NYCC 2024: Thursday- Toys, Cosplay, and the Return of Logan!

 

Last month, October 17-20, 2024 marked the latest edition of New York Comic Con. This time around I was there all four days, doing cosplay and having a great time. For the first day, on Thursday, I bought back one of my older cosplays, Logan! After the excellent Deadpool and Wolverine, I immediately felt like it was time to cosplay as him once again.

The Godzilla booth might have been my favorite booth in the entire con. It was too expensive for my pockets but still cool as hell to look at the toys and more in it.

Another booth that was awesome as hell was, of course, NECA. As expected they had some great toys on display for horror fans, metalheads, and geeks.

Right next to them were there sister brand, Kid Robot, of course. They had more stuff for horror fans and geeks to flip out over.

Jada Toys has become another one of my favorite toy manufactures. And, as such I loved looking at their booth, as well.

Of course, there was lots of cosplays to behold, and following are some of my favorites, of this day:

Of course, I also joined in on the fun, as Logan. I really had a great time cosplaying as him once again, even more than the last time that I did. And, felt so complemented by people who praised the way I looked. 

With my friend Dane

While, I signed up for a couple of panels, I could only attend one: Rick and Morty. It was really fun and great to hear the cast and crew talking about the many aspects of this awesome show. And, we learned that we will have many more seasons to look forward to, at least till 12, if not more! Hell yeah!

Here is the swag that I bought that day:
Master of the Universe Funko Pop: Kobra Khan (only $5!)
TeeTurtle (at one of their booths) convention exclusive T-shirt: Coffee makes me less murdery. 
Handmade By Robots (at their booth) NYCC exclusive: Halloween II Pumpkin Scented Michael Myers

And, so ends the first day of NYCC. It was a lot of fun, but it would only get better from here! Any of you guys there on Thursday? If so what did you do or like the most from this day? Let me know in the comments section below. 

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Five Points Festival 2024

On the weekend of June 8 & 9, 2024, the annual Five Points Festival once again took place at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn, NY. Dedicated to designer toys, indie comics, beer, tats, and more, it's always a good time and a feast for the eyes. I, of course was there to bring you all the sites. Here are some of my favorite things that I saw on that Saturday:

I love the emphasis on horror on the merch sold at this booth.

HeartBat Studio has such cool merch! I especially love her pink and purple take on classic Toho monsters.

Once again, Super7 returned making them one of the only, if not the only, major toy company with a booth at Five Points. And, as always they have some of the coolest product anywhere! 

I really loved the socks that Pals had on display at her booth. It's awesome that their socks come with designs that while not matching still go together as a pair.. The product is cute, fun, and colorful. And, I even bought a pair! You can see it towards the end of this post.

This Children of the Corn doll is from Psychedelic Safari.

I can't go Five Points and not enjoy a nice refreshing craft beer. So, I did, and it tasted great! To me, this is always one of the highlights at this festival/ con. I also love that the seating area looks like an old NYC subway car.

Before I headed home I took a look outside to see the painting contest, which was right next to the food trucks and beer garden. People were gathered to eat, drink, and just have a fun time outside.

Finally here are the two things that I bought myself on this day.  It was a Godzilla Series 2 mystery box, which ended up containing a 1974 Godzilla figure (all the Kaijus are in black and white, by the way. in this series) and from Pal, the Dog and Cat socks (cause I am a dog person, of course!).

I had a great time attending and covering this event. Did any of you go? If so what did you like the most there? Or are you planning on going next year? Let me know in the comments section below.

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