2013 has been a tough year for mini busts. The mini bust genre pioneer, Bowen Designs, only released a handful of mini busts this year and has zero (yes, zero) Marvel mini busts in the pipeline. Gentle Giant has continued fighting the good fight, but with low edition sizes the norm and prices far higher than they were a decade ago, mini busts’ days may be numbered. But there’s some hope–at least one more Marvel mini bust is now confirmed for 2014: the Gentle Giant 2014 PGM Exclusive Daredevil Mini-Bust!
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Marvel mini busts really seem to be a dying breed, with industry powerhouse Bowen Designs having not put a new one up for sale in many months and Gentle Giant LTD staggering their few Marvel bust releases throughout the year. So every Marvel mini bust that does get revealed is a big deal, even when that reveal is a simple repaint. Such is the case with Gentle Giant’s newest item reveal: the Previews Exclusive X-Force Deadpool Mini Bust…
Continue Reading →Though Gentle Giant Ltd. didn’t attend last weekend’s 2013 New York Comic Con event, they had a minor presence at the show in the form of their Marvel Zombies Magneto mini bust exclusive that was sold at the Marvel booth. In addition, Gentle Giant sent out E-Mails and unveiled several new products in honor of NYCC 2013 during the show, including the second in the series of Marvel Zombies mini-busts: the Gentle Giant 2014 Zombie Venom bust!
Continue Reading →Gentle Giant Marvel Bust collectors went into San Diego Comic-Con 2013 with certain expectations for what characters we might see added to the Marvel Mini Bust line, with certain heavy-hitters like Thor: The Dark World busts and Iron Fist and so forth in mind. What actually debuted at SDCC is a bust I suspect no one was expecting: the Gentle Giant Zombie Magneto Marvel Zombies bust! It’s only been a couple months since the reveal, but the exclusive Marvel Zombies Magneto bust will be up for sale in just one week at New York Comic Con 2013!
Continue Reading →Amidst the landslide of Marvel toy news coming out of San Diego Comic Con 2013, there were bound to be millions of little tidbits of information that got lost in the shuffle and not given the attention they deserve. One such nugget is a new addition to the high-end Gentle Giant Mini Bust line: a previously unannounced Iron Man 3 bust! Up for pre-order now, it’s the Amazon exclusive Iron Man 3 Iron Patriot Bust!
Continue Reading →Just when you thought there couldn’t be more Marvel SDCC 2013 Exclusives, an unexpected (and I do mean unexpected) straggler has swung into the fray! Coming to San Diego Comic Con 2013 this week as a surprise last-minute Marvel Exclusive, it’s the high-end Gentle Giant Ltd. Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham Mini Bust!
Continue Reading →Today we inched ever so closer to knowing every single one of the Marvel San Diego Comic Con 2013 exclusives, as we finally learned the well-kept secret identity of the Gentle Giant Ltd. exclusive for the convention! I hadn’t seen anyone previously guessing or talking about him, so I guess Gentle Giant really did their job keeping their exclusive a mystery.
But wonder no more, Marvel collectors–it’s the Gentle Giant SDCC 2013 Exclusive Galactus Mini Bust!
Continue Reading →If you’re going to have a Marvel collection of pretty much any sort, you’re going to need a Spider-Man in that collection. That’s a fact. And so it seems very odd that among the most integral characters missing from the Gentle Giant Marvel Mini Bust line has been a Spider-Man bust in his classic red and blue costume. Luckily, Gentle Giant Ltd. is about to rectify that, as their all-new red & blue Spider-Man mini-bust has just been fully revealed and put up for order!
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