Wētā Workshop

01/11/2025

Only 24 hours left in Orc-tober Sale.
Orcs already counting their loot, don’t miss your share!

Spend USD$100+ → get 15% off
Spend USD$300+ → get 25% off
Spend USD$600+ → get 35% off

When the gates close, so do the savings.
Don’t miss out: https://wetanz.com/shop/collections/orc-tober-2025

30/10/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎈 We have just the cadaver balloons for the occasion, risen in our prosthetics department and modelled with preternatural ease by their very alive counterparts, Luke Hawker and Dominic Li Leva.

27/10/2025

Orc-tober means orcs in charge.
So, orcs make simple deal.

Spend USD$100+ = 15% off
Spend USD$300+ = 25% off
Spend USD$600+ = 35% off

But not all loot part of deal. Orc standards very high.

Only for 6 days, so get looting now: https://wetanz.com/shop/collections/orc-tober-2025

26/10/2025

For some, spooky season begins as early as August. For us, it began before the new millennium. Here, take a behind-the-scenes look at our time on The Tommyknockers, the 1993 miniseries based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Stephen King.

“We had the great privilege of building the Tommyknocker corpses and a swimming dog that gets seen in a specific experiment. It was myself, Tania and our colleague Grant Wallis who did the work, with Grant providing mechanics for the dog while Tania and I were doing the sculpting, moulding, and casting, etc. We got to take our work on set where it was received very warmly by the production, which was great! One of the coolest things to come out of it, though, was that we got to meet Brian Penikas and Vance Hartwell, who was looking after the animatronics and suits sent to New Zealand by Tony Gardner and his company, Alterian. We made great friends with these two and ultimately Vance would move out to New Zealand to work with us at Wētā Workshop for a number of years. We also continued to cross paths with Brian, who came out on the bequest of Rick Baker's company to apply the prosthetics to John Astin's character of the Judge in The Frighteners." — Richard Taylor, Wētā Workshop co-founder and Chief Creative Officer

23/10/2025

Revealed live at the official Warhammer booth at Spiel Essen, Neave Blacktalon, The God-King’s Assassin, has been unleashed at last.

Forged in the storms of Warhammer's Mortal Realms, this 1:6 Scale Limited Edition statue of just 650 pieces captures the divine fury of Sigmar’s chosen.

Pre-order now at www.wetanz.com/neave-blacktalon

23/10/2025

Witness the rise of the ultimate Predator. Watch the international trailer for Predator: Badlands, in theatres and IMAX November 7.

22/10/2025

22/10/2025

No miniature is too big in the line of International Rescue.

To mark this year’s 60th anniversary of Thunderbirds, and the 10th anniversary of Thunderbirds Are Go, discover some of the sets and props we crafted for the franchise’s 2015 television remake, from an undersea lab to a secret island base. We endeavoured to meticulously build these miniatures in much the same way as those in the 1965 original series were created, repurposing found objects and accounting for every small detail.

On set, our technicians had the great pleasure of helping to pull off some of the Tracy brothers’ amazing feats of heroism by lying underneath the Tracy Island pool to pull it open (this, along with a smoke machine and leaf blower, created the show’s iconic take-off sequence).

21/10/2025

5️⃣ 4️⃣ 3️⃣ 2️⃣ 1️⃣ Thunderbirds are go. To celebrate this year’s 60th anniversary of Thunderbirds, and the 10th anniversary of Thunderbirds Are Go, enjoy this behind-the-scenes video as we venture back to our favourite hidden base on a remote tropical island — built at 1/100th scale and placed in a large tank of water for the 2015 television remake.

Fun facts: We used cocktail sticks for its tree stems, and roughly 10 litres of food colouring to make its waters a vivid blue.

20/10/2025

The God-King commands, and lightning strikes.

Witness a chosen of Sigmar at SPIEL Essen with Warhammer.

19/10/2025

Collectors, we need your vote once more.

Our next Collectors’ Choice poll is live, and this time it’s for a 1:6 Scale Limited Edition collectible.

Your nominees are: Denethor, Beorn, Celeborn, and a Númenórean Soldier.

You only have 48 hours to cast your vote and make your mark on Middle-earth: https://email.wetanz.co.nz/p/6XI1-ECF/lec

17/10/2025

A legion against Sauron’s forces.

An army of Galadhrim warriors marched to Helm’s Deep, bearing the banners of Lady Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings cinematic trilogy. This armour was crafted in our workshop with electroplated fibre glass and treated in an array of autumnal colours — a sign that they were in the waning of their time in Middle-earth.