In the spirit of the New Year and new beginnings, WetaNZ is holding a competition that asks you to send in your New Years Resolutions for the characters of Weta Collectibles. All you have to do is select a Collectible from the Weta range by logging onto www.wetanz.com/collectibles, email your suggestion to info@wetanz.co.nz and you will go in the draw to win an image of the Collectible character re-enacting your resolution!

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Today being the birthday of Lord of the Rings creator JRR Tolkien, Sideshow Collectibles is celebrating with a giveaway, coupon code and a sneak peak at a new LOTR figure.

For the contest you will have a chance to win the Sideshow Excluside 12inch Faramir by submitting your best tribute to Tolkien comment on Sideshow’s Tolkien Birthday Celebration page. The contest will end at 11:59pm PST on Sunday Jan. 6 with Sideshow’s web team picking the best, most creative and heartfealt tribute.

Sideshow for this day only is offering a $10 off coupon code on instock LOTR items. The code is RING08.
To top it all off Sideshow is giving us a sneak peak at a new LOTR line figure. Looks like the start of a Flying Nazgul or even the Witch King himself and it looks amazing.

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In a growing relationship with Microsoft, Weta Workshops has been creating Halo items and props such as the Halo Warthog Vehicle and famous Body Armor for the Halo Shorts shot earlier this year. Now Weta has announced that they will be working on a line of Halo collectibles. With the record breaking popularity of the Halo 3 title this should prove to be a smart and exciting move for Weta.

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  Weta has finally announced a release date for its Hellgate London series of collectible action figures.  The release date will be June 2007 and pre-orders are available now.  This series features 4 characters with a limited edition size of 1000 each from the highly anticipated game Hellgate London created by Flagship Studios.  Flagship is a breakaway company of developers and designers who were involved in creating games such as the Warcraft, Diablo and Starcraft series, so Hellgate London is destined to be great.

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