This info is mainly for the Star Wars fans who are into 3.75-inch “The Vintage Collection” figures!  Take a look at the full online banner advertisement on the OG website for more details, like what will be on offer and what exclusives and attractive prizes to look forward to.

According to the OG staff, this will be a special 2 hours morning sale and the Star Wars toys offered here will be exclusive to OG only.  Well actually I’m not sure if it’s just the Boba Fett figure that will be exclusive, since he’s not for sale but is meant as a special redemption figure for this occasion only.

The main sale will start at 8am and will take place at the ground floor of OG Orchard upon entering through the main doors.  A second section for the Star Wars morning sale will take place at the foot of the escalators that lead up to the next floor.  For regulars customers to this departmental store, they will know where I’m referring to.

Only these 2 specially condoned areas of the entire store will be opened for the sale and the Star Wars customers.  After 10am on that day, the second sale section might be shifted upstairs to the toy department so as to make way for the regular operations of the store, when general customers start to stream in.

Early Bird Specials - If you look at the link to the OG website, they also mention that the first 150 people in the queue will receive a SGD 15.00 voucher to be used on the same day, for minimum purchase of SGD 40.00 worth of participating Hasbro Star Wars items.

Lucky Draw - If you intend to participate in their lucky draw for the top 2 prizes of exclusive FX Lightsabers (worth SGD 249.90 each), your lucky draw entries must be submitted by 10am that day.  Once again, you may refer to their full online banner advertisement on the OG website for more details.  Happy Star Wars toys shopping!

The annual San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC) 2010 is just around the corner (22-25 July 2010), and the long awaited list of its highly anticipated SDCC 2010 exclusive toys can been seen at their official SDCC website now!

Usually I would aim for the SDCC exclusive My Little Pony, but I have acquired mine early this year when a major local retail store brought in and sort of ‘accidentally’ sold some stocks off its shelves last month.  Those ponies have since sold out, probably all scalped for resale and the store doesn’t have any more to restock.

Anyway, if you are keen on getting your hands on some of the SDCC 2010 exclusive toys, you can place your pre-orders with your respective regular local toy shops that you patronize, or get them from ebay after this month.  If you are not overly keen to have them but feel that it would be nice to collect some, you can test your luck and see if our local major departmental stores or TRU might bring them in after July.  Sometimes we do receive some leftover stocks from the SDCC after many months! 

So cross your fingers, and happy toys collecting!

Overall I found the whole event this year very disappointing.  Not only because I didn’t have anything to buy, but mainly because there were too few stalls.  In short, I was better off visiting the Sunday Toy Market at China Square Central on a random week!

From the beginning I was already skeptical about the Toy Carnival 2010.  Since it was part of a much larger gaming exhibition, it inevitably became a ’supporting cast’ instead, and in a very small section right at the back of the hall some more!

Furthermore, I totally dislike going to the Expo on a long weekend where so many other events were happening there on the same day.  There were the Food Fest, John Little Sale, Popular Bookstore Sale, and some furniture events on the same weekend too!

Hence the moment I stepped onto the Expo MRT station platform, I just felt like leaving immediately because of the large crowds, and not to mention the hot and humid weather!  The walkways outside the individual halls were so packed with people that I had to walk outside in the heat instead. 

So how about you?  Did you make any great toy purchases at the Toy Carnival 2010?  I know some toy collectors did, but I think they were the minority.  Most of us feel shortchanged when we went all the way there to squeeze with the crowds.  I hope the organizers of the Toy Carnival will bring the event back to SAM, like in 2009 in the coming years!

Yes, the Singapore Toy Carnival is back in Singapore this year and this time, it will be held at the Singapore Expo (next to Expo MRT Station)!  As stated in the above banner, this annual toy event will be held over this coming long weekend.  The floor plan of the exhibition hall is also available online.

We have a public holiday on this Friday (Vesak’s Day), hence I’ll most probably visit the carnival on that day to check out what interesting potential toys there are to shop for or admire there!  I’m sure quite a lot of local toy collectors will attend the Toy Carnival too.  Have a great time there this weekend!

US My Little Pony Fair 2010 Exclusive Pony

We’ll probably call her Kiwi Pony, since she has the colors and designs of kiwi fruit slices on her body!  The US My Little Pony Fair 2010 will be held on 17-18 July, at the state of Kentucky, which is also the home of the famous Kentucky Derby! 

Yeah, I know Singaporeans mostly remember the fried chicken brand, but for horse lovers like me, we know that that Kentucky is also the location of some of the most famous thoroughbred racehorse stud farms in the US. 

Plus there are the Keeneland Yearling Sales (yearling racehorse auction) and the Churchhill Downs Racecourse (home of the Kentucky Derby) there.  Haha, I used to be so into horses before I went into toy collecting many years ago!  Hence I still remember all these horsey info!

Anyway back to the Kiwi Pony topic, I’ll be getting her online from MLP Arena with the other local pony collectors, like we always did in previous years.  I am so looking forward to July 2010 to get my Kiwi Pony!

The annual mega toy event in the US - the San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC) 2010 will take place from 22 to 25 July 2010.  Each year, toy companies, toy merchants, toy collectors, comics and movie fans etc. will gather there to admire, buy, sell, trade toys, as well as obtain the latest press releases of various collectibles toys to be released to the market. 

At every SDCC, special exclusive toys from many toy companies are available for sale directly from their exhibition booths.  Long queues will form at the most popular booths for toys that will eventually end up with collectors, mostly through online auction sites like ebay, or through collectors’ toy shops that manage to secure them.  Sometimes if there are excess stocks, certain SDCC exclusive toys may become available at departmental stores many months after the SDCC.

Locally, many collectors’ toy shops make their own arrangements every year to bring in SDCC exclusive toys for their customers here.  For last year, Toy ‘R’ Us Singapore brought in lots of Hasbro SDCC exclusive toys and sold them during the Singapore Toy Games and Comic Convention (STGCC) held in August 2009. 

The excess stocks were subsequently spotted at some departmental stores over the next several months that followed.  At the beginning of this year, the last of the remaining SDCC exclusive toys (e.g. G.I.Joe The Rise of Cobra) finally went on clearance sale at departmental stores and sold out or were returned to Hasbro Singapore.

For this year, many local toy collectors are feeling cautious and decide not to be too hasty in buying SDCC 2010  exclusive toys at inflated prices anymore.  They have learnt their painful wallet lessons from seeing their precious SDCC 2009 exclusive Hasbro toys selling for less than the retail prices of normal store version items from the same toylines.  Such are the ‘perils’ of toy collecting that every collector experience from time to time.  Everything we do in life is a gamble, even our toy hobbies!

I haven’t been checking out the Singapore Toy Games & Comic Convention (STGCC) 2010 official website for a very long while.  They have updated their website and we finally have the dates for the STGCC 2010.  This shall be the 3rd year for the STGCC and the dates are getting later and later with each year.  

In the 1st year, the STGCC was held in June 2008.  Then in the 2nd year, it was held in August 2009.  For 2010, it shall be pushed back even further to December, reason must have something to do with their collaboration with the New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2010, to be held from 8-10 October 2010.

Well, the good news is that most toy collectors here would likely have gotten their year end bonuses to spend on more toys for Christmas!  The main downside is that I doubt many toy collectors can wait up till 6 months later to lay their hands on the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) 2010 exclusive toys, that will be available from late July 2010.  

For last year, many SDCC 2009 exclusive Hasbro toys were available for sale at the STGCC.  For me, I shall acquire my yearly SDCC exclusive My Little Pony from my regular local toy shop soon after their annual visit to the SDCC in the US.  I have seen the unofficial photos of that pony online already and she’s now on my toy want list for 2010!

Meanwhile, happy waiting for all the major toy events in the US and Singapore! 

Look at these cars with interesting decals that I spotted over the weekend!  They must surely belong to fans of Transformers, especially the 2007 Transformers The Movie (TFTM).  Both cars have nearly the same designs on the hoods and trunks.  

The large round decal on the hoods show half the Autobot symbol and half the Decepticon symbol.  The cars have grey or silver racing stripes on them too.

This car owner must have liked Movie Barricade a lot.  The decal of Barricade looks very nice against the black color of the car.  Too bad I didn’t check the other side of the car that day.  What a mistake!  It could have been Movie Bumblebee over there!

To top it all, Barricade’s ’slogan’ in the movie is also replicated on the car.  Talk about being at the ultimate level of liking Transformers!  Does anyone know these 2 Transformers fans?  Mainly Transformers Movie fans like me get excited by sightings such as this.  It sure made my day! 

I wish I could take more photos of these 2 cars but I was in a hurry that day.  Someday I hope to see a car adorned with Movie Bumblebee decals, similar to the designs layout above!  That would very cool too!  Happy admiring of the car photos!

Wow, take a look at the Iron Man 2 movie toys preview filmed during the recent Toy Fair 2010! 

I like the Iron Man race car and mobile headquarters (reminds me of the Pit Mobile HQ playset of the 2009 G.I.Joe movie toyline but smaller).  The Iron Man helmet and remote controlled Iron Man toy look great for kids!

We should expect to see the Iron Man 2 movie vehicles toys and role playing items in local departmental stores in the coming months leading to the movie sequel in May 2010.

Happy viewing the video and happy waiting for the toys to hit local mass retail! 

Here’s a couple of Avatar movie toys video reviews that I came across some time ago. 

Well, talk about the ultimate level of doing toys video reviews, such that the reviewer even dresses up to suit the theme of the toyline!  Happy viewing!

Avatar Interactive Battle Pack with 3.75-inch Jake Sully action figure review

Avatar AMP Suit toy review

You can also check out my previous blog posts on Avatar movie toys:

Avatar toys review

Avatar toys Augmented Reality demo

Avatar action figures - Pandora creatures

Avatar Interactive Battle Pack Set