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Every year, fanboys and fangirls of varying stripes descend on San Diego for Comic-Con. Although the event has extensive programming, there’s one activity that unites the collectors with the cosplayers, the MMP gamers with the manga readers, the superheroes with the steampunks: the pursuit of SDCC’s exclusive toys.
ToyCyte will be publishing a weekly bulletin of SDCC exclusives. This week features a healthy dose of girls and guns. Here’s the Top 5 for Week 5.
Amanda Visell‘s Good Poopicorn. This Good Poopicorn was designed and hand-painted by Amanda based on her Birthday Wish painting and sculpted in resin by Julie B of Pretty In Plastic. Good Poopicorn measures 6.5 inches long and contains 6 pieces: Poopicorn, two children, ice cream and poop. There will be 25 of these available for $400 each on Friday, July 25th at the DKE Booth (#4732).
Michelle Valigura‘s Pistol Pedro Belt Buckle. This functional belt buckle with real mustache spinning action is being released through Michelle’s Switcheroo imprint (with Amanda Visell). Each metal Pedro was hand-cast at Fully Visual. A plush Pedro is on the way, but for now, pick up a belt buckle for $60.
MINDstyle x Kathie Olivas‘ Benny and Red Bird (Cool Version). MINDstyle will release the highly anticipated SDCC Exclusive Benny & Red Bird (Cool Version) on Wednesday, July 23rd at Booth #4249. Limited to only 150 pieces, this art toy set will be available each day by random drawing. Tickets will be given out each morning with numbers drawn and posted for day-of sales at 12 Noon. Only 25 pieces will be available each day. There is a limit of one per person daily. $150 + tax.
STRANGEco x tokidoki‘s Cactus Friends, Cactus Pups and Bulleto. tokidoki continues to dominate SDCC ’08 with even more exclusives. At STRANGEco’s Booth (#4629), you’ll find platinum edition Cactus Friends and Cactus Pups and a mono Bulleto.
IDW x Ashley Wood‘s ZvR Bertie. Just when you thought your bank account was safe, Ashley Wood drops another limited edition Bertie the Pipebomb variant. Dubbed Zombies Vs. Robots, this 14-inch fully articulated warbot is exclusive to IDW publishing. Each ZvR Bertie will go for $350 at SDCC ’08 Booth #1705. Based on the ZvR comic by Ashley and Chris Ryall, only 100 ZvR Berties were made. Both Ashley and toy paparazzo Brian McCarty will be on hand for signings with exclusive SDCC prints.
Read the previous weeks’ SDCC exclusives roundups. Stay tuned for more SDCC exclusives next Friday!
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Jeremy Brautman - who has written 1965 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.
Jeremy Brautman joined ToyCyte in 2008 and has been writing about toy culture ever since. You can currently find him contributing to a variety of blogs, artkiving doodles at Doodlesplatter.com and cataloging artistic ephemera at ARTkivers.com.
July 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am
This is all great stuff but no mention of the vinyl Dethklok figures or The vinyl Maxx figure? Those will be by far some of the hottest exclusives at SDCC this year.
July 12th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
The Dethklok figures are pretty cool. Nic wrote them up here: http://www.toycyte.com/dethklok-rain-hellfire-upon-san-diego
I’ve been on the fence about The Maxx. I wrote it up twice for ToyCyte, but there’s so many great SDCC 08 Exclusives to choose from…it’s a tough job I tell you. Each week in the Round Up, I can only highlight five. The emphasis is on designer/urban vinyl.