The Collectible Poster Book · 6:32pm Aug 17th, 2014
I'll be honest: I ordered two copies of the collectible poster book so I could hang the posters from one and leave the other unspoilt. I'm glad I did, because the book I received is much better than what I was expecting. I expected a paperback with fold-out pictures of cheap vector art featuring the Mane Six in various poses. What I got was a well-bound set of 16x12 posters, some of which are cheap vector art, but others of which are attractive and professional-looking.
EDIT: Someone asked where I got the book, so I'll add in here that I ordered mine off Amazon, where at the time of writing they cost $16.98. The poster book just came out in June, so it's still in print.
The set is bound with a paperboard cover and a heavy piece of cardboard for backing, so the book shipped flat and came to me without seams or wrinkles. I have plastered my walls with the posters, so you can here see what some of them look like in their natural habitat:
Man, I have way too much pony stuff in my room.
Many of the posters in the book are playful advertisements, as you can see here: posters advertising DJ PON-3, Sapphire Shores, and Hinny of the Hills, as well as a "filler" poster featuring Princess Celestia and her two boyfriends of the week guards.
I do, in fact, keep Pinkie in my closet.
Some posters are replicas of posters we see in the show: here you can see Rainbow Dash's Wonderbolts poster and the Cutie Mark Crusaders' skydiving poster, as well as a poster advertising the services of Madame Pinkie Pie.
I'm running out of room for these things in the bedroom . . . but I am not putting up pony junk in the rest of my apartment. Just . . . no.
The best posters are those by Andy Price. We have here the art from the paperback edition of Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone, an ad for the Flim Flam Brothers, and an ad for a Nightmare Night celebration in Ponyville featuring story time with Princess Luna.
My only disappointment is that there is no contribution from Mary Jane Begin, who is still best illustrator in the franchise, but Andy Price is a distant second, and his posters easily outshine the others in the collection.
I have only two small complaints. First, the book claims to contain forty posters, and it technically does, but they're double-sided, so it only contains twenty functional posters, and anyone wishing to hang them is stuck deciding which side to display and which side to mar with tape. Also, the info on the cover claims the posters are "removable." I suppose they are—if you have an X-ACTO knife and a lot of patience. I suspect the children for whom the book is intended have neither. On the plus side, anyone who wishes to keep the book intact need not worry that the pages will fall out.
On the whole, this is a great collection of pony art, probably the best official collection that's come out.
Wow! This is a lot better than what I expected!
Wow, that is so cool! Wish I had one!
(Or two.)
Speaking of, where did toy get this lovely book, and how much did it cost? I think I might try (very hard) to get one in the next month or two, if they're not too ungodly expensive!
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Looks like right now they're going for $16.98 on Amazon. It's a recent release, so I'm pretty sure it's still in print.
2377644 Cool!
Hmmmm, $16.98, huh? That's actually not too bad a price!
Figure in shipping and it's (somewhat) around 20 bucks. Not bad; not bad at all.
And I have an Amazon account, so I will be getting this just as soon as I get the bits for it!
And having some artwork by Andy is a definitely plus to me. (especially that Daring Do poster!) He's my No. 1 fave artist of the MLP comic series, so I'd love to have some artwork of his hanging (literally!) around my own bedroom!
EDIT: Hey, bud. I noticed that you mentioned them not being perforated for ease of removal (which is, indeed, a pain in the plot), but also that you have to decide which side to stick the tape on (and therefore ruin the poster on the other side). On another note, you could just get a few poster frames of the right isze, and, rather than using tape to hang them, use those.
That way, you could take the frame down, switch which poster was showing, and hang it back up. That's what I plan on doing.
Once I get mine, of course. Heck, I'm sure that they sell frames that size at Walmart for not very much.
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Yes you could do that. I wasn't going to spend the money on the poster frames, especially since I was keeping a copy intact.
No, they're not perforated. If you're patient, you can cut them out by cutting the glue holding them together without damaging the posters themselves. It's very easy to slide the blade onto the paper, though, and I scored the edges of a few of them..
2377740 Yep.
That's a point, though. They're yours, so you can do whatever you want with them.
That figures, but I am nothing if not patient.
And thanks for the warning. I'll be sure to be careful with them.
Yeah... I am SERIOUSLY considering adding a second poster book to my next amazon order! Those posters ARE amazing!