DARK HORSE OFFICIALLY UNVEILS THE GAME OF THRONES® WHITE WALKER STATUE! This highly anticipated collectible featured in Diamond Comics Distributors’ September-dated PREVIEWS catalog! Dark Horse just sent over a press release featuring THIS bad boy: Aw, yeah. That’s friggin’ awesome. Dark Horse’s Game of Thrones items continue to impress the hell out of me. Anyone who wants to be my best friend knows what to get me for Christmas. See the press release after the jump.
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Dark Horse Launches All-New News Feed, 2013 Comic-Con Exclusives
DARK HORSE LAUNCHES ALL-NEW NEWSFEED WITH DAILY REVEALS OF 2013 COMIC-CON EXCLUSIVES! JUNE 10, MILWAUKIE, OR—As anticipation for this year’s pop culture main event grows, Dark Horse makes the first of many announcements regarding exclusive products for this year’s Comic-Con International! Every day this week, Dark Horse will reveal one item to be sold at this year’s convention, exclusively on Dark Horse’s all-new NewsFeed! Up first is what will surely be one of this year’s most sought-after items! Continuing in Dark Horse’s incredibly successful line of collectibles based on HBO’s Game of Thrones comes this limited-edition sculptural replica of the Stark
Continue readingFactory Entertainment Announces Game of Thrones® Collectibles License
Factory Entertainment announces Game of Thrones® collectibles license Concord, CA –Factory Entertainment, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a multi-year licensing agreement with HBO® (Home Box Office, Inc.) to produce a line of collectibles across several categories from the Emmy® award winning television series Game of Thrones. Products include: Collector Plush –Direwolves, Dragons, Dragon Eggs and other creatures and characters in detailed collector plush form. Throw Pillows – High quality decorative pillows bearing the sigils and mottos of the Great Houses of Westeros. Prop Replicas – Iconic objects and costume elements replicated in exacting detail as quality limited editions. Sculptural Miniatures – Scaled polystone
Continue reading2012 – The Geekly Fast Forward (Part 1)
Happy New Year! Okay, so it’s a few days past New Year’s, but really, we’re only about 1% of the way through the year; that’s not too much time to have passed. This year is shaping up to be another banner year for geekly stuff, but it’s hard to keep it all straight. So that’s where ASM comes in — to continue making it hard to make sense of it all. This list is not all-encompassing, nor do I make any claims as to its accuracy. Consider it just some ruminations on the year ahead. Let’s dive in!
Continue readingGame of Thrones Review: S1E1 – “Winter is Coming”
“Winter is Coming.”
And with those three words, the stage is set for one of the most highly anticipated TV adaptations in years. Over two years since the project was announced, almost six months since the first footage was shown on TV, HBO has finally delivered “Game of Thrones”, a ten-part series based on the first book of George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. This fantasy epic tale was first delivered to bookstores almost fifteen years ago, and the fifth book is due this July. The fanbase has been eagerly awaiting “A Dance with Dragons” and this new show — love for Martin’s series has never been higher, and HBO knows it has a lot of expectations to meet.
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