I'll just repeat pretty much what I said in another reply here. I am a member ( not very active as of the past year or so due to life circumstances) of Deviant Art and I belong to the Watership Down Club there. I have photos of my WSD collection on there ( all of it pertaining to the 1978 movie only) and Myrkin sent me a note a month and a half ago introducing me to this site. I just read the note NOW, and promptly came here to join.
Here's my other long post. Forgive me because I'm just excited to be here
So....
Oh, gosh. I've been a fan since...forever. I was about ten years old when the movie came out, and I saw it with my parents in a theatre in San Fransisco, California. I think my parents, like so many others, thought this movie was going to be more like a "Disney" movie, but in fact, they ended up liking it far more than any typical children's venue, and I did as well. Even at that young age I was fully aware this was a story that involved some political aspect, the totalitarian Efrafa versus a democratic free society led by Hazel and company. I enjoyed the great beauty of the animation and the scenery. Looking back on it now, it's amazing that everything was painted and drawn by hand and so realistic.
There wasn't a lot of merchandise connected with the movie so all I remember getting was the Film Picture Book.
Interesting enough ( and I don't believe in luck or coincidence. I am a firm believer in fate and destiny) some years later, when I was in summer prep school, my English teacher introduced us to the film AND the book. We wrote essays about the complexity of the characters and what the true message of the book and the storyline was.
I never lost interest in WSD and I reread the book again about three years ago or so. Then I began collecting things like crazy, including the Royal Orleans items and managed to get an extremely rare set of the four original plushies from the UK that came out in 1978. I met someone on the Yahoo WSD group who sold me that set. I am still collecting, and wanted to have an entire room devoted to WSD and decorated to match that English countryside style. It's a work in progress. I also would love to buy some animation cels and drawings from the original movie.
Now, even better, I met someone on my blog whom I corresponded with and I noticed that this friend lived in OVERTON, which was on the small map in the book. Well it turns out he is but five minutes away from the River Test. I wanted more than anything to SEE the real Watership Down and the other landmarks of the story. And I will get there one day.
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