Japan’s #1 collector toy company Kotobukiya announces a massive San Diego Comic-Con event with prizes totaling over $25,000.00 in value. Beginning on Thursday July 23rd at 11am, Koto will hold a special event every hour at their booth, such as behind-the-scenes presentations, new license announcements, live podcasts, and more. Full list of prizes inside.

Tokyo, Japan – Japan’s #1 collector toy company Kotobukiya announces a massive San Diego Comic-Con event with prizes totaling over $25,000.00 in value. Beginning on Thursday July 23rd at 11am, Koto will hold a special event every hour at their booth, such as behind-the-scenes presentations, new license announcements, live podcasts, and more. Accompanying each hourly event will be a chance for fans to compete in trivia challenges and walk away with great Kotobukiya collectible merchandise as prizes, with individual values up to $200.00. Each day’s prizes will include at least one sold-out Iron Man Movie Fine Art Statue, Bishoujo Statues, Star Wars Clone Wars goods, and many others.

Aside from the hourly events, there will be one daily Grand Prize awarded. The winner of the daily drawing will receive a one-of-a kind prototype used in the creation of a Kotobukiya toy. These unique prizes are worth thousands of dollars and will include:

Thursday Grand Prize:

IRON MAN MOVIE FINE ART STATUE PROTOTYPE

Friday Grand Prize:

ROGUE BISHOUJO STATUE PROTOTYPE

Saturday Grand Prize:

STAR WARS COMMANDER REX ARTFX+ STATUE PROTOTYPE

Sunday Grand Prize:

MARVEL WOLVERINE FINE ART BUST PROTOTYPE

Additionally, many new goods will make their debut at the show and be available for fans to purchase for the first time, including:

STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS – CLONE TROOPERS- ARTFX+ STATUE SERIES

X-MEN CLASSIC CHAPTER: FINE ART BUSTS – all Seven characters

INFINITY GAUNTLET FINE ART THEATRE

ROGUE & BLACK WIDOW BISHOUJO STATUES

Seven other MARVEL Fine Art Statues & Busts, including CABLE, NOVA, CAPTAIN AMERICA, IRON MAN MARK II, and many others.

All of the above debuts are in addition to the previously announced SDCC Exclusives: YELENA BLEOVA BLACK WIDOW BISHOUJO STAUTE and X-FORCE WOLVERINE FINE ART BUST (each strictly limited to only 500 pieces).

To recap: every hour, Koto will have a special event. At every special event, fans will have a chance to win a prize. Every day of the convention, fans can enter to win a Grand Prize Prototype.

A full schedule of hourly events will be forthcoming. For full contest details, please visit www.KotoUS.com, or visit the Kotobukiya Booth #2601 during Comic-Con July 22~26 at the San Diego Convention Center.

About Kotobukiya

With over 50 years experience in the toy industry, Kotobukiya has grown into Japan's number one collector toy company, with a peerless reputation for quality and craftsmanship. Kotobukiya is always striving to further improve the material, detail, and design of all products. Kotobukiya continues to attract the attention of not only top artistic talents, but also the favor of publishers and licensors who wish to work with only the best the toy and collectibles industry has to offer. For more information, please visit www.KotoUS.com.

Max and Millia 1/60 scake VF-1Js due in October.

Fans of that dynamic duo will be happy to see that their iconic VF-1J Valkyries have just gone up at Yamato's website.

Max use VF-1J

Millia use VF-1J

Original designs and classic Kaiju

Marmit has released images of upcoming Kaiju:

Giant Grandking - 35cm, 12,600 yen, due 10/09

Zeron, 30 cm, 7,350yen (from Spectreman)

Mogron version 2, which i think is Pachi Kaiju. 13cm, 4200 yen

Banshida ver 2 - 25cm, 5250 yen

Berokron (from Giant Monsters Battle: Ultra Monsters Neo.) 23cm, 5250 yen

New kit series from Koto uses common frame

Frame Arms are described as "Multi Assemble Mechanical Units". these kits are built around a common frame system, allowing you to mix and match kits to create your own... creations.

The figures have their own backstory, which if you could read Japanese, you could check out here

Each kit is about 15cm and will retail for 3,000 yen. Due in October 2009.

32 Series Type 1 Gorai

SA-16 Stylet

The lead character from Oban Star Racers gets yet another repaint from Muttpop!

The lead character from Oban Star Racers gets yet another repaint from Muttpop! This time it's the Black Bean version - all black with white eyes. The black design calls attention to the beautiful sculpt by Erick and Lester Sosa. Molly is made to scale with Muttpop's Lucha Libre figure line. Comes with a rotating head and rotating fist.

Approximately 7.25" ( 18.4 cm) tall. Special limited edition of 250.

Suggested Retail $55

During Marvel Comics' Messiah Complex story arc, Wolverine became leader of the new X-Force team, and got a wicked new costume as well. For the first time ever, the mutant hero's fearsome black and gray outfit, accented with piercing red eyes, has been created in the forma of a high-end collectible. This is not simply a repaint, but an entirely new, highly-detailed, original sculpture.

During Marvel Comics' Messiah Complex story arc, Wolverine became leader of the new X-Force team, and got a wicked new costume as well. For the first time ever, the mutant hero's fearsome black and gray outfit, accented with piercing red eyes, has been created in the form of a high-end collectible. This is not simply a repaint, but an entirely new, highly-detailed, original sculpture.

Posed as though daring an enemy to make the first move, Wolverine turns to the side with his right arm raised up and the left pointed down. His claws, 2 1/3 inches long and made of real metal, are extended on both hands. As part of The Kotobukiya Collection of Fine Art Busts, Wolverine stands 9 inches tall, and is constructed of cold cast porcelain. Logan is sculpted by master artist Junnosuke Abe, and rests atop a specialized base decorated by a relief sculpture of Logan's civilian face.

Limited to only 500 pieces and only available at Kotobukiya's booth #2601, this bust's base features an individually serial numbered metal plate. To try to ensure that fans attending on different days of the convention will all have an opportunity to obtain this incredible sculpture, each day's sales will be limited as follows:

300pcs for Wednesday, July 22nd (preview night)
150pcs for Thursday, July 23rd
50pcs for Friday July 24th.

Purchases will be limited to only 2 busts per person, and is priced at only $80. With Wolverine's popularity, striking costume design, and low edition size, this bust is sure to be a highly sought after collectible.

X-Force Wolverine joins the Shunya Yamashita designed BLACK WIDOW BISHOUJO STATUE as part of Kotobukiya's SDCC exclusive line up. w

We will be announcing our SDCC events and giveaways in the coming weeks! Please visit our website at www.KotoUs.com for the most recent information.

We are looking forward to seeing all of our fans during Comic-Con July 22~26 at the San Diego Convention Center - Booth #2601!

Yamato continues to find all the obscure VF-1 variants to fill their new line.

Yamato has delved into the depths of the original Macross TV show. Here you see a blue VF-1D from the episode "Virgin Road" of the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross show. Only seen previously as a model from Hasegawa, Yamato is going to give us another rarely seen variant in toy form.

The seemingly endless army of the Snakes of Infinity marches on!!

The seemingly endless army of the Snakes of Infinity marches on!!

The evil Dr. Killgore, twisted genius behind the Snakes of Infinity has unlocked the secret of invisibility, and created a transparent Zombie henchman, to further his diabolical quest for global domination. Humanity's only saving grace are the transparent warriors' visible guts, showing through their crystal clear bodies, the only thing that warns of their coming.

Each 5" tall crystal clear vinyl Zombie figure comes with three sets of paper 'guts' inserts, to cut out and display inside the figure, designed by Super7 Head Honcho Brian Flynn, Super7's Josh Herbolsheimer, and fan-favorite and S7 collaborator L'Amour Supreme.

The 'Got Guts?' Zombie will be offered for sale at $50, Saturday June 27th, 11am Pacific at the Super7 Store and online.

Repaint of the VF-1S, this time in stealthy grey....

Repaint of the VF-1S, this time in stealthy grey....

New shots of upcoming SCM releases....

Looks like we have some final prototype photos floating around of the Saint Cloth Myth upcoming releases. First up is Divine Cloth Andromeda Shun.

We also get a look at Pegasus Tenma from the upcoming Lost Canvas, Gamma Fecdatol (AKA Thor)from the Asgard Arc and what appears to be the CAD and line art for the Lost Canvas incarnation of Judge/Specter Wyvern.