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August, 2007
— August 3, 2007
Gentle Giant just sent out an e-mail to all premiere guild members. Up for order on their web site right now is the Animated Blackhole Stormtrooper Maquette. It is limited to 1,000 and exclusive to Premiere Guild members through Gentle Giant’s web site. Below is the link, but you must be logged in to your account to access it.
Animated Blackhole Stormtrooper Maquette
This is limited to one per person and is sure to be another hot exclusive. The exclusive total this year is so high, it really makes me wonder what GG is going to do for an encore next year. Here is a picture of the Blackhole Stormtrooper maquette. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.
Update: Gentle Giant updated their post to say that they are starting to cancel and refund duplicate orders.
Update 2 - 8/5/07: The Blackhole Stormtrooper maquette is now sold out.
— August 3, 2007
This logo was posted a while back on the Rebelscum forums courtesy of IrishJedi.
— August 2, 2007
I just received the e-mail from Gentle Giant on the Premiere Guild Member Raffle Information for the San Diego Comic-Con exclusives. It looks like it will happen at the end of next week. Here is the important information.
The Premier Guild Member raffle for the quantity we held back of the 4 San Diego Comic-Con exclusives (Commander Cody mini bust, Luna Lovegood mini bust, Glorfindel mini bust and Darth Vader Jumbo Chubby) will begin at the end of next week. An email will be sent out to all GG Premier Guild Members with information at that time.
Gentle Giant will also be raffling off the Commander Bly mini bust from the Gentle Giant @ Forbidden Planet Event to Premiere Guild members at the same time.
Members who pre-ordered the exclusives for pickup at the show are not eligible. So if you did this and enter it again, you force the rest of us to wait longer while Gentle Giant sorts through the orders to weed out the invalid ones. I’m sure there are people out there who will do it anyway on the chance it goes through. Come on people. Give the rest of us a chance!
I am glad they are doing these, although my chances of winning are slim to none. I wish there was a better way to get these to collectors. Paying $50 for a bunch of raffles I won’t have a chance of winning sucks, and I will definitely not do it again next year. Keep watching this space for more Premiere Guild raffle news.
— August 2, 2007
Now that San Diego Comic Con is over, I thought we needed a recap post for all the new licenses and new products Gentle Giant showed off this weekend (some of these we already knew about but had not been shown by Gentle Giant before.) Here it is.
Star Wars
- Count Dooku and Asajj Ventress Statue
- Star Wars Chess Set
- Senate Guard Statue
- Royal Guard and Senate Guard Busts
- Tusken Raider Bust
- Darth Vader Statue
- R2-D2 Statue
- Han Solo Statue
- Admiral Ackbar Bust
- AT-TE Driver Accessory Pack
- Animated Emperor Palpatine Maquette
Lord of the Rings
- Sauron Mini Bust
- Orc Mini Bust
- Legolas, Eowyn and Gimli Classics Busts
- Elrond Mini Bust
- Saruman Mini Bust
Pirates of the Caribbean
- Animated Will Turner Maquette
- Animated Captain Barbossa Maquette
Harry Potter
- Harry Potter on Thestral Statue
- Bellatrix Lestrange Mini Bust
- Nymphadora Tonks Mini Bust
- Harry Potter Quarter Scale Statue
- Voldemort Quarter Scale Statue
- Death Eater Bust Ups Set
Halo
- Halo 3 Mini Busts
- Halo 12 Inch Figure
Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones on Horse Statue
- Indiana Jones Bronze Bust
- Indiana Jones and Father with Motorcycle
Star Trek
- Jean Luc Piccard 12 Inch Figure
A lot of people thought Gentle Giant’s showing was lame this year because the didn’t show as much new stuff. I agree with that to a certain extent, but I do think that they showed a lot of stuff that had not been shown to the public before.
Looking back on it, I have to wonder what direction Gentle Giant will go in, based on what they have done so far this year and what they showed at SDCC. What got them where they are is mini busts and a little license called Star Wars. It seems there aren’t that many new Star Wars busts coming up, and there were way too many exclusives this year. In addition, with all the new licenses and formats, are they trying to do too much and get away from what made them popular to start with? What do you think?
— August 1, 2007
If you were able to get the hot Animated Mace Windu maquette Hyperspace exclusive a few weeks ago, start watching for the delivery guy. According to rebelscum forum members who ordered, credit cards are being charged and shipment tracking numbers are being sent out.
If you missed out on this, the Mace Windu maquette was a Hyperspace exclusive through StarWarsShop.com
and limited to 1,000. Gentle Giant had said that Mace would be the last maquette in the Clone Wars animated line.
Of course, Mace is long sold out and the only place you can get the Mace maquette now is on eBay. Maybe the price will come down now that these are actually getting into collectors hands. See here and here for previous coverage.
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