Five Points Festival 2023, Part 1

This past weekend of June 10 & 11, 2023 marked the latest edition of Five Points Festival, time held at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NY. I went on Saturday the 10th, and it marked return to attending and covering it since way back in 2018. This con is really fun and intimate and is focused on designer toys. As such, there are so many cool things to look and buy. I saw what was a heavy emphasis on Kaiju, possibly in part to the Kaiju battle they were gonna be having later on at night. This focus was perfect for me, as I LOVE Godzilla and other giant monsters. Anyway, the following is some of my favorite things that caught my eye and/ or attention that day.

The Strange Cat Toy booth had some really cute and cool designer figurines.

Super 7 were one of the very few major toy companies onhand. As always, they were selling some of THE cool product you are likely to see anywhere.

I actually saw this badass skull dude over at Super7. I thought he was a fan in cool cosplay. Turns out he was with and repping the Phantom Starkiller booth.

Here are a couple of other cool booths, that I really liked/ caught my interest:

1000Tentacles

Creatures of Decay

Suckadelic

Seismic Toys was one of two booths were they sold classic, licensed Kaiju toys. As such I kept going back to look at their toys and other monstrous merch!

The other one was Agin Toys, who were the only booth I bought anything at, in this case a vinyl figure of Gamera. But, more on him a little later. For now just oogle at the cool giant monster and giant robot toys that they sold at Five Points!

Toy Art Gallery had some of the coolest designer toys I saw that day. They included toys inspired by classic horror and sci-fi like The Return of Living Dead, Blade, and Terminator 2. They even had a Trump version of They Live!

Clearly this is based on real life!

And, now here is some more random coolness:

Finally, let me end this part of my coverage with the Gamera figure that I bought over at Aign Toys. It's based on his look from the excellent Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris. He looks really cool, has some awesome detail, and marks the first imported vinyl Kaiju figure I have ever bought. I've wanted one of this type of toy forever, but being an import toy, they are usually pretty expensive. I thought that at $35, it was still steep. But, I could bring myself to pay for it. Anyway, here he is in all his vinyl glory!

To be continued...

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What I Have Learned About Traveling thanx to Horror and Explotation Films

While, horror and explotation films are full of the stuff you expect them to be, what you may not know is the fact that they teach us about travel! Really! Here are some chioce spots that I have learned to either aviod or visit thanx these films:

The Woods/ Camping- So, according to films like Friday the 13th, The Evil Dead, Sleepaway Camp, The Blair Witch Project, and Cabin Fever, we should never go camping or to the woods. Think about it. You might encounter crazy machete wielding women, their unstoppable psycho-hokey mask wearing son , get possessed by demons, a crazy transsexual , an evil old witch, or some foul flesh disease! Not only that but sex is a bad idea, cause even if the chick is smoking hot, you will fucking die! Bummer, man! To make a long story short, don't go to the woods or camp!

Japan- Seemingly Japan suffers a lot of attacks by giant monsters . I mean they fight and thrash the city and probably kill lots of people along the way. But, on the other side, films like The Machine Girl and Yo-Yo Girl Cop (not really an exploitation film but certainly a cult film) prove to me that I need to go there cause there is a shitload of hot chicks . So, i think I will risk the giant monsters and just go check out the hot babes!

Texas- Really, man, this is the last place you want your car to breakdown when heading out with your girl and/ or friends. Cause if this happens to you and your bros, a family of cannibals , including a dude who wears a mask made of human flesh who wields a chainsaw will catch you, kill you, and, possibly, eat you! Fucked up! Unless, of course, your goal in life is to be some chili!

That's it for now! In the future, I will review other travel spots based on what I have learned from watching way to many DVDs!

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