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Sideshow Collectibles Spider-Man and Venom Contest!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here.
Yes, I know. ROCKY and SUPERMAN. I do hear you folks when you ask about them and have responded to a few dozen of your emails and left a few talkbacks on those contests.
I apologize for getting so far behind on them both. I have good excuses for both, but they are excuses nonetheless. From my mail application dying twice resulting in many months when I didn’t even know if I’d be able to recover the 77 jokes I’ve narrowed down from nearly 1000 entries to losing contact with the originators of the contest. Anything that could have gone wrong went wrong.
I’m in the final stages of clearing up everything and will hopefully have the results of those two contests to you in the very near future. I’m making it a priority, I promise.
In the meantime, I’ve been asked by Sideshow if I’d like to run a contest for a pair of SPIDER-MAN 3 busts. Of course I would!
Up for grabs are Red & Blue Spidey and Venom. Check ‘em out below!
Pretty sweet, yeah?
Each one is 8 inches tall and a limited edition so secret and limited they won’t announce just how limited it is! Heh… TBD on that, but you can bet it won’t be hundreds of thousands.
They each retail for $44.99.
But you don’t care about that. You want them for free.
The contest will be a visual one, so good news for you artists and photoshop genius’. The ROCKY joke contest defeated me. Reading all those jokes (just to narrow it down to under a hundred took about 3 days of reading, 4 or so hours a day) beat me badder than Thunderlips, Apollo Creed and Brigitte Nielsen combined.
Venom was one of fandom’s most anticipated SPIDER-MAN villains realized for the big screen. Who’s left? Who do you want to see and how do you want to see him/her represented?
What I want is for you brainiac types to design me your vision of a new screen villain for Spidey to fight in an upcoming movie. The trick is it has to be from Marvel’s rogue’s gallery and Spider-Man had to fight him/her/it at least once in one of the many books he appeared… Marvel Team-Up, Amazing, Spectacular and Peter Parker Spider-Man or any of his guest appearances in another Marvel book.
So, take a known Marvel villain (or someone who has been a villain at some point, which means characters like Black Cat are okay) and design a costume to be worn onscreen. I also want your choice on actor to cast.
You can use photoshop, inks, paints, clay (maquettes), crayons, whatever. I’ll be judging on creativity and execution. Here are the specifics:
WHEN
From the moment you read this until 11:59pm (CST) May 10th. This coincides with Sideshow’s Spider-Man Week. Click here to see the cool stuff they have on their mainpage!
HOW
You enter by emailing me at quint@aintitcool.com with the subject line VILLAIN DESIGN CONTEST. You must include your physical address (should you win, this will be needed to send your prizes), a jpg under 100k with your design and a short sentence or two on who you want to play the villain in a later film and why.
If you wish me to see a larger version of your work, you’ll need to include a link to the larger .jpg, which you can host on many free filesharing sites… just google and you’ll get many options.
WHERE
The contest is open internationally, so anyone in the world can enter (with very few exceptions… be sure to check the legal fine print below!)
Delivery for the contest winner:
**The winner must allow 4-6 weeks after announcement of win to receive the product from Sideshow Collectibles. All prizes are non-transferable, with no cash redemptions and/or substitutions except at Sponsor's sole discretion. See below for more International Shipping Terms. To get the latest news from Sideshow Collectibles, join our Newsletter!
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International Shipping Restrictions:
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All taxes are the responsibility of the winner. All prizes are non-transferable, with no cash redemption and/or substitutions except at Sponsor's sole discretion. All international winners will be responsible for any duties, tariffs, taxes or import fees assessed to their prize. Further some countries outside of the U.S. do not have reliable mail services. In the event that a prize has been stolen or mishandled during shipment to an international destination, Sideshow may not be able to replace the specific item and will substitute a prize at its own discretion. If the winner prefers a specific quicker shipping method, they are responsible to notify us immediately and will also be responsible to cover the additional costs if any. At this time, we do not accept credit cards from Mexico. Refer to our Help Desk for alternative payment options.
Winner takes the pair together. If you have any questions, email me or ask in the talkbacks below.
I have to add that my choices as judge are final and I reserve the right to pick my favorite entry, no matter how much you may disagree with it. I also will say that if the product is pulled by Sideshow, neither I nor AICN will be responsible for fulfilling the contest obligation.
Sucks I have to say that, but I’ve had some bad apples try to take advantage of these contests before.
One last thing before I go… I will be traveling out of country during this contest. I’ll be in Serbia, of all places, for 5 days. I’m not sure what the internet situation will be like, but if for some reason I can’t download my mail and the server gets backed up, resulting in bounced entries, look back to this contest page. I’ll update with new instructions then. I don’t anticipate any troubles, but if you get a bounce-back from the 5th-10th, check here.
Good luck. I look forward to seeing your entries and expect a lot of really smart casting and villain suggestions.
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com
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Statues are gay.
Action figures are cool.
But I still want one...cause I love cock. -
but I've already sacrificed a whole week of my life for one of these contests, only to lose to someone who didn't even fulfill the basic requirements of that contest... sure, Quint's decision is always final and untouchable, but there needs to be SOME kind of objective fairness in order for a contest to be worth entering...
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Mother of Neill, wiper of fish-taco-strained arses. She will vanquish Peter Parker and shack up with Aunt May in a little lesbian love nest.
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Now be careful in Serbia.
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Thanks for the Spoiler grrrrr
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just kidding, i havent seen it (other than the final battle in italian, which was aight!) I just hate the fact that venom dies.
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I've had a giveaway for the Spidey bust running on my site for over two weeks. No photoshop talent required to enter and it closes this Friday. Over at http://screenrant.com.
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Is a single villain a requirement, or can you do Sinister-Six-esque teams?
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can someone enter as many times as they want?
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That's nice, but I can't get past the damn security verification because my computer won't show the test, and reloading doesn't get it to play the audio of the code :( I suppose I deserve a consolation Spidey statue.
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Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Fool me three times you must think I'm a fucking idiot. You can apologize all you want Quint but that doesn't mean you are capable of following through with anything.
I've sent an email to Harry asking he put somebody competent on this contest because those look really cool and I'd like to win them. -
Will you get a walk on again?Everyone shake your fists at Quint in jealousy....grrr!
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Interesting...
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'cause he's the only guy I know how to draw. :P
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There you go, just do the mock up and you are guaranteed to win...
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You can enter as many times as you want, sure. Just make sure every entry has your mailing address with it. And specific character team-ups (Sinister Six style) is fine, too.Serbia is not Indiana Jones 4... God, I wish, but it's not. It is a cool project though.And for those saying they won't enter because I'm running the contest... well, your loss. Better chance for those who do enter to win, I guess. I wrote you back, Noah. Guess you didn't read it.I spent today on the past-due contests. The jokes are picked, the Superman art has been chosen. The articles will be up by this weekend.Good luck to those that enter this one.
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I have no photoshop skills what so ever but if I did, and were to enter this my entry would be Charisma as Black Cat.
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here's a link to a site that has all the villians spiderman's fought, all from the rogue gallery, all with pics and descriptions. thought it might be helpful to you guys with artistic skills. me, I got a creative writing degree and I can't draw worth a crap... http://tinyurl.com/2q53xo
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Damm! and i have to collect some money froma prince who died there with $5 mil in the bank.
shafted by this contest as i have no design skillz. Damm you MIcheal Bay -
You make some mean fries...
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cuz Quint will pick 'em.
I can only remember one contest in which I felt his judging did the contestants justice. Many have sucked balls.
Remember that guy that won the Sideshow JAWS statue? What a total Downer!!!! I thought those scar stories were supposed to be funny or thrilling, not "this is the scar I got from when I was in a car accident, and I was trying to hold on to my daughter but as the car rolled it ripped in half, slicing into my arm and cutting her in half. So I think I deserve the shark."
I can't believe I just wrote that.
But ANYWAY, all my Quint hang ups ain't gonna stop me from entering. This is one of the best best contests ever. All though those prizes kinda suck. So this will be fun, but unrewarding for many of us.
Please don't dismiss my entries based on my attitude. -
He was good for one issue back in the '70s. Who doesn't love THE GIBBON? I'm drawing a cloud.
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if I didn't have a real job, I'd work at a mexican restaurant.....mmmmm daddy
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posted may 3:"I spent today on the past-due contests. The jokes are picked, the Superman art has been chosen. The articles will be up by this weekend."
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I have faith you, Quint!
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Like I said, Quint is waiting till the one year anniversary of the Superman contest to give out the prize. Just a little more than one month to go.
And I actually did read the mail you sent me Quint. I just didn't believe it. And I find myself vindicated. -
...I thought the cutoff was the 12th.
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I got my entry in with about 5 minutes to spare :)
Are we going to get to see everyone's entry or what? -
Hey everyone, check out some of the contest entry's here:
http://sketch-o-rama.blogspot.com
A few more will be posted soon so keep an eye on it! Good luck to all that entered! -
That's two weekends now and the original contest awards haven't happened. Tell you what folks. If Quint doesn't follow through on this one by the end of may then you can mail your submissions to me and I will personally purchase and ship the busts to whoever I think is best. No, I'm not joking. I'll buy the statues if Quint doesn't finish the contest by the end of the month.
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May 16, 2007 7:49:31 PM CDT
There have been many contest that never got announced..
by alonzo mosely
Quint is far from the only guilty party... With him I at least sense it is laziness as he always comes up with complicated competitions... More than once there have been simple 'the first 5 people who email this address with the answer to this question' competitions, and those have never been announced, and there is no excuse for that, and one has to wonder if certain people don't just ebay the prizes and keep the money...
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