Another Gigantic Sculpture for ‘The Hobbit’ Installed in New Zealand

New Zealand’s Hobbit mania hasn’t stopped yet. We’ve seen airline promo videos, giant Gollum sculptures, massive Dwarf silhouettes, and now local the movie theater where it’s all beginning has received its own humongous Gandalf statue for the premiere. The Embassy Theater (Facebook) in downtown Wellington, New Zealand is hosting the world premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey just next week, 9 days from now (on November 28th), and in preparation for the event a huge Gandalf at Bilbo’s house in the Shire display was installed right above it. Damn are they going all out, but I’m all for it! Here’s the photos of this latest The Hobbit Weta sculpture install, posted on The Embassy’s Facebook page: And here’s a photo from reader Boudewyn of another Hobbit install at the Wellington airport baggage claim: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit… J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, being directed …