The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Footage!

To celebrate the release of the first Hobbit film on Blu-ray and DVD, Peter Jackson rallied the troops to talk about the next installment and show a nice, fat clip featuring Gandalf and your favorite poo-headed wizard, Radagast! Stay on board after the clip and see some "making of" bits from The Desolation of Smaug as well. Now the real question is, will a meaty clip like this tide you over in the months to come or further enhance the agony of a long wait til the second film in the series premieres?? LET'S FIND OUT!!

Nasty Mystery Hobbitses

Those nasty, filthy, thieving hobbitses are going to be all over merchandising for the next month or so! We've taken more than a couple of looks at toys celebrating the good, the bad and the gobliny of Middle Earth (HERE and HERE and HERE)and now, we'll get a glimpse of some more plastics to add to your desk armies...

The Vivid Toy Group out of the UK nabbed a Hobbit license and teased "a range of collectables to coincide with the major movie release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Though their website still says "coming soon", the pre-orders have begun to drop..ready or not! Seems as if Vivid will be releasing a line of blind packaged, mini Hobbit figures with characters including Thorin Oakenshield, Grinnah the Goblin, Bofur the Dwarf, another Goblin, Gandalf in two different poses, Tauriel, Gollum, Bolg, Yazneg, Bolbo Baggins in two different poses, Kili the Dwarf, Dwalin the Dwarf, Balin the Dwarf, Fili the Dwarf and Radagast. Each sculpt will come in silver metal, gold and bronze colorways. No word yet on the rarities of each character, but we'll be looking to find out!

The Hobbit Toys Hitting Pre-Orders

Starting today, September 1, the first official presales will begin rolling out for The Hobbit toy collection from The Bridge Direct! The following online retailers will be taking orders throughout September:

www.Amazon.com
www.EntertainmentEarth.com
www.toysrus.com

The items that will be available to purchase include: