Member Appreciation Day October

Once again we had our big Member Appreciation Day at our main shop in Jesse James Comics. Good times all around with a huge sale, roller derby girl car wash by AZ Bombshells team, cosplay by the Arizona Avengers, and much more. Here are some captures of those good times via photograph =)

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X-23 X-Force Sculpt from Kotobukiya

Kotobukiya has annouced an awesome X-23 sculpt for the new line of X-Force statues. This sculpt has the Wolverine clone standing on the edge of a building roof top in her official X-Force uniform. She even come equip with her boot claws! All of the X-Force uniforms have a kind of cool stealthy black ops type feel to them. This type of design fits her character a lot and Sculptor Erick Sosa does a nice job of capturing that.

This is an 11 inch tall statue of 1/16 scale. The cool thing about this sculpt is that she comes with two heads. One head has her mask on and the other without it. The two different head options have different facial expressions as well. Be on the look out for this to hit in May 2011 with a price tag of $159.99

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We had professional modeler Marti Martinez from Modelers or Mice down at the shop for a visit. Marti has been in the business for 27 years and it definitely shows in his craft.


Name: Marti Martinez
Occupation: Professional Modeler (27 years experience)
Favorite Super Heroes: Flash, Superman, and Batman
Favorite Custom: Predator Riding an Alien Horse
Next Project: 4ft Godzilla Figure!!

Blast From Your Past Collectables Presents: Member Appreciation Day: The Last Action Heroes

Blast From Your Past Collectables celebrated their 4th event this year for member appreciation day! It was a great turn-out, with the last action heroes dressing up to amuse collectors and kids of all ages. Here are some of the pictures from the event.

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We had Beth Benjamin in for a visit at our main store. Had a chance to talk to her about her custom works and even shot an interview. Check it out!

Name: Beth Benjamin

Occupation: Sculptor/Airbrush Artist. Specializing in action figure remodel

Favorite super heroes: Green Arrow, Captain America, and The Thing.

Favorite Custom: Her favorite custom that she has done was a zombie Captain America using real bone fragments.

Next Project: Lion O!! 6” apoxi scuplt custom w/ jeweled Sword of Omen and claw.

Christmas Comes Early This Year!

Through out the years McFarlane Toys has made the most realistic sculpts that money can buy. There was a line in 2007 that I thought made the toy world “stripper friendly”. It was McFarlane's Twisted X-mas Mrs. Claus special edition. Now she came as a brunette that year and she goes for about $50-$75.00 used in the toy worlds secondary market. WOW! That's a whole lot of cash for the first lady of the north pole to swing on her candy cane.

Well fortunately Mrs. Claus has been revised this summer, as a hot young blonde by William Davis Collectables for half the price. She retails for about $34.99 and is a great piece to collect if you are a naughty boy this year. Get her now because she is limited to 4,000 pieces and is nearly sold out. Well I guess it's true...blondes do have more fun!

News Flash: Predator Invasion!!

Over the past decade Predator figures have been in high demand and almost impossible to find in stores. Fortunately the hit movie “Predators” came out this summer and NECA (a toy distributor), decided to make 7 inch scaled, highly detailed predator figures. They have over 20 points of articulation and cool weapons as well.

In this Series they released 3 different Predator characters. First you have the classic Predator, which has the main-based Predator look. I find it quite impressive because of the highly detailed look and the amazing sculpt! This was my favorite Predator out of all that were made in the series.

The second one was the Berserker Predator, he was pretty cool as well, but I felt like his extra helmet armor made him look like an “Alien” instead of a Predator. I just thought maybe they had sculpted the armor a bit larger than it's supposed to, according to the movie.

The last one was the Falcon Predator. Now this one was a great young blood Predator hunter, who has excellent detail and a great paint scheme. I thought the wrist blade added an extra touch to his evil look. He almost reminded me of one of the Stargate body guards.

Well overall for $16.99 retail this Predator line is well worth your buck and definitely this summers hottest toy! Good luck finding them though, as all Predators seem to be sold out in all retail stores.

I do have some of these in my shop at (Blast From Your Past Collectables).