Category: Announcements

Weta Returns to Middle-earth

from Weta:

Read this message on our site and see the images!

THERE AND BACK AGAIN

Weta is returning to Middle-earth.
We are delighted to announce our new license with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to create a new range of the most authentic, fine art collectibles and memorabilia based on The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. This range is designed and created by the same Academy Award-winning artists who worked on the movie trilogy. We have patiently waited for the opportunity to offer the most authentic replicas you could ever hope to find. The wait is over; it has been four long years since Weta last released any new collectibles from The Lord of the Rings. Our new license covers a wide range of new product categories, beginning with the following new items to be launched at San Diego Comic-Con on July 22-26, 2009.

The Master Swordsmith’s Collection — Peter Lyon of Weta Workshop
Weta will offer a very limited-edition of the most authentic swords from The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. Each sword is individually hand-crafted by Peter Lyon, the Master Swordsmith from Weta Workshop, who created the original swords used in the movies. These blades are created using old world techniques for the sword purist, the way swords used to be made, for fighting. The first sword to be released is Anduril, in a limited-edition of only 10 worldwide. Each sword comes with a 10-minute DVD showing the artistic process and featuring interviews with Richard Taylor, John Howe and Peter Lyon. The video will shortly be made available for viewing on this website.

Gollum
A full scale replica of Gollum, a timeless sculpture, cast in bronze or in faux bronze fiberglass sculpted by the artists who helped bring him to life.

Miniature Shield Collectibles
A new range of cast metal miniature shields, built to exacting precision by Weta’s senior model maker, Dave Tremont (who built Grond and many of the miniatures used in filming the trilogy). They can be displayed as stunning collectibles on their custom built bases, or worn as badges to your next convention.

Gandalf the Grey Cloak
An exact replica of the original cloak worn in the movie trilogy, using the same woolen material, produced from the same farm in New Zealand and woven on the same 19th century looms. Woven and sewn by our friends at Stansborough, in Wellington, New Zealand, these cloaks are the real thing.

These works of art (and other new items) will shortly be available to purchase on the Weta website, wetanz.com.

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Shout! Factory: Comic-Con 2009 Is ON!

from Shout! Factory:

We are all revved up to hit beautiful San Diego as we participate for the sixth consecutive year in the world’s most exciting and mass-attended pop culture convention. We’re at booth #3749 and have lined up a handful of events to properly whet your appetite. From The Middleman panel and signing to The Transformers signing, we’ve got the goods. Also, for you G.I. Joe and Transformers Collector’s Set coveters, we WILL be selling both sets at our booth. In addition, we have a limited-edition, Comic-Con exclusive lithograph available for both… and they’re signed! The G.I. Joe poster is autographed by artist Tom Feister, while The Transformers litho is signed by the Gen One voice of Megatron, Frank Welker!! Our complete schedule can be found here.

If you don’t want to miss out on the things that happen at Shout! between newsletters, find us on Facebook and Twitter. We update both throughout the day… every day! Come on, we know you want more…

The Legend of Neil’s Comic-Con Schedule

from The Legend of Neil:

San Diego Comic-Con 2009 is upon us!

For those of you who will be attending, be sure to stop by and say hello at the Atom.com booth (3445) where you can pick up a Heart Cookie T-Shirt, as well as a brand spanking new shirt premiering at Comic-Con!

Don’t forget that the first 250 fans to wear a LoN shirt and track down either Sandeep or Tony will receive a Comic-Con exclusive prize, and will be automatically entered into a lottery for a genuine prop from the show!

Sandeep will most likely be twittering about where he is and what he’s doing throughout Comic-Con (follow him @sandeepparikh), but here’s the official Legend of Neil schedule so you can be sure not to miss anything:

Thursday 7/23

1:30–2:30 PM: ROCK BAND: Play with the Legend of Neil cast including Sandeep Parikh and Tony Janning (participants will be chosen via raffle), Atom.com Booth 3445

Saturday 7/25

4:30-5:30 PM: ROCK BAND: Legend of Neil cast including Sandeep Parikh, Tony Janning & Felicia Day, Atom.com Booth 3445

6:00-7:00 PM: AUTOGRAPH SIGNING: Legend of Neil cast, Sails Pavilion Autograph Area AA7

7:30-8:30 PM: PANEL: Atom.com presents the world premiere of Legend of Neil, Season 2, Room 7AB

Sunday 7/26

1:30–2:30 PM: ROCK BAND: Legend of Neil cast including Sandeep Parikh and Tony Janning, Atom.com Booth 3445

Also, it’s Sandeep’s birthday on Thursday, so feel free to show up with cupcakes and presents. No, really.

Emily Challenges You to Be Your Own Hero!

from Emily the Strange:

Everyone has their favorite superhero… but Emily thinks you should be your own hero and save yourself!

Altered Ego crew neck t-shirt
Save Yourself mini dress
Super Kitties Rock eared hoody
Be Your Own Hero messenger bag

July 22-26, 2009: Emily the Strange at Comic-Con, San Diego!

Find Emily on: Facebook | MySpace | YouTube

Cortana and new Halo helmets in stock at Weta

from Weta:

Hey, you patient Halo fans!
We’re very pleased to announce that Cortana is now in stock in all our warehouses and we have started to fulfill the preorders, both from our old site and our new site. So please bear with us while we trawl through this. Your statue will be on its way very shortly.

We have more exciting news.

Last year we announced our 1/4 scale cast metal Master Chief’s Mark VI SPARTAN Helmet. Now it’s being joined by two more specialised helmets in the Mark VI range, the E.V.A. and the C.Q.B. helmets.

All three are now available to pre-order. In very short editions of 300 of each, so don’t delay.

And finally — the Master Chief and Arbiter and the Master Chief and Flood will be arriving in our warehouses at the end of September!

Hello Halo!

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Three Keyboard Cat Moon

from Threadless:

The Internet spreads ideas like a rabid wolfpack let loose in a gated community. It’s scary, but weirdly fun too. We’ve learned this with this newest tee, “Three Keyboard Cat Moon.” Once there were two separate internet memes: Keyboard Cat — the loveable slapstick video closer, and Three Wolf Moon — the tee that launched a thousand satirical comments. In an instant last Friday, these two met on our website and made Threadless history: highest score ever, most votes ever, most I’d buy it’s ever (most controversy ever too, if you could vote on that)… AND this is the first time we’ve printed a submission before scoring has ended!

But don’t let this rabid outbreak of memes deter you — ironic jokes are just one fraction of what makes Threadless such an amazing community. So keep on designing, folks — and bring on all the artistic diversity — keyboards, cats, wolves, and otherwise!

Split Reason’s Summer Promo and Nintendo Contest

from Split Reason:

This month was busy as we’re still hooked on Fight Night Round 4 and Red Faction; excellent titles that warrant serious playtime. Let’s not forget another title update for Gears of War 2, Worms 2: Armageddon on XBLA, and a laughable sequel to Transformers. All while trying to crank out another wave of new T’s. Nothing we can’t handle. Extend awake hours, reduce sleep, and get a few extra battery packs to charge controllers in rotation.

Before we move on to new products, no newsletter would be complete without a way to shave a few bucks off the price tag. It’s hot out there so we’re going to put some change into your Slurpee fund. Save 10% by entering promo code SLURPEE at check-out. We’re also running a nifty contest this month to give-a-way a Nintendo DSi, click this link for your chance to win!

Also, check out this footage of giant alien robots nuking Tokyo.

Preparing for Launch! Galaxy Girls to touchdown at San Diego’s Cosmic Con ’09

from Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls:

Greetings Earthlings! Once again Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls will invade Comic-Con at the San Diego Convention Center from July 23-26. Plenty of MWGG merchandise will be available, including some brand new tees available in kids’ sizes for the very first time! Plus a truly ASTRONOMICAL ANNOUNCEMENT that will change the state of the Girlaxy forever!!!

Check us out and meet creator Lauren Faust at Booth 4834 and check the MWGG Blog for further announcements and details as we COUNTDOWN TO COSMIC-CON!!

Over and Out, Mother Earth

Jill Thompson Comic-Con Schedule and Info

from Jill Thompson:

If you’re looking for me at the big Comic-Con this week in San Diego– or– if you have generously volunteered some of your time to Booth sit for me while I’m on a panel or doing a signing at a Publishers booth… Here is my current run down. Or, if you have access to one of those palanquins and some strong fellows and want to whisk me thru the con like a fancy princess…

You can find me at my booth #1322. I’ll be sitting with Cliff Chiang, Brian Wood, Becky Cloonan, Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba! Yes, we have a super awesome table and I’m proud to be sharing with such a talented bunch of creators.
Here’s my current schedule–

WEDNESDAY — Preview Nite Booth #1322 sketching, signing, chatting etc.

THURSDAY Booth #1322 til 11:30. Then I rush off to
CBLDF MASTER SESSION room 30CDE where I shall paint and explain how I use watercolor to create my comics. Also painting, the amazing Charles Vess. Two watercolorists, two approaches, two different styles, but– same format — Comics!

FRIDAY 10 am booth #1322, but– I have a meeting there, so I won’t be signing and sketching straight away. Thanks for waiting.
12 noon-1 Dark Horse Booth #2615 signing and talking about Beasts of Burden.
Come see a preview of the art for the series!
&
EISNER AWARD CEREMONY I’ll be there for most of it, as I am nominated for an award (I hope I hope I hope I win!)
But– I’ll be dashing across town to the AMANDA PALMER/CBLDF benefit where I shall be drawing quick sketches of Amanda as she performs. It will feel all kind of Toulouse-Lautrec-ish, I think. The “drawing a beautiful performer and wild, bohemian, entertainmenty” part. Not the “artist drinks heavily to deal with the crowd’s ridicule and falls into alcoholism and has to be committed to a sanitorium” part… Also all the art goes to the cause. I’ll take pix and tweet the art for all to see.
Hopefully I won’t be too late, and I also hope I’ll have an award under my arm and a bottle of champagne in my hand to celebrate a win. I’ll be the one in the gold silky gown (at least that’s my plan) rushing in the door during the middle of things.

SATURDAY all day at booth #1322 until
DC Booth signing from 4-5 pm
dinner with the Fables Crew
SATURDAY NITE much laughing, shop talking, revelry. Please come join me if you see me! Who knows what we’ll all be up to.

SUNDAY also DC Booth Signing from 10:30-11:30 am

When I’m at other booths, I won’t be able to take commissioned drawing because I’m only there an hour. All I can accommodate are signatures. So please save all sketch requests for booth 1322.

What will I have available for sale at booth #1322?
Embroidered Patches– Bug-A-Boo, the Boozle, Scary Godmother are $10 each, Scratches and the bats are $5 each. $45.00 US for the whole set.
Magic Trixie Books — cover price
Sandman Painted art — prices vary
black and white line art sketches $100.00, with tone $200.00
Signatures are free. But, please, take all comics and books and prints and whatnot out of their protective packaging before you get up to the head of the line. Then I can sign them quickly and efficiently for you and no tape gets stuck to your comic.

Each day I will take a new list for sketches so new con attendees will have a chance to get on the list. Check with me in the morning to get on the list, and later in the afternoon to see if a spot opened up. Or if someone never came back for their sketch. You’d be surprised how many times I go home with an unclaimed drawing of Death or something.

If I am drawing and my head is down PLEASE do not think I am ignoring you! I’m just drawing! It’s the only way I know how to do it– with the looking at the paper and all that… Just start to talk to me– introduce yourself. My witchy face has a tendency to look all serious and stern when I’m looking down and concentrating on my paper. That’s just what my perspective does to us oval faces. I am quite approachable. But you have to approach me! Ok? Cool!

Rules and Regs– just for the sake of everyone’s books and sketches, PLEASE do not lean on or bump into the table! And, if there is art on the table for viewing– please do not put your books or boxes on them, or your iced coffees.

If I am away from my table, my wonderful Booth Elves will be fielding questions, taking commission requests and selling books. Please feel free to interact with them.

You can follow me on Twitter as I’ll be digitally thinking for all to see (perhaps not IN THE EXHIBIT HALL where there is no WI FI-? WTF? that’s where we want to tweet from! let’s see if AT&T’s 3G works in that convention center — don’t let me down again AT&T…) Love the li’l Jesus phone so far…

Yeesh– not sure if I’ve forgotten anything, but I suppose we’ll find out in three days! THREE DAYS!!! It should be crazy, too crowded but quite a blast!

Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls at Comic-Con

from Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls:

The first of our announcements as we COUNTDOWN TO COSMIC-CON is that we will be selling, for the very first time, tees in kids’ sizes! 3 BRAND NEW DESIGNS at that! Quantities for the other womens’ tees are dwindling, so if you’ve ever had your eye on a shiny “Sitting Pretty” Venus shirt, or the “YAY MARS” design, this may be one of your last chances to get one.

Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls will be at booth #4834. I will be there most of the time to sign books for anyone who’d like to purchase. If you would care for an original autographed drawing of you favorite gGirl, I’ll be doing that on Saturday (time yet to be determined) along with my husband, Craig McCracken, who’ll be doing sketches of his creations, The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.

Check back tomorrow. As we continue the countdown, we’ll be revealing the shirt designs!!

Over and out,

Mother Earth (Lauren Faust)

The All New Stargate.MGM.com

from Stargate.MGM.com:

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The Clone Wars Complete Season One on DVD and Blu-ray

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One

from StarWars.com:

After wowing TV audiences with a cutting-edge, animated look at “a galaxy far, far away,” Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One is coming to DVD and high-definition Blu-ray Disc November 3 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Warner Home Video.

Live the adventures again and again, and dig deeper into the first season of The Clone Wars with a comprehensive look behind-the-scenes of the popular animated series. Uniquely packaged with an exclusive 64 page production journal, the four-disc set contains all 22 episodes from the groundbreaking first season — including seven extended Director’s Cuts — as well as companion featurettes for each episode. And exclusive to the Blu-ray disc, The Jedi Temple Archives provides in-depth access to an extensive database of creative materials.

“I’m a longtime Star Wars fan, and the same’s true for a lot of the guys working on the show,” said supervising director Dave Filoni. “And as a fan, I know that Lucasfilm can be pretty secretive. They’re famous for it. But we’re all so proud of the work that’s gone into The Clone Wars, and we wanted to share some of our production tricks, and open up the vault and reveal our efforts. You’re going to get unprecedented access, to see the nuts and bolts of our series — from concept to finished animation.”

Created and executive produced by George Lucas, the first-ever TV production from Lucasfilm Animation explores the tumultuous time between Episodes II and III of the live-action saga, expanding the scope of Star Wars beyond anything seen in the feature films. With the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, the heroes of the Republic — including the valiant Jedi Knights and their loyal clone troopers — fight bravely to repel the attacks of the evil Separatists and their droid army.

“The live-action saga was just the beginning. The universe is vast, and there are so many more stories to explore beyond Anakin’s fall and redemption,” said Lucas. “The scope of the war gives us the perfect vehicle for a weekly series, allowing us to look at how the conflict has affected the farthest reaches of the galaxy, including characters, creatures and races we only glimpsed in the feature films. Animation has allowed us to visualize the worlds and characters of Star Wars in all new ways.”

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One will be available November 3 for the suggested retail price of $44.98 for DVD and $59.99 for Blu-ray.

Special Features:

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One is presented in widescreen with English, Spanish and French 5.1 DTS audio and English, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features include:

  • Seven Director’s Cut Episodes: “Rising Malevolence”, “Shadow of Malevolence”, “Lair of Grievous”, “Rookies”, “Storm Over Ryloth”, “Innocents of Ryloth” and “Liberty on Ryloth”.
  • 22 Episodic Featurettes that go behind-the-scenes with Supervising Director Dave Filoni and crew about the making of each episode.
  • Spectacular 64 page production journal that includes early sketches, artist notes, and concept art from each episode from Season One.
  • Blu-ray Exclusive – The Jedi Temple Archives: An extensive database exploring test footage, early concept art, 3-D character and object turnarounds and early animation. The Archives is a rare look at the assets in various stages of creation for The Clone Wars, with a wealth of surprises and never-before seen moments sprinkled throughout.

Synopsis:

As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights — including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master Yoda and padawan Ahsoka Tano — struggle to maintain order and restore peace. But despite the best efforts of these brave protectors, more and more planets are falling prey to the sinister forces of the dark side…

Star Wars: The Clone Wars features the voices of Matt Lanter (90210) as Anakin Skywalker, Ashley Eckstein (That’s So Raven) as Ahsoka Tano, James Arnold Taylor (The Spectacular Spider-Man) as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Tom Kane (Wolverine and the X-Men) as Yoda.

Lucasfilm, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Lucasfilm Animation and related character names, vehicle names and properties are trademarks and/or copyrights, in the United States and other countries, of Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. TM & © Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Complete Season One
Street Date: November 3, 2009
SRP: DVD $44.98, Blu-ray $59.99
Total Episode Run Time: 484 Minutes, Featurette Run Time: 146 Minutes
MPAA Rating: TV-PG
Closed Captioned: Yes