There’s a cool new background image with what is likely our first look at Lord Bern (well, his back that is) handing Caspian a sword. Hmm.

In the future, clicking on the lantern that the Minotaur is holding will allow you to download the image as a Wallpaper, though that doesn’t seem to be working right now.

Four more magical points can be found.

Probably within the next couple days, everything will be working on this page, but it’s nice to get a sneak peek of it!

Thanks to icarus for the heads up!

What can we expect from the third film?

It’s a much more mature and adult film than the two previous ones. The magical aspect that you all know hasn’t been left out, but The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is an adventure film rather than a pure work of fantasy. Caspian is now the new King of Narnia and, with Edmund and Lucy, he embarks on a great crossing aboard this boat, the Dawn Treader, to find the land of Aslan. So most sequences take place on the sea, which hasn’t been easy to film. In Hollywood, it’s often said that filming on the water is the most painful of all .. I agree! [laughs] But I enjoyed myself very much ..

With the release of the film approaching, do you now feel less pressure on your shoulders than at the time of Prince Caspian?

Yes, a lot less. The release of Prince Caspian was very stressful for me because Disney had put forward the film’s promotion and everyone was waiting for me at the release. I really feared the reaction of the public and fans, I didn’t want to disappoint anybody. Today, I have three or four years more experience and I’ve learned to handle that pressure. I think I’ll tackle the release of this film with much more serenity.

You can read the full article on BenBarnesFan.com.

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Images from MTV here and here.

Thanks to bkey for the tip!

Headed down to Falmouth for the weekend to go check out The Matthew as the Dawn Treader. We got down to Falmouth around early afternoon on the Saturday, only to find out that due to the previously reported unscheduled stop in Padstow, that the Dawn Treader’s arrival into Falmouth had been delayed till later in the afternoon. Fortunately for us however it meant that we would now be able to get a good look at the ship as she arrived. Whilst we waited, we had a look around the museum, where aside from the usual exhibits they had a few Narnia themed events for children going on, such as a Narnia scavenger hunt type game, and a create your own Reepicheep finger puppet activity area. They also had a range of different promotional materials from the film dotted around the museum, such as the teaser poster and the theatre standee (the first time I’ve seen that in the UK incidentally). They also had the standard teaser trailer for the movie playing on a big screen upstairs.

The Dawn Treader out in the Bay

Whilst in the museum, we overheard that the Dawn Treader was scheduled to arrive around 6pm that evening. After waiting around on the quayside for a while with no luck, we decided to take a chance and head up onto the hill overlooking the harbour and see if we could spot the ship off in the distance. No sooner had we got to the top of the hill, than we were presented with the somewhat weird and incredible sight of the Dawn Treader herself sailing into the bay. It was kind of bizarre just to see a Narnian ship sailing out on the sea in the real world, and even more surreal to see it pass by the thoroughly modern industrial scenery of the Falmouth Docks, and then through the Falmouth marina area filled with hundreds of luxury yachts and fishing boats.

After getting a few photos from the hill, we managed to quickly run down from the hill, back down through the town to the quayside to get some equally spectacular views of it arriving in to dock at the quayside. There were quite a few people who had come out to see it arrive, though perhaps not as many as if it had arrived earlier in the day. What I found rather interesting here was the presence of a camera man with very obvious professional grade video camera recording equipment. I had seen him earlier in the day, and had noted the back of his baseball hat said “Prague, Czech Republic” on it, but it was only later in the day as the Dawn Treader was arriving that I got a good look at the front of his hat, and saw that it was for Barrandov Studios (where they filmed Prince Caspian). It seemed far too much of a coincidence for him to have such a hat and not be in some way releated to the production, so my thought was that he was perhaps filming footage for possible Dawn Treader DVD special features, and that he had perhaps got the hat from having filmed similar special features for the Prince Caspian DVD when they were at Barrandov Studios. Though that’s just a guess on my part.

View from the Stern

So anyway, we came back to the museum the next morning, and they were now running sessions aboard the ship. On board the ship they had a couple of nautical based activities for the kids, and everyone was allowed to walk around the ship and take photos, and speak to the members of the crew. I have to say, the Dawn Treader additions made to the ship were really well done, and of a far higher quality and level of detail than I had been expecting. In fact, the only part of the ship which really betrayed the fact that the ship had been retro-fitted in this way, was at the base of the dragon prow, where it doesn’t quite integrate perfectly with the exisitng ship’s prow, but the ship as a whole though did look absolutely stunning – looking at it sitting there in the harbour you almost had to convince yourself sometimes that it wasn’t actually the Dawn Treader.

Whilst aboard the ship we talked to one of the crew members who told us that they had just dropped off the 12 competition winners the night before (6 children and their 6 associated parents/guardians) who had come from across Europe, and that they had been sailing around the coast of Cornwall, stopping off at various locations to do various activities such as archery and snorkelling, culminating in an award ceremony the night before, and that all the time they had been sleeping and living on board the ship. Apparently the only reason they had been forced to make the unscheduled stop in Padstow was because of the welfare of the young participants, as the ship itself was more than capable of sailing under far more severe weather conditions. They mentioned then after Falmouth they were going to pick up two more groups, and were going to be heading back round the coast of Cornwall, via destinations such as St Michaels Mount. Having seen the way they had recreated the Dawn Treader, I’d have to say that the thought of being able to sail that ship out in the sea would just be incredible. If Paul Martin from NarniaFans has managed to get himself a place on board, he is going to have one amazing time thats for sure!

Thank you so much, icarus, for your report and pictures!!

There are more images available on user paperdolly1′s Flickr account which you can see here.

And a news report from Falmouth’s the Packet available here.

Today, Paul and Courtney were married and before they can take a breath, they are being whisked off to England for a magical journey aboard The Matthew (outfitted as the Dawn Treader). While on the trip, they will be keeping a video blog, so stay tuned as we’ll let you know when new entries hit. Here’s a video intro by Paul.

On behalf of everyone at NarniaWeb, we’d like to offer our congratulations (and Lion hugs) to Paul and Courtney!

You can watch the interview on BBC’s website here.

The BBC website has also provided more information on Narnia Weekend this weekend at the Maritime Museum.

The Maritime Museum is the only place on the south coast where the public will have the chance to climb on board.
Sessions aboard the Dawn Treader run every half hour between the following times:
Saturday 28 August, 2pm-4.30pm
Sunday 29 August, 10.30am-4.30pm
Monday 30 August, 10.30am-4.30pm
Places limited. Please book on arrival. Contact the website for details:
National Maritime Museum Cornwall

1. Some sparkly new sound effects!

2. The Leaderboard page that was present on some of the international sites is now online at the main page. (Congratulations to those of you who made the top 100!)

3. Some details on when each of the new islands will become available in the map page pop-ups:

Narrowhaven – Coming in September
Goldwater – Coming in October
Ramandu’s Island – Coming in November
Dark Island – Coming in November
Aslan’s Country – Coming in November

4. They also added new “Magic Items” to the Magician’s Island area a few days ago, and added some more today. I think here are now 12 items to be found, and you get a little achievement icon for having found 5 and 10 respectively. They are also now alot easier to find, as the aforementioned sparkly soundeffects make a sparkly noise and visual when you hover over them.

As always, thanks very much icarus!

Visitors to Ilfracombe Harbour this morning were greeted by the spectacular sight of the ship from the upcoming film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

A visitor to the town told Ilfracombe People “I love the Narnia stories and when I saw the boat in Ilfracombe Harbour I was really impressed and excited. It was such a lovely surprise and has really made my day-I felt like I’d been transported into the novel!”

The ship and its crew are sailing from Ilfracombe to Falmouth for the Narnia Weekend event on August 28th. It also appears that its final destination is London according to this article from ShipShapeBristol.co.uk (the link is a pdf).

The full article with more pictures can be found here.

Thanks to icarus for the heads-up!

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Movie Storybook

Thus far, the only English speaking countries it seems to be available in are the UK and Australia. Pre-ordering from Amazon.co.uk is here. And you can pre-order from HarperCollinsAustralia’s website here.

Also, for those in Germany, there are a couple books available through German Publisher Ueberreuter that we haven’t seen anywhere else.

Die Reise auf der Morgenröte: Das Buch zum Film (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Book of the Film)

Pre-order is available here.

Die Reise auf der Morgenröte. Fotos aus Narnia (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Photos out of Narnia)

Pre-order is available here.

Thanks to icarus for compiling all of this information for us!

There’s a lot of dialogue with Eustace in all three clips. This is by far the best footage we’ve seen from the film.

Click here to watch the videos at Aslan’s Country.

UPDATE: Fox has removed these videos from YouTube and Vimeo. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

What do you think of the new videos?