STGCC 2009 - Other Toys sightings

While looking through my Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention (STGCC) 2009 photos folder, I found some more photos which I decided not to ‘waste’.  Hence I post them here on my blog.

This I believe is a custom replica of Movie Optimus Prime’s vehicle mode.  It’s much larger than the Leader Movie Optimus Prime toys I’ve seen.  You can even see some wiring at the back surface.  I suppose they power up or light up the toy, which could possibly run on batteries or via remote control. 

Too bad when I took this photo, the boothwas swamped with lots of Cosplay participants getting ready for their Cosplay competition that day.  Hence I couldn’t find out from the staff how this Optimus Prime toy really works. 

This little fellow was spotted at a booth on the preview night where it was for display only.  There were Mint-On-Card (MOC) stock for sale then but the asking price was nearly triple the original retail price!  I wonder if anyone really bought the MOC stock cos I didn’t see it there anymore on the last day. 

This set of MOC EZ Takara Legends Devastator cum Constructicons action figures were spotted at another booth on the preview night .  The price was under just SGD 100.00 for the set.  Going by its popularity and severe short supply, it was gone by the last day of the STGCC 2009.  You can also purchase EZ TakaraTomy Legends Devastator online.

On the last day of the STGCC 2009, the Hasbro cum Toys ‘R’ Us (TRU) booth took out additional sets of all their available San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC) 2009 exclusive toys to display on top of their glass showcases for people to take better photos of.  That was was thoughtful of them.  But they also ended up re-deploying manpower to ‘watch’ over all those ‘exposed’ SDCC 2009 exclusive toys as the toys could also be easily taken away by people.

I only took close up photos of the SDCC 2009 Exclusive G.I.Joe Rise of the Cobra The Baroness 12-inch action figure.  The other SDCC toy photos can be seen in my earlier blog post about the Hasbro cum TRU booth .  On the whole, I think the face sculpt of this Baroness figure makes the character look older than the actress (Sienna Miller) who played The Baroness in the G.I.Joe movie. 

Our local SingPost was also there at the STGCC 2009 to promote its range of Tofu Postman toys, which comes packaged with its special series of Tofu postage stamps.  I think this set of Tofu toys and postage stamps could still be available for sale at its post office branches after the STGCC 2009.

Not all the booths there were selling MOC or MIB (Mint-In-Box) toys only.  There were also many loose toylines for sale and among them are these Wrestling action figures.  I think they could be from someone’s personal collection. 

To my surprise, this booth was actually selling those colorful custom boxes you see here to store action figures.  The numerous loose Justice League action figures were more of props to demonstrate the use of the boxes.  However, so many people enquired about the loose action figures for sale that the seller ended up selling many of the loose toys away by the last day.  I’m not sure on how well the box sales fared though.

Last but not least are the movie statues.  Seeing them is like seeing those movies ‘come to life’.  Many of them are quite realistic looking, but these are more for a very niched market.  You can still view more of these statues on display at the Simply Toys showroom (Plaza Singapura, 7th floor, diagonally opposite cinema box office).