This year at San Diego Comic Con, Bandai surprised Power Ranger collectors with 3 exclusives to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Power Rangers in the US. One of these exclusives was the Green Dragon Ranger with Tribal Power Coin.
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[Update: Reading is fundamental! I posted this thinking the sale was today, but it’s next week. Oops!]
I often miss living in NYC (rarely during the oppressive summers or freezing cold winters, though), and today is one of those days. Starting in a short while at Noon EST On Friday next week, Mezco is opening up their vault and making some unique items available for sale to collectors like you and me.
So if you’re in the Tri-State area, now’s next Friday the time to tell your boss that you’ve come down with a summer cold, and get your butt to Mezco in Long Island City and pick up some loot. I’d be there if I could!
Mezco Unlocks The Vault And Release Rare And One Of A Kind Items
New York – In a first of its kind event, Mezco Toyz is opening their vault and releasing items from their archives.
Mezco’s Test Shots usually end up ion public display at such institutions as The Museum Of The Moving Image, Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, or others. This is the only time the vault has ever been opened and multiple test shots made available to the public.
At the same time, Mezco will be offering a select number of out of production items, including items from it’s popular Scarface and Hellboy lines. “We get calls and emails about some of our discontinued items, like Notorious B.I.G., Heroes, Scarface, and others almost daily. This is an attempt to satisfy fans, pure and simple. We will be offering rare items, out of production items, and items like test shots that are one of a kind and unavailable anywhere else. ” says Mezco’s Mike Drake.
Most test shots will be priced in the $100-$200 range so they will be affordable to even the most thrifty collectors. Rare items will be offered at lower than expected prices as well. “This is truly a collector’s dream come true!” says Mezco’s resident artist/ ninja Rich Ford “Bring a truck and bring your credit card, because this is gonna be one heck of an event!”
Public sale is on Friday 08/16 from 12noon-5pm. Cash, Visa, Mastercard are all welcome.
Mezco is located at:
2109 Borden Ave
2nd Floor
LIC NY 11101The Hunter’s Point station is approx 3 blocks away from us.
http://hopstop.com/search?address2=2109+BORDEN+AVE,+Hunters+Point,+New+York+11101&city2=newyorkNot attending? Follow the excitement on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MezcoToyz
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Photo Credit: Rich Ford
I’ve already got some War Zombs in 1/12 scale and dig them, so here’s another toy budget-breaking 3A Toys set on the horizon. Somehow Dead Easy Corp hitting all the right sweet spots for me. Sure, it’s got the Zombs. But it also is hitting on that Band of Brothers Easy Company vibe. With zombies. And then there’s Sgt. Rock and Easy Company. With zombies.
This set is supposed to drop some time in September. Private Cornowski, Corporal Veal Edwards, and Sergeant Sweatbread Jones will be mine.
One of these days, I’ll give up my big camera and just take pictures with my phone. Here’s some quick pics of Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Rocket Raccoon wave.
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To get you the pics you want as fast as I can, I’m hooking you into my Instagram feed – there’s already a few more ML pics there than what I’ve included in this quick post. If you’re on Instagram, follow me at afpron – that’s for AFP Ron, not AF Pron :). Stay tuned for better pictures soon.
The Rocket Raccoon wave of Marvel Legends is here! It feels like a long time since we’ve had new MLs in our hands, but if you count Iron Man Legends along with the Hit Monkey wave, then we’re back up to the number of Marvel Legends waves we had in 2012. The real question is whether the market can bear more than this. We’ve still got the Wolverine Legends wave incoming, but even with a Wolverine movie performing well in theaters (the cumulative box office is already estimated to exceed the $120MM production costs), what would be the 4th wave this year is at present a Previews Exclusive.
But back to this wave. I’ll have a closer look at some of the figures in the coming days, but here’s some quick thoughts.
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