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Author Topic: Spirit Standee Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-19-2002 11:36 PM                     We were delivered a very large crate today. At first I thought it was a new popper since one of ours is being a real PITA. Come to find out this 225 lb. crate contained the new Spirit Standee (not the red one with the horse silhouette like the banner). This thing actually contains a life size plastic horse which is to be situated on cardboard grass. This thing is huge, bigger than any other standee I've ever see. Have any of you seen this or any other obsessively massive standees?  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-20-2002 12:01 AM                     Jeeze, that must take the cake. Now we know why Jack Valenti was complaining about the marketing costs being too high. My question is, how are you going to dispose of that thing when it comes time to do so? It is certain you are going to have to pay through the nose to get rid of that thing. Maybe you could have a drawing and help the "winner" load it in his pick-up truck?  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-20-2002 02:08 AM                     Disney had sent out very large and realistic replicas of Mike and Sulley from Monsters Inc. If you look at the picture, you can see that they were pretty detailed. Disney actually took those back because they were being given away in a national contest with Toys R' Us. They were impressive...  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-20-2002 02:14 AM                     All Disney got back from us was sulley with a head missing. Mike got stolen after a week or two, and Sulley was beheaded soon after the film was released. The rest of his body spent a week or so in the booth before being hauled off. If we have one of these at work, im going to make sure i get a picture of me riding it.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-20-2002 06:09 AM                        Meanwhile, untold numbers of smaller theatres are having trouble getting posters....  |  IP: Logged Chase Taylor Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Troy, Alabama, USA Registered: Mar 2001 posted 03-20-2002 09:58 AM                        Isn't that the truth!!  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 03-20-2002 01:50 PM                     Smaller theatres? hell... I'm in a 20 and sometimes I have trouble getting posters...  |  IP: Logged Mark Huff Film Handler Posts: 69 From: Springfield, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-20-2002 06:29 PM                     I remember a standee for Godzilla being about 6ft tall and 8ft wide. I never saw the Mighty Joe Young Standee but I hear it was about 20ft tall.  |  IP: Logged Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-20-2002 08:06 PM                     I think standee's are getting wildly out of control, some of them would have trouble fitting in an aircraft hangar, and even the simplest of them are getting more complicated to build - i swear the design teams are all on coke or something. 'yeah man, it'd be cool to make, like, that guy more 3d or something?, i know make it like a banner, but with a base, and make it really complicated to build'  |  IP: Logged Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-20-2002 10:51 PM                     I really hate those big banner standees with a base. Complete lack of creativity and takes forever to put together.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Skallan Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Littleton, CO, USA Registered: May 2001 posted 03-21-2002 03:20 AM                     The Mighty Joe Young standee was indeed 20 feet tall. It took a team of assemblers to put it together, but when it came time to take it down, no help from anyone! The manager's decision... "Just push it over and we'll take it apart piece by piece." CRASH! I guess the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Three hours later, we finally got to go home. The thing was HUGE!  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-22-2002 09:28 PM                     I know a guy who would have driven his truck through that thing if he was given the opportunity. I was with him when he did END OF DAYS. Another friend of mine and I drove his car through the rolling stone review TRAFFIC standee. Pretty cool mindless fun.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-24-2002 07:06 PM                        Paul asked: "My question is, how are you going to dispose of that thing when it comes time to do so? It is certain you are going to have to pay through the nose to get rid of that thing." Maybe you could auction them off, like the many life-sized horse figures from Rochester's recent "Horses on Parade": http://www.highfalls.com/hop/ http://www.highfalls.com/hop/about.php ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion  |  IP: Logged Jerry Chase Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1068 From: Margate, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-24-2002 08:27 PM                       The "Orca" standee was around 20 to 24 feet long IIRC. It had a fishing village and whale and some other stuff. Big standees aren't new. The original Star Trek standee was another big one.  |  IP: Logged

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