Friday, January 2, 2009

Fantasy Swords - What's Your Fantasy?

Remember Dungeons & Dragons? It is a fantasy role-playing game that became very popular in the 1980s. The popularity of Dungeons & Dragons, role playing game, may have declined somewhat, but the concept has not. The sale of video games like role playing game has never stopped, nor the sale of fantasy, such as swords and fantasy figures of dragon and posters.

Recent films have also boosted the popularity of fantasy swords. The Lord of the Rings and A Knight's Tale come immediately to mind. People want fantasy swords as a way of remembering their favorite films in terms of having a great sword hanging on their walls. Memorabilia from the movie swords are replicas of fantasy in all cases except one, that is if you have the opportunity to acquire the sword used in the film.

There is one exception, in some cases, the fantasy movie swords memories, however. Some use swords in fantasy films are in fact duplicates, ie, there may be three or four Excaliburs used in a movie. There are, of course, Excalibur stuck in stone, and then there will be another identical Excalibur Arthur leading the entire film. It is possible that a third as a backup, but there is no way of knowing whether the backup was actually used in the film unless you are told.

Fantasy swords are not limited to medieval swords or movie. There are other styles of swords that are very popular in that people buy because they have a fantasy of being a Samurai or because they have a great respect for the Armed Forces, or because they are collectors of military memorabilia.

Samurai swords come and go in popularity based on the film because the samurai films come and go in popularity. But people who are really interested in owning a samurai sword, are people who are interested in samurai culture, martial arts, or perhaps a descendant of a samurai warrior.

Memorabilia includes military swords military since the days of the Civil War soldiers actually fought with swords and pistols. Before those days, the swords were the main weapon used to fight a war. People who are interested in these types of swords fantasy collectors can be military, veterans, or the descendants of a soldier carrying a sword.

There are plenty of reasons that people want to own the swords of fantasy. Each person has only one reason for them. You can find these swords for sale on the Internet easily, there are catalogs that sell swords fantasy. You can also find the sword in the flea markets and travel extravaganza sales in many cases. What is your fantasy, and that shows that the sword?

2 comments:

  1. My fantasy sword is Pedang Naga Puspa in Saur Sepuh movie. he he....

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  2. @tripzibit
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