Anyone have info on this Star Trek 3: The Search For Spock poster?

[Bonefortuna]

Hey - I've posted this on a couple places but haven't had much success. I'm hoping someone here may know a little bit about where this Star Trek III The Search For Spock poster came from?

I can't find a match online anywhere - checked Google images, ebay, amazon and some other websites.

It is copyright 1984 at the bottom. Sorry for the glare. Measures 16" x 24" and was rolled, not folded.

http://imgur.com/a5YVFgH

 

[Daddy Todd]

Never seen that one before, sorry.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

Never saw that poster before, but it looks cool

 

[Therin of Andor]

Measures 16" x 24" and was rolled, not folded.

http://imgur.com/a5YVFgH

I'll bet it was made for Lincoln Enterprises, Majel Barrett's mail order company.

 

[Mage]

Hm.....

As far as movie posters go, it's very odd one. All it does is show a starship, just sitting there. And not even a ship we ever saw before. I don't think this is an advertisement poster as you would see in cinema's, but more a piece of merchandise.

 

[BillJ]

Hm.....

As far as movie posters go, it's very odd one. All it does is show a starship, just sitting there. And not even a ship we ever saw before. I don't think this is an advertisement poster as you would see in cinema's, but more a piece of merchandise.

Plus there are no credits or release date on it. I wonder if it is some kind of promotional material from either a restaurant or retailer?

 

[Daddy Todd]

Hm.....

As far as movie posters go, it's very odd one. All it does is show a starship, just sitting there. And not even a ship we ever saw before. I don't think this is an advertisement poster as you would see in cinema's, but more a piece of merchandise.

Plus there are no credits or release date on it. I wonder if it is some kind of promotional material from either a restaurant or retailer?

That's a great thought. Taco Bell did promotional drinking glasses for III. I bet they did that poster too.

 

[Bonefortuna]

On the bottom of the poster it says:

Copyright 1984 Paramount Pictures Corporation under exclusive license to Lando Merchandising Inc. All rights reserved. Star Trek is a trademark of Paramount Pictures corporation registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I wonder if it is some kind of promotional material from either a restaurant or retailer?

Then you could bet it would have their logo on it.

"Lando Merchandising Inc." sounds like a small post-"Empire Strikes Back" era merchandiser, probably to provide stock to sell from dealers' tables at SF Media conventions. Paramount sold many small merchandise licenses in the 80s.

Okay, I found more in the set!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/178390597/star-trek-iii-set-4-posters-search-for

One of them repurposes USS Enterprise artwork originally created to publicise TMP.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I wonder if it is some kind of promotional material from either a restaurant or retailer?

Then you could bet it would have their logo on it.

"Lando Merchandising Inc." sounds like a small post-"Empire Strikes Back" era merchandiser, probably to provide stock to sell from dealers' tables at SF Media conventions. Paramount sold main small merchandise licenses in the 80s.

Okay, I found more in the set!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/178390597/star-trek-iii-set-4-posters-search-for

One of them repurposes USS Enterprise artwork originally created to publicise TMP.

Excellent sleuthing!

 

[Christopher]

There's something familiar about these. I think I may have gotten something similar once, perhaps as some sort of giveaway at a theater. I can't swear to that, though.

 

[Khan 2.0]

there were a few promotional TMP posters that were given out at supermarkets (in UK) in the early 80s. I had a few of them back then. These look to be similar so maybe they were given out in UK or US stores?

 

[Indysolo]

This is a promotional poster. I found a similar one on eBay here. I remember the flyer for the poster I linked to, but I don't remember the rest of the images. I'm relying on a 31 year old memory here, but I seem to remember this was a promotion with a tissue company here in the US. I'm thinking Scott brand, but please do not take this as gospel. If I could find the flyer on-line that would help, but so far the best I've been able to find is that poster on eBay, which I remember being advertised.

Neil

 

[Khan 2.0]

that image of Kirk with his hand out to Kruge would've looked great on the movie poster like a Drew struzan thing - as would the crew on the mountain looking up. didn't really care too much for the III movie posters

 

[cardinal biggles]

One of them repurposes USS Enterprise artwork originally created to publicise TMP.

They really got a lot of mileage out of that painting. I remember it from the cover of Mr. Scott's Guide, a boxed set of Pocket TOS novels circa the mid-1980s, and the spines of movies I-V in a 25th anniversary VHS boxed set.

 

[Therin of Andor]

One of them repurposes USS Enterprise artwork originally created to publicise TMP.

They really got a lot of mileage out of that painting. I remember it from the cover of Mr. Scott's Guide, a boxed set of Pocket TOS novels circa the mid-1980s, and the spines of movies I-V in a 25th anniversary VHS boxed set.

Also the magazine ads for the wrist communicator TMP walkie-talkies, and a set of vending machine TMP stickers.

 

[drt]

There's something familiar about these. I think I may have gotten something similar once, perhaps as some sort of giveaway at a theater. I can't swear to that, though.

Yeah, I agree. I'm pretty sure I had them as well.

Zero recollection from where they came, however; I have the vague feeling they were some kind of promotional item - possibly something like a mail-away offer if you sent in four proofs-of-purchase from breakfast cereal.

 

[Khan 2.0]

One of them repurposes USS Enterprise artwork originally created to publicise TMP.

They really got a lot of mileage out of that painting. I remember it from the cover of Mr. Scott's Guide, a boxed set of Pocket TOS novels circa the mid-1980s, and the spines of movies I-V in a 25th anniversary VHS boxed set.

Also the magazine ads for the wrist communicator TMP walkie-talkies, and a set of vending machine TMP stickers.

also a CD of various tunes from the movies

 

[Christopher]

^They didn't have CDs when TMP came out -- they first hit the market two or three years later. But the vinyl LP of the TMP soundtrack was a big seller. I still have my original copy, which I listened to religiously in my teens. It came with a record sleeve printed with photos from the film, including an array of photos of the various background aliens barely glimpsed in the movie.

 

[Campe]

Khan 2.0 likely means Star Trek: The Astral Symphony which had selections from the first five films. Released in 1991. First Trek CD I bought. I still own it, I believe.