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SURROUNDED BY STATUES IT’S “A PRIVILEGE TO OWN,” EVENT STAFF SPILLS THE TEA The employee I talked to at the booth wasn’t an XM employee, so he couldn’t tell me for sure why the statues weren’t protected with acrylic cases, but he said they had done a show like that before and then decided it was better in the open. Everyone takes and shares better pictures without the glare and hardly anyone damages the floor models, he said. One time, it might have been Denver, they did have a patron who drank enough to knock over a statue. Mostly, he said, drinking at conventions leads people to decide that the statues are not too expensive. We joked about how no one could afford to get drunk at the NYCC bars and then still buy a statue. Maybe all the full bars on site were there to increase sales.
KING OF THE MONSTERS In addition to this Shin Godzilla, there was a big diorama of two Godzillas battling.
QUICK CHANGE At first The Joker Orochi had his hair tied back and a mask, but a staff member (different from the one who answered Madeline’s questions) offered to change his head. He has a right arm that switches out as well on gfxdistribution.com. Check out the Penguin Daimyo in that samurai series.
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STRATEGIC PLACEMENT Beautiful women, thrilling adventures, and dinosaurs might be what Frank Cho fans love, but it wasn’t until Dynamite published Jungle Girl that he could freely flip her loin cloth.
