Malnurtured Snay sends in a super secret photo of some unannounced BSG products:
Rebelscum.com has been covering the announcements of forthcoming Star Wars products. Hidden within the X-Wings and Jedi Starfighters and 1/6th scale Jabba the Hutt are as-yet-unannounced news from the Battlestar Galactica Titanium line.
That Viper would look great sitting next to my Cylon Raider at work!
Are you going to the San Diego Comic-Con this month? If you are, you have a shot at one of these:
Art Asylum will be offering fans a special San Diego Comic-Con exclusive: a resin 2-pack that will consist of a slick Cylon bust (pictured below; further images in the link) and the famed starship of the show: Galactica.
The second half of Battlestar Galactica, Season Two is released on DVD September 19th, 2006.
Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0, vol 2 (2.5)
Now you tell me... could that title get any more confusing? :)
Remember, this set includes episodes 11-20 of season 2. Also included is the extended version of Pegasus. Some people are complaining about the price, but as of writing this, Amazon is giving you $17 dollars off... which is a pretty solid deal.
The San Diego Comic-Con had an exclusive number of Cylon action figures. Check out the photos:
SDCC Cylon Action Figure
(scroll to the bottom)
How long until they are on eBay?
Critical Gamers has a hands on look at the Battlestar Galactica collectible card game:
The Battlestar Galactica CCG seems to do a good job mixing things-up by simplifying certain game elements while adding complexity to others. For instance, there are only 3 types of resources (land types) which are used to play cards out of your hand. Simple. There's also a game mechanic that allows players to discard anything in their hand to add to their permanent resource generation. These simplifications streamline gameplay, and eliminate land starvation potentials.
The article is heavy on the CCG jargon, as it should be. I managed to turn my friend Kevin into a video gamer... maybe we can hook up some CCG action... probably not.
A little more information has filtered onto the web regarding the release of season 2 for BSG:
We've got some DVD news that's going to make a lot of you happy. Universal has just officially announced the release of Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.5 for 9/19 (SRP $49.98). The 3-disc set will include all 10 of the remaining episodes from the season in anamorphic widescreen video with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, along with an extended version of the Season 2.0 cliff-hanger episode Pegasus. Additional extras will include all of producer Ron Moore's podcast commentaries, deleted scenes and producer David Eick's video journals. There's no word yet as to whether Season 2.0 and 2.5 will be sold together as a 2-pack, or as a single release at a later date.
This was reported by Digital Bits and pointed out by a BSG fan in the comments.
Galactica Station is reporting that in the UK, all 20 episodes are coming out in a single release:
The Sci-fi Channel's hottest TV series returns as Battlestar Galactica 2 blasts onto DVD. As the epic second season begins, the fight to save humanity rages on - even as civil war looms within the fleet between the followers of President Roslin and Commander Adama.
You can now preorder the DVD containing all 20 episodes of season 2 from Amazon UK
availability: Due for release on 14/08/2006
price: £34.99
DVDs everywhere! The summer is just flying by for me! There are going to be new episodes before we know it!
Head over to eBay and put up a bid for an original piece of artwork by Grant Gould:
This is an original piece of artwork hand-drawn by Grant Gould (Sketch Artist for the "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith," "Lord of the Rings: Evolution," and "Complete Avengers" trading card sets) featuring the character Boomer and a Cylon Centurion from the amazing SciFi series Battlestar Galactica!
The artwork measures 9" wide and 12" tall and is on sturdy Bristol Board. It was drawn with pencil and brush pen, and then colored with Prismacolor markers. This is a one-of-a-kind piece and was created exclusively for this auction. Artwork will be mailed to the winner in a protective envelope so that it isn't damaged.
Auction ends June 12th!
Grant does great stuff. I was happy to come across this auction.
This was sent to me by a rep from CineMedia Promotions. It is the official press release for the Season Two soundtrack:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SEASON TWO SOUNDTRACK TO BE RELEASED BY LA-LA LAND RECORDS ON JUNE 20
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA TOUTED AS ONE OF THE TOP 10 SHOWS CURRENTLY ON TV BY TIME MAGAZINE AND TV GUIDE
(June 1, 2006- New York, NY) – Considered one of the top 10 shows currently on TV by Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and TV Guide, Battlestar Galactica is the #1 show on the Sci Fi Channel. On June 20, La-La Land Records will release the Battlestar Galactica: Season Two soundtrack, featuring more than 78 minutes of the best musical moments from the 2nd season of the Sci-Fi Channel's critically acclaimed, top-rated television series starring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff.
Composer Bear McCreary builds on his impressive Season One accomplishments and once again delivers a sensational, emotionally rich score that ingeniously melds orchestra, vocals, percussion and synthesizer. The Season Two CD contains few tracks which are longer in length. Says McCreary, “The first one was a soundtrack. The second one is an album.”
The Battlestar Galactica: Season Two soundtrack features performances by Supernova String Quartet (on “A Promise to Return” from The Farm), vocals by Raya Yarbrough (on “Lords of Kobol” from Pegasus), and vocals by Bt4 (on “The Cylon Prisoner” from Pegasus). Former Oingo-Boingo members Steve Bartek, John Avila and Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez play on the track from “Black Market”. And the main title theme from Battlestar Galactica, composed by Richard Gibbs, is also on the soundtrack.
Fans of the original series will be excited to see that the theme from the original Battlestar Galactica series, composed by Stu Phillips, has been adapted and arranged by McCreary. The homage to the television show that inspired this new incarnation leads off the soundtrack.
Composer Bear McCreary is a classically trained composer with a degree in Composition and Recording Arts from the prestigious USC Thornton School of Music. He has composed score for over thirty independent films, including director Jon Chu’s musical short When the Kids Are Away and the Discovery Channel miniseries The 5 Coolest Things. McCreary was among a handful of select protégés of late film music legend Elmer Bernstein (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN).
The third season of Battlestar Galactica will begin airing in October on the Sci Fi Channel. The Battlestar Galactica: Season Two soundtrack will be available in stores or from www.lalalandrecords.com on June 20, 2005. The soundtrack from the Battlestar Galactica mini-series and the Season One soundtrack are both available from La-La Land Records.
The top of the release is in CAPS in case you missed it. *smile*
Very soon it will be mine... very soon...
A reader emailed in the other day claiming that a shadowy preview photo was possibly the bust of a cylon. It turns out that person was 100% correct. Patrick Wang from shopafx.com emailed in with the news and a link to photos:
The hottest show on the Sci-Fi channel just got hotter! With a third season on the way this Fall, fans are hungry for Battlestar Galactica collectibles. AFX is honored to fill that need with the first in a line of upcoming mini busts. Made of polystone resin, this exclusive "premium format" mini bust stands approximately 7.5" tall, making it slightly larger than the upcoming standard releases.
It looks like you can only buy these at the San Diego Comic-Con. So if you needed an excuse to go, this might be it!... if you are a bust kind of person.
Timothy Sandefur has an advanced review posted about the Battlestar Galactica novel The Cylons' Secret. He wasn't that impressed:
I’ve just finished an advance reading copy of the new Battlestar Galactica novel. I won’t spoil the story for you, except to say that you shouldn’t get your hopes up. On the positive side, Gardner makes the story much more science fictiony than BSG has sometimes been; I’ve long thought that the show has been slightly overzealous in avoiding futurism. But the combination of deities ex machinae (three, by my count), marvelous coincidences (at least two), and complete lack of foreshadowing, render the plot utterly unbelievable and uninteresting.
That is sad to hear... It sounded like a really good premise. Anyone else have a different opinion?
