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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #75 on: May 8, 2006, 01:12 AM »
After Brent mentioned the Japanese exclusive Blackhole Stormtrooper mini-bust, I hunted a bit to find that there is also the silver Vader statue appears to be a Japanese exclusive as well.

http://www.blister.jp/55gg/

I'm not as crazy about this statue in it's chrome form, but the light-up lightsaber is pretty cool.



...edit... After fighting with the translation a bit, it seems that there will be 1000 pieces available from Blister.jp, but a total of 2500 pieces available worldwide.  So I imagine the other 1500 should be made available to North America at a later time.

"The number of day sales": 1000
"The worldwide number of limitations": 2500

Here you go Jesse, Slave1 has some nice pictures of this bad boy.  8)

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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #76 on: May 18, 2006, 07:46 PM »
Gentle Giant has confirmed the Royal Guard statue will be released in November.


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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #77 on: May 19, 2006, 12:19 AM »
I was very close in pre-ordering it but i convinced myself not to. I hope they release one in the animated line though.  ;D
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« Reply #78 on: May 24, 2006, 05:38 PM »
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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #79 on: May 24, 2006, 07:16 PM »
Got my order in!   8)

Since I never put down the money for GG's orginal version of this statue, I'm definitely jumping in this time.  I always figured that since I had ordered the Sideshow Vader statue, I didn't need the GG version.  But this chrome version is unique enough that I will gladly order it!  ;)

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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #80 on: May 25, 2006, 11:40 AM »
Not for me, $200 extra for chrome just isn't worth it to me.   :o
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« Reply #81 on: May 26, 2006, 01:19 AM »
Has anyone bought this?



http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=GE8109#LargeImage

And if so... can you provide a comparison pic of it to the Hasbro Rancor for scale purposes?

thank you... thank you...

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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #82 on: May 26, 2006, 02:55 AM »
The Rancor statue won't be released until November, so you'll be hard pressed to find someone to get a pic of the two Rancors side by side.  EE states the statue is 16" tall, if that helps.

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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #83 on: June 3, 2006, 10:21 PM »
Sweet mother of God is the Rancor HUGE!  I couldn't believe it until I actually saw it in person today.  The thing is gargantuan!  And it looks awesome, too.
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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #84 on: June 8, 2006, 06:23 AM »

Exclusive 14" Chrome Vader at SWS.com

Vader's been delayed until July 10th, so there's a little more time to save up for this bad boy...
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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #85 on: June 14, 2006, 06:47 AM »

Exclusive 14" Chrome Vader at SWS.com

Vader's been delayed until July 10th, so there's a little more time to save up for this bad boy...

One more piece of info:  Vader is available for 10% off to Hyperspace members at SWS.com (so is the Luke & Tauntaun statue).

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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #86 on: June 14, 2006, 10:36 AM »
Boba Fetts being delivered tommorow ;D
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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #87 on: June 14, 2006, 05:17 PM »
Man, that Royal Guard is dope.  Hadn't seen that yet.  I still want to get the 1st version of Vader instead of this chrome one. 

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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #88 on: June 15, 2006, 11:02 AM »
Heres some pics of the fett statue... its very very nice!







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Re: Gentle Giant Statues
« Reply #89 on: June 15, 2006, 06:00 PM »
Wow, that's a beauty.  It looks like they did a great job on the weathering and the Wookiee braids. 8)