Yesterday, Gentle Giant teased a couple photos before finally revealing their Deluxe Boba Fett mini bust for San Diego Comic-Con. Representing his appearance in Return of the Jedi, the bust comes with several interchangeable arms and is packed in a tin with the Mandalorian insignia on it.
The bust is limited to 2,500 pieces and is priced at $150.00. Although it’s listed as a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive, Premier Guild Members can order the bust now for delivery after the show.
Gentle Giant posted several new pre-orders this afternoon, including two Star Wars offerings.
First up is the latest in their line of bookends. Featuring the Imperial Seal, this new set stands just shy of 6-inches tall and 5.25-inches wide. The Imperial Seal bookends run $70 directly from GG and are due out in the first quarter of 2014.
The second is the start of the Hoth Collection in the Jumbo line. Han Solo in his Hoth outfit will have The Empire Strikes Back artwork on the insert and is priced at $80. Han Solo is also due in 2014.
Rounding out the pre-orders are mini busts of Spider-Man and Azog, from The Hobbit, and a framed replica of Rick Grimes’ badge and name tag from “The Walking Dead.” The badge set also includes an autograph by actor Andrew Lincoln.
Based on artwork by Steven Daily, titled “Magnitude,” Gentle Giant has created a bust of Admiral Ackbar as you’ve never seen him before.
This San Diego Comic-Con exclusive bust is limited to 500 pieces and is priced at $175. Ackbar will come in a wooden box which includes a 4″x6″ lithograph by Acme Archives. Pre-orders are available now, limit 1 per person, and will ship after SDCC.
Action Figure Xpress has posted a pre-order for a new exclusive Droid Set of Jumbo Gentle Giant figures. This set is based on the vintage Kenner 3-packs, similar to the exclusives Target has recently offered, only packed out with the 12″ Jumbo figures.
The set is limited to 500 pieces and is priced at $199.99. Per AFX, the set is scheduled for a September release. The full description, from the AFX website is below. Thanks to Yakface.com who first pointed this out to us last night.
Just like they were when you were a kid, only BIGGER! Gentle Giant continues on with their new line of vintage Star Wars Action figure reproductions with an epic Droid-themed three-pack featuring the Death Star Droid, R5-D4 and Power Droid! All three figures were digitally scanned from mint Kenner originals and reproduced to Jumbo scale. The Death Star Droid is fully vac-metallized, while R5-D4 and the Power Droid feature faithfully reproduced “clicking” articulation, just like the originals!
That’s not all! This set comes packaged in a cardboard-backed plastic sealed tray, featuring a vintage-style outer cardboard shell, perfect for display! You won’t want to miss out on this exciting AFX Exclusive from Gentle Giant Ltd.!
These three, together with R2-D2, were captured and transported by the Jawas in the sandcrawler across the Tatooine Desert. R5-D4 was originally purchased by Luke. The power droid was first seen in the sandcrawler dungeon together with a gleaming silver Death Star Droid.
Gentle Giant posted several new pre-orders last night, some for new The Walking Dead mini busts, but one new Star Wars item is now up; Jumbo Zuckuss.
With this announcement, Gentle Giant has now offered five of the six The Empire Strikes Back Bounty Hunters. IG-88 is the lone holdout.
Zuckuss will come packaged in the standard blister packaging, sporting a TESB card with 45-back style artwork. The figure is scheduled for a first quarter 2014 release and rings up at $80 directly from Gentle Giant.
Gentle Giant posted five new pre-orders last night, three for products we’ve been waiting on and two busts that are so redundant it’s almost embarrassing. First, let’s get to the good; the excellent new Grand Admiral Thrawn mini bust and two more Jumbo Bounty Hunters, 4-LOM and Dengar.
Grand Admiral Thrawn was first shown off in a report over on RebelScum.com back in March and with this pre-order, we now know that we can expect him towards the end of the year. Priced at $75, the Admiral is in his dress whites and includes an Ysalamir which he uses as a defense against the Jedi in Timothy Zahn’s classic series that’s become known as the Thrawn Trilogy.
Gentle Giant had already declared 2013 as The Year of the Bounty Hunter for their Jumbo line of 12-inch, Kenner inspired retro figures with the release of the Rocket Firing version of Boba Fett and pre-orders for IG-88 and Bossk. Now we have two more to to fill out the ranks.
In what’s sure to generate a variant at some point, Gentle Giant has gone ahead and corrected a 33 year old mistake and is offering the second droid bounty hunter with his correct name, 4-LOM. The 12-inch action figure is priced at $80 and, like the Admiral and the other releases, is slated for a 4th quarter release.
Also priced at $80, Dengar will come with The Empire Strikes Back card which will have 45 back artwork.
None of these offerings are exclusive to Gentle Giant so be on the lookout for cheaper prices from your favorite online dealers.
The final two offerings from Gentle Giant include two deluxe mini bust releases of Luke Skywalker in his Snowspeeder Pilot outfit. The reason we called this redundant is that one version is a Premier Guild exclusive and will include three sets of arms so he can be posed holding a lightsaber, grappling hook launcher or a blaster. The second release, NOT an exclusive, will have two arms, one with a blaster and the second with the grappling hook launcher.
After the colossal screwup with the General Veers mini busts in 2012, we can’t help but think this is just a total disaster waiting to happen. The busts don’t even have different price points, they’re both ringing in at $85 and because the only artwork available is computer generated, and not Lucasfilm Licensing approved as of this writing, there’s absolutely no way of knowing which version should be ordered. There’s nothing to really differentiate them from each other.
Trust in Gentle Giant, that they’ll actually deliver what they’re advertising, is at an all-time low for many collectors. We can only wish our fellow collectors good luck if they take a shot at either of these releases.
It’s a shame that Gentle Giant will waste tooling budget on these two versions of the Luke mini bust when they still haven’t delivered the 1:6 scale R2-D2 statue they first showed off in 2005.
RebelScum.com offered up two new Gentle Giant features Wednesday night when they posted a Q&A with Ashly Powell, Director of Product Development, and got a scoop on the upcoming Grand Admiral Thrawn mini bust.
The Q&A didn’t offer up a lot of new information besides the Thrawn announcement, but the MIA R2-D2 statue was brought up. It’s still in the works, GG just has to work around some setbacks in production.
Also discussed were the Leia on Speeder Bike diorama (on hold), more Jumbo playsets (no plans) and the statue and maquette lines (more coming, no details). Head over Rebel Scum’s website for the full read of the Q&A and check out the Thrawn pictures.
With the release of the 2012 Premier Guild exclusive Gamorrean Guard, Gentle Giant gave us a look at 10 new Jumbo figures from The Empire Strikes Back. Apparently, they aren’t wasting any time getting to them.
Last night, Gentle Giant put up a pre-order for IG-88. IG-88 will come on a Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back card which will feature a 45 back design. He’s $80.00 and is scheduled for a third quarter release.
Along with Boba Fett and the upcoming Boss, IG-88 will put us halfway to a set of the TESB bounty hunters.
Gentle Giant has announced their 2013 Premier Guild gifts and they include three Star Wars offerings and a Marvel bust of War Machine. All Premier Guild memberships have gone up $10 to $80 for the year. The 2013 membership will include a 10% discount on all orders for regular releases, a $30 coupon on in-stock orders and a $10 gift certificate good on any one order, including pre-orders.
In order to guarantee your choice of membership gift, you must join the Premier Guild before June 1, 2013. All four gifts are listed for the fourth quarter but based on past years, we wouldn’t expect them before we ring in 2014.
Mace Windu from Attack of the Clones. One of Gentle Giant’s earliest busts, released in 2002 sans arms, Mace Windu makes a comeback with his unique purple bladed lightsaber.
Boba Fett Rocket Firing First Shot. Shot all in blue, with no paint, the J-Slot recreation of the vintage Kenner prototype will ship in a blister card inside a polybag.
Darth Vader Holographic Mini Bust. This release is a copy of the 2005 Revenge of the Sith bust only now in clear blue resin. The bust also lights up.
War Machine Mini Bust. Featuring light-up effects, this new bust is based on the Iron Man 2 appearance of the armor, as worn by Don Cheadle’s Rhody Rhodes.
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