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Nov. 6th, 2003 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sua_layAllo allo!
Greetings from London, everyone! Yep, it's the good old internet cafe -syndrome again. Had dinner, and then just couldn't walk past this place. ;)
It's been great here. Finland was all wet and disgusting when we left, and it's nice and warm in here. The nights are really cold, though. I have to use two blankets to stay warm.
Getting here was easier this time. Even liked Heathrow now that I didn't have to spend like six hours looking for WB. The hotel was as cool as I remembered and our room is actually situated in the basement (dungeon).
Visited lots of places. V&A, the National History Museum. Shopped at Forbidden Planet (which has moved BTW, and is now HUGE).
And of course we went to see the
I'd thought there'd be lots of people there, like lines that'd reach to the horizon. For some reason, there weren't that many people there when we reached the Science Museum on Wednesday at 10.30 am.
The first thing we could see (before entering the actual exhibition) was the small shop area. Didn't even go there. The loud 'You shall not pass!' coming from ahead kind of distracted us. No cameras or cell phones allowed. I wonder why.
The exhibition was awesome. Lots of different things, much to see. Not too many things, though. It didn't feel cluttered.
Loved the costumes they had. Theoden's armour, Aragorn's, Gimli's, Legolas', Gandalf's, Arwen's, Saruman's and Galadriel's clothes. The costumes were behind a plastic fence, but they weren't all fully covered. Could smell the leather in Aragorn's garb. Gandalf's robes smelled sweaty. Very nice.
The dead Boromir (waaah!) looked really realistic. He even had holes in his leather vest, where the Uruk-Hai's arrows pierced him (another waaah!).
Loved the small documentaries they had on Gollum. Andy Serkis really deserves some kind of an award for his job, for he had to do the scenes so many times. It was fun watching him hop around in his blue suit with a rabbit in his mouth... :D
The cave troll and orcs were cool, as was Treebeard. A huge statue of Sauron and both a Ringwraith and Lurtz were scary and awesome. There was a small round cubicle I really loved. It was dark, with orange lights reflecting the Mordor letters on the ring, and in the middle of the room there was the Ring.
The effect was almost as good as in the Star Wars exhibition I went to in Helsinki. It had a similar room with Darth Vader in it and I was just stunned.
Anyway... For a weapons freak, the props were great. The swords, the helmets, the armours. Saw Gil-Galad's good old Aeglos (waves at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mace_m and now I want one of those as well. All the additional costumes for the Harads and Rohirrim and others were incredibly detailed. Could see people must have loved to make all that stuff.
So, was it worth going? Definitely!
Will have to wake up early tomorrow. My flight leaves at 11.30 am. Am not trying to think too much about tomorrow. Saying goodbye to WB will be awful.
Greetings from London, everyone! Yep, it's the good old internet cafe -syndrome again. Had dinner, and then just couldn't walk past this place. ;)
It's been great here. Finland was all wet and disgusting when we left, and it's nice and warm in here. The nights are really cold, though. I have to use two blankets to stay warm.
Getting here was easier this time. Even liked Heathrow now that I didn't have to spend like six hours looking for WB. The hotel was as cool as I remembered and our room is actually situated in the basement (dungeon).
Visited lots of places. V&A, the National History Museum. Shopped at Forbidden Planet (which has moved BTW, and is now HUGE).
And of course we went to see the
I'd thought there'd be lots of people there, like lines that'd reach to the horizon. For some reason, there weren't that many people there when we reached the Science Museum on Wednesday at 10.30 am.
The first thing we could see (before entering the actual exhibition) was the small shop area. Didn't even go there. The loud 'You shall not pass!' coming from ahead kind of distracted us. No cameras or cell phones allowed. I wonder why.
The exhibition was awesome. Lots of different things, much to see. Not too many things, though. It didn't feel cluttered.
Loved the costumes they had. Theoden's armour, Aragorn's, Gimli's, Legolas', Gandalf's, Arwen's, Saruman's and Galadriel's clothes. The costumes were behind a plastic fence, but they weren't all fully covered. Could smell the leather in Aragorn's garb. Gandalf's robes smelled sweaty. Very nice.
The dead Boromir (waaah!) looked really realistic. He even had holes in his leather vest, where the Uruk-Hai's arrows pierced him (another waaah!).
Loved the small documentaries they had on Gollum. Andy Serkis really deserves some kind of an award for his job, for he had to do the scenes so many times. It was fun watching him hop around in his blue suit with a rabbit in his mouth... :D
The cave troll and orcs were cool, as was Treebeard. A huge statue of Sauron and both a Ringwraith and Lurtz were scary and awesome. There was a small round cubicle I really loved. It was dark, with orange lights reflecting the Mordor letters on the ring, and in the middle of the room there was the Ring.
The effect was almost as good as in the Star Wars exhibition I went to in Helsinki. It had a similar room with Darth Vader in it and I was just stunned.
Anyway... For a weapons freak, the props were great. The swords, the helmets, the armours. Saw Gil-Galad's good old Aeglos (waves at
mace_m and now I want one of those as well. All the additional costumes for the Harads and Rohirrim and others were incredibly detailed. Could see people must have loved to make all that stuff.So, was it worth going? Definitely!
Will have to wake up early tomorrow. My flight leaves at 11.30 am. Am not trying to think too much about tomorrow. Saying goodbye to WB will be awful.
