hey everybody norm from tested here at comic-con 2019
now Comic Con has all manner of pop-culture items I'm obsessed with the
designer toys and this is the godfather right here this is Ben yeah Ben is the
creator of decon designer con it's my new Mecca it's in the fall and
you guys have booth here because you also run a pretty retro I do ya
three-year Etro we are a collectible toy store located in Glendale California
we've been around since 2003 we opened up an actual retail store in 2013 and we
actually produce vinyl figures as well as sell collectible vinyl and
collectible figures from all over the world in our shop where we always used
to advertise like we're the toy store that carries the toys at Toys R Us wall
absolutely and lets me discover those artists I mean one of the best things
about going to deaqon is meeting not just local manufacturers of toys and
one-offs but also companies over in Asia and Europe who are doing some awesome
awesome toys absolutely yeah and you know they always have a hard time trying
to get their toys out here to the US the collectors want them the buyers want
them you know they definitely want them to make it to the US they just don't
know how and luckily we've been able to contact a lot of these companies and
even though they sell out a lot of their stuff just never makes it out to the US
worse sometimes able to get a small allotment and bring them out to the
collectors out here it's you in the outreach and so companies I want to talk
about a couple things here you have some exclusives at Comic Con from a thousand
toys they do now a thousand toys I love them they make the Wii goes which are
those wonderful max they're so stupic and like a finish on them the metallics
great they're so great and you guys have a kit now we do there is this is the we
go model kit and these you know just the regular model kit that you can find in a
hobby shop and these only go for like $15 so for the collectors this is like
just a quick easy thing to purchase not a lot of money and you have a lot of fun
with these and a thousand sports figures because I know they've worked with
companies like Dark Horse therefore the hell
boy figure like they're known for articulation and they note for not only
at the six scale stuff but also at the twelfth scale lots of great double joint
elbows knees yet ab crunch perfect example yeah well so you mentioned the
hellboy but one of the other artists that they work with over in Japan is
actually Punk drunkards very popular in Japan have a collector base out here in
the US they created a sentinel figure with them and this is one of them this
is the red version which is kind of a con exclusive so we were able to get a
couple of them out here for San Diego very cool and then for people who love
video games they know Kojima Productions oh yeah and it's one of those things
that no other toy company would make but they made their their mascot into it and
that's exactly what we've got going on here this guy is crazy and the
articulation like you said with the Sentinel toys is so amazing and the cost
is a little bit higher than what you would find in other 1:6 scale figures
but it's totally worth it because of what they do in terms of the armor the
costumes the accessories the extra hands the extra flags the additional faces
like it's insane and yeah we were able to get about only 50 of these into the
u.s. so for the collectors out there this is this was their chance to
actually get one what something I also love about the discovery of these
artists overseas artists is not just the unique aesthetic approach that you have
which is different than some Western sensibilities but the calm response is
exchange of ideas they're obsessed with Western culture and their takes on
Western like iconography like this is Tom and Jerry but yeah a uniquely Asian
take on it like that's almost like a foo dog yeah so the artist is tika from the
east you know artist out of Asia is that a
lot of stuff out there not very well-known in the u.s. aside from once
again the collector--base and they've the artist teamed up with a company out
here called toy cube which is well known in the US market for vinyl collect
as well as resin and this is that's what this is this is actually a poly stone
bust very heavy item but clearly you can see the mix of the Asian culture with
the American pop culture and the licensing aspects there and they were
able to create a very very cool limited-edition collectible figure that
you just can't find anywhere else yeah and that's with the collaboration
with Keith over at toy cube because he's been designing toys for a long time as
well and so you you dive into that a little bit and you work with artists and
I didn't get to see this at deaqon this past year because I had a baby but this
was the big showpiece Jurassic Park was a big thing at decon this is a
collaboration with nachos this is yeah so it's an artist out of Austria
his name is nachos he's actually done a mural of the t-rex before we teamed up
last year a designer company we teamed up with Universal to celebrate their
25th anniversary of the original Jurassic Park movie one of the things
that we did was we got the license to get these artists from around the world
to kind of take their take on the dinosaurs and we have to change a couple
of things around to meet the requirements of the Jurassic Park t-rex
as opposed to just regular t-rex but we were able to create this beautiful
14-inch highly detailed dissected t-rex designed by night shows and it is based
on his incredibly iconic murals giant murals he puts on the sides of buildings
that just is just a celebrated pop artist and this is the kind of stuff I'm
so sad I miss designer Colin last year but I'm gonna be there it's in November
this year here this year it's gonna be November 22nd through the 24th it's
gonna be awesome tickets are on sale right now at designer con-com and
there's gonna be so much more this year we're you know last year was our first
year in Anaheim it was kind of a transition year a lot of people were
interested in us to see what would happen it happened it was great and
we're coming back stronger and bigger and a lot more surprises than last year
so it's gonna be amazing and I gotta make my way over to three retro check
out your collection I know you you started the shop so you have a place to
put all your your collectibles that's it's my loot all do it still not enough
room for everything not enough room then it's a pleasure great see your comic-con