{"id":9397,"date":"2011-08-06T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T00:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2011-08-07T08:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T15:32:46","slug":"mcquarrie-snowtrooper-sdcc-2011-mini-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=9397","title":{"rendered":"McQuarrie Snowtrooper SDCC 2011 Mini Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally put out my Gentle Giant bust that I pre-ordered from their Comic Con exclusives. Thankfully they allowed their club members to pre-order and not have to buy, pick-up and cart around at SDCC. And they shipped it as soon as the con ended.<\/p>\n

It’s rather annoying but a LOT of the collectibles nowadays made are of stormtroopers, Clone troopers and other armored figures (Vader, Boba Fett, etc.) I get that it’s a) easier than real people and b) there are so many variations of them that they can make (pretty sure that was Lucas’ evil plan) but I don’t really collect most of them. I buy a few of them like the Clone Trooper that was on Kashyyyk with Yoda (and wookiees!), the Shadow trooper because he is cool looking and I bought the zombie trooper just because it was funny. And I have a few more different ones. But tend to stay away from them because I don’t care about them much AND they just make too many of them.<\/p>\n

BUT – this one was different for 2 reasons:<\/p>\n

a. It was the McQuarrie version which means it was the original art version so different from the finished film version.<\/p>\n

And more importantly b) It’s Stormy’s full name!!<\/p>\n

I liked the name Storm due to it being my 2nd favorite female superhero character and 2nd favorite X-Men character (Ororo\/Storm.) But then when we got a 2nd male dog, I wanted to keep the name since I liked it.\u00a0 And registered the full name “Hoth Stormtrooper” with the AKC.<\/p>\n

So when I saw they made the snowtrooper, I had to get it :)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Come on - he's pretty cool looking!<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

He comes with 2 interchangeable heads. I like the one in the pic best. The other has a longer\/slightly different helmet.<\/p>\n

Seriously….I need more shelves…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally put out my Gentle Giant bust that I pre-ordered from their Comic Con exclusives. Thankfully they allowed their club members to pre-order and not have to buy, pick-up and cart around at SDCC. And they shipped it as soon as the con ended. It’s rather annoying but a LOT of the collectibles nowadays made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,29],"tags":[168,904,1234,77],"class_list":["post-9397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectibles","category-star-wars","tag-gentle-giant","tag-mcquarrie-snowtrooper-sdcc-2011-mini-bust","tag-star-wars","tag-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397","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=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9401,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}