Star Wars posters!

[Tob]

Excellent comparison and good to solve the mystery on whether it was just a wonky print run or a 'proper' variant. Thank you for sharing.

The blue was one of the first Star Wars posters I bought, many years ago. I remember it clearly as it was a Cinemasterpieces ebay auction and I was a bit drunk when I bid and the next morning I felt like I'd overpaid a little...but then when it arrived I loved it.

[eatbrie]

Interesting.  So are you saying that both versions were theater used and maybe printed by different printers?

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[Undead]

Interesting.  So are you saying that both versions were theater used and maybe printed by different printers?

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Not sure on either and have not looked into it. This was to answer the question "Is the purple an error".

Though it is possible one or both were sent to theaters in addition to the NSS versions the popular belief is that these were made for other purposes, promotion, giveaways, etc. I also cannot say if they may be from two different printers or not. Personally I feel that there was likely one printer. The run of both together seems too small to have needed two printers but that is just a guess. If I ever find my studio blue I can compare the printing itself but I doubt even that would be enough to say if there were two printers.

[porkinsred6]

I have heard theories that the weird color Style Bs (purple 1 sheet and dark blue half sheet) were perhaps intended for international markets.  I don't know if there is good tracking of provenance of these posters but I know of several purple versions that were "executive copies" handed out to people involved with making the movie or Lucasfilm in general. 

[Undead]

Being that each use the US PG ratings box, I do not see it likely that they were intended for international markets.

[porkinsred6]

that's a good point except every folded purple ESB poster I've seen has had a snipe covering the rating box and I am unsure if any rolled purples were ever theater used

[eatbrie]

Adding a few things to my little Star Wars collection. 

I always wanted those German deko posters, but only if I found them as a complete rolled set.  I am not patient enough to do it one by one.  Let’s have someone else do it and sell it to me hahaha



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[pcarnette]

Forgive me if this has been answered already, but I could not find it in this thread, nor anywhere on the Internet really. I am trying to figure out what the definitive release order was for the SW and ESB Burger Chef promotional posters. Why? For display purposes and OCD is how I roll. 

[Undead]

Forgive me if this has been answered already, but I could not find it in this thread, nor anywhere on the Internet really. I am trying to figure out what the definitive release order was for the SW and ESB Burger Chef promotional posters. Why? For display purposes and OCD is how I roll. 

Interesting question and one that I have not honestly ever looked into myself.

One idea for how you may be able to get an idea is through research. Look up old print ad campaigns like newspaper advertising in metropolitan areas and TV commercials, and check the published/printed date of the paper. I am sure there are many for both poster sets. That would likely get you as close as possible without finding hardcopy release information sent to retailers, etc. which would be harder to locate, should any survive.

Just a thought on a starting point.

[pcarnette]

Thanks, Undead! I did do some digging. This is my best guess at the moment.

Burger King

Star Wars
01 - See-Threepio
02 - Chewbacca
03 - Luke Skywalker
04 - Darth Vader

Empire Strikes Back, The
01 - Dagobah
02 - Tauntaun
03 - Carbonite

The best resource I found was eBay listings, but sometimes those are all over the place. I tried to give weight to more experienced seller and go by consensus.

Not as easy as I thought it would be.

[eatbrie]

I have no idea what you guys are talking about.  Any pictures?

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[Undead]

I think I may have misunderstood your question. I thought you were referring to release dates of the individual posters between Burger King and Chef, not the order of the posters themselves.

In that case, have not looked at one in quite a while but if memory servers, there should be text stating XXXX of XXXX at the bottom. For example, I do remember, Chewbacca is number four of four for Burger Chef.

Brie, you should already have these, they are the standard Burger Chef and King give away posters.

[pcarnette]

Undead, thanks again! Well, don't I feel dumb. Yes, the "XXXX of XXXX" is right there at the bottom. 


Here is the correct order...

Burger King

Star Wars
01 - Luke Skywalker
02 - See-Threepio
03 - Darth Vader
04 - Chewbacca

Empire Strikes Back, The
01 - Dagobah
02 - Tauntaun
03 - Carbonite

[eatbrie]

Brie, you should already have these, they are the standard Burger Chef and King give away posters.

I only collect theatrical, so I don't know what those are.

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[pcarnette]

Brie,

Here are the posters we're talking about. The SW are some serious Memberberries for me, as I had these hanging in my playroom as a kid. As for the ESB, I'm a Boris Vallejo fan. I've not located an acceptable Coca-Cola one (the last Vallejo on the right) at a price I'm comfortable with.

[porkinsred6]

Another question is which version was released first? Did one restaurant get then before the other? Did Burger Chef get them before Burger King?  There's also a version without mentioning either chain it just says distributed by Coca-Cola. Finally there is a Japanese version which I assume was last.

[porkinsred6]

Speaking of Coke posters, here is a relatively recent acquisition.  The poster advertising the Vader Coke poster.  Pay no attention to the colorbars, those are for another poster underneath. 

A nice upgrade for a surprisingly low price at auction.

[Neo]

The poster advertising the Vader Coke poster.

I thought that was a typo then I look at the photo and saw that it is a poster for a poster.   

[eatbrie]

I like this one better than the other one because it is not a mass market poster, even though it advertises a mass market poster.

Pretty cool.

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[ddilts399]

Kind of anxious to see the Acolyte, looks intriguing.

[Tob]

Nice ones, Dale. I grabbed the final style of The Acolyte from the Disney Rewards site yesterday...also looking forward to it, although I usually wait until all eps are up before starting to watch. I just hope it's more Andor/Mando then Obi-Wan...

[Crazy Vick]

Nice ones, Dale. I grabbed the final style of The Acolyte from the Disney Rewards site yesterday...also looking forward to it, although I usually wait until all eps are up before starting to watch. I just hope it's more Andor/Mando then Obi-Wan...

Looking forward to the Acolyte. A bloody light saber poster is a great start.  Couldn't agree more about Obi-wan... Ashoka also sucked major tusken balls.

[eatbrie]

So I was listening to smartLess on my jog the other day, and Mark Hamill was the guest.  Here is a little something he said about the promotion of Star Wars that I didn't know.  Maybe the great brains on this forum do, but I didn't.

Bateman: "You were a working actor.  This was not a huge shock to you, to the system when this thing took off.  I guess how can you be prepared for that kind of exposure, but..."

Hamill: "You can't.  But the way I felt about it...  i didn't see any ads for it on television, like I would watch SNL and usually they place a movie commercial there but I didn't see it, and on the day it opened, the driver picked me up to go dub the 35mm prints because it only opened in 16 theaters in 70mm, I said can you drive by Grauman Chinese, I want to see what it looks like up on the marquee.  Here is the fun fact, there was such disagreement on how to promote it at Fox that it opened with no poster.  They just stapled the lobby cards up.  One faction was promoting it like an entertainment journey far beyond your imagination, far far beyond, the other one was pushing the comedic aspect, but they couldn't agree."

So when did the posters actually pop up?  Anyone knows?

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[porkinsred6]

Here Mark is referring to the Style A poster.  There is no evidence that the Style A poster was in theaters until mid to late June 1977.  I own a Star Wars Style A Soundtrack poster sign off which is dated late June.

[eatbrie]

So the style B advance appeared sometimes in early 77 (which I guess prompted Hamill to say that there was no poster since it's just writing), then the movie came out at the end of May with just that blue poster (and the black mylar from 76), and the style A came out afterwards, sometimes in late June.  So B came before A.  Makes a lot of sense.  I have been collecting Star Wars posters for a little while, but didn't really paid attention to those savvy details until now.

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