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— November 5, 2007
Gentle Giant e-mailed the Premiere Guild members to let us know that the raffle for the Clone Commander 5 Pack will start this Thursday, November 8th.
Update - 11/8/07: The premiere guild member raffle for the Clone Commander 5 pack is now live. Click here to enter. You have to be logged in for the link to work. Here are the details.
- Edition size: 500
- Price: $250
- All 5 of the Clone Commanders will have the same edition number
- Raffle will start today (11/8/07) and run for six(6) days, ending on November 13, 2007 at 11:59pm Pacific
- Open to all Premiere Guild Members worldwide
They have also included an important note this time about damage to any of the busts. Here it is the full text taken from the blog post.
Because of the limited quantities of this item and the fact that all pieces are numbered with the same edition number in each pack, our return policy for damage items is slightly different. If one or more of the 5 commanders is damage we will take it on a case by case basis as our damage replacement allocation for each of the commanders is close to being depleted as these items have already been out on the market for a while and we have already replaced some of the individual damaged items. Please be aware that we will not be able to replace the piece with the same edition number.
To recap, Gentle Giant announced their World Tour Exclusives this year would be 5 Clone Commander busts. Part of these would be available at 5 shows held at different times around the world, and part of the them would be raffled off after the shows to the premiere guild members. It was also announced at the end of the year 500 of each bust would be raffled off as a 5 pack to the premiere guild members. Here is the list of where each Clone Commander was available and the edition size of each.
- Commander Gree mini bust – 2500 - Star Wars Celebration IV
- Commander Neyo mini bust – 1500 - Gentle Giant @ Blister Event Tokyo
- Commander Bly mini bust – 2000 - Gentle Giant @ Forbidden Planet Event UK
- Commander Cody mini bust – 3500 - San Diego Comic-Con 2007
- Commander Bacara mini bust – 2000 - Baltimore Comic-Con
Here is an image I created with all five Clone Commander busts. Click on the link for a desktop background sized image at 1024×768.
Watch this post for updates.
— October 18, 2007
Gentle Giant just sent out an e-mail and posted on their blog for premiere guild members a special offering. It is a mini statue of Harry Potter from the Tri-Wizard tournament. The statue is limited to 1500 worldwide but only 500 of those are available to premiere guild members. Click here to order. You must be logged in to your account for the link to work. The price is $65, and it is available now. Here is an image of the statue from Gentle Giant.
— October 12, 2007
The new Marvel Legends Wal-Mart Exclusive 2 packs are beginning to show up at retail. Indeed, they can also be found on eBay. Both 2 packs contain characters from the X-Men. Click on the links below for more information.
— October 6, 2007
Here is another exclusive Star Wars bust for Gentle Giant fans. Seriously, they have done so many of these this year, I have given up keeping track of them. This time it is a light-up version of Obi-Wan Kenobi exclusive to Wizard. It is limited to 2,000 and goes on sale October 11th for $59.99. According to Wizard, it is due to ship in late October.
This bust looks to be exactly the same sculpt as the Obi-Wan that was released earlier this year. It is made of translucent material and lights up the same way that the light up Yoda bust does that was exclusive to Celebration IV. It doesn’t seem that fans are falling over themselves to get the light up busts. Yoda wasn’t hard to get, and it doesn’t look like Obi-Wan will be either.
Update - 10/9/07: The Spirit Obi-Wan Bust is now up for sale on Wizard’s site.
— September 14, 2007
The Premiere Guild raffle for Baltimore Comic-Con exclusives is now open. Click the links below to go the product pages and enter the raffles. You have to be logged in for the links to work, BTW.
Commander Bacara mini bust - 200 pieces
Star Wars Animated Yoda and R2-D2 Maquette - 400 pieces
Luke and Han in Stormtrooper Disguise Bust-Up 2-pack - 600 pieces
The raffle will start today (9/14/07) and run for six (6) days, ending on September 19, 2007 at 11:59pm Pacific. Good luck!
— September 13, 2007
Gentle Giant e-mailed Premiere Guild members and updated their blog today with information on the raffles for the Baltimore Comic-Con exclusives. According to Gentle Giant, the raffles will begin at the end of the week. Here are the items and quantities available for raffle.
— September 8, 2007
It looks like the Commander Bacara bust may be available at retail. Think about it. The edition size is 2,000. 500 were available for pre-order, and 500 are being held back for the 5 pack. 250 are being held back for the Premiere Guild raffle after the show. 250 are for sale during the show. Unless, I am missing some, that leaves an extra 500.
When the Commander exclusive busts were announced, Gentle Giant mentioned that they would be making the Bacara bust available for purchase to Diamond retailers. Here is the info taken from their blog post.
In conjunction with Diamond Comic Distributors 2007 Retailer Summit, we are offering up a quantity of Commander Bacara to retailers at a discounted price for their customers who are not able to make the trek out to Baltimore for the convention. For interested retailers please contact Baltimore Comic-Con for more information.
I wonder if Diamond retailers will be getting those extra 500? I guess we’ll find out soon enough. Until then, you might want to keep an eye out for Diamond retailers who are going to Baltimore this weekend. Let’s hope they don’t let them jack the prices up, although that is unlikely.
— September 8, 2007
Gentle Giant will be selling their final show exclusives for 2007 at the Baltimore Comic-Con, Saturday and Sunday this weekend. They just sent out to subscribers an e-mail update with details on the sale of their exclusives this weekend. The update was as follows.
- For purchasing the show exclusives at the show, Baltimore Comic-Con will be passing out tickets. Sales will begin at 11am (an hour after the show opening).
- An allocation of 150 Commander Bacara mini bust will be available to purchase on Saturday and 100 will be available to purchase on Sunday.
- Baltimore Comic-Con will be handling the sales of the show exclusives.
- To purchase the show exclusives (Commander Bacara mini bust, Star Wars Animated Yoda and R2-D2 Maquette and the Luke and Han in Stormtrooper Disguise Bust-Up 2 pack) you will need to go to booth 2204/2205.
- Please look for show signage for further procedures at the show.
To those of you who are there this weekend, have fun and good luck!
— August 30, 2007
Now that the Baltimore Comic-Con is coming up, and Gentle Giant has already put their Baltimore exclusives up for pre-order, it’s time to check eBay to see what exclusives are there. In a shocking turn of events (gasp!), the Commander Bacara bust is up for sale on eBay with asking prices over $200.
Alright, I admit I’m being sarcastic. It’s not that big of a surprise. So, if you cannot make it to Baltimore and lack friends who are going to Baltimore and are unable to find someone to trade with, eBay is your only option right now.
Commander Bacara is limited to 2,000. However, to put it in perspective, 500 of them will be in the upcoming 5 pack. 200 of them will be up for raffle for the Premiere Guild members. 500 are up for pre-order, which leaves only 800 that are actually for sale at the show. How’s that for a show exclusive?
— August 29, 2007
The pre-orders for the Gentle Giant Baltimore Comic-Con Exclusives are up. Gentle Giant just sent out an e-mail to Premiere Guild members letting them know that the exclusives are up for pre-order for Premiere Guild members for “close to” 48 hours before they are open to the rest of the Collector’s Club this Friday. Here are the links.
They also say that only part of the total edition size will be available for pre-orders. Baltimore Comic-Con will be handling the sales of the rest of the convention exclusives at a separate booth on a first come, first serve basis.
For those who will be attending the Baltimore Comic-Con, Gentle Giant’s booth number is 1110/1210.
Update - 8/31/07: The Baltimore Comic-Con Exclusive pre-orders are now live for all Collector’s Club members. They will be available until Midnight Wednesday, September 5th or until pre-order for pick-up quantity is out, which ever comes first.
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