Attakus Toyfair 2007 Photos

Hi Everyone,

Here are some pics of Attakus I forgot to put up yesterday. Enjoy the pics.

Thanks,
Mike

Here are a few snapshots from Toy Fair 2007:

My Attempt at Toyfair 2007 Coverage Second Half

Hi Everyone,

OK, I just finishing eating my sandwich and opened up an Iced Cold Dew and got my second wind. Here's the juicy stuff.

Sideshow
Sideshow had to be one of the busiest booths at the show. Tons of people staring at their new lineup for 2007. Here's my report.

First, the Aliens/Ripley 1:6 Scale Powerloader. I'm not that much into figures myself, but after I saw this, I'm taking home a Ripley figure just for this piece. It's huge !!!. Very well detailed up to the red light on the top of the powerloader, which will flash like it did in the movie. Sideshow had most of the Alien and Predator stuff on display in 1 showcase and the Powerloader was right smack in the middle of it. It's a definite pickup when Sideshow finally releases it.

The new Sideshow exclusive James Bond Premium Format Figure was fantastic. The clothing/suit was beautiful. And the new face sculpt captured the essence of Sean Connery. Dead on accurate. I'm glad I preordered one of these from Sideshow.

The Sideshow Legend from Lord of Darkness was spectacular. The sculpt was incredible and his clothing down to the little sequins in his robe were amazing. Very big statue as well.

Moving on to the Darth Maul Premium Format. Wow !!! Maul is in a great pose. The light up saber effect was really cool and the face sculpt was pretty good. The clothing was really well done. All though SS only had a proof on display. What I thought was cool, was the way Sideshow is putting the electrical mechanism for the saber inside of Maul's hand. Unlike the Darth Vader Premium format, the electrical component is built into Maul's hand so basically when you put the hand on, the saber lights. This was a great idea Sideshow came up with.

The Boba Fett Premium format has to be one of my all time favorites now. I was partial to the Attakus Fett but after looking and holding Boba in my hands, I fell in love. I can't wait for him to come out. Best Boba statue to date in my opinion.

Emma was there as well. All 36 Double D's of her. LOL, well at least that's what it looked like. I still can't believe how cool she is and at such a low price point. Guys, if you wife allows it, you have to take one of these home. LOL.

I thought the X-Men vs Sentinel #2 was OK. I liked the Sentinel base, but liked the Emma Maquette better than the Emma on top of the Sentinel. The Beast was OK as well. I personally like the Bowen Beast statue better myself. The fact Sideshow had the 1st X-Men vs Sentinel Piece next to it made #2 look better. They looked really good together side by side.

Other honorable mentions was Elvis. I still don't think it was 100% accurate, but people were raving about it. The Anakin vs Obi Wan Diorama was really nice. The base was huge and the detail on the figures were nice as well. I think you will be seeing alot of nice Star Wars Dioramas moving forward. The Crack of Doom Diorama was small, but very accurate. Since I'm such a sucker for Lord of the Rings, this is a no brainer for me. The new Buffy looked really good. I like the face better than the 1st Buffy PF. The Alien 3 statue was impressive. Big !!! The tail almost hit me as I walked by it. Frankenstein's 1:1 Bust was pretty cool all though I'm not into 1:1 busts myself. The Dejarik Holochess Set was pretty small but detailed. The base (chess board) was very clean and sleek looking and the pieces all though small, were very detailed.

Gentle Giant
The wife and I spent about an hour in Gentle Giant's infamous room. Wow, where do I start here. Hmm. OK, let's start with Lord of The Rings.

The 2 new pieces Sam and Frodo were beautiful sculpts. GG had them both displayed with Helmets off and the Helmets were on the side of each piece. The paint application was great and I loved the rock bases. Sandwiched in between Frodo and Sam was I would think, the final version of Elrond, which looked really cool. Elrond had a really nice base as well and his cape came down past the base and curled up a little on the sides of the bust.

There was a clay prototype of Gimli and Legolas Maquettes. These we were told will be sold separately and the bases will be designed to go together so it will look like 1 bigger maquette of both of them. Pretty cool.

The finished Saruman Bust was great as well. I must say Gentle Giant has something really special with this LOTR line and I will be the proud owner of all of them, when they finally come out.

As for Star Wars, let's start off with R2-D2, which I would think is a statue, but I think he is classified as a bust. They had a beautiful prototype of him. The new Vader from ROTJ kneeling on a circular base which will light up was a nice refresh of Vader and probably GG's best Vader to date. Han Solo which I believe was from ESB was shown as a clay prototype. Han's pose looked similar to the Unleashed Han, where it looks like he is looking back and firing his blaster. Can't say much more about it because it was only a clay proto. The Chewbacca Maquette was out as well. Again a prototype, but you can make out all of the detail on his fur. He was a nice sized maquette as well. GG had Red and Blue Royal Guard Busts on display. The Red was painted and the Blue was a clay prototype. Now Sidious will look much better with these 2 flanking over his shoulders.

Bubo was pretty cool from Clash of the Titans. The sculpt looks like it was made out of metal. Very shiny. The tree limb he was resting on looked like real wood as well. A real nice piece for Clash of the Titan fans. I'm not sure if I will get one of him yet. Since he is such a low production run, I will probably take one home. Still undecided.

Something really cool I saw were the 2 new Rotocast pieces GG will be putting out. The 1st was a Scout Trooper on Speeder Bike and the 2nd was a TIE Pilot in his TIE Fighter. The design of these are more like characticures, where the Scout Trooper had a bigger head than his body and the TIE Pilot was bigger than the TIE Fighter he was popping out of. I actually liked them. Especially the Scout Trooper on Speeder Bike.

The R2-D2 Trash can which GG will be importing was fun. I may get one for the office. All though it does not look like it will hold that much trash. LOL.

The Star Wars Chess Set (Sith vs Jedi), which I was told will be made with special built in compartments to hold all of the pieces was really cool. It showed Vader and Sidious as the king and queen and the Jedi side had X-Wing Pilots as pawns. Luke, etc. I actually forgot what all of the pieces were and should have wrote this down. I believe the pawns on the Sith side were Rebel Troopers. Pretty detailed chess board too.

On to the Bust Ups. Gentle Giant will be releasing a Return of the Jedi Bust Ups series. In this set we saw Endor Leia, Endor Han, Chewbacca (I believe, but I could be mistaken) and Ewoks. There was also a 3D looking Bust Up, which shows (I think I have this correct), Luke's X-Wing Fighter escaping the Deathstar and the Deathstar with a halo around it, representing it blowing up. It was small, but really cool.

As for the Exclusives wall, the Darth Malek was cool as was the Blue Royal Guard statue. Of course I stared down all of the Clone Busts and Bly was a standout. Chewbacca with his mask looked to me like the regular Chewbacca wearing a mask. LOL.
The Yoda and R2-D2 Maquette was pretty cool, all though I'm partial to the new statue/bust/what ever Gentle Giant calls it, coming out. The Mace Windu maquette from Clone Wars was awesome. I loved the pose and that mean "I'm going to kill you" pose from Clone Wars.

GG will also be distributing Star Trek Figures through Medicom and had Captain Picard out on display. He looked really good. I believe they will be distributing all TNG figures 1st and no TOS, but don't quote me on that.

As for any GG which I may have left out, you can email me directly. All though I think I got most of the stuff which hasn't been released.

I hope all of you enjoyed my attempt at Toyfair Coverage and thanks for reading.
Have a great night.

Thanks,
Mike

My Attempt at Toyfair 2007 Coverage First Half

Hi Everyone,

While I'm not a news reporter by any means, the wife and I went to Toyfair on Sunday. Here is what I saw, what I heard about and my personal opinions on everything. I hope it's a good read for all of you.

Thanks,
Mike

Attakus
Attakus was one of our 1st stops of the day and they had all of their pieces displayed. The Falcon was huge. It took up the whole right side of their front display. I have to say it's really nice in person, but not for me. The figures reminded me of Hasbro figures, only metal and I'm more of a statue and bust man.

Attakus also has alot of the Marvel pieces on display, which I have never seen in person. The Hulk was amazing and so were the Alien and the Alien Egg displays. The Oola was a beautiful sculpt and the press pictures Attakus took do not even come close to how the statue looks in person. I would say it's up there as one of Attakus' best sculpts.

The people working the booth were real friendly and spoke better English then I did. LOL, which isn't saying much, considering I'm a Brooklyn boy. They do have a new Sandtrooper Sergeant coming out soon. He is the same height as the Squad leader and has a different Pauldron, different weapon and the foot pose was different. So I would not call it a repaint. Attakus told us they are only making 700 pieces of him worldwide and Japan will not get the 200 pieces they normally do of this statue. 700 is Attakus' 2nd lowest run after the Bronze Yoda, which was only 250 pieces and you never really see him these days. The pricing on the new Sandtrooper should be about the same as the current Squad Leader coming out.

There will also be another Scrat statue being made. Since the 1st one sold out so fast and the demand is high for this little guy, they are producing a 2nd version of Scrat. Which will be the same exact sculpt as the 1st Scrat except the base will be a different color. There is no edition size set yet. Pricing will be identical to the 1st Scrat which should resale for about $90.00.

Attakus also told us their Shrek and Donkey statue is almost sold out. With the new Shrek movie coming out, this statue got a resurgence and they are almost done. I suggest if you do not have one to pickup this statue as I have one in my son's room and I love it.

McFarlane
The wife and I stopped by the McFarlane booth to take a look. One of the nicer things we saw was a 2-Up of Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer for the new box set they will be coming out with later in the year. For those of you who do not know what a 2-Up is, it's a 15 inch PVC (sometimes resin) sculpture of the actual product coming out. Once it's completed, the manufacturer shrinks it down to standard 7 inch size (normal figure size). One manufacturer told me it's easier to start off bigger and when the figure is shrunk down, it looks that much more accurate. This is something I learned at the show.

Neca
Neca's booth looked more like a tent to me. So the wife and I went inside to take a look. They had an entire corner devoted to Harry Potter. All of the new figures which are coming out were displayed as 2-Up prototypes. If you want to see some pictures, go to www.voldemortsvault.com and they have them on the main page. They look fantastic. Especially the Harry vs Voldemort box set they will be releasing later on this year. Tom Riddle's grave was fantastic. We were not allowed to take any pictures of the prototypes which is why we do not have them up.

The people at Neca were awesome. Jon and Chris were really nice guys. We also took a look at the 2 new Saw Puppets they will be producing later this year. One was approximately 12 inches tall and the other was a mini size at about 6 inches. Again, no pics. LOL, top secret stuff here. Other Honorable mentions were the 4 2-Up's we saw of the new Reservoir Dogs Boxed set coming out and we saw the 18 inch Hannibal Lecter Figure also coming out later this year. Props to Neca for bringing out really affordable collectibles that look just like statues.

Master Replicas
The Master Replicas booth was pretty amazing as well. They had the new Boba Fett Helmet Displayed and the Gree Helmet as well. Both were pretty accurate. What turned my head is the new Star Trek Assault Phaser coming out. Finally a nice new Star Trek Replica (it's about time MR). Even though it was a prototype, it was pretty cool. We also got to play with the new Yoda FX Saber coming out and that was pretty fun. All thought it's in scale to Yoda, it was a little on the smaller side, but had a nice looking hilt and a bright green light. The clashing sounds were a little different from the normal sounds I'm used to hearing from the Anakin and Vader FX Sabers I currently own. The Boba Fett Blaster was really nice. Big and had a real nice look to it. I wanted to pick it up, but was told not to touch, LOL.

Master Replicas also has the new Luke Blaster on display which to me, looks similar to the Han in my opinion so it didn't do anything for me. I was then looking at some of the new Disney Statuettes coming out. They had the Pinocchio puppet and the new Jiminy Cricket Statue and the new Minnie Mouse statue out as well. They changed these around a little from the previous 4 which are all out on the market. Minnie's ears and Jiminy's hat were felt covered unlike the Mickey, which was just black pain on top of resin. However, MR is raising their price points on these. MR put more quality into these pieces and it's reflected in the new SRP on them.

From the Corgi display we say some of the new Die Cast Marvel statues and Star Trek Mini ships, which were pretty cool. The Elektra standing over Daredevil Die Cast was a real nice looking piece. Finally, our sales rep took us in the MR secret room. LOL. The wife and I felt like VIP's. They had on display all of MR's Harry Potter offerings which unfortunately are not available in the US due to licensing. However, the figures were really nicely done and they had a set of bookends which were killer.

Diamond Select Toys
Diamond was located in the toy building so the wife and I hopped on a shuttle from the Javits center and went for a visit.

Diamond had a ton of new items on display. Alot of this is a blur, but here goes.

Diamond will be producing 2 new office space figure sets. Which had me cracking up. I could not get over how cool they were. 1st was my favorite Milton, who was sitting at his desk cubicle and it was the entire desk, cubicle, all office items, papers everywhere, awesome. The 2nd figure was Bill Lumbergh, which was shown standing up with his cup of coffee in hand leaning on a cubicle wall. I think you will be able to put them side by side like the basement scene from the movie.

We were also shown Diamond's line up of Spiderman 3 Resin Products. They were hidden in a cabinet. LOL, top secret so again no pics. The Black Spiderman Bust and Venom were really nice as was the new Sandman statue. Diamond told us Sony will now allow any Spiderman 3 pictures to be released until March 24th. The 2 busts are a definite pickup if you're a Spiderman fan.

We also got to see the new Marvel Zombie Super Hero pieces. Diamond had Spiderman with Mary Jane on display and both were Zombies. You can see Spiderman's ripped up torso, bone pieces and hanging flesh. It showed me Spiderman in a whole new light. LOL. I think I will actually pick one of these up since I like Zombie stuff.

Diamond will also be releasing new Star Trek busts later this year as part of their Icons line. From the 4 we saw and they were prototypes, they looked pretty good. I think the Kirk needs a little more work though. I did not think he was 100% Shatner in my eyes.

I got to see the Ghost Rider statues again and the more I see the Ghost Rider on Water with his motorcycle, the more I'm going to take one of these home. LOL. Gentle Giant sculpted it and it's a piece you really have to see in person to appreciate. Very detailed and big. I love it and it's one of my favorite non Star Wars / LOTR statues coming out.

I'm going to close this Blog Entry out since I've been working on it for almost an hour. I will post a 2nd part which will include highlights of Sideshow and of course, Gentle Giant. That post will probably be the same size as this one.

Thanks for reading. Be back in a little while.

Thanks,
Mike

Toyfair 2007 Pictures for My Blog

Hi Everyone,

Let's start this off with some of my pics at Toyfair. News will follow in another post. Enjoy the pics.

Thanks,
Mike

Here are a few snapshots from Toy Fair 2007: