High End Figures from IF Labs
October 10, 2001
IF Labs, the company founded by Funimation and Irwin Toy to create high end Dragon Ball figures, displayed a few of their increasingly sophisticated designs at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas.
Lots of Items Available
October 10, 2001
The DVD and VHS editions of this sequel to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer have garnered over 3 million preorders, which should provide some notion of how popular this particular franchise will be this holiday season.
G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Star Wars
October 9, 2001
Marvel Comics is preparing trade paperback collections of the G.I. Joe and Transformers comics that it published in the 1980s, and Dark Horse will reprint the Star Wars comics that Marvel published in the 1970s and 80s.
Shipping before Christmas
October 1, 2001
The first series of Dark Alliance figures did very well at retail (it topped the ICv2 Top Ten Cool Toy list the month it debuted), and the sculpting on the new series looks better than ever.
CG Series Debuts in November
October 1, 2001
Hasbro is ready to release a wide array of B.U.M . toys, ranging from deluxe action figures and their color coordinated Space Cycles to lots of different PVC collectible figurines.
Battle of the Planets--A Developing Property
September 30, 2001
Top Cow has announced that Alex Ross will be supervising a new G-Force/Battle of the Planets comic series, which is set to debut in mid 2002.
Some Seem To Be Using Events To Further Own Agendas
September 29, 2001
As the time since the attacks on the U.S. lengthens, it's becoming increasingly clear that some are using the attacks to further their own agendas regarding entertainment and pop culture.
Impact on Pop Culture Stores
September 29, 2001
As it becomes increasingly clear that the U.S. (and perhaps the rest of the world) is slipping into a recession, we decided to take a look at the potential impact on sales of the product categories carried in pop culture stores -- anime, comics, toys, games, and movie/TV merchandise.
'RRP' Meeting Set for October 1st
September 25, 2001
The chief topic at today's Marvel news conference was the 'Retailer Rally Presentation' that will be held at the China Club in Times Square on Monday, October 1.
New Series, New Movie, New Toys
September 24, 2001
A new television series, Enterprise , set at the beginning of the Federation roughly one hundred years before the original Star Trek series, debuts on UPN Wednesday night.
