It's monday again! Think i added too much Jaegermeister in the drink last night, hangover! And man, is the Thai red bull super sweet or what? Anyway, back to work again today. Man, did the weekend go by tooooo fast or what?
Well, another year to go before the next STGCC! This year's was better than last in terms of number of vendors, but then again, they could have done the spacing a bittttt better, you know like, rather than jam the popular displays RIGHT AT THE ENTRANCE AND BLOCKING EVERYONE FROM ENTERING. Seriously, whoever planned the layout must have failed in planning or something, because there were BIG gaps in the floorplan, where the less popular shops have less/no traffic. Rant over!
This year was IRON MAN YEAR! Can't really blame them cos all these were planned and produced way before IM3 was released, and only now were most of the products ready for display, Hot Toys had IM, Play Imaginative had IM, Action City had IM, Simply Toys had IM.... the list goes on, you can't turn a corner without bumping into ol' Tony Stark man. But gotta admit, i think this year Play Imaginative had an impressive display, all the armors from IM3's house party protocol in 1/12! And they were pretty much well done.
One thing i missed was the LEGO display's from the past two years. What gives? And poor 501st was placed near the dark main stage where there was hardly any light, and they were perpetually shrouded in the dark side... bad planning! All the usual suspects from CSC were there.... trying to scalp poor passerbys and FT's into buying old stock. I guess there were some good buys, but nothing really caught my attention this round. Surprisingly the exclusives from HT didn't immediately sell out like in previous years, this of course is not counting in the MIDAS armor, as that didn't appear at the other recent toy show... check out evilbay, it's going for upwards of $800 now, haha. Prob will be people willing to pay for it. But the evil side of me wishes these scalpers get stuck with whatever they've hoarded, and get buried with them muhahahahaa!
Still! Looking forward to next year's event, and hoping it's back at Suntec! :)
Wur ? IM MIDAS armor upwards of 800 quid on evilbay ? Farkers.. talk about blackmarket prices ! Seriously, these scalpers really bring a bad name to the hobby... what started out as a awesome hobby like scale hobby modelling is now a means for people to profit from it. Hmm.. i thought the organisers would use some planning software to predict the flow of the crowd and better plan the exhibits and stalls.. guess they didnt have the budget for it ! Maybe all the budget went to paying honey pots like those iron man girls and vampy lol but i agree - overkill on the whole iron man thing... guess they're just pandering to main stream media and what the people want to see. Yep ! sure hope them scum scalpers get buried by their ex-stock !
ReplyDeleteHaha, good to know I wasn't the only one who thought there was too much iron man! Someone they interviewed today in the papers said the same thing! :p
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