Sweet And Tender Blogger
Here’s a quick weekend recap, since I put up the "Closed for Dragon*Con" sign, but I haven’t had the time to do any sort of write-up proper. The South’s biggest genre con (or would that be con-re?) was bigger than ever this year with lines (at least for tickets/passes) snaking around Atlanta’s downtown blocks.
Besides the celebrities, swag, costumes and the big Jabba statue thing, the best part is the people. In the Star Wars collector panel, I met John Alvarez an editor from The Star Wars Collectors Archive and Shane Turgeon from tattoosandtoys.com (and a little site called rebelscum.com, which you might have heard of?). There were a lot of people from the Pennsylvania Star Wars Collectorizing Society there, and their resident smart ass/artiste Bill Cable from creaturecantina.com. I think a riot nearly broke out over the definining period for "vintage". (That’s what we modern geeks call "the old crap".) If I missed namechecking anyone, I apologize. I’m not rude, I just usually have a little extra sedative to make it through big cons (or little cons, or restaurants, or anything outside of my house).
You’d be shocked at how many people hear my name, read my credentials, or see my officialized Galactic Hunter biz card and say, "You’re not Adam Pawlus!" No, I’m not… but we’re looking into one of those Star Trek transporter mishaps to try to make a hybridized Adam Mawlus.
While I’m still blathering, I’d like to thank my partner, (and the guy who keeps the Galactic Hunter machinery moving) for making sure to plug Galactic Hunter here and there, since I’m all shy and stuff. He also makes sure that I make it to panels/events and don’t hurt people.
Now on to the good stuff… today’s a Pimp This Figure! day, but today is truly a pimping day. GalacticBlogger reader Eric von Gruenigen sent in a Guest Pimp!, and it’s so pimped that it has to be shown sooner than immediately! He pimped up a POTF2 Slave Leia pic to kindly suggest a seated, submissive Slave Leia for our Jabba The Hutt figures to dominate. (Yeah… big metaphor there, right?) It’s a really sweet concept… sweet in a different way, but sweet.
His pimp (and Starbucks, thank The Maker for them) gave me the inspiration to pimp Slave Leia out just a little further… you know, walk that extra block for me. (I know, poor Slave Leia…)
Yes, I totally swiped the rug, the glass, and the plate of grub from Sideshow‘s fabulous Jabba The Hutt set. They’re just inspiration to encourage Hasbro to try to do more, I assure you.
I also decided to up-pimp Guest Pimp! Eric’s Slave Leia and use the upper half of the hand-painted prototype for the "Deluxe" version of the figure. I didn’t do any Photoshopping on Jabba The Hutt (Ultra) because (a) I didn’t have time and (b) they’re never going to paint it that way anyway.
So what say you, Blogger readers? What would you like to see? What don’t you like? What did you eat for breakfast? We want to know these things.
As always, I encourage readers to contribute, and we’re happy to feature all kinds of coolness here. It only feeds the collecting furnace and drives us to be even more obnoxious in our requests to wonderful companies like Hasbro. (We really do love you… it’s just a slightly dysfunctional kind of love.)
Now I have to try to round up some news for you people. It’s been a very dry summer ever since Comic-Con.
September 5th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
And here I thought my dream had finaly came true……….*sigh*
September 5th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Poor Jodo!
See, Hasbro, you’re making the sad boy cry! For the love of all that is Holy Trilogy, make the boy a Jabba The Hutt with dais (and other crap)! (And make is below an MSRP of $15-$20 thanks!)
Is Jodo still technically a kid, or has he graduated to the rank of creepy adult with the rest of us? No, not you… you’re special just the way you are. I’m talking about them. You know?
September 5th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Excellent. I’d buy that! It’s a great idea to have a Leia posed in that classic look, and certainly would be a great bonus figure to include with a re-released Jabba. I really like this one!
September 5th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Exactly, your making me cry, and honestly, producing this would be like taking money from a baby……Or have I graduated to creepy collector like Adam said?
September 5th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Hasbro – you make us the leia, I will buy me another Jabba, even if its the same old dusty exactly the same not even repainted one that I already have in my storage. Come of think of it, my Jabba aint that dusty afterall.
September 6th, 2006 at 12:35 am
And to think I actually believed this was a legit set.
You know how to make my spirit soar, then crush it like a crunchy shelled bug.
September 6th, 2006 at 2:48 am
Thanks for stealing my idea about the slave Leia!
September 6th, 2006 at 4:22 am
Paul… as Oscar Wilde said, "Talent borrows, genius steals." Eric is the genius at the heart of this one, though. I’ve been puzzling over how ‘they’ would get her in that pose for some time now. (I’d also like the laying-on-her-side Slave Leia, so I’ve been trying to figure out how the newer, slimmer style figure could be articulated to do both.) I think I was just going to do a pimped up Yoxgit or the Snivvian from Jabba’s Palace (whose name isn’t striking me at 7am EST). Let’s see what develops for next week?
September 6th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Super sweet….great job!
September 6th, 2006 at 11:46 pm
I just find it sad that someone went to the trouble to photoshop a custom, and submit it passing it off as a real custom. YES people, it’s not a real custom, look at the legs, they’re photoshopped in, and the lower legs are just rotated and added on.
sad, sad, sad.
September 7th, 2006 at 4:46 am
I’d definitely buy this if it was an actual release.
One thing is missing–a super articulated Oola!!!!
September 7th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Palpy’s Pimple,
Uh, that’s the whole concept of Pimp This Figure! The idea is to use visual tools (like Photoshop) to present a concept. Companies do this in this here modern age, so I thought it would be a good way to show people at Hasbro what we’d like to see.
Vashe, according to the rumor mill, Oola is coming out in 2007. No idea if she’s super anything, though.