Gentle Giant Japanese Exclusives

[Batty]

I saw this info over at Yoda News. Two Gentle Giant exclusives from the Japanese company Blister.

Chrome Vader statue with light-up saber.


Blackhole Stormtrooper mini-bust.


I'm not a big follower of the EU, but the Stormtrooper looks pretty cool. Even though these are Japanese exclusives, they will be available worldwide with very small edition sizes.

 

[The Josh]

I'll get the storm trooper for sure. I like it a lot.

 

[spider1135]

Man, I have to get one of these . how to order it?????????

 

[bigdaddyrob]

That Stormie is a must own! Where's my GG newsletter hehe

 

[Fritz]

OMG!!!! Where can I get that Stormtrooper!?!?!?!?

 

[Batty]

The only place I've been able to find it is on the Blister site. No problem if you can read Japanese. If someone knows how to view English text, let me know. They have a lot of cool looking stuff.

https://www.blister.jp/55gg/

 

[King Darkness]

Hey Batty..If I right click on my mouse there is an option to translate in to english...all i have is windows xp..no special translating program...try right clicking see what happens..

 

[tomandshell]

The only place I've been able to find it is on the Blister site. No problem if you can read Japanese. If someone knows how to view English text, let me know. They have a lot of cool looking stuff.

https://www.blister.jp/55gg/

Go to https://babelfish.altavista.com/ and enter the website you want translated (https://www.blister.jp/55gg/) and select the "from" and "to" languages (Japanese to English). Then give it a minute to work its magic and you will have a rough translation of the page.

Or go to https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ft5k-ymd/learn.html and learn Japanese.

 

[Batty]

Thanks guys. I'm a Mac user and we don't know how to right click! The babelfish worked fine and it was a lot faster than me learning Japanese.

What do you think of the Vader? It's very shiny.

 

[King Darkness]

I think "shiny" Vader looks pretty cool...but I like the good old black Vader..shiny things scare me..

 

[tomandshell]

Just got my GG Vader in the mail today. I like him a lot and don't feel the need to have a second version of him. I am thankfully not attracted to chrome variants. I want one nice looking version in my collection with a nice paint job, and chromed versions just don't interest me.

But then again, I just paid $100 for a catalog. So what do I know?

 

[King Darkness]

But then again, I just paid $100 for a catalog. So what do I know?

LOL!!!

Dont feel bad Tom....theres 123 others just like me and you ...oh well....I will be happy when it gets here..

 

[Batty]

I have the chrome bust variants of Vader and Jango. This shiny Vader doesn't interest me that much.

Yeah, I've have one of those $100.00 catalogs coming. What do any of us know?

 

[King Darkness]

I have the chrome bust variants of Vader and Jango. This shiny Vader doesn't interest me that much.

Yeah, I've have one of those $100.00 catalogs coming. What do any of us know?

apparently not much..except how to throw money away...

 

[SolidLiquidFox]

This is a big part of the reason why I don't do bust in my collection: it's an entire separate entity on it's own. It's very easy for any given company (not just GG) to go variant crazy and then you are stuck searching for the limited ones.

That Vader looks ugly.

 

[The Josh]

Congrats Tom! The GG Vader is a pretty good piece IMO. I enjoy having it in my collection.

Yeah, one version of the Vader is enough for me. The chrome one is cool but I've also got one with a light up lightsaber in my PF piece. Now this black stromtrooper is awesome and I must have.

The Chrome Vader was at SDCC last summer and was impressive but not a must have.

 

[Booyah!]

That Blackhole Stormie is freaking awesome. I must resist spending the cash on the Vader though, since the exclusive 1/4 Greivous is coming soon to wipe out my bank account.

 

[bcm77]

I don't like either of these as I prefer film versions of characters and I always think chromed figures/statues look crappy.

 

[Fritz]

I don't like either of these as I prefer film versions of characters and I always think chromed figures/statues look crappy.

I agree as I don't collect chromed figures either but isn't the Stormtrooper based on a EU character? The eyes and mouth look painted.