Last Autumn there was some discussion on the Tintin Blog about whether or not Captain Haddock would choose Whisky Stones to cool his beverage of choice. Well, apparently, given the excitement of Whisky Stones at our stores, we have to assume that the Captain would indeed approve of these remarkable cubes.
Check them out at our sister store, ShopEssentials.net.
Oceans may divide us, but nothing can keep Tintin geeks aficionados apart! The following is an image capture from TintinMovie.org. See this POST to understand what the heck is going on…
Join us as we celebrate the birth of Tintin’s creator on May 22, 2009. Hergé turns 102 and everything at ShopTintin.com is on sale! Save 25-45% on Tintin apparel, books, collectibles, figurines, and much more! You better act fast as we don’t have a lot of stock and the sale only lasts for 24-hours. Have Fun!
Rules:
The sale starts at 12:00 am May 22, 2009 (EST) and ends at 11:59 on May 22, 2009 (EST). Requests to apply sale conditions for orders placed before or after the sale period will not be honored. Free shipping coupons and new account discounts will not be honored during the 24-hour sale period. Requests to place items “on hold” before the sale period will not be honored.
According to the AFP, Tintin collectors are starting to take note of the rising value of Tintin collectibles. I attribute this at least partially to the upcoming Speilberg/Jackson movies. The movie is expected to dramatically increase the global awareness of Tintin, and because of a long history of keeping production numbers low, even smaller collections could see a large bump-up in value.
Here’s the AFP release:
BRUSSELS (AFP) — Tintin mania swept a Belgian auction house on Sunday with almost 600 lots associated with Hergé, creator of the famous cartoon reporter, breaking national and world sales records, an expert said.
The sale in Namur, southern Belgium, dominated by five large hand-drawn pages of original cartoon strips, raised 1,172,000 euros (1.57 million dollars), including charges, — a world record for Hergé-associated items and a cartoon strip book record in Belgium, said Thibaut Van Houtte, an expert on hand for the Rops auction house sale.
“It went well over even our upper pre-auction estimate of 650,000 euros,” he said.
The buyers came from all over Europe, as well as the United States, Lebanon and China.
However, Van Houtte was happy to say, the two highest-selling pages were bought by an anonymous Belgian collector.
The lot which the collector paid the most for was a hand-drawn page featuring Tintin, his faithful terrier Snowy and his crusty old sea-dog companion Captain Haddock made for the 1963 book “The Castafiore Emerald” which went for a total of 312,5000 euros, over three times its catalogue estimate, Van Houtte said.
The same collector also picked up a page of original drawings, including a spectacular car crash, as seen in the 1956 “The Calculus Affair”.
The boy reporter — the most loved figure in cartoon-mad Belgium’s history — first appeared on January 10, 1929 bound for the Soviet Union, in a supplement to the Roman Catholic Brussels weekly, Le Vingtieme Siecle.
It has been a long career that the death in 1983 of his creator, Georges Remi — alias Hergé — has not compromised, with his descendants refusing to hand over the rights to Tintin.
Simon Pegg Explains How He Became Nick Frost’s Twin In ‘Tintin’
Published by Brian Warmoth on Friday, May 8, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Source: SplashPage MTV
Simon Pegg“Star Trek” cast newcomer Simon Pegg will have another established audience to please when Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson’s “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn” comes to theaters in 2010. Pegg appears undaunted by the skeptical mumbles he’s heard, however, and left recent shots for the film impressed by the special effects process used to turn him and his fellow on-screen twin Nick Frost into nearly identical characters based on motion-capture work.
“We shot earlier this year, here in L.A.,” Pegg told Collider.com. “Fascinating experience just in terms of how it worked.”
The “Shaun of the Dead” star laughed off doubts he originally read about the movie and explained exactly how he and Frost became the Thomson and Thompson twins for the new film franchise based on the internationally renowned comics by Belgian creator Hergé.
“Obviously, the minute it was announced everyone was like, ‘How are Nick Frost and Simon Pegg going to play twins?’” he recalled. “Once you don the suits and see yourself rendered on the monitor, you can actually see yourself as the character.”
The images he saw on set were unfinished, but he was impressed by what he saw.
“It’s still like a very good N64 game of yourself,” he said.
And as for any concerns that many filmgoers may not already be versed in “Tintin” comics, Pegg had a response prepared for that as well with high expectations for Spielberg and Jackson’s trilogy.
“There’s been some talk that no one knows who Tintin is,” he explained, “which seems to be a really odd thing to say because no one knew who Indiana Jones was in 1979.”
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