A Mighty Smaug Action Figure Swoops In From Warner Bros
August 20, 2014 by brennon
In the absence of a version of Smaug from Games Workshop we'll have to look elsewhere for the mighty drake. Warner Bros have a rather impressive looking version of the terror of Erebor on pre-order right now!
As you can see in the image above Smaug has a 22'' wingspan and is entirely poseable too! He comes in plastic but his tail and wings have a wire core allowing you to tweak them how you'd like. Smaug is a limited run item of 3000 pieces and also comes with a special secret miniature too which I imagine is something like Bilbo?
With Games Workshop not able to make one right now could this be your first port of call for the mighty dragon?
Would you pick this up?
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Wow, GW haven’t the talent pool to have a descent sculpt of Smaug, you shock me. After those wonderful telly tubby marines and the space wolf Christmas sleigh they have probably run out of creative energy 🙂
Plus one. Just to let you know before the fan boys negative praise your comment.
A plus one comment? Thats just sad. As for a lack of sculpt, he would have to be bigger than any kit ever done by GW or even FW to be a worthy of even doing.
No please don’t have a negative opinion of my beloved GW. To do otherwise is sad! I’ve been play with GW miniatures and games since 1991 and still am. They used to make lovely models. Quite possibly the best at one time. They have however in MY OPINION, lost their way. Creating sub par, motionless, and fugly models, interspersed with the occasional beauty (such as Throgg). Their rules sets are at best haphazard. Creating unbalanced games that cater to shiny syndrome and complete new rule sets at set periods whether needed or not. Even earlier in the case of 40k.… Read more »
Ps it wasn’t me who gave you the minus 1 before you think i did. That’d just be sad 😉
Dave, I suggest you get a copy of the Great Spined dragon and check the size, just a suggestion. You might find it is bigger than 22 inches, and was made by GW (well Citadel, but they did buy the licence.)
Plus one @rosspot83, I appreciate the gesture.
I loved my great spined dragon. Making the wings out of the foil from tomato puree tubes.
OMG, and its only $70US. I reckon it will make a great centerpiece for the GW hobbits, at 22″ I can forgive the not perfect scale as it is big enough. I would want one but it only ships to a US address.
The GW one will be more over-priced I bet.
Given this Smaug is 20 quid cheaper than Nagash it will be an odds on dead cert
I think GW are giving up on the Hobbit.
I wonder if this Smaug could make a nice diorama with the Knight Models Bilbo.
Is it the photo or is Smaug a Wyvern?
Can’t see the forelegs
Smaug has been made a wyvern (although not really a wyvern) in the films rather than his four legged-self from the books.
BoW Ben
Had a look on the website and saw that the wings are bat like
Had completely forgotten that was how Smaug moved in the movie, using his folded wings as forelegs.
I don’t understand what you mean by “GW unable to make one right now” Surely they’re planning on releasing one for the Battle of 5 Armies?
There was a rumour going around that GW couldn’t make one due to scaling issues/money to make/size of the kit and that’s why he was removed from the Desolation of Smaug releases. Which was why I mentioned it above.
He could very well appear in Battle of the Five Armies releases however yes.
BoW Ben
I doubt they really want to invest in a kit that is going to be reaver titan size when it wont be a big money spinner.
They will horseshoe it in to Warhammer somewhere.
Seriously I’m frequently a big GW hater (but a former decades long customer) but this has little to nothing to do with GW. Not knowing what the licensing agreement allows them to do or not to do how can people pontificate about unrelated matters to this post? This is a crappy plastic typical WB licensed made in china PoS product. How does GW get BLAMED for that? This has NOTHING to do with them. You people didn’t buy enough Hobbit models for them to justify the vast sums they’d have to dump on making a insanely giant model. Smaug would… Read more »
@lordofexcess, GW bought the licence to produce the figures and game for the hobbit movie, and did promise a special “dragon” model, then couldn’t get the act together. The first sculpt was rejected by the studio. The project fell apart at this point, hence most collectors are avoiding the range. I know thousands of people who would buy a quality sculpt of Smaug, not many of them are gamers thou, most are fans of the LOTR and the Hobbit and avid collectors, which were many of the people who bought the original range.
It might be “crappy” but not sure 22″ is that little. It isn’t made for the gaming market and as I said earlier I find the need for clunky articulating joints off putting. I don’t see anyone blaming GW for the Warner Brothers Smaug. Nor do I understand how licensing limits the size of models You are correct imho that the model of Smaug to be in scale would be insanely large for the table top game. The tooling required would be prohibitively expensive and so it is very understandable if a GW Smaug does appear, it will be to… Read more »
* It would be understandable for Smaug NOT to be to scale
Apologies
@lordofexcess you are the first person to state a clear objective opinion about what we see above us. I wish I could give you 1000 carma as I could not agree with you more nor show it. GW has no say in WB choices in having its IP dished out to other companies. To start praising or bashing GW for someone elses work is just madness. Please people regain your sanity and dignity.
With regard to the size of Smaug I will refer to the LOTR Wiki page and let you decide for yourselves http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Smaug About half way down discussing how big Smaug is: “In original concepts, Smaug was supposed to be more menacing and gigantic than in the actual movie, and these changes were due to make its character more ‘special’. The same trait happened with Gollum as well[4]. In pre-publishing comments by Joe Letteri, the Oscar winning VFX supervisor from Weta digital, Smaug was said to be “twice as big as a Boeing 747″, calculating over 141m in length[5].” I will… Read more »