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Updated! Mondo gets the STAR WARS license and they're giving away their first poster to an AICN reader!
Well well well. That was a hugely entered contest. Not counting the 100 or so entries I had to delete out of my personal email address (not the one I said to mail to) we had just over 2400 people enter. I guess Mondo can take that as a huge stamp of approval from the Star Wars geek community!
I randomly pulled a dozen names from the 2400+ entries... some from each point in the timeline from when I started to right when it closed and from those random names I just as randomly picked the winner. Closed my eyes and everything!
The lucky owner of the below poster is Mr. Justin Jacob of Toronto, Canada.
Congratulations, sir. Thanks for everyone who entered. I'm sure Mondo might be up for doing another giveaway in the near future, so stay tuned!
-Q
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some cool news for us Mondo fanatics and old school Star Wars nerds. Mondo has worked with Lucasfilm to secure a license for a line of Star Wars related Mondo posters.
They launched the first one yesterday at noon, a limited to 350 24x36 print from artist Jeff Soto of a lonely Gonk droid. Even at $50 a pop they sold out within hours of release. Check out the poster below:
Now it's not all bad news. They kept one back to give away to one lucky AICN reader. The contest is open to anyone in the world. Due to the likely high demand for the poster I’m gonna play this one simple.
I need you to email me at here between right now and, say, noon CST Monday June 28th with the subject line GONK! as well as your mailing address and full name in the body of the email. I’ll pick one at random Monday afternoon and email the winner and post an update to this article. No duplicate entries.
Can’t wait to see what this series leads to. With the amount of talent Mondo employs we could be seeing some amazing icons in different geeky cool ways.
Good luck, peoples!
-Quint
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Sweet I tell you
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I mean FIRST! Mondo are awesome, definitely going to enter.
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Hope I win!
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brilliant idea
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Am I the only one who got excited ... looked at the poster ..... and thought, thats shit!?
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I didn't know he was called Gonk though. I've called him "Walking gas pump thing" for 33 years...(sigh)
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bit annoying that competitions tend to be US only 99% of the time.
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sexual poster for sure
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I, like everyone else, hope to win this!
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That they only had one to give away. And that Mondo only had such a small amount.
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That's what I calld it as a kid!
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Maybe the Valley Forge's forest dome settled somewhere, would explain the falcon...
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...but it sure smells good!
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It looks like something a teenager would draw on their binder. I wish all those who sold out this item would show up at my garage sale today. I'd clean up.
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Ten years ago, this would have been a cool thing to have. Now, fuck it.
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there's no reason at all for it to be there unless it's an inside thing at Mondo. Whatever the reason, it's stupid.
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Jun 26, 2010 8:41:31 AM CDT
Who the hell wants a power droid on their wall?
by adiehardfanwithalethalweapon
I hate to be typical but we want some fucking lightsaber action, come on! Ah, I like Trek better anyway. lol
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Fucking ads are just annoying.
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6 dorks all trying to figure out why a movie franchise that isn't for them (but kind of should be for them cos it's got a vampire and a werewolf) is doing so massively well. Priceless stuff coming as they fumble about in the dark trying to make sense of it all. Save your time, gentlemen. It's about Love.
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Nice poster and all, but Lucas hands out licenses like he's running out of money.
Say... could this be the end of godawful photoshopped SW DVD covers? Eh, probably not. But it's a thought. -
Anyone spending $50.00 for a poster. Let alone a Starwars poster. I mean it's been what 35 years since Starwars hit the screen, and this was made in 2010?
Starwars is over people.
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It was a long time ago in a Galaxy far far away. To be fair, it was over before any of us were born.
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There might be some interesting developments in the Star Wars universe as opposed to the shameless flogging of the dead horse....but I doubt it. Mr Lucas not only have you sold the fans down the river but yourself as well.
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that looks awesome. kudos to the design team there and bless the internet that I can right-click and save a jpeg of such a sold out poster.
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WTF?????? The ORIGINALS????? I haven't queued (sp?) one - but is this for real????????????
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Did I miss some major announcement? I thought we'd never see the original trilogy again. Somebody please address this.
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The bird is jarring. It has no place there and takes you out of the moment.
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It's crap and I'm done with it.
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unbelieva.... wait, we're dealing with Star Wars fanboys here.... I believe it.
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...those who say they are done with Star Wars will take the time to post in a talk back about how they are done with it. If you're done, then why the hell are you taking the time to do this? Just be done with it and move on.
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it's 99% unrecognizable as Star Wars memorabilia to all but the hardcore. If I pay from the anus for a Star Wars license you can be damn sure I'd at least make it a movie poster with something on there that says, oh, IDK "STAR WARS" what the HELL??
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That poster is great, but some of the t-shirts look like the kind of shit hipsters wear to show their cool cred.
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So I can fuck it's mouth
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Twilight is gay.
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Dunno what the hell a Gonk is but I know where that droid design came from.
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IMHO, the Twilight Saga is an attempt at re-imagining Romeo and Juliet with vampires, werewolves and a happy ending. I just wish TPTB would allow Breaking Dawn to be as bat shit insane a movie as the book was. I mean shit, a Cesarean where a vampire needs to bite through the placenta? That's fucking crazy.
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You fuckers know you do too!!
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Jun 26, 2010 1:00:07 PM CDT
That droid was seen for about 3 seconds on the Jawa Sandcrawler
by rameses
and I think turns up on a corner in mos Eisley.He does indeed lok like a not so convincing silent running drone .But then Artoo Detoo was inspired by Huey and Dewey as well.The final design and suit were too stiff and unwieldy for Kenny Baker to walk in though.Silent Runnings drones are still one of the nicest designs and executions of a robot in cinema history .
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There are much better Star Wars artists out there.
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...I need to win this.
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doing for the convention in Orlando. Now those are art.
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I guess most people in here have no idea who Jeff Soto is, huh?
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They're nice & all, but... OMG, only 350 MUST BUY!?!?! I don't care if someone used a time machine and had DaVinci paint a Gonk Droid. Maybe $5 for a print, to be ironic, but $50?
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For somebody young who could pull it off correctly.Kentucky Colonel= Power Droid For real,Thats what it said on the action figure that what it is :>.Bubcus=Shhhhhh.You know,saved me much money over the internet years esp when I built my own movie poster screensaver,the price of some art is crazy......:>
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I'm pretty sure the OT that's available on DVD right now is a shitty transfer ripped from Laserdisc. ie. They didn't redux it with the special edition CGI, but they also didn't restore/remaster anything. I'm not sure if this is true but I've seen Star Wars geeks insist that George Lucas tracked down every celluloid print of the original trilogy he could find after doing the Special Editions... and destroyed them.
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Beautiful work!
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Jun 26, 2010 4:02:26 PM CDT
Down with overpriced posters.
by ooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuutttttlllllaaaaa
Down with non-news.
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A gonk is like a bang from outside.
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I'm lookin at you Sideshow and Gentle Giant!!
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No, you're wrong. Lucas prefers the newer editions over the old ones. There's a blue ray set in the works which will probably have both.
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I don't like that at all. Star Wars by way of cheap motel art? No thank you.
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Where did I say Lucas prefers the older editions? Or are you talking about the the updated Special Editions he did in 2004 vs the ones that came out in theaters in 97 or whatever?
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I never said you said that bonehead.
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Jun 26, 2010 5:52:08 PM CDT
If they sold "Wookie Shit" in stores I would buy it!
by david_boreanez_cunt_hairz
SW geeks WILL buy anything!
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I'd love to have the destination posters based off of McQuarrie's concept art that hangs in the Star Tours queue.
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I'd love to have the destination posters based off of McQuarrie's concept art that hangs in the Star Tours queue.
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Jun 26, 2010 6:58:37 PM CDT
Those Earthy-looking humans kill the Star Wars movies for me
by mediagold
What are the chances a race that identically resembles human beings would evolve anywhere else in the Universe? They should look like green suitcases or bagels or something. (If you get what that last sentence refers to, I will give you a special e-prize)
Seriously, people are down on this poster because of the falcon? When I win this poster, I will laugh in your general direction. -
Is that something Brando said regarding his character in Superman?
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Fifty bucks??? That is a matinée and dinner around these parts!
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ruined the original trilogy for me. There's nothing I like about any of them now. It's all incongruous pap.
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it's framed and sitting by my desk, and my god it is fucking gorgeous. Mondo is quality.
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Pretty good
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anyone else see R2D2 on ACE OF CAKES?
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That episode was a month old.
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...this congratulatory post! Congratulations!
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Shouldn't it be a Womp Rat or something? Or is that a veiled Millennium Falcon reference?
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Jun 26, 2010 9:39:29 PM CDT
Isn't that the droid getting tortured in Jabbas palace?
by tikidonkeypunch
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the inspiration for R2D2?
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Huey and Dewey?
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Yup, if you slide to about :50 on this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGGpdr-8Wjs) you'll see it in the background. Whoever uploaded the clip missed the part where they burn it's foot, just before the scene transition to the dance in Jabba's chamber. But, more importantly, it's one of the droids in Star Wars, both in the cargo hold and when the Jawas put droids on display for Owen Lars.
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There were movie robots before Silent Running you know.
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nice work
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Left out in a field to rust like a 1950's Ford.
The falcon is a nice touch, but it should have the number 1000 hidden in its plumage. -
...Or be programmed to feel pain when all does is walk around as a giant battery?
That's the same kind of jerkass thinking that leads to Ewoks, I tell ya... -
They keep living up to their name
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Even if it's an allusion to the Millennium Falcon, what the fuck does that have to do with the Power Droid, who was a half-dozen scenes earlier in the Jawa's sandcrawler? Artist was a little too "clever" for his own good...
What might have been heart-achingly poignant would be the Lars' burned residence in the background...maybe the poor little droids kept working away, even with their master dead, until their batteries died and they froze solid in the sand... -
Emo = Gay
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That Star Wars fans have no real taste in art...
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Wouldn't it be fucking great if superman fell in love with you and there was even the possibility that you could gain superpowers too? That's the appeal of twilight. That's why the vampires are just repacked superheroes. Glittery vamps who can walk in sunlight and can choose to eat cows and not hurt anyone and live forever and play super baseball. It probably wouldn't be as popular if the male lead wore bright blue tights instead of gothy fashions.
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Kinda reminds me of a famous monsters issue I have with R2 on the cover. Needs a bum curled up under it. I figure it somehow wound up on earth. But it was the earth from a long time ago..
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obvious choices fall flat in comparison to this art which belongs in a candle shop.
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Jun 27, 2010 2:08:17 PM CDT
looks like the robots from WRECKED SHIP in SUPER METROID
by takingscorpioscalls
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as a kid... that, and the mouse droid... and of course the droid that had a very small appearance in the Sandcrawler (5D6-RA-7).
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Wait, is this supposed to be a desirable item or something? ...Why? Because someone else says it is? This looks like something off some teenager's DeviantArt page.As an "old school Star Wars fan" (not age-wise), I have to say that this poster looks pretty stupid. Not even from a content perspective ("why does the picture have this and that and whatnot")- it's just flat out not interesting. At all. Even from an artistic standpoint it's "eh" at best. I mean if someone said "Hey, check out what I did in Photoshop" and showed me this image, I'd be like "Wow, that's pretty sweet". But relative to the hype surrounding something like this (getting its own post and whatnot), it fails big time.Just goes to show that people will pay and do anything for something that a few other people claim is "cool".
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Jun 27, 2010 8:25:46 PM CDT
Looks like the McDonald's garbage can I puked in last night.
by stuntcock mike
Fuck you whiskey.
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BTW Stuntcock...whiskey is awesome. Water of Life my friend.
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Ever get a sketch card from a card set? It's usually a few scribbles.
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It was a solid hunk of plastic with legs that bent back and forth and made a clicking sound. My mother bought it for me from Child World because all of the cool characters were sold out. Like a lot of the Star Wars figures from the first film, he didn't get a lot of play; he just sort of stood off to the side in the sandbox with R5D4 and the four Jawas I had. We never stayed on Tatooine very long. After all, it's a pretty boring place.
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i would rather print a dvd cover and paste it on my wall rather than displaying that
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Shake your body down to the ground
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Everyone nees a box on legs that doesn't do anything but walk around going, "gonk... gonk... gonk..."
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That reminds me of a song...
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That sells out? Damn. People have no taste.
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Jun 28, 2010 10:16:16 AM CDT
I wouldn't hang that on my wall if it were selling at Wal-Mart f
by curious_jorge
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...can cram it with walnuts.
Mock the Gonk all you want, but you'll be singing a different tune when the battery on your landspeeder goes dry and you need a boost to get it started! -
Although you might not like this Gonk poster (I do), you should check out his other work. He is an amazing artist. This is a limited artist print... and from a great artist. If you don't like it, move on. Personally, I am upset I missed it.
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