Thank you all for your suggestions, entries, and enthusiasm for the Advanced Graphics Star Wars CV Exclusive.  I’ve talked to our friend at Advanced Graphics and we’ll be taking some of the best suggestions here and doing a poll to see what the next Star Wars standee they produce will be.

In the meantime, congratulations to:

TheGingerPrince who suggested that Admiral Ackbar should be the next Star Wars standee.

I’ve sent him an email.  Unless it was a fake email address and he doesn’t get back to me in the next few days, I’ll be shipping him out his CV Exclusive.

Be sure to check back for more information about the poll and the rest of our Star Wars updates.

Their Celebration V Exclusive is this great set of mini-cardboard standups drawn by JAKe that are perfect to populate any desktop.  These are not available anywhere, and were only available at Celebration V.  I have a set currently adorning my desk and I’m very, very happy with them.

In order to be eligible for the contest, all you need to do is comment below with which Star Wars character you’d most like to see a cardboard standup of.  For an extra chance to win, you can join our forums, our facebook, and/or our twitter and spread the word about the contest and let us know that you’ve done so.

The contest will close on Friday 9/3/2010 and a winner will be announced Monday 9/6/2010.

Be sure to leave your real email address in the comments so we can contact you if you’re the winner.  And be sure to watch for the Big Shiny Robot! store, which will have some cool Advanced Graphics exclusives (among many others I can’t talk about yet.)

A winner has been selected randomly in our Prequel Appreciation Day contest.

It was Justin Jackson aka Justag33k.

He had this to say about the prequels:

What I appreciate most about the prequels is the back story. The original 3 did not need anything “added” to them but the prequels gave us a fresh taste of the Star Wars universe, something new to look forward to, and a healthy back story too.

Anyone who bashes the prequels is not a true Star Wars fan in my opinion because what fan would not want more of what they love!?

I couldn’t agree with him more.

For his appreciation, he will be getting the above pictured Obi-Wan Kenobi 2GB Flash Drive.

We’ll have more contests in the very near future, and plenty more nerd news and reviews, so bookmark us and check back frequently.

For our contest, we will be giving away this 2GB Obi-Wan Kenobi Flash Drive from Mimoco.  (You can check them out here.)

All the lucky winner has to do is go to the comments below and tell us what you like about the prequels.  Snarky prequel bashing comments will be disqualified.

And you can enter twice by going over to the Star Wars Examiner page, subscribing to my updates there and commenting on the contest page there.

The winner will be decided randomly tomorrow, so get commenting!

On Tuesday May 4th, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release IRON MAN: THE COMPLETE 1994 ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES and X-MEN: Vol. 5 on DVD! From Stan Lee comes Marvel’s complete 1994 animated television series, Iron Man. Experience every thrilling moment – from the very first episode, to the final climactic battle – in this 3-disc collector’s edition. The action doesn’t end there! The original tales of Marvel comic books come to life in Volume 5 of the X-men collection. Relive the action of the popular animated series in this collectible compilation of the X-men adventures.

If you can’t wait for the contest and just want to order them, you can buy them off of Amazon here.

This is going to be one of our easiest contests yet. All you need to do is leave a comment telling us what you like about Big Shiny Robot! and what you want to see more of. We’ll count your entry double if you spread the word about the contest to all your social media friends, just let us know you’ve done it.

A winner will be picked randomly on May 7th.

We have a really cool contest for you today, from a really cool artist.

The Geekleetist has been kind enough to give us a very limited edition art print of the above image to give away to you.  There are only 5 of these in the world and one of them is ours to give to you.  They are signed and numbered and you can win one of the five.

To win is simple.

Get on your facebook and/or your twitter  (you can double your chances if you do both)  and tell people why Big Shiny Robot! is your favorite source for nerd news and reviews and set them up with a link here.  You can post this up on a forum you frequent, or comment on a site about it for more chances to win.  (And do it in ways that are applicable, don’t spam people.  You’ll be disqualified if you do that.)

And, like always, comment back here when the deed is done.  (And send us links to where you’ve done it when possible.)

We’re going to do the contest for three days, so the more places you can spread the word, the more chances you have to win this really cool print.  I have one myself and they are very good looking. You should be following The Geekleetist on Twitter.  And if you want to buy any other prints of his, check out his etsy page.

(And since it’s Star Wars related, I’ll be cross posting this over at my Star Wars Examiner page, be sure to hit that up as well.)

So man your ships, and may the Force be with you.

We’re going to have some Kick-Ass giveaways all week on our Facebook page and via our Twitter, but we’re kicking off the grand prize contest here and now.

For the grand prize we have a whole slew of stuff:

• The Book: Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie (courtesy of Titan Books)
• An embroidered Kick-Ass Ball Cap
• A Kick-Ass T-Shirt
• A Kick-Ass cock and balls insignia Key-chain with attached permanent marker
• Kick-Ass Lenticular mini-poster
• 2 Big Shiny Robot stickers and a commemorative 2nd Anniversary BSR! poster

What do you need to do to win all this stuff?  It’s pretty simple.  All you need to do is create a superhero identity for facebook.  Go to www.IWillKickAss.com and use their superhero creator to create  a superhero (or make your own from scratch) and create a facebook fan page.  The contest ends on April 15th at midnight and the superhero with the most fans (and has driven the most fans to add Kick-Ass and Big Shiny Robot! to their facebook) will win the grandprize!

Be sure to advertise your fan page everywhere you can (and be sure to mention that it’s a Kick-Ass contest sponsored by Big Shiny Robot!) and let us know about it.  Comment here with links to your fan pages and we’ll keep an eye on them and feature some of them.

We’ll still be giving away shirts and hats and posters over the course of the next week, so be sure to add us on facebook and twitter to find out how you can win.

Kick-Ass opens in theatres across the United States on April 16th, and you pretty much have to go see it immediately.

Want to win a copy of a movie chock-full of Nazi Zombies?! Well, here’s your chance! Big Shiny Robot is giving away a copy of Dead Snow! You know you want to watching yards and yards of intestines ripped from bodies by a bunch damn Hitler-lovin’ undead Nazi bastards! So enter to win this copy now!

We are making it simple for you! Simply let us know what celebrity you would eat if you were a zombie! On Facebook, update your status to “I would eat [insert celebrity] for a copy of Dead Snow from Big Shiny Robot!” – of course, make sure you’re a fan of BSR! on Facebook! After you have done this, post a comment on our Facebook post for this story letting us know you have entered (or e-mail Arse-bot at tyson@bigshinyrobot.com) and you are good to go! Alternatively, you can post “I would eat [insert celebrity] for a copy of Dead Snow from @bigshinyrobot !” on Twitter!

The winner will be drawn at random this Friday and we will contact you to get your info and drop you your very own copy of Dead Snow in the mail to you!

Good Luck!

Be sure to follow all your favorite bots on Twitter!

@bigshinyrobot

@swankmotron

@proletariatron

@BSRZombietron

@tysonhuber

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On Tuesday, November 17th, the Utah Symphony at Abravenal Hall is presenting “Play! A Video Game Symphony” which is a presentation of video game music presented by a live symphony orchestra. The music comes from games like Halo, Super Mario Brothers, Zelda, World of Warcraft, and many more.

Big Shiny Robot! is giving away two tickets to the event to one lucky winner.

For everyone who doesn’t win the contest, tickets are still available at their website. Having just seen Star Wars in Concert, I’m quite pumped for this evening at the Symphony and have already bought my tickets.

In order to win, all you need to do is add us to your Facebook and/or Twitter and update your status to say:

Big Shiny Robot! (www.bigshinyrobot.com or @bigshinyrobot) is where I get all of my geek news and reviews.

Then leave a comment here, telling us that you’ve done the deed. Make sure you put your real name and email address in the comment bar. And we’ll be giving the tickets away on Monday, as the show is Tuesday.

We’ve chosen the winners in the X-Men Animated Series contest by randomized numbers.

Now, could Lucas and Christopher Kamto shoot us an email and give me an address I can ship these to.

I wanted to thank all of you who participated and hope that you all spread the word about Big Shiny Robot!  We’ll have more contests soon, so please keep reading.

This is what I had to say about the X-Men DVDs in my regular DVD roundup (the links go to Amazon if you want to order it.):

Animated X-Men Volume 3 and 4 comes out on DVD today and I have to say I love watching this show all over again. Sure it’s cheesy, but this is how a lot of us were given our first real taste of the X-Men. Don’t forget that we’re giving away a set of these and the contest ends today (click here for details). These X-Men cartoons are perfect for a week or two of nights watching with the kids