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Wed, Feb 4, 2009
In the next couple months, the Watchmen franchise will extend across many continents and platforms. Medicom Toy Co. is an early adopter with a set of six Kubrick figures currently available to the Japanese market. The set includes: The Comedian, Nite Owl II, Ozymandias, Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach and Silk Spectre II. Could this be the biggest splash since Medicom’s Lost Kubricks washed up on shore? At about $263 USD for the set of six 2.4-inch figures, that’s a big splash indeed.
On March 3, Medicom will continue to dominate the collectible designer toy contingent by releasing two different Watchmen 100% Be@rbrick sets. Set A includes The Comedian, Nite Owl II and Ozymandias, while Watchmen Be@rbrick Set B will include Doctor Manhattan, Rorschach and Silk Spectre II. Each 3-figure Watchmen Be@rbrick set will retail for around $45, which means $90 for all six. A nicer price than their Kubrick brethren, but thoughts on the Interwebs seem to point to a preference for the Kubricks. [Be@rbrick info via The Blot]
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.
February 7th, 2009 at 1:00 am
The kubricks are $263 for a case of 24 figures. Not $263 per set of six. That’s according to Medicom’s online store. Which by the way, you can’t order Kubricks through their site from the USA. Only from Japan. I will definetly buy a set of six. In comparison to Star Wars kubricks, it will probably cost around $50-$60 a set on ebay or other toy websites that import Japanese toys. Not too bad, cause collecting kubricks can be a very expensive hobby, either in the USA or Japan.