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from Art Department Weekly | Issue 97 Vol. 11

ATTENTION GRABBING

**Tentakitty**
Madeline Strum Photography

(Continued from 'Gaming')

L: Boom only had eyes for the exclusive show Tentakitty— the bat one. Then he was like, "Oh, they have a blindbag and I can get a blindbag and not know what’s in there?" He was way into that one. M: Yeah, he had forgotten that he had gotten the yellow one as a blind bag, but he says it's the best of his collection.

L: The black bat one was the interesting one because I went on the Thursday and the line at the ReedPop shop was crazy long. So on the Friday, I was like that’s the fi rst thing I’m gonna do.

M: Okay, so it was you who bought it because I have pictures from two days of crazy long lines but… I mean, the Thursday line is long but like as long as Starbucks. Then the Friday line was stupid long.

L: It was the fi rst thing I did. I got in early because of Jose’s connection. So I got in there early and told Jose, "Hey, I’m gonna go to the ReedPop section." I get down there, and there is no line because I’m in there maybe 45 minutes before the show opens. So I get there, I buy Boom’s bat cat, and then I go to go back inside the Show Floor, and when I go to go back inside the main fl oor—

M: That’s when they told you you had to go back out.

L: They tell me I had to go all the way out. So I tried to call Jose again, but he was already in line waiting for something else. He was like, “Just call me when you get in again.” He couldn’t really help me a *second* time. But it was fine because I felt like I had won. I didn’t have to wait in line for Boom’s bat cat.

M: It was raining Thursday morning, but it was fi ne Friday morning.

L: I feel like I was listening to a really good podcast, like Armchair Expert. I forget what it was, but I remember being really captivated by what I was listening to so I didn’t really care. And I was kind of shocked that in the long line I waited in there were so few people in costumes. I just don’t think the costume people get there so crazy early.

M: There’s no point. It’s the people who want to run around get signatures and buy exclusives. (Continued in 'Entrance')

**Part of the line for the Reed POP shop**
Madeline Vega

EXCLUSIVE CONTENT

Luis rounds up the best of what was available at NYCC 2019

The convention exclusives scene has become Funko Pop!'s playground. Their continued dominance of the exclusives landscape is something I’ve written about before, but it continued here in 2019. Some of the best exclusives could be found in the Funko booth if you were lucky enough to win one of the time slots.

Here is the best of the Funko bunch followed by a myriad of other fun exclusives: