One fine and sunny Sunday afternoon we took a little stroll. Wellingtonian Peter Jackson was in the process of building his set for his latest movie and, just happening to be in the area at the time, we thought we would wander along and have ourselves a look. There was no-one around, so I poked my camera through the high wire fence to take the following shots. This is the replica of New York. Do you recognize it? Well, we didn’t either.

At the NZ premiere of “King Kong” in Wellington yesterday, Peter Jackson had this to say of his movie:

“It really is a home-town movie, I guess more so than Lord of the Rings where lots was shot on location. Kong was pretty much Wellington 100 per cent — even the shot of the ship at sea, that was shot in the parking lot, because we didn’t want to get seasick.”

How to go to sea without getting sick? Of course, stay in the parking lot!

Now you will surely recognize the shots above as New York. After all, almost anything seems possible at the hand of Peter Jackson together with the Wellington local Weta Workshop.