Battlestar Galactica auction catalog available for download!

The Battlestar Galactica Auction Catalog is now available for download.  You can download it here.

Please note that we will have even more information and photos available at www.auctionnetwork.com when they put up the whole catalog for the Internet bidding portion of the auction later this week.

Printed versions of the catalog (which look AMAZING) will be available next week.  Stay tuned for more info.

Bidding Online During the Live Auction

Many people ask “What if I can’t make the Live Auction?”.  Well, Propworx is working with Auction Network (http://www.auctionnetwork.com), to bring you the entire auction online!  Anyone, anywhere in the world, who has a computer, will be able to not only watch the entire auction be broadcast online, but will be able to bid on items as if they were at the auction.  By using Auction Network, you will be competing live, against the floor bidders, for every item in our catalog.  As soon as registration is open, and the catalog live on Auction Network, we will post here about it and you will be able to register for the auction, review every one of the 800 lots in the auction, and see how the Auction network system works so, on Saturday, January 17th, you can grab a cup of coffee, sit down at your computer, and enjoy two days of Battlestar auctions!

If you are interested in bidding, you should start by joining the Battlestar Props and Costumes forums by clicking here, and start chatting with fellow collectors.  And keep following this site for new information every day on the Battlestar Galactica auctions!

Live Auction Press Release

We interrupt your regularly scheduled prop, costume, or set decoration piece article for this press release.

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“BATTLESTAR GALACTICA” LIVE AUCTION SET FOR

JANUARY 16-18, 2009 IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA

One-Of-A-Kind Props, Set Pieces And Costumes Will Also Be Offered In A Series Of Auctions Coinciding With The Final Episodes of The Hit SCI FI Channel Series

NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music And Consumer Products Group Is Teaming With Propworx To Offer Fans And Collectors This Unique Chance To Own A Piece Of Television History

UNIVERSAL CITY, CA – November 9, 2008 – As the SCI FI Channel’s original series “Battlestar Galactica” draws to a close, NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group has teamed with Propworx to offer thousands of one-of-a-kind props, set pieces and costumes to the public in a series of live and online auctions, beginning on January 16, 2009 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California.  Some of the more spectacular items that will be available to bid on include full size ships, “Admiral William Adama’s” desk, a Cylon Raider and six to 12 costumes from each major character including Viper flight suits and “Caprica Six’s” red dress.  A portion of the auction’s proceeds will benefit United Way.

The auctions will kick off with a preview day on Friday, January 16th at 10:00 a.m.  The preview day will also feature a series of live panel discussions with the creative team that developed all the fantastic props, costumes and set pieces for “Battlestar Galactica.”  The two day live auction event will take place Saturday January 17th and Sunday January 18th and will feature hundreds of items from the first three seasons of the show.  The live auction will also be available to view online at www.battlestarprops.com so that those unable to make it to Pasadena will have a chance to bid electronically.  On Tuesday, January 20, 200 items will be offered on eBay for those that were unable to participate in the live auctions over the weekend.

Then, as previously announced, additional items will be made available for auction each week on eBay in conjunction with the airing of “Battlestar Galactica” and will feature items that appeared in that particular episode.  The first of these auctions will take place on Friday, January 23, starting at 9:00 a.m. (ET), and will conclude the following Friday, January 30, starting at 9:00 p.m. (ET).

“We are all fans of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and are excited to see how the series concludes,” said Stacey Ward, Director NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group.  “We are also really excited to be able to offer both fans and collectors this incredible opportunity to own a piece of science fiction television history as the series concludes.”

“This will be a huge event and I am really honored to be a part of it,” said Alec Peters, Chief Executive Officer of Propworx.  “There will be a great selection of items in every category and we will be certain to provide items in all price ranges so that every fan can have a chance to own a part of the show.”

Some of the items to be offered in the live auction include:

• A life-size Viper
• Admiral Adama’s duty blue uniform
• Apollo’s Viper flight suit
• Caprica Six’s red dress
• Consoles from the CIC
• The Arrow of Apollo
• Admiral Adama’s painting of the first Cylon war
• Colonel Saul Tigh’s eye patch and liquor bottle
• President Laura Roslin’s desk
• Original production sketches
• Set plans and drawings
• Props, costumes and set pieces for every budget

The schedule of events is as follows:

o Preview Day – Friday, January 16, 2009 - Pasadena Convention Center (Doors open at 10:00 a.m. and close at 6:00 p.m) (Panel schedule to be announced at another date).

o Live Auction Day – Saturday, January 17, 2009 (Doors open at 8:00 a.m. Auction begins at 9:00 a.m.).

o Live Auction Day – Sunday, January 18, 2009 (Doors open at 9:00 a.m. Auction begins at 10:00 a.m.).

o Online Auction of 200 Items – Tuesday, January 20 (Auction goes live at 9:00 a.m. (ET) and will conclude Friday, January 23, starting at 9:00 p.m. (ET).

o First of Several Weekly Online Auctions – Beginning on Friday, January 23, weekly online auctions on eBay begin at 9:00 p.m. (ET).

For more information please visit www.battlestarprops.com

The Pasadena Convention Center is located at 300 East Green Street in Pasadena, California, 91101 (www.pasadenacenter.com).

About “Battlestar Galactica”
Battlestar Galactica is the gripping saga of humanity’s last remnants and their struggle to find a new home while fleeing from their deadly Cylon enemies. Redefining the space opera with its gritty realism, Galactica’s intensity, issues-driven topicality, and command performances have garnered it numerous awards, including three Emmy® Awards and the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. The show was recognized by the American Film Institute (AFI) as one of the most outstanding programs of the year two years running. The series is produced by Universal Cable Productions and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick.  The outstanding ensemble cast is led by Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park.

About Propworx
Propworx, Inc. serves the movie and television industry by selling production props, costumes and set pieces through special live and Internet auctions, while at the same time integrating these special events into a studio’s marketing campaigns. Propworx goal is not just to sell the assets of a production, but to leverage those sales into meaningful publicity and marketing to increase the overall awareness of a production. For more information about Propworx, and examples of what Propworx can do, please go to www.Propworx.com

About NBC Universal Television DVD, Music, and Consumer Products Group
NBC Universal is a leader in providing entertainment programming to the domestic and international marketplaces. NBC Universal Television DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group manages all global ancillary television business endeavors for the NBC Universal Television Group, including third-party home entertainment distribution, consumer products, musical soundtracks, special market projects and the NBC Universal Online Store.

About United Way
United Way is a global network, including nearly 1,300 local organizations in the U.S. that advance the common good, creating opportunities for a better life for all by focusing on the three key building blocks of education, income and health. The United Way movement creates long lasting community change by addressing the underlying causes of problems that prevent progress in these areas. LIVE UNITED is a call to action for everyone to become part of the change. For more information about United Way, please visit: LIVEUNITED.org.

Hotel information for the Auction in January

OK everyone, here is the info on the hotel for the Battlestar Galactica Auction at the Pasadena Convention Center. The host hotel is the Sheraton Pasadena (on the site of the Convention Center). the back up is the Hilton Hotel, one block away. The Sheraton has a $ 125 Battlestar Auction rate.

However, I went to Hotwire.com as I always do. Through Hotwire I usually stay at the Hilton there for $ 93 a night…a great rate in L.A. Well, I just booked 14 rooms at the Sheraton for $ 100 a night including all taxes and fees. The posted rate was $ 89-93 a night. So here is what you do:

1) Go to www.hotwire.com

2) Enter the dates you want, and list “Pasadena, CA” as the city.

3) You will see a 3.5 star hotel listed at either $ 89 or $ 93 a night. THAT is the Sheraton (Hotwire never tells you till you book). Now, if it changes it may be the Hilton. But that is only a block away! (CA is sunny in the winter, so don’t worry about the walk, it will be beautiful most likely).

4) Now if money is no object, call the Sheraton at (626) 449-4000 and ask for the Battlestar Rate (if they can’t find it, tell them Tricia arranged it). The official rate is $ 125 a night.

We will also be showing the first new episode of the second half of Season 4 that night on a big screen.

Live Auction Dates and Location

The first Live Battlestar Galactica Auction will take place January 16-18th, 2009 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California.

Friday, January 16th will be Preview Day, and all the items in the auction will be on display, including full size space sips like the Viper, the Blackbird and even a Cylon Raider.  Saturday and Sunday, 800 lots will be auctioned off in a live auction that will be webcast online.  If you can’t make it to Los Angeles, you can bid online while watching all the fun of the auction on your computer.

And if you don’t win one of the great items up for auction that weekend, then on Monday, we will have a 200 item online auction with less expensive, but still very cool items up for bid.

Stay tuned to this web site for more details, and put the weekend of January 16-18 on your schedule, for the biggest collecting event of 2009!

Forums moved

A technical update for all you folks.

We’ve decided to use a new bulletin board system, the IP.Board by Invision.

As it is difficult and time consuming to convert the users (which there are only 30 at this point) and posts (which there are roughly 50) to be read and used by the new system, we’re asking people to resubscribe to the new board. We promise this is the last time we do this. But the system is leagues ahead of our previous system, and thus justified this move, since the forums will soon explode. And not in a nuclear-blast-will-destroy-your-civilization way.

Here’s a link to the new forums. Sign up and post away.

Day 1

Well, Day 1 of our cataloging process has come and gone, and while we only worked a half day (I had to get to Seattle as I am going to the Vegas Star Trek Con tomorrow), we did get the ball rolling with some wonderful stuff. It was the first day on the Studio lot for my assistant Joe Beaudoin. So we got Joe going on his Studio ID and introduced him around to the staff that was there. The full crew is not back yet as the BSG movie is in the earliest stages of pre-production.

We met with Doug McLean and his assistant Lynn who walked us through all the art they have produced and saved from the mini-series on. Of course these days, most of the work is digital, so there is only actual original art from the first two seasons. But we did get a bunch of envelopes full to start our process and there were some gems, including the first concept paintings of the CIC and hangar deck.

 

CIC Concept Art by Ken Rabehl

Hangar bay concept art by Ken Rabehl.

Galactica Corridor Concept Art by Ken Rabehl

There were also a bunch of great pencil sketches of everything from Vipers to Raptors to side arms and sets, which we will soon have in digital form on the website. And to make the budget challenged among you all happy, we found lots of items that we can sell around $1-200 that will be great additions to your collection.

Joe at his desk with original concept paintings of the CIC and hanger deck.

Battlestar Galactica Props & Costume’s Forum

Our online forum is now online. Sorry for the delay, but the web server’s control panel just came online around 10 P.M. ET. To access the forum, simply click the “Forum” link on the top bar. (Or click here.) Some things will need to be ironed out, and we are receptive to any suggestions that you, our fine visitors, can send our way! As with most online forums, we have a few ground rules:

1. Please exercise maturity in all proceedings. If you want to be critical, please exercise and utilize constructive criticism. You can disagree with someone’s view point, but don’t personally attack the person to do it.
2. Any attempt to post information of a derogatory or illegal nature will result in the removal of said content, in addition to the ban of the person or persons posting such information, as we deem appropriate.
3. We do encourage discussion on ALL the Battlestar Galactica series. We are aware of some of the friction between interpretations of this story, and will not tolerate bashing of the fans. (Actually, this same issue is dealt with in point #1.)
4. Otherwise, remember to have fun and treat everyone with integrity and respect!

Hope to see you on the boards!

FAQ online and web forum forthcoming

We have added a FAQ page based on the questions we have received so far. Obviously, we expect it to grow, and we can use your help to make that happen. So, if you have any questions that you want to ask with regard to the auction, please feel free to add them as responses to this blog post. Just to get this out of the way: We don’t have any spoilers on the show for either the movie, the webisode series, or the last 10 episodes. If we did, we couldn’t share them anyway, so… the end result is the same. Also, I would like to announce that we will be opening a forum for Battlestar Props. It would be open already, except our web server’s company has decided that today is the day they want to perform maintenance on their control panel, which is where I need to go in order to set up the additional database tables! And they were supposed to be done by 2 PM PT/5 PM ET. It is almost 6 PM ET and still no joy. So, expect the forum when you see it! And we’ll announce its opening through the blog, so please subscribe to our FeedBurner if you have not done so already! Updates as we get them, thank you.

The Official Battlestar Galactica Auction Announcement!

NBC UNIVERSAL TELEVISION, DVD, MUSIC, AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP TEAMS WITH PROPWORX TO AUCTION OFF COSTUMES, PROPS AND SET PIECES FROM SCI FI CHANNEL’S HIT SERIES “BATTLESTAR GALACTICA”

More Than 3000 One-of-a-Kind Items Including “Admiral Adama’s” Uniform And “Starbuck’s” Flight Suit Will Be Offered In Two Live Auctions and Several Online Auctions To Coincide With The Final Episodes of the Series

Burbank, CA - July 24, 2008 — NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group and Propworx are teaming to auction off props, costumes and key memorabilia from Sci Fi Channel’s hit series “Battlestar Galactica.” The award-winning drama, currently in its fourth and final season, will present its remaining 10 episodes early next year and as the series draws to a close, fans will have a chance to bid on more than 3,000 items including costumes, props and set pieces that range from the uniform worn by “Admiral William Adama” (Edward James Olmos) to a life-sized Centurion costume. NBC Universal and Propworx will conduct two live auctions in Los Angeles, along with a series of Internet auctions at www.battlestarprops.com , in tandem with the airing of the final episodes. Items that will be available to purchase include a wide variety of costumes and props that fans have come to know and love, including the flight suits worn by “Starbuck” (Katee Sackhoff) and “Apollo” (Jamie Bamber), several life sized Vipers and Raptors and Cylon Raiders, as well as pieces of the Combat Information Center (CIC). “‘Battlestar Galactica’ is an incredible series that has drawn critical praise as well as tremendous fan support,” said Stacey Ward, Director, NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group. “We are really proud to be able to give fans a chance to bid on their favorite costume, prop or a piece of the set in this unique auction setting.” “This is an amazing opportunity for the passionate and loyal fans of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ to own a piece of their favorite show,” said Alec Peters, chief executive officer of Propworx. “There will be something for everyone in every price range. If you saw it on the show, we will most likely be selling it!” About “Battlestar Galactica” Battlestar Galactica is the gripping saga of humanity’s last remnants and their struggle to find a new home while fleeing from their deadly Cylon enemies. Redefining the space opera with its gritty realism, Galactica’s intensity, issues-driven topicality, and command performances have garnered it numerous awards, including an Emmy® and the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. The show was recognized by the American Film Institute (AFI) as one of the most outstanding programs of the year two years running. The series is produced by Universal Cable Productions and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, and the outstanding ensemble cast is led by Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Grace Park. About Propworx Propworx, Inc. is serves the movie and television industry by selling production props, costumes and set pieces through special live and Internet auctions, while at the same time integrating these special events into a studio’s marketing campaigns. Propworx goal is not just to sell the assets of a production, but to leverage those sales into meaningful publicity and marketing to increase the overall awareness of a production. For more information about Propworx, and examples of what Propworx can do, please go to www.Propworx.com About NBC Universal Television DVD, Music, and Consumer Products Group: NBC Universal is a leader in providing entertainment programming to the domestic and international marketplaces. NBC Universal Television DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group manages all global ancillary television business endeavors for the NBC Universal Television Group, including third-party home entertainment distribution, consumer products, musical soundtracks, special market projects and the NBC Universal Online Store.