Gentle Giant Product Line 2006
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Email Article Print ArticleGentle Giant released a list of their new Star Wars products at the New York Toy Fair 2006. Looks like it is going to be an action packed year for Gentle Giant. We include some pictures of their marvelous creations, a couple quotes from their marketing coordinator, as well as a list of what to expect throughout 2006.
Gentle Giant always releases a quality product. They seem to bring high quality artistic pieces for a bargain price. Here is a listing of the announcements they made at the New York Toy Fair 2006.
New mini busts for 2006 include: Qui-Gon Jinn, Deluxe Clone Trooper (Revenge of the Sith version), Chewbacca, Darth Maul, Grievous, and the first character from the Expanded Universe to be immortalized in resin ?? Mara Jade.
New statues include: Royal Guard, Obi-Wan in Clone Trooper Armor, and a massive 16? tall Rancor (in 7? scale)!
New Bust-Ups were revealed, including a Luke and Han in Stormtrooper Disguise 2-pack, a Bounty Hunter Boxed Set, and Series 7 as one of the most requested themes for Bust-Ups since its inception ?? the Clone Wars animated style.
A brand new category was shown off as well ?? resin bookends. The first release (for Winter 2006) will be ripped from the Mos Eisley Cantina ?? Han vs. Greedo. (Han Shot First!)
Only one new Clone Wars maquette was shown ?? the fan-designed Roron Corobb ??, but one of the shows biggest surprises of the show was the announcement of the new Original Trilogy Star Wars Animated style of maquettes. Similar in design to the Clone Wars series but also taking elements from the old Droids cartoon, the looks of these characters were co-designed by Lucasfilm and Gentle Giant Studios. They were purposefully made to look “Tartovsky Style” which is a cool feature IMHO.
“Everyone here at Gentle Giant really loved the Clone Wars series and it seemed like a natural fit to try out the classic Star Wars characters in the style that Genndy Tartakovsky and the Cartoon Network crew created,” says Gentle Giant Marketing Coordinator Amanda Burns. As for the original CW line, those will happily be continuing as well. “We still plan on continuing the Clone Wars animated maquettes,” adds Burns. “There are many other characters from the cartoon we are excited about doing.”
“We all studied reference from the Droids cartoon, the Holiday Special, and the original films in order to determine what these characters would look like in this particular animated world,” continues Burns. “We worked hand-in-hand with the great team at Lucasfilm Licensing at every stage, from looking at archive art, getting a feel for the classic characters and how they might look in the animated style—all the way down to what types of colors to use.”
As for C-3PO, who inhabits both universes and remains strangely absent from the line, Burns can only tantalize. “You never know where C-3PO will pop up.”
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