San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC) 2010
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!
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Show and Tour Exclusives:
The following Shocker Toys’ exclusives will be available at the Shocker store for attendees at the Cons and for non attendees in limited supply. http://www.shockertoys.com/store.php?type=exclusive
SDCC: The Blank 6” (Dick Tracy), The Blue Beetle 6″ (Dan Garret), Barry Hubris 6″ (The Tick), Shinigami Mallow (Soul Eater)
Wizard World Tour: Hunter Rose 6″ (Grendel) and Mallow versions of: The Maxx, Mr. Gone and Lazerman.
So…not actually available at the con they are supposedly “exclusive” too?
Nice.