STGCC 2015 - Part 1

So it's that time of year again! Everytime STGCC comes around, it's time to begin winding down for the year haha! This years exhibition was pretty reminiscent of last years in terms of exhibitors; the usual suspects were there, Falcons, Bandai and the usual shops. Some of those there last year are missing tho' like Uplay, so no Soldier Story Exclusive STGCC figure this round! The highlight would be Hot Toys booth again i guess? Under the Action City banner... booth is smaller tho, they did bring in the TIE fighter, but not 1/6 scale Millenium Falcon though, bummer.

STGCC 2014 Picture Highlights - Part 3!

This year seemed a bit quieter than usual, but falcon still had a pretty good display, especially the 3rd party stuff!

 

Pretty awesome DAMToys display! Unfortunately did not have a chance to take many pics!

 

3rd party TF from Maketoys! Pretty darn awesome.

 Close up of Utopia (AKA Metroplex).

 

Fansproject Dinobots! Got the longneck, waiting got the Triceratops!

 

Toys from MMC. Feral Rex looks good.

STGCC 2014 Picture Highlights - Part 2!

Here are some other shots!

 

Avengers in Action!

 

Rocket! Looking cool...

 

That ain't Obi Wan

 

Hot Toys Upcoming Iron man figs... that's a few thousand bucks on display!

 

And the Styrofoam hall of Armor from IM3!

STGCC 2014 Picture Highlights - Part 1!

Here as promised! Just a few pics cos didn't really have time this year ( was with my 4 year old boy hurhur), and he was being very patient already! :p 

 This is the first booth that greeted you! Hot Toys as usual, but not as grand as last year. 

Marty and the DeLorean! Looks darn good. :p

Prime! Strange that Hot Toys is making this.... 

Ripley looking ready to burn some Aliens...

... and in her new dress.

Monday monday! Yawnnzzz...

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! :)

STGCC Day 2

Whew! Day 2 was thankfully less packed than the first day ( prob becos everyone was lining up for the exclusive stuff ), and there was space to take pics of the stuff i missed out on yesterday.

Still, crowd started coming in after lunchtime, so better skip out before i get crushed! :p

Here's a shakey pic, for reasons self explanatory. ;)

STGCC Day 1

Woke up early today ( for a weekend anyway ) to head down to MBS for the convention, queue to go in was crazy, but managed to bump into a buddy who sneaked me in hehe.

The place seemed... Bigger.. This year, but didn't matter once the crowd came in! So everyone was squeezing and trying to get some shots of IRON MAN WHO WAS EVERYWHERE! Although gotta admit, the play imaginative displays were kinda cool.

Well, not easy to snap a few pics when you lugging your bags and a coupla toys! Anyway, the limited ed iron man was sold out again as usual, apparently queue started the day before hahaha, and apparently some ppl were paid to stand in line... Nothing new! You could see some ppl with upwards of 10 of these midas armors.. Sheesh.

STGCC 2013 Exclusive - Metroplex!

Woo! Another exclusive to get; this would be, like the 3rd version of Metroplex? There's the regular release, the SDCC 2013 version, the HK Anicon version and now this. :p That's too many metroplex'es, but it's taller than Fort Max.... so awesome. :) This one comes with little mini bots scaled to the same size, something like the game "Fall of Cybertron" which was not too bad actually.

 

 

Meow!

Over at the Hot Toys Booth at STGCC, Catwoman was the most popular figure; there were tons of people crowding around taking pictures of the fig... feel kinda bad for Bane who was kinda overshadowed... underwhelming figure anyway, too skinny!

Anyway, snapped a quick shot of this, even uncle like Catwoman! :D

STGCC - Babes!

Only one for now! :p But quite chio! And she was rather obliging, with a few different poses. :)

Busy Day!

Whew! Been a long day, my feet hurt from all the walking around! Was at MBS exhibition centre this morning to catch a look at STGCC, and other than the queue hiccup, it was a rather ok experience, slowly uploading the pics to FB now, more later on the show itself!

After that, went back to NEX for the Gundam World Tour expo, pretty cool stuff on display this time. :) More pics will follow!

STGCC 2012!

SG Toycon is just this weekend! It's gonna be held at MBS this time round, so i wonder how it'd hold up compared to Suntec. COMEX 2012 is going to be at Suntec though, starts tomorrow, but Suntec is a mess now with all the renovation work that's going on.

Hopefully can get some good pics! And maybe pick up a deal or two. :)