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On January 30, 2013, AZCentral.com posted 5 Essential Sylvester Stallone Films. Their choices [with embeded trailers]:
On 12.28.12, Whitney Seibold, of Crave Online, posted his first installment [of two] of what he calls The Rocky Project.
Sylvester Stallone fans are going to have a chance to own one the most requested prop replicas ever. The “Rocky World Championship Belt Prop Replica” is a grail piece and is sure to sell out quickly. Can you imagine how cool this would like on display in your house?
From the HCG website:
We are very proud to offer for the first time ever, a high quality officially licensed Limited Edition replica of Rocky’s Championship Belt! The most iconic and instantly recognizable collectible from the Rocky movies, this intricately detailed Championship belt is accurate to the one seen throughout the Rocky series.
Made from heavyweight cast metal with a high quality gold plated finish, genuine leather and layers of ruffled satin – just like the original!
The four metal picture frames feature images of the various champions in Rocky movie history – Clubber Lang, Apollo Creed, Ivan Drago and of course Rocky Balboa.
This beautifully crafted, Museum Quality Replica has been crafted with pride from the finest materials available, and is a faithful copy of the original Prop that will be the centerpiece of anyone’s Rocky collection. Comes complete with a black velvet storage bag with Rocky logo. The must have prop replica for any Rocky fan!
Measures 43″ long and weighs 2.5lbs approx.
Limited to just 1976 pieces worldwide!
On August 10, 2012, IGN posted their choices for Sly’s Top 10 Best Movies. Click on the link and let the debate begin. – Craig
On July 27, 2012, Digital Spy reported that “Rocky” was named the #1 sports movie of all time in a recent poll among movie and sports fans.
On July 7, 2012, TG Daily posted a piece titled, “Why Rocky’s Still a Winner” by David Konow. David’s right, “Rocky” just keeps getting better and better.
Today’s Rocky and Adrian drawing above was created by the uber talented Chris Brunner at last year’s Heroes Con. I’m a huge fan and it was a joy to get a second piece from Chris for my collection. He did my first piece from him back in 2003!
You can see more of Chris’ art at his site.
On March 21, 2012, FansShare posted Sylvester Stallone Compares Rambo and Rocky.
On March 9, 2012, Fanshare posted Sylvester Stallone Reveals His Rocky Influences. Why they posted the photo of Sly as Cosmo Carboni from Paradise Alley is anyone’s guess. – Craig
Over at IFC, they decided to post a piece “in honor of ‘John Carter,’ ten awesome dude movies with dude’s names for titles. Sly was the only actor to make the list twice [for “Rocky” and “Rambo”]. Here are some tidbits…
[Art by Jason Latour from my Stallone sketch collection. – Craig]