I went to the Frazetta museum today, and bought two paintings, pre-ordeed Kubla Khan, and bought a few Frazetta comics. I also talked to Frankie Frazetta Jr. (Frank Frazetta's grandson) for almost two hours or so. He gave me insight to some things, not all of which I feel comfortable sharing, and two interesting things occurred.
1.) Rob Post (the owner of Savage Crucible) texted him pictures of the changes to Death Dealer's chain mail skirt and test shots of the new belt as we were talking, and Frankie was kind enough to show me. He also explained they can only use certain things in their Death Dealer because other family members own the right to paintings 2, 4, 5, and 6 and designs featured on those but not on 1, 3, or 7 can't be used. That's why one of the belt buckles on Savage Crucible's initial Death Dealer prototype had to be changed, because it was from painting 2. It's also why he doesn't feel Savage Crucible will be able to reuse many parts for Death Dealer in the future. The sword was already been reused and he said it really shouldn't have been. He said even the feet might be iffy, because of the fact they may be used in paintings he doesn't have the ability to license. But almost everything else is most likely not going to be reused.
2.) Frankie explained to me why if Savage Crucible does Silver Warrior it's more complicated than we think, (He didn't say it wasn't happening, he was just talking about an interesting fact. He also didn't say it was happening.) Rob Post wants to release it as the Eternal Champion character, and to do that he has to license it from both Moorcock (more cock) for the character name and from the Frazetta's for his appearance. Rob Post could release it and just call it something else, but he doesn't want to do it that way. He wants to release it as the character people want, with the name they associate with it. He wants to do it right even if it costs him money to do it that way. So this guy could do it in a way that puts money in his pocket but he feels that cheats the fans of the experience they really desire, an Eternal Champion character called by his Eternal Champion name. I find that commendable and awesome.
He also told me that Death Dealer might be hard to find if you wait. BBTS and other retailers reached out to increase their stock because they underestimated the demand, so it might be tricky getting him after the fact. They might have to do another run, but that run will not come with the special surprise gift.
I asked about a Frazetta sub-line and Frankie chuckled and said no. They're going to continue to release Frazetta figures in the regular line, hopefully a little more often. The horse is considered the third character and Kubla Kahn the fourth.
And as a side note, apparently Savage Crucible approached Danzig about using the Jaguar God name and he wants what was called "A billion dollars." So, if we get Jaguar God it will not be called Jaguar God. Which is hilarious to me. Glenn Danzig is worried about copyrights and licensing fees when he stole the Danzig Skull off a copy of Crystar from Marvel, and never paid them, or Michael Golden who originally drew it, a God Damn dime.
If you can get to the museum really try to go. I had no idea I lived so close. I'm gonna try to make it a quarterly visit. They were framing artwork they had just bought back when I arrived, so there are more pieces to see that I wasn't able to view today.
Great time and fun experience.
