CLUTTER magazine New York Comic Con Releases Part 3

NYCC Exclusive Releases - Wave 3!!
Wow, NYCC is practically upon us! Didn't that come fast? Don't forget to stop by Clutter's Booth #575 to say hi, and grab something amazing!
Below is their 3rd wave of exclusive release announcements. If you missed out on the other info, don't fear, just click on this link and see it all in its beautiful plastic (and resin) glory... 

Sparkleberry Mister Melty by Buff Monster

The newest solid resin Mister Melty is packed with glitter and dripping in pink! Handcrafted in New York by Clutter Studios, the super shiny Sparkleberry Mister Melty measures 6" tall and is limited exclusively to 30 pieces and priced at just $125!

Photos can't do this piece justice, you'll have to come see them in person!
Buff Monster will be signing in person at our booth on Friday at 1pm!
Come get melty with us at Clutter Magazine booth #575!

Awesome Toy - Ningyo & Mr. T-Bone

This year we have a fantastic bunch of sofubi from Awesome Toy!
Ningyo
A fresh catch of fish from a secret lake, legend says that eating a Ningyo will grant you an incredibly long life.
The unpainted black Ningyo was the very first release, and we'll have 10 pieces available at our booth and then they'll be gone for good!

The unpainted flesh Ningyo colorway has never before been available, and will never be available again! This clean unpainted sofubi merman is limited to only 10 pieces!

Awesome Toy's Ningyo will be available all weekend, starting Thursday morning for only $120!
First come, first serve!

MR T-BONE 

We pity the fools who don't buy this!
This brand new second version of the Mr T inspired Jinmenkin will be available exclusively at our booth. An incredibly limited run of 18 pieces will be available starting Thursday morning for $120, sold first come, first serve!

Cosmic Cream Jerome by Frank Kozik x Squibbles Ink x Rotofugi 

The most galactic cupcake flavor to ever have been made! A brand new soft vinyl Jerome will be available at Clutter Magazine's booth #575.
This exclusive colorway is limited to 25 numbered pieces, only 20 of which will be available at the convention! Jerome is priced at $19.95 and features a swivel joint at the cone and removable smork.
Designed by Frank Kozik, production and paint design by Squibbles Ink + Rotofugi.

Sharko & Remi - Exclusive Clutter Pink Edition!

The newest soft vinyl toy by Quiccs, Sharko & Remi have been making a splash around the world! Sold out at every convention overseas, Sharko and Remi have now surfaced in the United States for New York Comic Con! Available at Clutter Magazine's NYCC booth #575, and limited to only 50 sets, Sharko and Remi are priced at only $100 and are bound to go quick!

Something by Sucklord

The Sucklord will probably drop some shit off at the booth.
Who gives a fuck. You really want this shit?
You're an asshole.

Remaining pieces will be available after NYCC at shop.cluttermagazine.com

Broke Piggy DCON available online Cyber Monday

Broke Piggy has listed their remaining inventory from DesignerCon on their website.

They have limited inventory of their Sognyo Colorway of the Uamou Figure, Black Seed Toys Pineapple Monster, Bricked MADL customs (Deph, Marka27 and Jesse Hernandez) and the Art Enamel Pin.

Their shop still has limited amounts of our Lo Tech Constructs series as well.

Broke Piggy can be found at the following sites

http://brokepiggyinc.com/
http://facebook.com/brokepiggy
http://instagram.com/brokepiggy
http://twitter.com/brokepiggytoys

Bigshot Toyworks Exclusives at DCon Booth 901

Bigshot Toyworks is bringing the indy collectible fire to Pasadena, CA and the 2016 DesignerCon event! This is an event that is open to the public on Saturday Nov 19 and Sunday Nov 20. Tickets are quite inexpensive and can be purchased here.

Some of the MANY wonderful art toys and collectibles that Bigshot Toyworks will be selling at DCon are:

Southern Fried Gentleman 6.5" resin figures

Southern Fried Gentlemen (pictured above): Regular, Old Timey Mono and Golden Crispy Editions.
Regular edition of 100 priced at $85, Exclusive Mono and Golden each limited to 20 pieces and priced at $100.

Mother Earth 14" art object by Angryblue

Mother Earth is a ready-to-hang 3D sculpture designed by Angryblue and developed and produced by Bigshot. Limited to 100 pieces; $125 ea. 

Gnomeboy Anatomy 6" polystone figures

Two variants available: Ragnar "The Metal Gnome" Hellstrummer Gnomeboy Anatomy Black Death edition Bigshot x Jason Freeny, limited to 50 pieces; $75 ea (above). Regular edition limited to 200 pieces; $65 ea (below).

 

Bigshot has been forward-thinking enough to set aside some of each of the above items for online sales to benefit their legions of fans worldwide! All of the above are available for preorder from the Bigshot Toyshop right now, with the sea shipment slated to arrive in 3-4 weeks. 

On top of all of the above, Bigshot will also be selling FUnicorns, the Four Horsies of the Pocalypse figures, All City Style DIY trains and the few remaining Mike Mignola Monkey with a Gun sculptures. This booth is gonna be packed!

Be sure to stop by Booth 901 to say hello to Klim and Benny, and make sure to show up for the 1PM Saturday signing session with Angryblue!

toyconuk exclusives - David Stevenson

David Stevenson is releasing some of new pieces at his booth (no.20) at this years Toyconuk in London on April 9.  The first pece, Jungle Berlin Bear is a custom 8" ceramic sculpture with acrylic paint, £120 edition of 1. All across Berlin there are sculptures of the berlin bear, a symbol of tolerance, designed by artists.  For more info on the bears, check out www.buddy-bear.com.

The second piece is Jungle Trooper -  a custom 8" tall storm trooper helmet, £150 edition of 1.

The final pieces are The modern zombie - a series of 2 zombies, £15 each. original sculpt by Kerry Dyer.

NEW ENROLLMENT in the UGLY CLUB is OPEN!

Rampage toys has opened up a few spots for both level 1 and level 2 of their UGLY CLUB memberships!

For those of you who are into the cuter and uglier things they I create, this is really targeted at YOU!  Of course this doesn't mean that club exclusives are strictly limited to any certain type of toy - the gammit shall be run!  

Each level comes with exclusive figures and early access to future figures. If you'd like to have a peek at the membership benefits, just check out their website. Orders placed between now and the end of this month will not ship until the end of this month!

NYCC Exclusives by Cash Cannon (4 the Luv of Toyz NY) at Tenacious Collective Booth 208

Metaluna, From the movie Island Earth.  Solid Resin and Hand Painted.  This will be limited to a run of 6 only. 

Our friend and associate Cash Cannon is taking a short break from 24/7 tattooing to be a part of the Tenacious Collective Booth 208 at New York Comic Con! I love working with guys like Cash because he's humble, kind and creative... and despite being a tattoo artist by trade, he is more excited about art toys than nearly anyone I know. When he visited the Tenacious warehouse, I thought his head was going to spin around! Come visit Cash and all the rest of us at Booth 208! You'll see Cash with KiD iNK iNDUSTRiES, NRI and Playful Gorilla, Rampage Toys (Jon M), the Disarticulators (Niall), Manly Art (Jason) and Nugglife (Ian) all in a row in out booth along one aisle. Quite literally a one-stop shop for amazing collectibles from around the world. For more info, click here.

Ghouddha, a collaboration between Extratruckestrial and 4 the Luv of Toyz NY - resin with a few hand painted variations 

Buddhacat- a collaboration between Extratruckestrial and 4 the Luv of Toyz NY - resin with hand painted accents

One Eyed Billy - resin and partial hand painting

Bootleg Buddhas - resin and partial hand painting

Trollok - resin and partial hand painting

LEGO Movie Minifigure Exclusives - the Aftermarket Effect

A quick movie and toy tie-in review of what turned out to be an entertaining bit of cinema story animation, the LEGO movie, and it's two variant exclusive minifigures that most people are probably not even aware they can get free.. sort of.

The movie opened this weekend, which unless you live under a bin of Lego bricks, you did not need this blogger to inform you of that fact...

Now there have been exclusives before that had toy tie ins that you could get at theatres, the re-release of Star Wars did it with Jedi Luke, in two inadvertent variants (the brown vest and black vest versions, which I think were more an accident of manufacturing at the time, but I digress...), and LEGO took that same approach in what is panning out to be a more low key sort of action by offering two minifigures through two different movie chains, Regal Cinemas and AMC.

Shown here is the LEGO Movie Minifigure Exclusives for AMC, which as of 4 hours ago I got into my grubby little hands. This variant is one of the Robot DJs that were in the movie, wearing what looks like an homage logo design of the real world Lego Master Builder Academy's logo.

Now if you cannot tell from my ticket purchase above, I saw the AMC 2D version, and there was little to no signage advertising the fact that these figures were available. Even the ticket lady was not sure they had them, but if they did, the ticket taker would know more.

Observational note - [How is there a separate job for this? How do you apply for that ticket tearing job? I'd love to apply for that job with a bucket of paper confetti and pour it out saying "I believe my resume speaks for itself..."]

So as shown above, I did manage to get this fellow and he is a great little robot character, good clean lines on the graphics, great unique hair sculpt, nice extra detail with the wallet chain (that seems to be a little variant as I have seen the chain on both the left and right leg now, but considering the hair sculpt is reversed as well on the packaging, this could just be a bit of photoshop error on some package designer's part).

The advert shown above was misleading in that this exclusive was to be reserved for the 3D showings but this location here in KC had no issues giving out one PER TICKET, as stated, but some locations were doing it wrong and doing it per TRANSACTION.

LEGO Movie Minifigure Exclusive for Regal Crown Cinemas, which I am going to have to resort to either ebay, or my comic convention travels to attain evidently, as there is only one Regal Crown here in KC and I might have missed the boat on this exclusive, we'll see how this pans out for me.

Now the one shown above is of the main character "Emmit in sleepwear" (voiced by Chris Pratt), and out of the two of these, seems to already be making it's mark on the aftermarket pricing I am seeing showing up on ebay. Some listings are already at upwards of $40.

Which brings me to the latter portion of the reason I titled this "LEGO Movie Minifigure Exclusives - the Aftermarket Effect". As a toy collector, I have a love hate relationship with aspects of exclusivity, which in the 80's caused crazy things like Wonder Bread He-Man to become a holy grail for He-Man enthusiasts to this very day, caused the Pixar Cars line to bring parents of all kinds to front line retail store warfare with Hot Wheels collectors, and brings about equal amounts of joy, pride, frustration, and customer satisfaction when it happens like no other aspect of toy collecting.

From a marketing standpoint, like my last review, this makes sense for LEGO to do this, as both of these figures will no doubt be considered part of the Series 10 minifigure releases by simple fact of time of release and scarcity and both are nice niche renditions of characters in this movie.

I feel that a balance needs to be struck when it's in a more mass market sort of aspect like these two minifigures are part of. One that could maybe help prevent the crazy price gouging that the collector community can suffer from, often under self inflated prices. What that answer is, I don't know.

But I'd love to hear how many of you even knew about this promotion, or how you feel about these kinds of local/restricted giveaways. There are from what I've just found out as well tonight, exclusives available also from pre-ordering the Lego Movie video game as well as one that is only available at LegoLand amusement centers.

Show above in the inset, "Western Emmet" only available with the pre-order of the LEGO Movie game tie-in, and "Emmet with Piece de Resistance" that is currently available at your local LegoLand attraction venues.

They certainly differ from the more upscale artist line sort of toys that I believe deserve a more limited run like stuff from Kid Robot and the like, I see a difference in audience and buyers for those.

So if you get the chance, and you have either one of these cinema houses near you, it never hurts to ask, and you might just get some free toys out of it, instead of going the ebay route. The movie was really great, and hit a chord with me on a pretty deep level, especially the end. I won't ruin it for anyone.

Till next time (when I'll dive into my first Sega item review), this is Mario, the Artisan Rogue.

@theartisanrogue