Movie Posters Discussion Thread

[d0ntacos]

I just got the olly moss set at comic con!! Princess mononoke hell yeah!!

[CdnBlu]

Well those certainly didn't last long!

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by d0ntacos

I just got the olly moss set at comic con!! Princess mononoke hell yeah!!

Congrats, I am sure you will be hanging around the Mondo booth for a while, correct? You should head over to the Gallery 1988 booth before 1pm (would not be surprised if there is a line there) for Mark Englert's "You Are My Lucky Star" print which is from the first Alien film. I believe its a SDCC exclusive with only about 100 being offered and Mark will be there to sign and number them.

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by CdnBlu

Well those certainly didn't last long!

They never do, they go just as fast as a Mondo drop, but Mitch, the guy who runs the site is a good guy and at least gives people a good idea when to expect the drop which is generally around 12pm pacific time. He usually only has a small amount available and the prices are cheaper than secondary prices such as eBay, etc.

[CdnBlu]

Originally Posted by d0ntacos

I just got the olly moss set at comic con!! Princess mononoke hell yeah!!

Congrats on your score!

So far the only thing tickling my fancy is that Hobbit Comic-Con teaser poster. As far as I know it's full size, though I could be mistaken. Acme Archives has some pretty nice stuff too!

How much are tickets if you don't mind me asking? I wouldn't mind attending Comic-Con next year

That lucky star print is amazing! Why did I have to look at it

[d0ntacos]

Originally Posted by Kinsella5

Congrats, I am sure you will be hanging around the Mondo booth for a while, correct? You should head over to the Gallery 1988 booth before 1pm (would not be surprised if there is a line there) for Mark Englert's "You Are My Lucky Star" print which is from the first Alien film. I believe its a SDCC exclusive with only about 100 being offered and Mark will be there to sign and number them.

Ya I was actually lucky. Just wanted to know where the booth was and when I found it it was the first drop of the day. What a rush. There's a huge line for 1988 I just past by argh... Kevin tong is here.. And only gonna be signing older prints tommrow.

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by CdnBlu

Congrats on your score!

So far the only thing tickling my fancy is that Hobbit Comic-Con teaser poster. As far as I know it's full size, though I could be mistaken. Acme Archives has some pretty nice stuff too!

How much are tickets if you don't mind me asking? I wouldn't mind attending Comic-Con next year

I don't think tickets are too terribly expensive but they can be just as hard scoring them as it is getting a hot Mondo print. One would think with 100,000+ tickets that it would be easy, but trust me, it's not. I have never gone myself or attempted to get tickets, but I know plenty of people who have, and they sell out very fast each year, with long check-out queue's, etc. A lot of people who want to go end up not getting tickets.

I am not sure if you do get tickets if they mail them out to the buyers or if you have to pick them up in-person, etc. SDCC is huge, the biggest convention for comics and pop culture in the world, but there are people who are turned off at how big it has gotten, some saying its very difficult to navigate the crowds, etc. Naturally the biggest days are this weekend, but there are only conventions that quite popular and just as fun in my opinion. Wonder-Con which is generally held in San Francisco and is put on by the same company that does SDCC is a lot of fun and is a 3-day show generally held in March or April (2013 date hasn't been announced) and generally Mondo has a presence there (but didn't offer anything for sale at the 2012 show this year), also another great show is the Emerald City Comic-Con here in Seattle, which is another 3-day show, March 1-3, 2013 is the next one. I have heard really good things about the Phoenix Comic-Con in Arizona which is generally the end of May, the Calgary Fan Expo which I believe you know about, and several others across the country.

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by d0ntacos

Ya I was actually lucky. Just wanted to know where the booth was and when I found it it was the first drop of the day. What a rush. There's a huge line for 1988 I just past by argh... Kevin tong is here.. And only gonna be signing older prints tommrow.

Yeah Mark Englert's print is what has everyone excited because that is an SDCC-exclusive version, and Mark has really been making quite a name for himself even after only offer a few prints so far, and he's a really cool guy too. I am sure there will be a lot of people lined up already for it, but if there aren't 100 people in line, you may want to wait, if the print interests you that is.

Maybe you can shed some light on that Hobbit giveaway poster from New Line Cinema/Warner Brothers, some would like to know if it is single-sided or double-sided and if its full 27x40 size. My guess is it will be single-sided, but size wise, unsure of, as they have done both full size and mini posters in the past.

[d0ntacos]

Originally Posted by Kinsella5

Yeah Mark Englert's print is what has everyone excited because that is an SDCC-exclusive version, and Mark has really been making quite a name for himself even after only offer a few prints so far, and he's a really cool guy too. I am sure there will be a lot of people lined up already for it, but if there aren't 100 people in line, you may want to wait, if the print interests you that is.

Maybe you can shed some light on that Hobbit giveaway poster from New Line Cinema/Warner Brothers, some would like to know if it is single-sided or double-sided and if its full 27x40 size. My guess is it will be single-sided, but size wise, unsure of, as they have done both full size and mini posters in the past.

from what the guy at the booth told me the hobbit poster are going to be giving out on Saturday. I believe they're limited and they'll need some sort of ticket

[CdnBlu]

Mondo needs to attend the Calgary Expo. If only

These past 2 years I've gone to Blizzcon it worked like this. 2 Days of ticket sales, you get in a queue, if there's still tickets when you get to the end of the queue, you buy. If tickets sell out while you're in queue, then basically your SOL.

I assume Comiccon has something similar that goes down, though I see it being a 100 times harder to get tickets. Blizzcon is just for Blizzard fans, while Comiccon is for a much wider variety of 'nerd'

[roar]

Originally Posted by Kinsella5

They are up now for sale:

http://www.postersandtoys.net/servle...gory=New+Stuff

Edit: Seconds later, they are now all sold-out. I could have gotten them but I passed, too expensive for me.

52 AP's? That's whack. I mean good for Ansin for selling out quickly, I would much, MUCH rather the cash go to him than the scalpers but my limited knowledge of the art world had me thinking the AP run would be considerably lower.

I wiki'd Artist Proof to see if I was out to lunch on my opinions and even there it suggests a run of 20 or more to be 'surprisingly high'.

Good on them for indicating how large the AP run was though. I've got another AP print that is signed by the artist as 'AP' but no indication of run... which to be honest didn't surprise me.

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by CdnBlu

Mondo needs to attend the Calgary Expo. If only

These past 2 years I've gone to Blizzcon it worked like this. 2 Days of ticket sales, you get in a queue, if there's still tickets when you get to the end of the queue, you buy. If tickets sell out while you're in queue, then basically your SOL.

I assume Comiccon has something similar that goes down, though I see it being a 100 times harder to get tickets. Blizzcon is just for Blizzard fans, while Comiccon is for a much wider variety of 'nerd'

Yeah I think that is kind of how it works too, I remember people saying they were in the queue for SDCC tickets and it said their order would be finalized in 26 hours so clearly it was a huge backlog of people in the queue all wanting tickets and it sounds like a nightmare to me. I am just curious if the tickets get shipped to the buyer or if you have to pick them up in-person to prevent scalping, etc.

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by roar

52 AP's? That's whack. I mean good for Ansin for selling out quickly, I would much, MUCH rather the cash go to him than the scalpers but my limited knowledge of the art world had me thinking the AP run would be considerably lower.

I wiki'd Artist Proof to see if I was out to lunch on my opinions and even there it suggests a run of 20 or more to be 'surprisingly high'.

Good on them for indicating how large the AP run was though. I've got another AP print that is signed by the artist as 'AP' but no indication of run... which to be honest didn't surprise me.

Some collectors actually prefer the AP runs over the standard runs mainly because its a lower amount, and to some, the number is all that matters. I also believe the AP's are generally signed and numbered, whereas the majority of the Mondo stuff is just numbered. I believe in the case of Martin Ansin all of his stuff is numbered only because he lives out of the country and I don't believe he handles any of his sales, Mondo does the majority which are numbered, and then PostersandToys handles his AP copies which are probably just numbered to, I highly doubt they ship them to him to sign and then he ships them back to the U.S. for them to sell.

[technique]

Originally Posted by Kinsella5

Some collectors actually prefer the AP runs over the standard runs mainly because its a lower amount, and to some, the number is all that matters. I also believe the AP's are generally signed and numbered, whereas the majority of the Mondo stuff is just numbered. I believe in the case of Martin Ansin all of his stuff is numbered only because he lives out of the country and I don't believe he handles any of his sales, Mondo does the majority which are numbered, and then PostersandToys handles his AP copies which are probably just numbered to, I highly doubt they ship them to him to sign and then he ships them back to the U.S. for them to sell.

Yeah Ansin lives in Uruguay in South America and the only time he's come over stateside is the Phonebooth gallery show with Ken Taylor and Rich Kelly so he signed lots of older stuff people brought in like Dracula, Phantom, Wolfman, etc. The distant winter Alaska prints Ansin had in the show are signed and from what I know the only other signed piece that was officialy sold was his Taming Light Stanley Kubrick print.

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by technique

Yeah Ansin lives in Uruguay in South America and the only time he's come over stateside is the Phonebooth gallery show with Ken Taylor and Rich Kelly so he signed lots of older stuff people brought in like Dracula, Phantom, Wolfman, etc. The distant winter Alaska prints Ansin had in the show are signed and from what I know the only other signed piece that was officialy sold was his Taming Light Stanley Kubrick print.

Sigh...if only I had kept some of the Phantom of the Opera red metallic variant Ansin ones I had gotten. They only made 25 of them, would have been nice to have had those signed.

A buddy just called from SDCC, was telling me about the few smaller poster dealers that were offering originals and then the ones that only sell knockoffs and he said a few were doing that and how they get away with it is baffling. We are talking really poor quality stuff that a five year old could tell was printed up themselves. Why people continue to fall for that stuff is beyond me. There is a person on eBay who is doing the same thing trying to pass the bus shelter images for DKR as "international wilding posters" when they are nothing more than print-at-home garbage, yet people are buying it up. It's really quite sad at the sheer number of people who think they have authentic stuff but in reality, don't.

[Kinsella5]

Now that they have been put on display, I can talk about it. At SDCC there are lenticular bus shelter and one-sheet size posters for The Hobbit. I am unsure if the studio will make any for theaters or if they were only made to be used as promotional material at SDCC but I had heard about this earlier this year. Sounds like they have 3 one-sheet sized ones on display (each of a different character) and two bus shelter sized ones all in the lenticular format.

[d0ntacos]

Originally Posted by CdnBlu

Congrats on your score!

So far the only thing tickling my fancy is that Hobbit Comic-Con teaser poster. As far as I know it's full size, though I could be mistaken. Acme Archives has some pretty nice stuff too!

How much are tickets if you don't mind me asking? I wouldn't mind attending Comic-Con next year

That lucky star print is amazing! Why did I have to look at it

175.00 for all 4 days and like 40 for 1 day

[Kinsella5]

Originally Posted by d0ntacos

175.00 for all 4 days and like 40 for 1 day

Don, the Jock Dark Knight Rises poster is on sale at the Mondo booth now if you were looking to get it. Jock will be there until 3pm signing too.

The version at the link below is the same one done by Jock but the villains are added at the bottom and this version is limited to 350 but won't be made for sale, its a free giveaway and only 250 will be given out (I assume the other 100 are being used for something else, going to the artist, etc). I actually like this version better.

http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/11/c...-mondo-poster/

[CdnBlu]

Wow that's not bad at all! Last years Blizzcon tickets were 175 alone, but the goodie bag came with some really cool stuff (Including a Tyrael statue done by sideshow collectibles) and included admission to the closing concert (which were the Foo Fighters last year).

For Blizzcon, the tickets would sell out in May, but the actual convention is Oct 21-22 in Anaheim. Usually a month or so before I would get an email with bar codes. You'd take that bar code to a booth the night before with your picture ID to get your actual badge and goodie bag.

[d0ntacos]

In line for batman print