Sideshow Experience

As big fans of humor website Cracked.com, we get psyched to see Sideshow products show up in their articles from time to time. Here’s an amazing rundown of 7 Movies That Put Insane Detail into Stuff You Never Noticed, by Karl Smallwood and J.F. Sargent.

Rounding out #7 with The Lord of the Rings, Cracked.com uses Sideshow Weta prop replicas to demonstrate the amount of detail in wardrobe and armor:

“More than 48,000 pieces just as detailed as these were made for the first film alone, to please the four people in the audience who would notice/care. And even crazier, each one of these helmets has a backstory like a G.I. Joe filecard — rough leather and cracked metal for Orcs of low standing, long and misshapen for Orcs with (more) physical deformities; light helmets for scouts, and heavy bladed ones for berserkers. All this effort just to be strapped onto an anonymous stuntman as he sprints toward a bludgeoning with prop swords.”

The list also features fascinating details from some of our favorite films like Shaun of the Dead and The Shining.

Browse our available, highly-detailed collectibles from The Lord of the Rings below, or check out the full inventory here.

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