Marvel - the Exhibition, Wellington New Zealand

 Hi there

We have a new exhibition building in Wellington and one of the first exhibitions on show was about Marvel comics and films.  I finally got around to visiting it last week.  It closed this weekend.

There was a lot of information about the early Marvel comics, with information, drawings, photos and  comic drafts, including memories by famous comics producers such as Stan Lee.  I was amazed to see so many rules set by govt that the comic people had to follow in the 1950s and 1960s in order to print their comics.  No guns, no bad language, there always had to be a moral in each story, the baddie had to be shown going to prison, no walking dead or vampires, the super-hero had to come from a good family...

There were also costumes from Marvel movies, as well as props -

above: gauntlet of Thanos, Marvel films

above: costumes, Black Panther

above: Black Panther bracelet that showed hologram messages.   I had to wait for the hologram to come out from the bracelet

above:  Thor's hammer

above:  Ironman's costume

above: Spiderman's costume, "No Way Home"

above:  Wolverine's claws

The next exhibition at the Exhibition Building (opposite Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand) is going to be about "Dr Who".  And I see that news outlets in Wellington this week - in conjunction with the coming exhibition - are triumphantly trumpeting about a replica of the Tardis having just arrived for viewing at Wellington Airport.  What! - the Tardis has been at the airport for years (I wrote about it in this blog a couple of years back, including photo).  It used to be up the escalator from main floor and turn right.  What's the betting it's now on the main floor?

July:  The Tardis is back upstairs in its usual dreary little corner.  The Dr Who exhibition starts in a month or two.  I guess the Tardis will materialise back downstairs by then.