ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Here’s just a sampling of some of the exclusives from the VTN Winter 08 show. (Click here for a tidy tagged version of all the coverage.) People who had been waiting in line for hours got right to business locating these particular figures. It seemed to me like much of the crowd got in, got the exclusives and then fanned out. Some folks gathered to watch live painting and wait in line for signings, but the exclusives were the clear draw. I was kind of asking around to see what the “hottest” toys were and the recurring answers were definitely Doktor A’s VTN-variant Stephan Le Podd and Kathie Olivas‘ limited edition Scavenger. The price break on Joe Ledbetter’s mono edition helped a lot more fans bring home the last Smash. Erick Scarecrow’s dozen custom Dunnys were snatched up pretty quick. And there were a number of large boxes being toted around containing one of a couple toys signed by Marka27. Other popular exclusives could be found at the booth’s of MINDstyle, STRANGEco, Munky King, Super7 and where MAD was signing. The complete list of exclusives can be found at the Vinyl Toy Network website here.