{"id":31655,"date":"2016-12-10T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/?p=31655"},"modified":"2016-12-10T15:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:13:26","slug":"toyguide-update-bb-8-holiday-edition-mini-bust-2016-pgm-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2016\/12\/10\/toyguide-update-bb-8-holiday-edition-mini-bust-2016-pgm-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyguide Update: BB-8 (Holiday Edition) Mini Bust (2016 PGM Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/gentle_giant\/mini_busts\/PGM_holiday_BB8.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-31657\" src=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/holiday_bb8_preview-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"holiday_bb8_preview\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/tgmain.html\">Yakface Toyguide<\/a>\u00a0updates resume today as we take a look at the \u00a02016\u00a0Premier Guild\u00a0Exclusive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/gentle_giant\/mini_busts\/PGM_holiday_BB8.html\">BB-8 (Holiday Edition) Mini\u00a0Bust<\/a>\u00a0from Gentle Giant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROS:<\/strong> Excellent sculpting and deco, and the lights are a perfectly festive touch. LED lights are bright and the button batteries are included (preinstalled). 3 lighting modes give the collector options, although I suspect most will choose the solid (non-flashing) setting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Must be a PG Member to purchase ($120) which will probably drive the after market price higher in the future. \u00a0Fragile antennae could easily break if not handled properly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakfaceforums.com\/TGuide2004\/html\/gentle_giant\/mini_busts\/PGM_holiday_BB8.html\">Head to the toyguide<\/a>\u00a0for the full image gallery (and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hz-UKns_Dag\">YouTube page<\/a> for a video) to judge for yourself whether this bust is worth adding to your collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Yakface Toyguide\u00a0updates resume today as we take a look at the \u00a02016\u00a0Premier Guild\u00a0Exclusive\u00a0BB-8 (Holiday Edition) Mini\u00a0Bust\u00a0from Gentle Giant. PROS: Excellent sculpting and deco, and the lights are a perfectly festive touch. LED lights are bright and the button batteries are included (preinstalled). 3 lighting modes give the collector options, although I suspect most will choose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/2016\/12\/10\/toyguide-update-bb-8-holiday-edition-mini-bust-2016-pgm-exclusive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toyguide Update: BB-8 (Holiday Edition) Mini Bust (2016 PGM Exclusive)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[69,146,2024,1279,1392,550],"class_list":["post-31655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collecting","category-toyguide","tag-gentle-giant","tag-mini-busts","tag-ppm","tag-premier-guild","tag-the-force-awakens","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31661,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31655\/revisions\/31661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yakfaceforums.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}