everybody norm from tested here at New York Comic Con now this is the booth of
X plus and Jeremy here from X plus I'm in a big follower admirer of the work
the X plus is put out over the years yes you amazing of course the Godzilla
character is a line of creatures but for people who may not know give us a little
bit of a history of the X plus world and why these are so sought after from fans
of Godzilla right so X plus actually started in 1998 by our old manager JSON
at that time the American version of Godzilla was being released so they
started getting into toys there were a clothes manufacturing company ah from
there they started releasing figures of kaiju consistently for since 1998 the
reason people love these things so much is because they almost look like they
walk out of the television screen and I mean that in the fact that we take so
much time to look at the details of the figures to the suit so for example the
Mechagodzilla over there you'll actually see the creases where the original suit
would have been a little bit folded up because of the material and the charms
yes it's the attention of detail and also that paint finish I think people
love and everyone has their a favorite era of Godzilla oh and there's so many
different versions that get put out how do the sculptors there figure out the
poses or choose what is in their mind the perf were presentation of like you
know 68 Godzilla or something oh yes so they they look at the films
themselves and look to see what some a little bit of a dynamic pose might be
and what's easier to convert into vinyl too because it needs to be taken into
consideration for example Ghidorah he's a very large figure so we got thinking
like center of gravity the upper of those types of mental figures too so
there could be a challenge in that which a contrast creativity in the way that
they create the skulls and they're all within scale to each
other there are different actual scales that you put out this is not
representative of the most common problem is a really big one from the
most recent Godzilla film is a 25 centimeter that's the most popular line
is that right um I would say it really depends on what type of collector you
are because there are some people that only do 25 centimeter lions there are
people that do gigantic series and for people that are really trying to save
space they might gravitate more towards the death or real figures mm-hmm but
generally I see people collecting a lot of 30 centimeter figures so it's not
good right suppose you live in Japan you might not want something as big as the
gigantic yeah or the 30 centimeter scale so 25 I was like that perfect niche
market that you get a lot of space for the figure that you buy and it's a
regular cadence of release people are highly anticipating them as they see the
pictures come out of Japan I've seen videos and people on YouTube and you
also with like shelves and shelves all of these 30 centimeter
it's Godzilla's in the back right it's a big kind of pride it's a mascot
collection right so there's a group on Facebook called the exports collectors
group and that we're all very much I guess you'd
say addicted to the figures people were crazy once you get one it's almost like
you can't stop yeah so people do have a high sense of pride in their collection
and I think a lot of it too you normally don't see something as
detailed as this for the price range plus just in general like it when people
come over to my house it's a conversation piece I like to show people
in my collection even if they're not Godzilla fans it's fun to see them be
wowed by it because this is something that you probably commonly wouldn't see
I collected for example well in addition so that's all licensed you also have
licenses for all other sorts of pop-culture movies and TV shows of
course will the star ace family line you have six scale figures also noticed you
guys did some of the Star Wars last year you guys said that the chess pieces sure
chess pieces out there use x plus as well right so we we did have some of the
Star Wars chess pieces I think during that time Disney went back and took away
the licensing because of the timing something there actually were released
online unfortunately not so I a little bit
we're fine right but all the figures that are non Tomo related or legendary
Studios related go through the Star ace branding which is a subsidiary of X plus
so it's not you got things like Harry Potter er this Batman stuff 2001 Space
Odyssey that's really cool right which I kind of brings back a lot nostalgia for
me as a kid because you don't see a lot of those types of figures being produced
so Leo over at stories was talking to me yesterday and he said it's kind of fun
because some of the things that we're trying to get licensed for and for
produce might not be as popular that to most major companies so it's fun to kind
of get something that's introduced that you normally wouldn't see yeah and of
course it all has that hallmark attention to detail in the sculpt what
people think of vinyl designer vinyl not they also think about like realistic
looking characters but you guys do it so well it looks like crusted skin of a
giant kaiju which is super cool what can people afford say coming up next max
plus oh man so highly anticipated is the Mechagodzilla gigantic series we also
came out with the real monster collection which is this ug sick I
figure it's going to be based on resin opposed to vinyl people really love that
one because it looks like it literally is from the poster of Ben's a little
final war so people are pretty excited about that we've got some Cong figures
that we show today for the first time with the anticipation of Godzilla vs.
Kong yeah there's gonna be more figures being released during that time period
as well that I can't say right now but they're gonna be pretty epic if to say
the least well it's awesome to see them in person
and for those of you out there might not know about X class I'm telling you it's
it's amazing but also it's a dangerous hobbing a diving suit for your wallet to
add to that point people that might not have a lot of money to spend the depo
reliant is a good compromise for that because you're small they're highly
detailed like the 2000 or the 1999 Godzilla with the orga set you get the
same amount of quality but in a little compact cute IV for them so people
relate into love that especially on social media those
pictures and those releases usually get my highest amount of impressions and
comments actually it's a great entry point into a new obsession thank you so
much Jeremy for a little bit more appreciative we're good to meet you