Something for Hobbit fans

[JeffinNZ]

Air New Zealand's new in flight safety video. Played on my flight up to Auckland this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOw44VFNk8Y

[Ajax]

That's awesome.

Andy

[MrWolf]

That was great! Thanks.

[Artful]

Oh, some good stuff going on over there.

[Wayne Smith]

Makes me want to take off!

[Ed Barrett]

Very good, Sure beats the bored "Stew" giving the talk for the thousandth time. Glad to see you are not shooting the Hobbits anymore in NZ.

[docone31]

Great video. I see the first two, one was wearing tights. Not purple though. That was a video with taste. Well done.

[Charley]

Prefer the Boggies from Bored of the Rings. Frito, Spam, Pepsi, and Moxie. Can't leave out The Lone Ranger, Legolam, Gimlit, Goodgulf, and Bromosel. Of course, they were from Lower Middle Earth, not New Middle Zealand.

[MtGun44]

Very cool! I'll bet everyone paid good attention
to the film.

Thanks for sharing. What a beautiful country you have.

I need to visit NZ some day.

Bill

[catmandu]

Wow! I haven't thought of that in almost 40 years. Good memory on the names.

They ate the wax fruit in the bowl on the table.

Paul

[flyingmonkey35]

simply fantastic.

[starbits]

First time I watched a flight safety video all the way through.

Starbits

[Col4570]

Precious.

[JeffinNZ]

I flew home last night and the school party on the plane LOVED the video. For those in an around LAX you will see our B777 with Hobbit themed decals on it. A rather large dragon full length of the plane.

[fouronesix]

I like it!

That dragon be Smaug, a fire drake from the north, last of a kind.

I especially like the look on the Fans' faces when they saw Elijah Wood (Frodo) sitting across the aisle. They even got Peter Jackson in on the act. The airline pulled off a real "twofer" with this- getting people to watch the safety briefing and a great advertisement for New Zealand!

Tolkien couldn't have imagined how large and long lived Lord of the Rings and Hobbit have been.