Received the news letter from Gentle Giant, Ltd. last night. 2 new Star Wars products available for pre-order and I want them BOTH!
The Trash Compactor book-ends look very cool! And I missed out on the Han/Greedo bookends (which annoys me!) so these are calling my name..
Gentle Giant bookends
And then the Hoth Leia mini-bust. I really should order this as I already pre-ordered the Hoth Han mini-bust and they really belong together :)
Gentle Giant Hoth Leia mini-bust
But THEN they also announced their Comic Con exclusives. I am missing it this year (boo!) but a friend said he could pick something up for me if they let him. I am still waiting to hear back from them if they would…but really…a pink Darth Vader mini-bust! I love Star Wars, I love pink – go me :) And to support breast cancer (doesn’t Darth Vader scream philanthropy??)
Darth supporting ta-tas
But at Star Wars Celebration 4 in LA a couple years ago, they had a full exhibit of artists renderings of Darth’s helmet. And one of them looked similar (there were SO many cool ones)…
Star Wars Celebration IV - Darth Vader helmet exhibition
Must start figuring out how to get these GG items!!! :) They really make my favorite Star Wars collectibles. Sideshow does a good job with the Premium format but Gentle Giant’s got a lot of different lines and they are just so cool!
Heh! This is worth watching for the awesome 70s-ness of it all :) Donny and Marie as Luke & Leia (they KNEW they were brother & sister before we did!) :)
Plus even funnier since Tom S. was supposed to be Indiana Jones but CBS wouldn’t let him out of his contract to do the movie…(sorry Tom, Harrison IS Indiana…)
This is a short, old video starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford (swoon) and Carrie Fisher (in her Slave Leia bikini!) plus C-3P0, Chewbacca, Boba Fett and more!
I love watching old video like this. All the promo stuff they did for the original trilogy is always fun to watch and makes me smile…:)
I saw my favorite movie ever 29 years ago today. I stayed up almost all night watching commercials and tv spots showing clips. I was so excited. I knew “never tell me the odds!” was a favorite quote of mind that night.
I made my Dad promise he would take me and not stay at work late. None of my friends were into Star Wars. Most of my friends were older than me so were starting to think about dating, sneaking into R rated movies, etc. But me…I was definitely making my Dad take me to the afternoon showing and then to Burger King to get the glasses! (I bought 2 of each – 1 to use and 1 to save and still have them!)
We had a great time. My dad wasn’t late, we played Asteroids at the theatre while waiting and loved the movie! And even though he hated fast food, my Dad took me to BK afterwards. And I just realized as I typed this that he took me to my first viewing of all 3 of the original trilogy. We didn’t do much out together as a family – he worked a lot – but we did this.
Then I saw it 10 more times in the theatre with as many different combo of friends and family/parent’s friends that I could muster. And then countless times on VHS, re-release, DVD, etc.
But it all started 29 years ago today with my Dad taking me. :)
(And still my favorite movie poster of all time! Will always have a prominent place in my home!)
