Big Mike's Blog

Hi Everyone,

It's been a long time between Blog posts. I know, I know. I've been slacking. LOL. We've just been a little nutty lately. So, it's now time for another chapter in everyone's favorite Blog. So Lets Go....


Acme Archives
Let's start with our friends at Acme Archives. The Shaak Ti Character Key is now available for preorder on Razor's Edge. This is Acme's 11th key in this popular line and they did another amazing job. We have them listed as Single Keys, Double Keys, Foreign Orders Only and a Combo with the Asajj Ventress Exclusive Character Key. For all US Customers, shipping is already included in the price. We were only allowed a limited amount of these from Acme so I do not think they will last that long. Asajj is close to 75% sold out now and selling steady. Soon, she will be sold out like every other Character Key in this line.

Master Replicas
Master Replicas contacted us this week and they will start shipping our Regular edition Darth Vader Studio Scale Helmets next week so once they are in stock, everyone who preordered one will be contacted from us, plus we ordered several to keep in stock. Now, just so you know, Master Replicas changed their return policy on these helmets, so every single helmet which comes in stock will be hand checked by us before we ship them. I Will not ship a Helmet with defects and create a headache for our customers. Everyone has waited long enough and I want to make sure everyone who orders one of these from us, gets a perfect helmet. They will be stamped with Mike's seal of approval. LOL.

The Signature Versions will be right behind and should be in stock within the next 30 days as per Master Replicas. We will do the same thing with the Signature Versions and check each single helmet before it leaves.

Bowen Designs
To always increase the ever growing inventory of the Razor and branching out into new and great collectibles' lines, we will start carrying Bowen products on a regular basis now. Preorders and soon to be in stock items. We feel the Bowen Collectible line is a high end product like Hard Hero's Marvel line and brings another great series of statues and busts to our ever growing Comic Based Collectibles Inventory. We were a little late on Bowen's new Red Skull Statue, but will have him in stock sometime next week with more to follow. Stay tuned for more updates.

Gentle Giant
Let's talk a little about the Giant now. We received our shipment of Boba Fett Maquettes and contacted everyone who preordered one of them from us. Some of you who also preordered Leia were also contacted and offered to wait for Leia so we can combine shipping on both in 1 box and save you some money. As for Leia, funny story with her. We have alot on order and receive 4 (Yes 4) pieces this week. The balance we were told should be here sometime next week. It seems she arrived in waves to various distributors, so as soon as she comes in; everyone will be getting emails from us.

We also added a bunch of re-stocking to our Gentle Giant section. Some older and harder to find busts and Maquettes. We had another Dewback, but that did not last that long. We also privately purchased and listed our first promo from a walk in client. From what he told me, he has a bunch of Promo pieces, which I'm trying to get my hands on, but we shall see. If we can get them in stock, we will put them on the website. I'm not a Promo / AP person myself, but some of our customers love this un-numbered stuff, so we will try to get more of them if we can.

Just some information, we re-stocked the Barriss Offee and Luminara Unduli Maquette and Sandtrooper Sets. These are sold out everywhere and once they are gone, that's it. So if you were on the fence about them, don't wait too long. Same for Tarkin. We are very low on him and close to selling out, then that's it for him as well.

Gentle Giant Collectors
As if you did not hear, there's a new Sheriff in town and its Gentle Giant Collectors. The website link is Gentle Giant Collectors.

Your once stop Fan Site for Anything and Everything regarding Gentle Giant.

Razor's Edge is Proud to Announce, we are now an Official Sponsor of GGC and we are very happy to be on board. We will be announcing special contests and promos associated with GGC in the near future, so stay tuned.

From the list of other sponsors, we are in great company. Glad to have you with me Rick !!! Rick's one of the good guys in this business.


Special Avengers Diorama Statue Offer
We purchased a special offer from Diamond this week. Diamond Select is releasing a new Diorama which is formed out of 7 different statues which are being produced over the next year. Art Asylum is sculpting each statue in this series. This series is the New Avengers Line. This scene is made to re-create the Finch variant Cover of new Avengers Comic Book #1. Each statue will be limited to 2500 pieces produced and the unique thing about this offer is when all 7 statues are finally released, which will be September 2007, every one of the 7 statues will have the same identical serial number, which is pretty cool. So all 7 pieces will be numbered #100/2500 for example. This special offer was only available to a select number of Diamond customers and we took advantage of it.

Pretty cool. Each statue will be between 6 and 11 inches tall. The retail on this special is $595.00. We will be offering them up to anyone who is interested for $499.99 including shipping within the US or $499.99 + shipping overseas. I'm not going to put these up for preorder on our website, right now because it's early in the production phase since they won't be out for 10 months from now, LOL. But if anyone is interested, you can contact me directly about it. If not, sometime in August 2007, we will put them up for preorder.

Sideshow Collectibles
Alot of new from Sideshow this week. Good, Bad and Ugly. Let's start with the Ugly;

We spoke to Sideshow today and it seems they have a problem with the new Roger Moore as James Bond Premium Format statue. We were supposed to get a shipment in already. However, Sideshow told us they are having packaging problems with this statue and they received a very large amount of defective pieces already (Over 50% we were told), so they have to adjust / fix the packaging and produce more of these to fill the preorders made with them. They did ship a bunch out already to their retail customers (the people who spend full list price of course are first, which is cool with us) and most arrived broken, so basically there is a recall on them until they fix the packaging issue. This means everyone who preordered one from us, will get it, but we're not sure how soon? I just did not want you to think we forgot about anyone or can't deliver, as this is not the case. So stay tuned for more info about this problem.

Now the Bad / well maybe not that bad;

Sideshow will be shipping us the Captain America vs. Red Skull Diorama statues in about 2 weeks. These statues were under-produced so there will be allocations. I think we shut down the preorders on these early enough to fulfill every order, so it should not be a problem. However, if we do get cut more than we pre sold, we will make sure everyone who ordered 1 piece will have their order filled. Even if we have to go on Ebay and pay stupid prices, I will not let anyone down on this piece. For people that ordered multiples of this statue, your order may be cut. It's not definite yet, but I just wanted to make people aware. I will not know exactly how many we will be getting allocated for until they actually ship to us in about 2 weeks. So I will contact all of you who pre-ordered multiples personally if we do get allocated to tell you exactly how many you will be getting. But, we promise everyone at least 1, so I got all of your backs on this one.

Now on to some better and uplifting Sideshow News;

Sideshow found a whole bunch of Green Goblin statues in the European Warehouse and now they are back in the US so we will be getting them in again. Sideshow only received a handful of these and we will have them back up on the website shortly for order. It's a real nice piece and one of the earlier Sideshow pieces, so if you missed out, you will be able to purchase one now at under Sideshow's retail from us.

The Legendary Scale Morgul Lord Bust has shipped from Sideshow and is on the way to us and we should have him mid next week (YEAH BABY !!!) , so we will contact everyone who preordered this Bust once he arrives and you all know one of these bad boys is coming home with papa. LOL.

We also received shipping notices about a half-hour ago on the Sideshow Hot Toys Alien Warrior Figure, so that bad boy will be arriving to us late next week. Once he comes in stock, we will contact everyone who has a preorder in for him.

Also coming in real soon from Sideshow (in the next week), will be the Archangel and Hawkeye Archival sets. So be on the lookout for our in stock emails real soon on those.

Razor's Edge 1 Year Anniversary Blast Off
Get ready for some fun, some freebies and a kick a$$ scavenger hunt as Razor's Edge celebrates our 1 Year Anniversary with all of you on Friday, December 1st at 1PM. Expect the website to look a little different. LOL. We have the web guys working hard on this testing out some new features we will be adding for this special day. It should be alot of fun. Stay tuned and we will give you some teasers on exactly what we are doing. We're looking forward to it.

Thanks to all of you (You Rock !!!) for your continued support of the Razor.
We appreciate all of our customer's continued loyalty. On December 1st, it will be our turn to Give Back something to you.

Also, on a side note, it was Michael's 1 Year Birthday last week. Happy Birthday Baby. Mommy and Daddy love you lots. November/December are turning out to be real great months for me. My Son's Birthday, A&R Computer World's Anniversary (we start our 20th year the day after Thanksgiving) and Razor's Edge Anniversary. Not to mention Christmas. LOL.

Well, that's it for this week's latest chapter in our Blog. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.

Thanks,
Mike