ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

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.

This concludes ToyCyte’s SDCC 08 Weekly Roundup of Exclusives. Hope you’ve dug it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it. I’ll try to post a recap of the Top 30 and some honorable mentions next week. Final call…

Tristan Eaton’s G.I.D. Billy Bananas. This 5-inch tall glow-in-the-dark Billy Bananas is made of injection-molded, soft vinyl designed by Tristan Eaton of Thunderdog Studios. There was some bellyaching about the NYCC X-ray version of Billy not glowing, so hopefully that issue has been sorted for this figure. But who is Billy Bananas? Billy Bananas is a ladies man, a butcher, a scenester and a moocher. He’s a two-bit hustler and a no good, dirty rascal pimp… but no matter what you say about him he’s Billy and he’s Bananas. Price and edition size TBA.

Koji Harmon’s Tokoji Seijin. This glossy green soft vinyl is hand-painted at Cometdebris headquarters in seven colors inspired by the Japanese river sprite, The Kappa. Price and edition size TBA. Available alongside minis, middles, standards, clears, glows and paints by Gargamel at Booth #4739. Look out for customs by Bwana Spoons and Martin Ontiveros too.

mphlabs x Tokyoplastic ’s Koguma. mphlabs now has a splash teaser that indicates we’ll be seeing the finished figure at SDCC 08. Tokyoplastic (Booth #4837) will reveal their anatomically equipped sleeping bears on black speaker chairs to a flurry of pent-up eager online anticipation. Price and edition size TBA. Mad rush guaranteed.

Erick Scarecrow’s Kissaki Sandstorm version. Erick is bringing this Kissaki figure to SDCC 08 in an edition of 300 pieces (available at ToyTokyo Booth #5237) for $69.99 each. Erick will be signing on Friday, July 25th from 10AM -1PM and Saturday, July 26th from 10AM-1PM.

Tim Tsui’s Lupus Hope. Tim will have 50 Lupus Hope figures available during SDCC 08 at the ToyQube booth (#4837) for $100. He will be signing and giving out free postcards on Thursday, July 24th from 3-4PM and Saturday, July 26th from 1PM-2:30PM. This werewolf in the Da Fighter series is an edition of 150 pieces. The first 50 sold out within hours at TTF 08. The remaining 50 figures will be available at the Team Zero online shop. Don’t expect them to last long with this endorsement from Huck Gee on the KR Forum: “Hands down the best figure I saw at Taipei. It’s huge… and f’n gorgeous!”

Read the previous weeks’ SDCC exclusives roundups.

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