Icons Original Holiday Greeting Card

 

This is an original, glossy, Icons Holiday greetings photo-postcard from 1997. It depicts one of the key, original employees of Icons - Al Z., the head of Icons famed Molding & Casting Department, posing with a full size Icons Terminator 2 : Judgment Day Endoskeleton Cyborg / Robot, a full-size prototype Lost in Space B-9 Robot and a full-size Gort Robot, all of which Icons had the studio authorized licenses for. A first for any entertainment collectibles company.

In the background are huge Icons logo boxes. Custom made for either the T2 replica arm, or the Independence Day Alien Attacker miniature.

These were mailed out to Icons customers when the company's growth continued to expand at a rapid rate and Icons had become an internationally respected & branded company, which dominated the licensed 1:1 scale studio replica industry.

The Endoskeleton was molded off of "The Licensing Group's" original Endoskeleton used in the film. They represented the Terminator 2 property as a licensing agency and had an Endoskeleton displayed in their lobby after Carolco Pictures, the studio which produced and distributed T2 went into bankruptcy.

The B-9 Robot was one built by hobbyist and professional engineer and fabricator Michael Davis, who constructed it using parts originally cast from Greg Jein and Mike Moore, prior to Mike Moore co-founding Icons and Mike Davis consulting with Icons on the B-9 project. Some of the B-9 parts were also supplied by Mike Davis from Fred Barton.

The Gort was fabricated using design templates taken off of collector Bill Malone's original Gort (which Fred Barton obtained without Bill Malone's conscent to produce a replica Gort) and sold by Fred Barton (who had no licenses at the time).

This Holiday greeting card is legendary as being the impetus for the "Robot Wars" that followed between Icons and Barton.

 

 

Al Z. playing with the B-9 Robot during the photo session  :-)