Animated Pirates Line Cancelled

[Darth Caedus]

Couldn't find a thread for this, so I'll create this one. Seems they are canceling the line

https://www.cooltoyreview.com/story/front/Gentle_Giant_Product_Cancellations_110773.asp

 

[tomandshell]

Noo!!

Those last two looked awesome! I have the first three and now the set will be forever incomplete.

 

[galactiboy]

Thats odd... and a bummer for fans of the line.

 

[Batty]

Has GG canceled any lines before? I can't think of any.

 

[Shropt]

They also cancelled a bunch of items from the 30 days of Night line at the same time.

 

[ichabod]

I e-mailed GG and asked if the two remaining maquettes might see the light of day as either Collector's Guild offerings or (God forgive me) convention exclusives. Seems a waste of a pair of perfectly wonderful scupts to not have them see some form of release.

Ah, Cartoon Will, we hardly knew ye...

 

[choopie]

What?!?! Oh, no way. And I have Barbossa on pre-order.

Least they could do is release in limited quantities what they've already announced.

 

[The Mike]

Damn it. Barbossa is the only one out of this lot that I wanted. I was also hoping for a Pintel and Ragetti set.....

 

[Figurefreaks]

They cancelled the Corpse Bride line too.

 

[Mike1065]

Wow, I thought those animated lines were selling well, guess not. The Barbossa looked pretty cool too.

 

[Fritz]

Damn, this is the only animated line I was going to collect. So which ones have actually been produced? I only have Jack.

 

[tomandshell]

They made Jack and Davy Jones, which go together nicely. They also made Elizabeth, which doesn't belong on her own but which I picked up to display along with the upcoming Will Turner.

Oops!!

 

[Collector Freak]

Has GG canceled any lines before? I can't think of any.

The Matrix... Namely Morpheus statue.

 

[tomandshell]

Knowing Gentle Giant, both of these cancelled pieces will turn up down the road as convention or Blister exclusives with edition sizes of 250-500.

 

[Indiana Fett]

Knowing Gentle Giant, both of these cancelled pieces will turn up down the road as convention or Blister exclusives with edition sizes of 250-500.

Hope you're right Tom...I have the first 3 and Elizabeth NEEDS to have Will on the shelf next to her. And that Barbossa...c'mon...that looks to be the best of the bunch altogether.

I have them on pre-order and hope that if indeed the line IS cancelled, it won't be until these 2 are released. Heck, set the edition size to 250 or 500 NOW on the ones that are pre-ordered. Better than just cancelling altogether and hanging us collectors out to dry. We must get our Will and Barbossa before the lie ends!

 

[Wor-Gar]

That sucks! Right in the middle of the line.

 

[Geb]

This is another case of a company spreading themselves too thin, making their edition sizes too large and just trying to do too much. Gentle Giant took on too many licenses and probably should have kept their brand a bit smaller....hindsight...

ALL of the regular (i.e. not exclusives) Animated maquettes (with only a couple exceptions) can be found on E-bay at significantly reduced prices...I get the feeling that supply far outweighed demand. I think if they had kept the edition sizes around 500 pieces for ALL the POTC maquettes they would have gone a bit better...

Oh well...it was a promising line...perhaps more so than some of the other lines...

Geb

 

[MadCow]

That's GG for ya, where if it ain't Star Wars, it ain't *****...

 

[SolidLiquidFox]

That's GG for ya, where if it ain't Star Wars, it ain't *****...

It's starting to feel that way.

This sucks. At least release the last two.

 

[Eviler]

PETITION TIME!