New Zealand Airport to remove eagle sculptures under the title of amateurs

For more than a decade, a pair of amateur eagle sculptures took a look at visitors at Wellington Airport in New Zealand.

The airport authorities said that the giant birds will bear from the ceiling on Friday to make way for a new mystery exhibition.

Eagles appear as messages at JRR Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, which was adapted to the film by Sir Peter Jackson from New Zealand.

The amazing New Zealand landscape that appeared in Mr. Jackson’s films is a fixed clouds of tourists, who are received at the airport by eagle sculptures.

“It is not customary to see an atmosphere of air -ranging from L -Lenton, but in this case, it will be emotional to us,” Matt Clark, CEO of Wellington, said in a statement.

The giant eagles will be placed in storage and there were no long -term plans for them.

Each eagle weighs 1.2 tons (1200 kg) with its wings 15 meters (49 feet). Ride on the back of a bird is a processor of the processor, Gandalf.

Made of polystyrene and with an internal steel skeleton, each eagle contains hundreds of feathers, which is the longest one of 2.4 meters (8 feet).

Although the iconic eagles will disappear soon, not everything is lost for franchise lovers: Smaug The Magnificent, The Dragon in the Hobbit, will continue in the check zone.

The Eagles were revealed in 2013, close to the launch of the Hobbet trilogy. Giant statues have been produced by wētā Workshop, the New Zealand -based company that made fashion and supports for the Lord of the Rings.

Clark said: “We are working with a Wētā workshop on some exciting plans to replace a unique locally to take its place.” “We’ll reveal the next time this year, so continue to watch the sky.”

In 2014, one of the eagles was disrupted during the earthquake. No one was injured by this incident.