Ford and costume designer Isis Mussenden, to design and produce weapons, armor, miniatures and costuming for the film.

Some of Weta's work included:

Two-hundred polearms
Two-hundred rapiers
Over one-hundred falchions
Two-hundred and fifty shields
Fifty-five crossbows
Soft shields and stunt gear for the Telmarine army to use with live horses
Stunt-safe faceplates for the warhorses
Faceplate helmets for the soldiers
Individual swords, scabbards and sculptured faceplate helmets for the Glozelle, Miraz and Prince Caspian
A crossbow for Prunaprismia's room
Refitting and restoring much of the children's armory after The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
New armor for Edmund and a new vambrace for Susan
Swords and daggers for Nikabrik and Trumpkin
Aged the feral rebel force that was once the grand Narnian army
Provided highly detailed 1/24th and 1/100th scale miniatures of Miraz's great castle and its environment.�

RT was invited in to find out what life is like behind-the-scenes on a film like The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Join us for our pictorial tour of Weta Workshop, and some amazing locations.

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Patch_IGN_AU writes:
on Dec 01 2008 06:56 PM

Awesome! So jealous right now.

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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 writes:
on Dec 01 2008 07:03 PM

That's awesome, so jealous.

Thanks for the pics!

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

I want to be legally adopted by Weta.

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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 writes:
on Dec 01 2008 07:34 PM

Luckyyyy!

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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 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 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 writes:
on Dec 02 2008 02:17 AM

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

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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. writes:
on Dec 03 2008 04:34 AM

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

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