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Focus on Hot Toys’ JC Hong

Posted by: vader at 11:50 pm on Friday, September 19, 2008

Familiarize yourself with the process behind painting a collectible head & get to know more about JC Hong.

Not known to many collectors and Hot Toys fans, JC Hong, a talented Korean painting artist in the collectible market, has passed his unique painting techniques on to various sculptors and painters in Korea. We can say JC Hong is a mentor to most of the Korea collectibles’ artists in the market. He is also the Chief Paint Art Director for Hot Toys Ltd. Besides painting prototype head-sculptures, his main mission is to ensure the painting on the final product is accurate to the prototype.

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DC Direct Items for May 2009

Posted by: vader at 5:00 am on Tuesday, September 16, 2008

CHRISTOPHER REEVE AS SUPERMAN STATUE
Sculpted by Karen Palinko

It’s the quintessential Man of Steel!

One of the most fondly remembered depictions of Superman is now available as a commemorative statue exclusively from DC Direct. Christopher Reeve strikes an iconic pose from the classic 1978 feature film Superman – the movie that made the world believe “a man could fly” and turned the actor into a star.
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Hot Toys TDK Two-Face

Posted by: vader at 1:32 pm on Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hot Toys just sent me a teaser photo of the next addition to their ever-growing Movie Masterpieces line. It’s Two-Face from the recent hit movie The Dark Knight. For now, this is all we can reveal. More info and photos will be posted as we receive them - so keep checking back.


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Living Dead Dolls Series 16 Variants Released

Posted by: vader at 10:40 pm on Thursday, September 4, 2008

Series 16 variants are limited to only 300 sets and feature a Halloween inspired black & orange color scheme.

Living Dead Dolls Series 16 features a Halloween theme: Eleanor, Pumpkin, Mishka, Squeak and Isabel each wear a creepy mask and come with a their own jack-o-lantern. A Halloween mask usually hides the sweet face of an innocent trick-or-treator, but the world of the Living Dead Dolls, things are seldom what one expects. You may offer treats, but they’ll give you nothing but tricks.

Ships mid-October.

http://www.mezcotoyz.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=652

Freddy & Leatherface Halloween Special

Posted by: vader at 6:32 pm on Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Sadly, its not the seasonal variety show so many gorehounds have dreamed of, but rather a special deal at Mezco Direct:

http://www.mezcotoyz.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=651

For a limited time you can buy Freddy and Jason, from Mezco’s tremendously popular Cinema of Fear line, for one low price. There’s no trick, it’s just a treat when you get a deal this sweet from Mezco.

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