DesignerCon 2022 Recap

DesignerCon 2022 was back in full force with a huge turnout of exhibitors and attendees at the Anaheim Convention Center. VIP night was held on Friday night November 18th. There was a good amount of VIP attendees ready to purchase exclusives and to get first dibs on what exhibitors had for sale. Some of the popular booths were Medicom as well as 100% Soft, Secret Handshake Toys, Creature Bazaar, Science Patrols, Unbox Industries and many more. Super7, Joe Ledbetter, The Beast is back, Pop Mart, illest, Kidrobot, 3D Retro, Panels, Leen Customs, Gravy Toys, Rampage Toys, Paul Kaiju, My Plastic Heart, Toy Tokyo are just a few of the hundreds of exhibitors at Dcon this year. So many artists, companies from outside the USA like Punk Drunkers and Medicom teaming up with DCon for collaboration show merchandise. NFT's, NTWRK, Out of Order Art Show, Movie/TV inspired Vehicles were in the building like Ecto-1, TMNT Party Wagon, Pizza Planet Truck and Sally from Cars.

There was pretty much something for almost everyone at this show. Sofubi/Japanese Soft Vinyl Toys, vinyl figures, resin figures, plush, apparel, enamel pins, stickers, art prints, nfts, exclusives, limited edition drops, panels etc... 

If you're not a fan of lines or crowds then VIP Night is definitely worth it besides getting first dibs on most exclusives and releases.

Check out our pictures at the links below:

DCon 2022 Part 1

DCon 2022 Part 2

As always thanks to the Collecting Toyz team and shout out to V for the assist! See you guys at the next DesignerCon which is December 15-17 2023 in Anaheim.

SDCC 2018 Final Recap Part 2

Another one of our favorite outside events is from Super7. They had 2 different events this year held at their store which is a few blocks from the convention center. They had Hordak's Lair starting on Preview Night to Thursday of SDCC and then Friday evening to Sunday was The Boodega. Check out all the pictures from both events and of course from their booth inside the exhibit hall.

Deadpool's Dream Suite & Deadpool's Super Duper Dance Party

Deadpool had a huge comic con presence this year. Not only did they have a booth inside that featured Deadpool's Super Duper Dance Party (Dance Party Action towards the bottom of this post) but they had giveaways and the Deadpool Dream Suite which one lucky fan got to spend a night in. This was a pretty big promotion for Deadpool 2 which will be released on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, August 21st.

Only a select few con goers won the chance to check out Deadpool's Dream Suite. Only Press/Media were invited to check out Deadpool's Dream Suite before the winner was announced. Deadpool's Dream Suite was inside the Hard Rock Hotel and we were told to get off at a certain floor with a certain room number to go to. The picture above is the door to Deadpool's Dream Suite.

SDCC Recap Coming Soon!

Our SDCC Recap along with thousands of pictures from inside the exhibit hall to outside events and more are coming this week. Sorry for the delay. Got sick after the con and life stuff. We're in the process of editing our pictures. SDCC is no joke. As much fun as it is, it does take time to recover from all the events happening morning till super late at night. To see some of our pictures, check out our instagram or twitter as we posted a bunch of pictures during and after SDCC.

REVIEW: Ozobot Evo & Black Widow Action Skin

We were given the opportunity to review and test the Ozobot Evo and the newly released Black Widow Action Skin from Ozobot. We love trying out new and innovative products. Ozobot Evo is a small social robot that helps you to learn coding as well as having fun with various Marvel Avengers Action Skins. We'll have more info on the Marvel Action Skins later in this review.

Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018 Recap

Silicon Valley Comic Con 2018 seemed to be smaller than last year. There was no outside events with the food trucks and dog cosplay contest like last year. The weather had been pretty rainy up until Saturday Morning of the SVCC when it finally started to dry out.

Stay Tuned for Toy Fair New York 2018 Photos and More

Stay Tuned.... Photos and more to come once we're done editing. For now, check out some of our pictures from Toy Fair New York on our instagram.

Saving the Best for Last: DesignerCon 2017 Recap

DesignerCon 2017 has come and gone in a blink of an eye. This year was the biggest and most crowded that DCon has ever been. Maybe it was partly due to the holiday weekend but we can say a lot of collectors came out in full force from all over the world to attend and to pick up exclusives from their favorite company or artists.

This was also the last year that DesignerCon will be at the Pasadena Convention Center. DesignerCon has definitely grown and they still had artists & vendors on the waiting list to get a booth even though spaces were already filled. In all the years that we've been attending DesignerCon, it was never this crowded. Even towards the later hours of the show it was jammed packed. We were stuck in Hall C on Saturday shuffling down the aisles. It felt like SDCC.

Here's What You Missed at DesignerCon! DCon 2016 Recap and More!!!

How many of you went to DesignerCon this year? We know that there a lot of people who couldn't make it this year and we did our best to try and get pictures of as many booths and toys as we could. As you all know the show expanded into yet another hall. The inflatable DCon in the above picture was new as well and there were street banners promoting DCon which we forgot to get a picture of.

SDCC 2016 Funko Fundays

If you thought getting SDCC tickets were hard, try getting tickets to Funko Fundays. Tickets sold out within in a few seconds of them going up for sale. A couple of our crew were extremely lucky to get tickets. Even lining up a couple of hours early the line to get in was long. There were a lot of people in attendance.

StocktonCon Pics

Here's a few pictures from Stocktoncon that was held a couple of weeks ago. 

Evolution 2 Recap

Evolution 2 was held on Saturday, June 13th 2015 at Pier 70 in San Francisco, CA. Above is a video with over 500 pictures. (Apologies for those trying to view the pics in the slideshow. For some reason the slideshow was not working properly.) To view individual pics, check out our album HERE. Attendees were in line hours before the show opened. If you had purchased your tickets in advanced online or through a retailer you were able to get into the show at 12PM (Noon) which is an hour early. If you waited to buy your tickets on the day of the show, you weren't able to get in until 1PM. Show hours were 1PM-6PM.

There were FREE Matcha (Green Tea) Pocky for attendees which they handed to you once you entered the show.

Evo2 expanded and was bigger than ever. They had multiple stages with various DJs, LA to the Bay Graff Expo, RC Drift Track, Models, Everystep Battle, Raffles, Food Trucks and various vendors.

Below is a compilation of mini videos featuring the RC Drift Track, LA/Bay Graffiti Artists in action etc... and a few pics.

Enjoy and See you next year!