[1] He is the creator of Dr Grordbort's,[2] and has worked as a designer, artist and writer at The Lord of the Rings film franchise director Peter Jackson's award-winning special effects and prop company, Weta Workshop since 2002.
After the first Lord of the Rings film was released in 2001, Broadmore sent his portfolio to Weta Workshop creator and head Sir Richard Taylor, who hired him based on the strength of his work.
Broadmore designed a series of retro-futuristic ray guns, which he showed to Weta Workshop special effects supervisor Sir Richard Taylor, who saw their potential as a line of collectibles based within their own universe.
The bronze cast statue, called Riff Raff, celebrates the birthplace of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and pays tribute to the former home of The Embassy Theatre, where scriptwriter Richard O'Brien cut hair from 1954 to 1964.
The Sunday Star-Times feature writer Grant Smithies described the mural as "a sepia-tone illustration from an old Jules Verne novel, or perhaps a long-lost dream sequence from Fritz Lang's classic 1927 silent film, Metropolis".