Narnia Soundtrack and Toys

We bought the soundtrack for “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” on Tuesday, the day it first came out … we have the CD/DVD version, the Collectors one. The DVD has pictures and “making of …” things, worth the price for Narnia lovers, waiting for the actual movie to come out on DVD …. 😉

We have seen the movie two times thus far, the second time was without DH, he had a meeting near the theatre and so we all went and split up for us to see the movie and he to go to his meeting. The children, the boys mostly, were a bit wormy, all over their seats … that being their second showing. I enjoyed seeing it again though, and am still wanting to see it again a third and fourth and fifth time(s) … the music CD I have played many times since Tuesday, and it is so well made, the score is so Narnia and so very me … it feels like my soul-mate … really.

Toys ‘R’ Us is where we were the other day and they have Hasbros “Narnia” character action figures and toys to go along with playing … there were not more than a few “toys” left, don’t know how many the store we were at had in the first place. We got the last “Edmund sword and shield”, but there were several “white witch wands” there and no other big toys. Who would want to get a “white witch wand” for their child? Not us. I don’t want them “being her” in play, though she is an integral part of the story, just doesn’t need a “prop” I guess, that would be moreso “emulating” than I am fond of. Whereas Edmund for battle is better to “emulate”, as is Peter, of course. No Peter gear was there though. The label on the shelf below the “Edmund” toy sword said “Lucy …” so it was something Lucy like that used to grace that spot, or that the line of those toys included something for her, ‘cordial and dagger’ perhaps? What about “Susan” toys? Ah, well, we got the Edmund thing for our youngest, and the character toys in different sizes for each of them, there are sets with the main characters in a smaller size, and partial sets of main characters in separate packages as larger figures. That’s what we got. Also the bigger figures are available separately and also separately as alternate types in smaller or bigger movable/posable figures. Maybe they are all posable, anyhow, I gift wrapped the ones we got already, so I can’t check out the actuality of it currently.

I got an Aslan stand-alone figure … it’s not mine now, but WILL be for Christmas, lets put it that way. I didn’t touch it, just saw a few of them there and DH picked one for me since I was oozingly desirous to have an Aslan on my desk 😉

I’d like a Peter decked out as Knight Peter too. 🙂 An Edmund would be great, all of the children really, to pose them, but let’s just say, to post Aslan and Edmund on a “hill” speaking one to the other … very endearingly, redemptively forgiving and such a picture of grace.

I’m looking forward to Christmas gift opening time, this year especially. We also found a Narnia movie themed “Stratego” in Toys ‘R’ Us, and got it for a family gift. In B&N we later saw that Milton Bradely has a different Narnia movie themed game … not the same one. Hmmm.

B&N has a long table filled with Narnia books and paraphenalia, every part is covered and underneath things are also stacked. One item is an official movie book, a soft cover large book filled with movie photos and descriptions and everything cool about it.

For some reason I’m attaching myself to Narnia deeper than I ever attached myself to Tolkien LoTR. I’m not gooey-goo over the movie stuff for no reason, I really have a love for Narnia inside, and have for 26 years at least. I see the simplistic books and deeply colourful and full of meaning, only simple on the surface. The movie is bringing this all to life in a visual banquet of delicious Narnian food. It’s well done enough to say “This is the one to get a bit more nuts with” to make a “new collection” over. (I love collecting this and that, finding something new to collect is so wonderful!)

The artwork connected with this movie is stupendous and I am wanting to get posters mounted and framed to theme out a room in our home with Narnia decor partially (I’m very ecelctic at best, I can’t theme anything fully in decor, and I’m still an INTP and decor is mostly “I wish to do this” but rarely do decorate much 😉 )