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Author Topic: Bolt Standee Michael Dolan Film Handler Posts: 77 From: Deerfield Beach, fl. Registered: May 2008 posted 07-16-2008 11:54 PM                        Ok So I just got to build The Disney Bolt Standee last night. At first look I thought it was going to be tremendously hard. But believe it or not it was pretty simple the hardest prt was keeping the fingerprints off of that shiny shiny material....It just made my eyes sparkle..... This is actualy one of the nicest standee's I have seen in a log time. very big however over 9' tall. Has anybody else received one yet and what do you think of it  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-17-2008 03:20 AM                     Yep. And it had no instructions. It was thrown out before I came in for my shift.  |  IP: Logged Rick Hartmann Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Jackson, NJ, USA Registered: May 2008 posted 07-28-2008 12:45 PM                     Mine also didn't have instructions. Not that it matters though... I don't have much room for big standees They need to make more the size of the hellboy 2 standees... Those things were great  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 07-28-2008 01:47 PM                     I don't like tall standees, there just isn't a good place for them in my lobby. I really like ones shaped like Horton or Transformers. We cut these both down a little and put them under the overhang next to our biggest theaters.  |  IP: Logged Edwin Schwing Expert Film Handler Posts: 116 From: Las Vegas NV Registered: May 2002 posted 07-29-2008 12:04 AM                     Standees do a great service to our industry. Some are better than others. Some jump out at the customer (guest) others sort of sit there looking like a giant poster, or worse yet a giant ugly poster. If you are the one putting together the standee, have you ever put a puzzle together? There are no instructions included in a puzzle, just a picture. Figure it out. (unless you don't like puzzles, then make someone else do it) If you don't want certain standees, then call up Deluxe or Technicolor or your local supplier and tell them that you don't want to receive standees anymore. Personally, I give the UPS, DHL and Fed-Ex guy HELL every day I see them if they don't bring me a standee. Half the time they cringe when they see me if they don't have a standee for me! (ha ha) BUT they don't hesitate to ask for passes.... As far as the BOLT standee is concerned, it is pretty ugly and unimaginative. Especially coming from Disney... But, it is big and shiny, and I don't know about your customers, but mine like big shiny things for some reason. That's my 2 cents. E  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-29-2008 02:54 PM                        I like standees but we don't have room for the huge ones. Sometimes I've used pieces and parts out of them where we do have space - the logos and cutouts of the characters and such. I have noticed we're getting fewer of them these days - it's kind of disheartening to read here that some people just "throw them away" while there are other locations that would appreciate getting them. I don't know why the film companies don't come up with a way to allow theatres to order items they want and would use, rather than just shipping them out higgledy-piggledy to locations where they get (a) thrown out or (b) lost in the shuffle.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-30-2008 06:19 PM                     quote: Jeremy Weigel Yep. And it had no instructions. It was thrown out before I came in for my shift. Did you mean they threw out the whole thing or that the instructions had been thrown away?  |  IP: Logged Ross Oba Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Kailua Kona, HI Registered: Oct 2005 posted 07-30-2008 11:05 PM                     I've had several standees shipped without instructions. Either that or they somehow were removed during shipping since one came busted open on one side.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-30-2008 11:08 PM                     My Get Smart standee arrived without instructions. I called Technicolor and got them to send us the instructions via e-mail attachment.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-30-2008 11:22 PM                     Unfortunately the "Bolt" standee was already in the dumpster with garbage piled on by the time I came in that evening. Otherwise I would have gotten it out and called technicolor for the instructions. The manager on duty didn't know that we could do that. I've even had to call Drissi to order missing parts for some their standees like "Cat in the Hat". It was missing the the legs of one of the whos. quote: Mike Blakesley I have noticed we're getting fewer of them these days - it's kind of disheartening to read here that some people just "throw them away" while there are other locations that would appreciate getting them. I certainly know what ya mean. This was the first Disney standee we've received in years (since becoming an independent). I've tried getting us put on "auto" ship lists, but I'm usually told they don't do that. I do however, order standees for Fox and Sony pics on their exhibitor sites when they are available.  |  IP: Logged

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