Beautiful art nouveau posters of the crew from Firefly
Highly recommended, am being nagged to buy again by people who want them as gifts. As in, they want me to buy the posters and hand them out. (Not a chance. If I buy these again, I'm keeping them, duplicates and all).
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Poor Simon. He got moved because
we were repainting the end wall,
totally ruining my awesome line up.
Les Femmes on ThinkGeek |
These posters are gorgeous, and can be handed out as individual gifts or kept for your wall. I bought two sets, and broke one up as bonus presents for friends and family, and kept the other for my flat, where they fill up an entire wall, look fantastic and attract a lot of attention.
The posters come in two sets, the men and the women, and are of decent quality, not just thin poster paper. They are 12x24 inches (30x60 cm), which is small for a poster but perfect for actually putting an entire set up on a wall. The paper is a bit too heavy for a full sized poster to have stayed up easily anyway!
They're half realistic (some are flat colour and some look heavily photo referenced) art nouveau style prints featuring the name of each character and a quote or caption associated with them, in a sort of old fashioned advertisement style. For example, Jayne Cobb's says "Mama Cobb's cunning headwear" and River's caption is "Straight from the Academy".
Even non-Firefly fans generally love them, and anyone who has actually seen Firefly tends to get carried away over them.
- Price: Originally about US$50, now can be found on sale for up to half that.
Les Femmes: Kaylee, Inara, River and Zoe
On Amazon.com & ThinkGeek
Would I buy again?: Yes, if anything happened to my current set, or I wanted them for a gift. Obviously I only need one of each poster, but I'd happily replace them!
Actually wait. I'm not sure about that last sentence. I'm pretty sure I do need more than one of each. Because there's an awful lot of rooms with no Firefly poster, which makes them pretty unshiny. So obviously I need to get several sets and put them up throughout the entire house.
But then, I'm pretty sure my friends and family might accidentally steal them whenever they visited... it's a dilemma.
Les Hommes: Mal, Wash, Shepherd Bush, Simon and Jayne
On Amazon.com
The Les Hommes and Les Femmes posters are also available as individual prints on Amazon.com
If you really only like a couple of characters, or you know that
everyone is going to fight over one character (seriously, as soon as they realise that someone else got Wash... ) then you may be better off buying individual posters (though obviously the sets work out to be cheaper).
There is an additional single
Saffron Poster Print
available, which isn't on ThinkGeek. ThinkGeek packed them safely in poster tubes; there are some complaints about the Saffron poster being poorly packaged, so if you'd like this one as well, be careful which seller you buy it from.
Individual Firefly Posters on Amazon.com
(Note: prices vary hugely. Some offer framing options, and some listings cost as much as the entire sets! The only non-set print is Saffron, so you may be better off buying the whole lot and gifting unwanted characters to people. Thereby earning their eternal love and gratitude and the right to be called Captain Tightpants for two months).
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