JJByers wrote: Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:26 am
@Nasnandos what are your thoughts on the sword of Sauron going into production if UC takes the last poll into serious consideration. It and Faramir's sword seemed to top/tie on the list.
Same thoughts I have every time someone has asked me that over the past 15 years - I would love to see it get made, but don't think enough people would be willing to pay the price it would have to sell for to justify the cost for United to tool up and make them. The target market is tiny, since it's mostly the old school LOTR collectors who even know what this is, so that reduces its chance of being successful even more.
The old United had it quoted way back, and it would have had to sell for 2.5 to 3x what Anduril sells for. Probably much higher now. The prop has some very tricky blade grinds and curved fullers that cannot be done on a production sword blade grinder.
The whole blade would have to be shaped by CNC, which is extremely expensive and not production friendly. Not many collectors really know what it looks like in detail, so I could rework the design into something much more simplified and affordable, but that is something not very appealing to me to work on.