{"id":232,"date":"2009-06-19T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2009-06-19T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T00:22:51","slug":"gentle-giant-wants-all-of-my-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Giant wants all of my money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Received the news letter from Gentle Giant, Ltd. last night. 2 new Star Wars products available for pre-order and I want them BOTH!<\/p>\n<p>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..<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_233\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-233\" title=\"Bookend product Detail\" src=\"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Bookend-product-Detail-276x300.png\" alt=\"Gentle Giant bookends\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Bookend-product-Detail-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Bookend-product-Detail.png 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gentle Giant bookends<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 :)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_234\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-234\" title=\"Hoth Leia product Detail\" src=\"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Hoth-Leia-product-Detail-276x300.png\" alt=\"Gentle Giant Hoth Leia mini-bust\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Hoth-Leia-product-Detail-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Hoth-Leia-product-Detail.png 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gentle Giant Hoth Leia mini-bust<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.\u00a0 I am still waiting to hear back from them if they would&#8230;but really&#8230;a pink Darth Vader mini-bust! I love Star Wars, I love pink &#8211; go me :) And to support breast cancer (doesn&#8217;t Darth Vader scream philanthropy??)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_235\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"size-full wp-image-235\" title=\"Pink DV store Release\" src=\"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Pink-DV-store-Release.png\" alt=\"Darth supporting ta-tas\" width=\"221\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darth supporting ta-tas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But at Star Wars Celebration 4 in LA a couple years ago, they had a full exhibit of artists renderings of Darth&#8217;s helmet. And one of them looked similar (there were SO many cool ones)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_236\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-236\" title=\"Star Wars C4 2007 101\" src=\"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Star-Wars-C4-2007-101-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Star Wars Celebration IV - Darth Vader helmet exhibition\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Star-Wars-C4-2007-101-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Star-Wars-C4-2007-101-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Star Wars Celebration IV - Darth Vader helmet exhibition<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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&#8217;s got a lot of different lines and they are just so cool!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post pics of my GG collection soon!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.. And then the Hoth Leia mini-bust. I really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[172,168,48,173,169,165,171,1234,174,170],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars","tag-darth-vader","tag-gentle-giant","tag-han-solo","tag-helmet","tag-hoth","tag-leia","tag-sideshow","tag-star-wars","tag-star-wars-celebration","tag-trash-compactor-bookends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}