Hi Guys,

The most popular picture posted on the War of the Ring Page is this:



For good reason, I think... we all want one!

Garzini (Gary Jeffery) is the creator and maker of these beautiful little pieces. He is going to make a new one scaled up to fit on the new Collector’s Edition board.

I will be working with Gary to handle orders (worldwide) and deliveries in North America and also helping out by funding some of the cost of production. Our idea is to offer them as inexpensively as possible, to disclose the cost and to ask for a bit more to put in a Let’s buy Gary a copy of the Collector’s Edition fund. : )

We will be offering the "Little Dooms" in one version only: Painted.

We aren’t taking pre-orders, but I am collecting non-BGG email addresses so that I can develop a spreadsheet to keep track of everything and to send mass emails instead of dealing one-person-at-a-time. If you want one, send me a BGG note with your non-BGG email address, First and Last Name and the address you want the item shipped to.

It may be a while, but at least we will be in a position to move them out as they roll off the press.

Best Regards,

Foob

Note: Please also subscribe to this thread to make sure you stay in the loop. Redundancy never hurts...

Note 2: Please be sure and send all the requested information, including your shipping address... I'm dealing with a pretty large volumn of requests here and the fewer number of "ask-recieve": cycles I go through, the better.

Note 3: If you do not provide complete information, you will not be added to the email list. If you want to "wait and see" then subscribe to this thread and send me you info later.

This is awesome, guys. Huge thanks to Gary for being willing to make these for everyone, and to Foob for helping to organize this. This is a great way to top off the Collector's Edition and help a worthy geek get a copy of his own!

countme "in"...please email when avail...thanks, john...vwagoner1@aol.com

Wait. So, I can get one of these and I don't have to paint it?

Glee!

Message sent! I would definitely be willing to purchase one of these, and to contribute to the "Let’s buy Gary a copy of the Collector’s Edition" fund.

Tipped!

Hi Guys,

My email box runneth over! But I expected that.

PLEASE ALSO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS THREAD.

When I send my first mass email I will post a notice here saying that I have done so. Then, you can make sure you got it (or check your spam folder if you didn't) and ping me again to make sure you are on the list.

Keep those cards and letters coming!

Many of you are sending only an email address.

Please also send you shipping address... I'm dealing with a pretty large volumn of requests here and the fewer number of "ask-recieve": cycles I go through, the better.

If you did not send you address, please send it with "Resend" as part of the subject line.

Thanks,

Foob

great news, sent you an email :)

Sounds great! Sent you an email with all the info. Put me down for an extra contribution for Gary too. Thanks!

I probably won't order one but I'm impressed with the whole effort and kudos to everyone involved!

Seeing these threads did pique my curiousity though--Foob, do you still PLAY this game? I thought you got turned off of it very quickly waaay back when, and then when I checked to see if you'd had a change of heart I saw you still rate it a 2!

Which begs the question...What do you use your mini-Dooms for?

I'm in! Sound's great. Thanks again for organising this!

Wow,thanks for the job you're doing guys!

I want one! e-mail sent!

Hi Steve,

I wondered when someone was going to ask that!

Yes, I rate WoTR a "2" - because (to quote the ratings guidelines) I find it an "extremely annoying game, won't play this ever again".

However several years ago, when they announced the Collectors Edition I knew I would buy one. Why? Human beings are totally irrational sometimes. "We just wants it!!!". If you were really researching my psyche you could go back through my posts in the WoTR forum and see that I have been lusting after the CE for years. I actually contemplated buying 2 copies! Sick, I know. I can't help myself.

My mini-doom will be added to my very expensive new game where it will sit as a monument to my folly. Besides, they make a great nick-nac. Can't you see one on your grandmas shelf right between the Ceramic Bunny and the Mini Eifel Tower?

You are forcing me to actually THINK about this... whereas up to now I've been operating on pure emotional desire...

I guess I'm not buying it so much as a game, but as a museum piece. IMHO, it is a work of art. Imagine the look on your grand-kids faces 30 years from now when you pull this out ("don't touch Grandpa’s precious") . I really think that the CE is a 1-of-a-kind item, (well, a 2000 of a kind item anyway...)

What other theme would merit such treatment? I can't think of one with such wide appeal (especially after the movies came out). Notice that this theme even has its own "happy-face" here on the geek.

O.K. now I feel better. I've thoroughly rationalized this. Maybe I'll go order another copy from the second shipment...

At this point I'd probably try to get my hands on nearly any accessory that came out. (Anyone thinking of molding little hobbit-holes for the Shire region?).

Back to WoTR as a game... I need to say that I really respect it. I believe that it is (and forever will be) the definitive treatment of the LoTR theme. It does a really good job packing the entire story into a "playable" package. (note - I'm talking playable from a wargamer's perspective, not a Eurogamers perspective... I used to be a wargamer, but over the last 5 years I've really made the switch - heck, I used to be a lifestyle ASL player, talk about nuts!).

So, there you have it. If the BGG ratings system was asking "what games do you respect" I would give WoTR a much higher rating. However, the BGG ratings system is asking "which games do you desire to play".

In the grip of the power of the ring,

Foob

I'm getting many comments with the emails, but I want to share this one with you guys:



Thanks for the story Aeroeza!

The goal is to get Gary a game - I'm in this because I want one of the Little Dooms myself and I just get a kick out of organizing things like this (bringing people together and making stuff happen - Tom Vassal who organizes the "Secret Santa" can probably relate).

Actually, I contacted Fantasy Flight to see if we could get a "discount copy" for Gary (thus making our goal more possible). The answer was "no", but the rest of the message was interesting. What they said was: "We don't need to promote this item - we expect them all to sell, no problem".

Just to give you guys a preview of the current "economics" of this... if we have 80 guys who "wants one" then we would need to add $5 to the cost of production to buy Gary a game. I think that is well within reach...

Foob

Absolutely within our reach!

If we all put our actual money where our virtual mouths are quick-smart then we can secure that copy of the CE for our resident artist. (Then we just have to hope Gary doesn't get carpel tunnel from painting an Everest of Mt. Dooms)!

Let us know if there's anything more you need to help make 'stuff happen'...

Cheers!

Ez

I was planning, until I heard the CE was coming out, to do a fully realized relief map of middle earth for the game, as I don't think I'll ever really be satisfied until I see a true "mini middle earth" before me. Where the mountains rise up, the little passes are detailed, famous locations are scaled up for detail, like Minas Tirith. It would be a more sober version of the 3D Shadows Over Camelot table.

The CE is going to satisfy me as a "deluxified" version for a little while, but seeing the full relief Middle Earth is one of my geeky projects-before-I-die that I want to accomplish.

The real problem with doing it for someone else is the cost. To do it right, with a 4' by 4' table with a lot of intricate detail, designing it to work with the game, texturizing, painting, along with mounting it into a wood frame and cover to make it "portable" brought an estimate of $10,000! I know there are rich geeks here who could slap that down, but of course they have to be crazed Tolkien fanatics also.

Thanks so much for this opportunity. I sent you a message on here with all the required info... and am more than happy to chip in for such a great cause as getting him a set

Geekmail sent! Thanks for doing this!

Me too.

I'm intersted...strongly so.



A hundred thanks to you for the organizing.. good things only happen when folks make then occur.
Merci.

Count me in! Mail sent.

Note sent!

Thanks for the wonderful initiative!

Mail sent.
Which will come first the mini or the game, I wonder?

The game to someone I suspect as the OP still needs the dimensions from the gameboard to size the mini. Or has this information been provided alredy?