I'd been in New Zealand only a few hours when I encountered my first weta - the terrifying-looking insect made famous by Hobbit director Peter Jackson, who named his Weta Workshop visual effects house after them. Apparently they're an endangered species so I have to be nice about them, but for someone with bordering on clinical arachnophobia, the sight of a two inch, armour plated, spike legged, air-bourne beast like this one nearly had me running straight back to the aeroplane that brought me here...
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