Get Your Star Wars Trash Cans Now

Gentle Giant announces that the R4-P17 Trash can is available exclusively through their web site. It is limited to only 500 pieces worldwide. Gentle Giant is also offering a special bundle where you can buy both the R2-D2 trash can and R4-P17 trash can and save $50. At the same time, Premiere Guild members can buy the R2-D2 trash can and save $15.

Gentle Giant Announces Horror Line

Gentle Giant finally gives an official announcement on their blog about their upcoming horror line. Here is what they said about it.

After years of tackling the sci-fi/fantasy genre, Gentle Giant has taken the leap into Horror. The Gentle Giant Ltd. Horror line consists of some of the greatest fright fests to invade your mind, including the classics Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre along with some of the new such as 30 Days of Night, Dawn of the Dead, The Decsent and The Grudge.

Gentle Giant Ltd. will be bringing these Horror Classics to you with  mini busts, maquettes and statues. The Gentle Giant Ltd. Horror line will launch in April of 2008 with Jason Vorhees Animaquette from Friday the 13th, Chop Top mini bust and Leatherface mini bust from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Crawler mini bust from The Descent.

All 4 items are available to pre-order now through GentleGiantLtd.com. Keep checking back for more news on upcoming Gentle Giant Ltd. Horror releases.

New Items in Stock at Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant updated their blog, and informed everyone about all the new items that are in stock in their store. Below is the full list that they posted with links to the store. They were in stock as of their posting, as far as I know. Of note is the Darth Maul mini bust and the Elrond and Sam and Frodo mini busts.

Harry Potter

• Harry Potter Year 5 Mini Bust
• Draco Malfoy Mini Bust
• Cho Chang Mini Bust

Lord of the Rings

• Elrond Mini Bust
• Frodo Orc Armor Ringbearer Mini Bust
• Sam Orc Armor Ringbearer Mini Bust
• Saruman Animaquette

Animated Pirates of the Caribbean

• Animated Jack Sparrow Maquette
• Animated Davy Jones Maquette

Star Wars

• Darth Maul mini bust
• Star Wars ATOC Clone Trooper Bust-Up Box Set
• Star Wars Clone Wars Clone Trooper Bust-Up Box Set
• Jabba’s Palace Band Statue
• Jabba The Hutt Statue
• Obi-Wan Kenobi ANH Mini Bust
• Princess Leia ANH Mini Bust
• Princess Leia As Jabba’s Slave Statue
• Han Solo on Tauntaun Statue
• Animated Stormtrooper Maquette
• Animated Luke Skywalker X-Wing Pilot Maquette
• Animated C-3PO Maquette

Keep in mind if you buy through them you are paying full price, even if you are a member. Most of these can be had cheaper if you shop around, even the ones that have been out for a while.

Animated Elizabeth Swann Maquette is Shipping

Gentle Giant lets us know that the Animated Elizabeth Swann Maquette from their Pirates of the Carribean line is now shipping to retailers and distributors. Is anyone out there collecting this line?

In case you are, you might also want to know that Gentle Giant updated their site with official images of the Captain Barbossa and Will Turner maquettes.

Gentle Giant Princess Leia Monument

This has been talked about before, but this is the first official word we have gotten. Rebelscum posted tonight about a monument size version of the Animated Princess Leia maquette. Click on the link for more information and pictures. It has a new base and no R2-D2, plus it’s life-sized!

Update: Retail on this looks to be about $800. Start saving now!

New Images for Hellboy, Harry Potter and Horror from Gentle Giant

That’s right, it’s triple H baby! CoolToyReview.com has new images from Gentle Giant tonight from Harry Potter, Hellboy and the new horror line.

From Harry Potter, we see pictures of new busts bust-ups of Bellatrix Lestrange and 4 Death Eaters. I’m guessing these are in the classic bust scale rather than the six inch scale or bust ups. Funny thing is the Bellatrix likeness is a bit off compared to the regular Bellatrix bust and the movie. Update: This is a five pack of bust-ups from Order of the Phoenix.

From Hellboy, we see images of two alternate headsculpts from the new Hellboy rotocast figure.

From the new Horror line, we see images of the Animated Friday The 13th Jason Maquette, Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leatherface and Chop Top mini busts, and The Descent Crawler mini bust.

Also shown, are new images of the Pirates of the Carribean maquettes, which are also up on their web site. Enjoy!

Halo Master Chief Mini Bust New Photo

CoolToyReview.com posted a new photo of the Gentle Giant Halo mini busts today. The photo shows all three of the busts with the interchangeable arms. According to the Gentle Giant web site, these are expected to be released in November.

Strangely, Gentle Giant has not updated the photos for these busts on their own website yet. I’m guessing that is because they are still pending approval. But if they are still pending approval, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that I doubt we’ll be seeing them this year. Anyway, check out the image here. I have to say these are looking excellent so far.

Custom Clone Mini Busts

There is an eBay seller from Hong Kong known as cloneorder66 who creates amazing custom Gentle Giant busts. Custom mini busts and knock offs are not uncommon. However, this guy does amazing work like no one else, and he does Clones! Check out his newest releases for sale on eBay through the links below.

Star Wars Custom Made Clone Commander Bly Bust

Star Wars Custom Made Red ARC Captain Mini Bust

Baltimore Comic-Con Exclusives Premiere Guild Raffle Now Live

The Premiere Guild raffle for Baltimore Comic-Con exclusives is now open. Click the links below to go the product pages and enter the raffles. You have to be logged in for the links to work, BTW.

Commander Bacara mini bust – 200 pieces
Star Wars Animated Yoda and R2-D2 Maquette – 400 pieces
Luke and Han in Stormtrooper Disguise Bust-Up 2-pack – 600 pieces

The raffle will start today (9/14/07) and run for six (6) days, ending on September 19, 2007 at 11:59pm Pacific. Good luck!

Elrond and Balrog Mini Bust Review

Michael Crawford is back with a nice review of the Lord of the Rings Balrog and Elrond mini busts from Gentle Giant. I knew that the Balrog was out but actually didn’t know that Elrond was in stores yet. What did Mike think? Go to his site to find out. The pictures look great!