The GCW Tour, Sydney & New Zealand: The Weta Cave

If your tastes run to movies with special effects, you've no doubt seen the output of the various Weta companies --the Weta Workshop, Weta Digital, and a variety of others -- over the past few decades. These are the companies that Peter Jackson and his colleagues formed and developed as they worked to expand their filmmaking capabilities.

Most of these operate out of a Wellington suburb, and with them runs the Weta Cave, which gives tourists the chance to buy very nice but fairly pricey Workshop replicas, see a short video about the companies and the work they do, and take a tour of the Workshop to see how they work.

It's an interesting tour, and what they can do with plastics and rubber these days is amazing.

Unfortunately, you can only take pictures in the cave (i.e., the gift shop) -- not on the tour -- but the trolls and orcs were pretty photogenic...