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Decipher is proud to announce that Weta Workshop, the Academy Award-winning special effects studio responsible for creating many props and special effects used in The Lord of the Rings films, will create unique photographic images that will be featured on cards in The Lord of the Rings TCG. Under the terms of their agreement, Weta Workshop will cast, costume, and create character images that did not appear in the films for Decipher's use in The Lord of the Rings TCG. These cards will also feature the Weta Workshop logo to signify their involvement.

Current plans for character designs include: Tom Bombadil, the enigmatic character who saved the Hobbits before they got to Bree in the first novel of the J.R.R. Tolkien epic; Goldberry, Tom Bombadil's wife; Radagast, Gandalf's wizard peer; Glorfindel, the original elf who took Frodo to Rivendell; and Elrohir and Elladan, sons of Elrond; among others.

"We are extremely honored to have Weta involved in bringing these characters to life through our trading card game," said Warren Holland, Decipher's Chief Executive Officer. "Richard Taylor and his team in New Zealand have created some of the most outstanding special effects in the history of film. We are looking forward to the wonders that they will create for our game, further extending Middle-earth for TCG players, as well as J.R.R. Tolkien fans and collectors."

Richard Taylor, Director of Weta Workshop, said, "Weta Workshop is very excited about the challenge of creating these wonderful new characters for Decipher's Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game. We wanted to create many of these characters for the films, but obviously the limitations of screen time prevented that from happening. These are characters the fans have been clamoring to see and now they can exclusively through Decipher's game." He continued, "Staying loyal to the words of J.R.R. Tolkien has been enormously important to us in everything that we have created for the film trilogy – and we intend to do the same with the images that we will create for Decipher."

The first four cards to feature Weta's original images are bonus premium cards from The Countdown Collection: Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, Radagast, and Glorfindel. The Countdown Collection is a retail promotion that began in August; the promotion offered players and collectors the opportunity to earn 18 exclusive cards, a collector's binder designed to house the cards earned through the promotion, and the four bonus cards bearing Weta's exclusive designs. The next Weta original image cards will appear in other The Lord of the Rings TCG products in mid-2004.

Customers who participated in the Countdown Collection program will be receiving their binders and preview cards this spring. And be sure to stay tuned to decipher.com for a series of interviews and articles about the "making of The Lord of the Rings TCG 'book cards'" over the next few weeks.

March 2, 2004

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