Winners of our NEW MOON contest
It is the moment you’ve been waiting for, Twilight fans! After a month long contest, with almost 100 entries, we have finally chosen the lucky winners of passes to our sneak preview of NEW MOON on Wednesday, November 18th.
Unfortunately, with these being such a hot ticket item, we were only able to chose a select few contestants. After a long deliberation from our local Twihard fans Kate “I like my boys hairy” Erbland and Allison “I love boys that sparkle” Loring, the prevailing 6 winners were chosen.
A sincere thank you goes out to everyone that entered, as your responses were all creative and hilarious. Thank you for your support of Gordon and the Whale and please continue to enter our contests, so that we may have the ability to give you more great opportunities such as this one and award you all with cool movie swag at some point.
See the winners after the jump! If you are in fact one of the lucky people, we will contact you via email with further details.
1. Zach Alexander
If I were a vampire I would have the ability to ‘transform’ into any vechicle or aircraft possible, and I would change my name to something cool like Bumblebee or Optimus Prime, but that’s beside the point. I would park or land in a very dark secluded area and if someone tried to break into me,
I would know that they are not ‘worthy’ of being alive and would then reveal myself and have a picnic.
2. reesas
There seems to be a certain cannon that remains firm for all vampires. Particulars like sleeping in coffins during the day, turning into bats, aversions to garlic, holy water, sunlight, wooden stakes and silver bullets seem to exist on the whim of the writer. But one thing stays the same…the need to drink blood to survive. My special power would be the ability to metabolize food. How can someone exist an eternity without Mexican food, Dim Sum, Pad Thai or a big fat Wingfield burger? Life would be tedious having to run down critters, suck up blood, mess up your clothes, and not to mention body disposals. Why not enjoy a nice glass of wine or a root beer float?
3. melissagranger
My super-vampire power would be to reform healthcare. Just kidding. That’s not my entry. Don’t judge me based on that. My real super-vampire power would be psychometry. It is a psychic ability in which a person can sense or “read” the history or future of an object or person by touching it or him. Since my transformation to vampire, my ability is stronger and extends further into the past and future. My abiility helps my vampire family (the Cullens, of course) when new people or supernatural beings come close to us.
4. lauriejo
If I was a vampire I would want to have the power to Biologically manipulate all living creatures. I would be able to alter genetic make-ups, physical distortions, diseases, and help healing. I would be able to take cancer out of someone’s body or if they are born with a genetic disorder, I
could correct that so they could live a normal life. If someone is hurt in an accident or paralyzed I could heal them on the spot. Since vampires heal at an accelerated rate, why not pass that on to the living. We could live in a world free of disease and disabled people.
5. Cliff McClelland
If I were a Twilight vampire, I would like to have the ability to make other vampires believe that they have just fed. Just like Jasper’s ability to manipulate emotion, it would only work when I was in the vicinity, but it might save a few humans from bloodsuckers like Victoria and the newborns in Eclipse. It would be a great movie effect, too; as I moved to carry the humans to safety, the eyes of the manipulated vampires would darken from gold to black, and they would be vicious and hungry again almost instantaneously, leaping onto my trail, furious for having been tricked.
6. cherylannette
I would absolutely be a voluntary shape shifter…….To be able to metamorphosize and transform into any object, person or animal at will would be a phenomenal power. Imagine being able to fly away like a swift or run as fast as a cheetah through the woods. I would choose to perform literal body alteration (actual change as opposed to skin over skin ) and I would be well skilled at Therianthropy, shifting into animals. To be able to do so would allow me to watch those I am interested in, unnoticed, …defend myself or escape when needed…….or monitor and protect those I loved without them knowing. Shape shifting allows me to realize new potentials, have a greater sense of discovery, explore more perspectives and would challenge me to find ways of using this skill to my advantage and to aid those I cared about. Vampires, in one form or another, are ancient creatures so shape shifting is well suited since it has been in literature and the folklore of almost all cultures for longer. I would be able to shift into nonliving items as well so I could be the blanket wrapped around a body or the pillow underneath a head. While shape shifting is not a new idea, the ways I would use it (to remain close to and protect my loved ones- Like Edward would always want to do for Bella) differ from most literal accounts. Kind of like a guardian angel or benevolent ghost would do, I would use it for good.
Below was originally posted on October 12th.
We here at Gordon and the Whale love our readers. We love you so much, in fact, that we are going to give a select few of you the chance to see TWILIGHT: NEW MOON not the night before, but two whole days before the film’s release! With word of tickets already selling out for NEW MOON’s midnight showings and the film’s release being more than a month away, we figured that these passes would be more sought after than Robert Pattinson’s stubble shavings. Well, maybe not quite, but close!
In the TWILIGHT series, many of the vampires have special powers. Think Edward’s mind-reading skills or Alice’s ability to see into the future. For your chance to win, all you have to do is leave a comment below, telling us what your special power would be if you were in fact a vampire.
Be creative and be original, for you will be judged by our resident Twilight experts Ms. Kate Erbland and Ms. Allison Loring. Any entries pertaining to any body part sparkling will be immediately disqualified.
Good luck!
We’ll announce the winners Monday, November 16th! Please only enter if you can surely attend the screening on Wednesday, November 18th. One entry per household. No purchase necessary.






















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