3/06/2010

Special Greetings KOTO CLUB MEMBER!  In celebration of the 10th Year Anniversary of KOTOBUKIYA (USA) this month, we would like to offer special discount of 50% off for our selected in-stock merchandise.  We sincerely appreciate your continued support and interest.  With this year as our new starting point, we are strongly determined to further commit ourselves to ensure KOTOBUKIYA’s finest craftsmanship to meet and satisfy  your expectation.  We look forward to your continuing patronage and your remaining as valued customer.   If you are not KOTO CLUB MEMBER yet, you are definitely encouraged to take this opportunity to join the club!

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THE SUBJECT IN-STOCK  MERCHANDISE WILL BE LISTED IN “ON SALE” PAGE OF OUR SHOPPING SITE.  YOU CAN APPLY 50% COUPON TO ALL OF THESE ITEMS, FOR INSTANCE,  TO THE ITEMS BELOW:

KINGDOM HEARTS FORMATION ARTS vol.2 KAIRI List price: $24.99 Price: $22.50 Price: 11.25	KOTOBUKIYA SAN DIEGO COMIIC-CON EXCLUSIVE X-FORCE:WOLVERINE List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	Punisher Warzone Movie Punisher Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price:$34.99	Star Wars Artfx Crosssection 3-D X-Wing Set Price: $249.99 Price: $124.99
Star Wars Bossk Artfx Statue Price: $99.99 Price: $49.99	Star Wars Dengar Artfx Statue Price: $99.99 Price: $49.99	Star Wars Obi=Wan Ep.3 Ver Artfx Statue Price: $99.99 Price: $49.99	Star Wars Royal Guard Artfx Statue Price: $99.99 Price: $49.99
Star Wars Tie Fighter Pilot Artfx Statue Price: $99.99 Price: $49.99	Star Wars Zuckuss Artfx Statue Price: $99.99 Price:$49.99	Starwars:The Clone Warsartfx+ Series1 Jedi Anakin Skywalker Price: $59.99 Price: $29.99	The Incredible Hulk Movie Abomination Fine Art Statue List price: $174.99 Price: $157.99 price: $78.99

Daredavil Movie Daredevil Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.00	DIRGE of CERBERUS -FINAL FANTASY VII- MASTER ARMS CERBERUS List price: $34.99 Price: $24.99 Price: $12.99	Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	Fantastic Four Rise Of The Silver Surfer: Thing Fine Art Bust@ List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99
FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN PLAY AFTS ACTION FIGURE KADAJ List price: $24.99 Price: $17.99 Price: $8.99	FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDEREN PLAY AFTS ACTION FIGURE RENO List price: $24.99 Price: $17.99 Price: $8.99	FINAL FANTASY VII ADVENT CHILDREN PLAY AFTS ACTION FIGURE YUFFIE KISARAGI List price: $24.99 Price: $17.99 Price: $8.99	Infinity Gauntlet Fine Art Theatre List price: $199.99 Price: $179.99 Price: $89.99
Iron Man Movie Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	Iron Man Movie Mark II Fine Art Statue List price: $174.99 Price: $157.99 Price: $78.99	KINGDOM HEARTS FORMATION ARTS vol.2 CLOUD STRIFE List price: $14.99 Price: $14.00 Price: $6.99	KINGDOM HEARTS FORMATION ARTS vol.2 GOOFY List price: $14.99 Price: $14.00  Price: $6.99

The Incredible Hulk Movie Hulk Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	The Incredible Hulk Movie Hulk Fine Art Statue List price: $174.99 Price: $157.99 Price: $78.99	Wolverine Brown Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	X-Men Classic Chapter Colossus Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99
X-Men Classic Chapter Cyclops Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	X-Men Classic Chapter Kitty Pryde Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	X-Men Classic Chapter Nightcrawler Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	X-Men Classic Chapter Storm Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99
X-Men Classic Havok Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $34.99

FINAL FANTASY VII PLAY ARTS CLOUD & HARDY DAYTONA List price: $79.99 Price: $71.99 Price: $35.99	FINAL FANTASY VII PLAY ARTS SEPHIROTH List price: $24.99 Price: $22.99 Price: $11.49	FINAL FANTASY VII PLAY ARTS VINCENT List price: $24.99 Price: $22.99 Price: $11.49	FINAL FANTASY VII PLAY ARTS YUFFIE List price: $24.99 Price: $22.99 Price: $11.49
FINAL FANTASY VIII MASTER ARMS Seifer’s GUNBLADE List price: $34.99 Price: $31.99 Price: $15.99	FINAL FANTASY VIII MASTER ARMS Squall’s GUNBLADE List price: $34.99 Price: $31.99 Price: $15.99	KINGDOM HEARTS II PLAY ARTS -KAIRI- List price: $24.99 Price: $22.99 Price: $11.49	KINGDOM HEARTS MASTER ARMS KINGDOM KEY List price: $34.99 Price: $31.99 Price: $15.99
Blade : Blade Fine Art Bust List price: $79.99 Price: $69.99 Price: $34.99	Cable Fine Art Statue List price: $174.99 Price: $157.99 Price: $78.99	Captain America New Captain America Fine Art Statue List price: $174.99 Price: $157.99 Price: $78.99	Captain America Winter Soldier Fine Art Statue List price: $174.99 Price: $78.99

UGO Entertainment had an extensive coverage of  Kotobukiya line ups at New York Toy Fair 2010.   The Product Review posted by Tracey John (Goods Editor/UGO)  includes Captain America, Thor, Iron Man Mark IV and VI,   Star Wars, Lost Planet 2, and Marvel Bishoujo items.   We would like to extend a special thanks to Tracey and Jesse Angelo of UGO for its impressive photo images.

Pre-Order for Captain America

Credit: Jesse Angelo /UGO

Pre-Order for Thor

Credit: Jesse Angelo /UGO

Credit: Jesse Angelo /UGO

Credit: Jesse Angelo /UGO

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Splash Page (MTV’s official site ) received a lot of reader request for information about Super Hero’s  Inspired Collectibles by Kotobukiya. Some great images of Kotobukiya’s Iron Man statues (Mark IV and Mark VI armor), as well as “Avengers” teammates Captain America and Thor, and even Dr. Doom were featured.  Image photo of  the massive “RED HULK” Statue  was also shared on Twitter:

Pre-Order for RED HULK

Posted on February 15, 2010 by rickmarshall

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Collection DX.Com takes collectible fans to a guided tour thru Kotobukiya’s showroom at New York Toy Fiar 2010.   YouTube Presentation will show you various new products and licenses in detail at Kotobukiya booth!!  We would like to extend our special thanks to JoshB of Collection DX.Com.

Click the image for You Tube presentation!!

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The major focuses on Kotobukiya booth at the 2010 New York Toy Fair was a number of cool new Marvel based products on hand. For Marvel fans,  Marvel.Com has featured extensive details on Iron Man Movie Mark VI Fine Art Satue on a suit design from the upcoming “Iron Man2″ film. For fans of Doctor Doom, they focus Kotobukiya’s new fine art statue, which stands atop a specially-designed circular base that lights up with interior LEDs. Look for more details on the Doctor Doom fine art statue in the coming months! And, Finally for fans of Hulk, Hulk Fine Art Statue is focused on. See more details by clicking the images!

Photo: Marvel.Com

Dr. Doom

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As the New York Toy Fair 2010 unfolds its entirety, Kotobukiya has been featured by many media and product review sites!  Tomopop.Com exclusively features Kotobukiya booth and posted their interview with Shingo Nakagawa, our Media and Marketing Cordinator of Kotobukiya.   Click the photo image below!  You will be led to a quick tour at our booth as Stephon Donaldson talks with him, focusing on new product line-ups and new license announcements etc…

Shingo talks with Stephen Donaldson about all the goodies that Kotobukiya has in line for this year, including their Lightsaber and Samurai Sword chopsticks, Elwing statue, Lost Planet 2 and Modern Warfare 2 figures, Marvel statues and many more Anime licenses.

New York Toy Fair  is now opened!!.  Kotobukiya is welcoming all distributors, whole seller and retailers at Booth #4810 at Javits Convention Center Feb. 14 – Feb. 17.   All Kotobukiya fans are of course welcomed to come by during the Toy Fair and see all the displayed items!   Here is a special page review from Kotobukiya Pamphlet for the show!

Some products are available for Pre-Orders at our webstore site.

Click the photo to see the contents!

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New York — The 107th American International Toy Fair has kicked off for a four-day run this Sunday, February 14th, bringing the excitement, innovation and inspiration of  global toy industry to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.   The Kotobukiya booth #4810 is now ready for welcoming all buyers and fans!  Here are some photos of the Convention Center and  Sneak Peek of Kotobukiya booth #4810, in the evening of February 13th.  (Kotobukiya is scheduled to announce various new products and licenses during the fair. The main features of Kotobukiya booth were introduced  earlier this week in major  internet news sites including  Collection DX, Anime Network News)

Main Entrance Area for Toy Fair 2010

Main Entrance Area Roof Top

Star Wars Light Saber Chopsticks!!

Next Generations of Light Saber Chopsticks are revealed!! Force be with Chopsticks!!

Debut of Samurai Chopsticks!

Otacool 1 - World Wide Otaku Rooms

Shinning Wind Elwin in New York!!

Hoi Hoi San & Combat

Show Cases at our booth

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Kotobukiya is very happy to announce the 24 wonderful Cosplayers that will be on the Cover of our second installment of CGM base publication “OTACOOL２ WORLDWIDE COSPLAYERS” These awesome cosplayers where chosen at the specially launched Official OTACOOL Site（http://www.figure.fm/feature/en/otacool/）

OTACOOL２: WORLDWIDE COSPLAYERS   

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 24 COSPLAYERS CHOSEN OF THE COVER

Bellow are the chosen cosplayers:

Danny Choo

Kaname (male)

Emi-Zone (female)

Etaru (female)

Luciana Von Bathory（Female）

Riddle (Female)

Ai Amano（Female）

Yoshimi（Female）

Uta Arashino （Female）

Lilithy （Female）

Yuki LeFey (Female)

Kaguyahime (Female)

Francesca Dani (Female)

Linda Le (Female)

Khristina Paulus (Female)

YaYa Han (Female)

YUEGENE (Female)

Jessica Ouano (Female9

Yevgeniya Ocheretko (Female)

"aira" (Female)

Saya (Female)

Sakana Sashimi (Female)

Heza Chan (Female)

Alodia Gosiengfiao (Female)

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The above are the 24 cosplayers chosen for the OTACOOL cover.

Please keep in mind we are still looking for cosplayers to feature inside the book until

February 14^th! We look forward to your OTACOOL submissions!

OTACOOL OFFICAL SITE　http://www.figure.fm/feature/en/otacool/

Cure×Kotobukiya　http://ja.curecos.com/tieup/otacool/

To pre-order OTACOOL please click here: PRE-ORDER



Kotobukiya is proud to reveal Lost Planet 2 PVC Action Figures:  PIX-14R Hardballer and GTF 11 Drio.   The figures  perfecly replicate every details of armor and weapons as seen in Capcom’s upcoming new action video game, which is scheduled to be released in May, 2010 in Europe and North America.

LOST PLANET 2 :  PIX – 140R HARDBALLER

LOST PLANET 2 PTX-140R HARDBALLER ACTION FIGURE

A KOTOBUKIYA Japanese import! Blasting your way out of Capcom’s upcoming sci-fi third-person shooter Lost Planet 2 (sequel to the hit Lost Planet: Extreme Condition) are two Vital Suits appearing for the first time in Kotobukiya’s new action figure line! The first in the new lineup is the heavy combat PTX-140R HARDBALLER. Based on the prototype for the famous “Ivan” suit, the Hardballer has been upgraded to the current R Type with additional components and cutting edge technology. Covered in thick armor plates, the Hardballer mounts heavy weapons and a rear power pack for bursts of speed.

The hard-fighting Hardballer Vital Suit is 6 inches of destructive capability. Pose yours for combat with 20 points of articulation, and an exclusive ball-jointed system that lets you interchange weapons with other Lost Planet 2 releases. The Hardballer comes fully equipped with a rocket launcher, two laser rifles, and a heavy-duty chain gun for maximum destruction focused against pirates and the alien Akrid!

Available in May, 2010  SRP: $39.99

LOST PLANET 2 : GTF – 11DRIO

LOST PLANET 2 GTF-11 DRIO ACTION FIGURE

A KOTOBUKIYA Japanese import! The second Vital Suit action figure from Capcom’s upcoming sci-fi third-person shooter Lost Planet 2 (sequel to the hit Lost Planet: Extreme Condition) is the aerial combat unit GTF-11 DRIO. Originally developed for zero-G operations, the current Drio model features a multi-jointed body for full attachment capabilities of weapons as well as cutting edge attitude control technology. With an open cockpit for full visibility of the battlefield and a humanoid shape streamlined for aerial combat, the Drio is a deadly unit utilized by pirate forces as well as NEVEC.

Standing at approximately 5 ½ inches tall, the Drio Vital Suit is the perfect weapon against opposing aerial combatants and the agile Akrid. With 20 points of articulation and the exclusive ball-jointed system that lets you interchange weapons with other Lost Planet 2 action figures, the Drio gives you many display options. No pushover on its own, the Vital Suit comes equipped with both chain gun and gatling gun, and it includes a miniature Mountain Pirate pilot figure!

Available in May, 2010  SRP: $39.99

LOST PLANET 2 :

PTX – 140R HARDBALLER & GTF – 11DRIO

LOST PLANET 2 ACTION FIGURES: PTX-140R HARDBALLER & GTF-11 DRIO

A KOTOBUKIYA Japanese import! Blasting your way out of Capcom’s upcoming sci-fi third-person shooter Lost Planet 2 (sequel to the hit Lost Planet: Extreme Condition) are two Vital Suits appearing for the first time in Kotobukiya’s new action figure line! Pose your Vital Suit action figures for combat with 20 points of articulation and an exclusive ball-jointed system that lets you interchange their weapons.

PTX-140R HARDBALLER is 6 inches of destructive capability. Comes fully equipped with a rocket launcher, two laser rifles, and a heavy-duty chain gun for maximum destruction focused against pirates and the alien Akrid!

GTF-11 DRIO with an open cockpit for full visibility of the battlefield and a humanoid shape streamlined for aerial combat. Standing at approximately 5 ½ inches tall, the Drio Vital Suit comes equipped with both chain gun and gatling gun, and it includes a miniature Mountain Pirate pilot figure!

Available in May, 2010  SRP: $39.99

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