Archive for the 'Exclusives' Category
— August 7, 2007
I found this quote on the Gentle Giant blog when I was going through their archives. This was said in relation to the announcement of the Gentle Giant World Tour and the Clone Commander Exclusive busts. I will let their words speak for themselves here.
As amazing as the Clone Trooper Commanders are, Gentle Giant knows that a single exclusive does not a party make. So the company is offering multiple tour exclusives to go along with the specific location exclusives.
This kicked off the strategy that left a horrible taste in the mouths of many collectors for 2007. Gentle Giant has said they are planning less exclusives for 2008. Only time will tell, but we can hope, can’t we?
— August 6, 2007
Rebelscum recently added another Gentle Giant Star Wars exclusive photo gallery up for viewing. This time it’s the Commander Bly Exclusive Mini Bust photo gallery. The Commander Bly bust was exclusive to Forbidden Planet in London and was released last month. If you missed it, it is sold out, but you can click here to get the Commander Bly bust on eBay.
— August 6, 2007
Rebelscum just posted for your viewing pleasure a couple of Gentle Giant Star Wars exclusive photo galleries. The first one is the Mace Windu Animated Clone Wars Maquette photo gallery. See here and here for previous coverage of this exclusive.
— August 4, 2007
The Premiere Guild exclusive Animated Blackhole Stormtrooper maquette is finding its way onto eBay, at high prices I might add, even though it is still available for sale to Premiere Guild members.
Update - 8/5/07: The Blackhole Stormtrooper maquette is now sold out.
— 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 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 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.
— July 30, 2007
Rebelscum has another photo gallery of a Gentle Giant bust that is starting to ship now. This time it’s the AFX exclusive Coruscant Clone Trooper Mini Bust. This bust was limited to 2,500 and exclusive to action figure xpress. The Coruscant clone trooper bust features a removable head sculpt of the Jango Fett/clone likeness. See here for previous coverage of this bust.
The Coruscant Clone has long sold out, so again your best bet will be eBay, where it looks like prices are starting to come down now that this is starting to ship.
— July 30, 2007
During the Comic Con weekend, Rebelscum published a new photo gallery for the Gentle Giant Star Wars Shop Celebration 4 exclusive Holiday Special Animate Boba Fett maquette. This maquette is a repaint of the Animated Boba Fett maquette that was released by Gentle Giant last fall.
The Boba Fett exclusive maquette was limited to 1,000 that were sold only at Celebration IV and Celebration Europe. The only place you can get them now is on eBay where the price ranges from $150 to $190.
— July 29, 2007
At Toy Fair this year, Gentle Giant showed a variant version of the Chewbacca mini bust wearing a gas mask. Since then, much speculation has been going on about when this will show up and whether or not it will be an exclusive.
Well, details about this bust have leaked out of the San Diego Comic Con and onto the forums. It appears that this bust was shown only at the Diamond Comics booth, which probably means it will be a Diamond Exclusive. This has not been confirmed by Gentle Giant yet, as far as I know.
Here is a picture of the exclusive Gas Mask Chewbacca mini bust from San Diego Comic Con. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger version.
Update: I have more details on this. I don’t think Diamond or GG has officially announced it yet, but it is a Diamond exclusive that is supposed to come out in November and retail for $60. Also, the official name is “Mynock Hunt” Chewbacca, so I changed the name of the post.
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