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News Flash #272 from Miniature-GIANT.com
New Products -- Available Now!
The following figure is now available for immediate sale and shipment:
    (2013 ReaperCon "Lion Tamer" Sophie Limited Edition -- VERY LIMITED SUPPLY):

Special Edition
2013
                                                          Reaper Con
                                                          "Lion
                                                          Tamer"
                                                          Sophie
                                                          (Limited
                                                          Edition,
                                                          Discontinued),
                                                          1523
2013 Reaper Con
"Lion Tamer" Sophie
(Limited Edition, Discontinued), 1523

Our Price: $24.99
(VERY LIMITED SUPPLY)
(we received the fewest of any Limited Edition we've ever ordered!)

 

Coming by late JUNE (exact date not yet set)
 -- Available for PreOrder Now!

(Preorders will be filled first!)

 -- Bones BATCH #3!

Bones
(due by late June)

Devona, Female Wizard, 77036
   Devona, Female Wizard, 77036


MSRP:      $2.29

Our Price: $1.70
SAVE: $0.59

Bones
(due by late June)

Wall of Fire (3), 77080
    Wall of Fire (3), 77080

MSRP:      $4.99

Our Price: $3.71
SAVE: $1.28

Bones
(due by late June)

Burning Sphere (3), 77081
    Burning Sphere (3), 77081

MSRP:      $4.99

Our Price: $3.71
SAVE: $1.28

Bones
(due by late June)

Spirit, 77098
       Spirit, 77098

MSRP:      $2.49

Our Price: $1.85
SAVE: $0.64

Bones
(due by late June)

Nightspectre, 77099
    Nightspectre, 77099


MSRP:      $3.29

Our Price: $2.45
SAVE: $0.84

Bones
(due by late June)

Marsh Troll, 77152
   Marsh Troll, 77152

MSRP:      $4.99

Our Price: $3.71
SAVE: $1.28

Bones
(due by late June)

Lizardman Warrior, 77155
    Lizardman Warrior, 77155


MSRP:      $2.79

Our Price: $2.07
SAVE: $0.72

Bones
(due by late June)

Fire Giant Bodyguard, 77179
    Fire Giant Bodyguard, 77179

MSRP:      $8.99

Our Price: $6.69
SAVE: $2.30

Bones
(due by late June)

Kaladrax, 77192
    Kaladrax, 77192

MSRP:      $74.99

Our Price: $55.86
SAVE: $19.13


 -- Bones BATCH #2!

Bones
(due by late June)

Ghostly
                                                          Summons,
                                                          77095
  Ghostly Summons, 77095


MSRP:      $2.99

Our Price: $2.22
SAVE: $0.77

Bones
(due by late June)

Labella
                                                          DeMornay,
                                                          Banshee,
                                                          77096
   Labella DeMornay, Banshee, 77096

MSRP:      $2.49

Our Price: $1.85
SAVE: $0.64

Bones
(due by late June)

Grave
                                                          Wraith, 77097
   Grave Wraith, 77097

MSRP:      $2.99

Our Price: $2.22
SAVE: $0.77

Bones
(due by late June)

Barnabus
                                                          Frost, Pirate
                                                          Captain,
                                                          77132
      Barnabus Frost, Pirate Captain, 77132

MSRP:      $2.99

Our Price: $2.22
SAVE: $0.77

Bones
(due by late June)

Snakeman
                                                          Warrior,
                                                          77153
   Snakeman Warrior, 77153


MSRP:      $2.79

Our Price: $2.07
SAVE: $0.72

Bones
(due by late June)

Lizardman
                                                          Spearman,
                                                          77154
  Lizardman Spearman, 77154

MSRP:      $2.79

Our Price: $2.07
SAVE: $0.72

Bones
(due by late June)

Tiik
                                                          Champion,
                                                          77187
   Tiik Champion, 77187


MSRP:      $2.99

Our Price: $2.22
SAVE: $0.77

Bones
(due by late June)

Nethyrmaul


                                                          the Undying,
                                                          77190
   Nethyrmaul the Undying, 77190

MSRP:      $74.99

Our Price: $55.86
SAVE: $19.13

Bones
(due by late June)

Cthulhu,
                                                          77194
   Cthulhu, 77194

MSRP:      $39.99

Our Price: $29.79
SAVE: $10.20

 

 -- Bones BATCH #1!

Miniature-GIANT News
Parade Wreck - Update

    
Since many of you have asked, yes, this is the same Damascus, VA that had that tragic "parade wreck" last Saturday.  We were set-up in the vendor's area at the end of the parade when it happened, so what I know is all from directly talking with eyewitnesses, rather than being an eyewitness myself -- so I guess that makes it "first-hand, hearsay".
    Damascus is located directly on the Appalachian Trail (a hiking trail that runs from Georgia to Maine), the Virginia Creeper Trail (a railroad bed converted to bike trail that runs 17 1/2 miles downhill through the Blue Ridge Mountains from Whitetop Mountain to Damascus, and another 17 1/2 miles generally uphill to Abingdon, VA -- many people take bike shuttle rides up to the top so that they can have an all downhill ride to Damascus), as well as several other trails, e.g., the Daniel Boone Trail, the Crooked Trail, etc.
    Well, once a year for nearly 30 years, we have hosted a festival for the hikers/bikers, called "Trail Days".  Last year, this sleepy town of about 950 hosted over 25,000 visitors to Trail Days.  On Saturday afternoon, there is a "hiking parade" through town, ending at the town park where there is live entertainment in our bandstand/gazebo, talent shows, etc.  So the parade is almost exclusively a throng of walking pedestrians. 
    This year, one driver, I believe he was the led car of the traffic following the parade, suddenly speed up, swerved around the parade trailing vehicle (ambulance), up onto the sidewalk on a two-lane bridge, and into the crowd of parade walkers.  Since the walkers were all facing the opposite direction, the car was very close behind, and the parade noise masked its approach, many were stuck without warning.  About a half dozen were air-lifted to nearby hospitals, others driven by ambulance.  No fatalities.
    The first thought of many was "terrorism", but that was simply not the case.  The driver was a fellow hiker (having walked the entire 2200 mile length some years ago), and had often joined in the parade, driving one of his classic/antique cars.  Some speculated that he was part of the parade this year, but that seems unlikely, since he was behind the trailing ambulance and he was driving a '97 Caddy.  Nonetheless, driving in perhaps the worst position, he apparently suffered a "sudden onset medical condition", e.g., a stroke, seizure, or possibly heart attack.  I believe that this struck his right side first, causing him to accelerate.� He still had some control and swerved to avoid a collision with the ambulance.  Unfortunately, that led to the collision with the crowd.  Some of the quick-thinking hikers jumped to the car, opened the door, and turned the engine off.  The driver at this point was in what was described as a full-body seizure and was also taken to a local hospital.  About 30 other hikers lifted the '97 Caddy up, off the ground so that fellow hikers could remove some of the victims that were pinned underneath.
     As many of you know, we run a Bed and Breakfast here in Damascus, and one of our guests was here on a 10th year reunion with her fellow hikers.  She said that she was about 10 feet from the accident and would never get the image of the event from her mind -- one of her friends had been seriously struck.  Her friend had three broken ribs, a broken femur (leg bone) and a "crushed skull".  They had to perform emergency brain surgery to prevent inner-cranial bleeding, but by last account, she was recovering.
     LESSONS LEARNED:  There are no guarantees in life -- sometimes "sh*t happens".

We have had parades in this country for hundreds of years, and car traffic following them for over a hundred, wherein there is always a car in the lead of that following traffic.  People are mortal and fragile, and occasionally have strokes or seizures (my epileptic wife had her first seizure when she was 13 while swimming in the ocean -- it can happen to anyone, of any age).  If this were a "float parade", there would not have been much damage (a.k.a. "Animal House").  But this one was a walking parade.  Every once in a while a series of unfortunate events comes together and a calamity is born.  Nothing could have been done to prevent it, short of outlawing parades, or cars, or humans.  Thankfully, in this case, there were no fatalities.

Update

   
A quick update on customer suggestions to make Miniature-GIANT a better store:
    1) Social Media -- Check us out on Facebook -- thanks for all of you that have friended us there.
    4) Painting Contests.  May is here, and so we are collecting a new batch of painting contest entries.  Any figure that we carry and that you painted is eligible!  If the image has already been published on the internet, you must submit a new image from a slightly different angle.  Please send your  pictures to "PaintContest@Miniature-Giant.com".  (see details below)
    In addition to the fame and accolades that go with actually winning, all entries may also appear in our catalog pages -- just like we currently do with the professionally painted figure images that Reaper supplies us!  Your "master piece" along with your name as the "painter" would be included.
    5)  Gaming Cons.  Please submit pictures of recent gaming cons.  Running Miniature-GIANT and "The Millsap-Baker Estate" (more on this later in our blog) takes most of our time so we have very little time to attend  cons ourselves.  We would welcome your pictures so that we can share them with our other readers.  These can be "historic" (e.g., GenCon'06) or current.

(Newsletter Subscribers Only -- Painting Contest)
(monthly feature)

Congratulations
to our February/March
Painting Contest Winner!


Nora Gillooly

 

As a Prize, I've sent them
  a $5 coupon!


Thanks to all that participated, this was a VERY tough decision for us this time -- we look forward to next month.

Get your entries in by 6/1 to be considered for the April/May contest!

Any figure that we carry and that you painted is eligible.  If the image has already been published on the internet, you must submit a new image from a slightly different angle.
Please send your entries, and the figure's name/number, to

"PaintContest@Miniature-Giant.com".


In addition:  All entries will be considered for inclusion on our online catalog!  Yes, your image may be included in our catalog, with your name as the "Painter", just as we currently do with Reaper's own, professional painters!

Battle
                                                          Herald, 60104

  This is a slightly modified Pathfinder:
Battle Herald, 60104

MSRP:      $6.99  Our Price: $5.20  SAVE: $1.79 

February/March's Winner!
(Painted by Nora Gillooly - aka: "ALizardInCrimson")

We loved the cloth shading, accurate detail work, and, of course, those beautiful eyes!


Thank you Nora for sharing your work with us all.

 
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