If you missed them at the San Diego Comic Convention this past weekend, you get a second chance to get these for normal retail price. Toynami will be doing a limited production of the Metallic version of the Voltron Lion Force Gift Set. The 25th Anniversary Metallic Voltron Gift Set comes in a newly designed commemorative packaging, and is expected to be released at the end of August. According to Toynami, production ends in December, so get yours soon, they will not be producing them again!  SRP is $69.99. I guess if you don’t want to wait that little bit you can pay a higher price like this and get it now.

So every year San Diego Comic Convention has a list of exclusive toys that sell out mad quickly and unexpectedly, some as expected, and some just surprisingly linger around.

As expected, the Green Lantern Hal Jornan Figures were hot, but who knew that at a production run of 3000 of the green and 1500 of the yellow, blue, orange, and red Lanterns he’d be extremely hard to get?  Each day you stood in line at the Graphitti Designs booth for lottery for a chance to purchase the color of the day. Preview Night was Green, Thursday was Yellow, Friday blue, Saturday orange, and Sunday red.  They sold out immediately everyday so far since Preview Night! Well, I guess this was the first time ever they did this head sculp for the green lantern, ever.

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Toynami will be releasing the latest futurama series 6 figures in June!  They will be $13.99 each.

“Available here are Leela, in her secret identity as Clobberella, and Amy Wong, Planet Express intern and intergalactic heiress. Each action figure features multiple points of articulation and character-specific accessories, as well as the final components needed to build the fiendishly jolly Robot Santa!”

A new concept to the Skelanimals line, the Transformable Kit, Dax and Diego work double-duty as soft pillows and 14″ plushes.  Each pillow is stylishly embroidered with the character name, Skelanimal logo, and a design.  Zips and flips into a plush, and vise versa! These guys retail for $25-30 and hit the mass market in June 2009!

This is Daizengar & Aussenseiter from the original Mecha from Super Robot Wars video game title.  Hailing from Tamashii in Japan to the US in June / July.  SRP will be $287.50.

Based on a promotional manga series released alongside the Japanese release of the Superior Defender Gundam Force anime. This is a long awaited, must have toy line amongst Gundam collectors. And brings the best of Tamashii Die-cast armor to Gundam. These are coming to the US in June/July, retailing for $31.50 and distributed by Toynami Inc.

The much anticipated Rand MPC Cyclone Vol. 2 will be released in May 2009, MSRP $200. As with Masterpiece Cyclone Vol. 1 Scott Bernard, these will be limited to 3,000 units worldwide and will be individually numbered. Featuring sturdy die-cast and plastic construction, the Cyclone arrives in its trademark Toynami “book style” packaging. Certificate of Authenticity is also included with each figure. Very similar to and less expensive than the Japanese Mospeada version – Beagle’s 1/10 VR-052T (Ley), Rand will come with an exclusive head sculpt only available in the Toynami’s MPC line.

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Toynami Beta

Release schedule has finally been announced for the Beta!

Toynami Masterpiece Beat Vol. 1

Robotech / Mospeada Beta

Diecast content includes connection joints and lower legs
Removable landing gear
Each Beta has a new head, designed by Tommy Yune
Masterpiece Packaging
Red, Blue, Green, Grey and Purple versions planned

MSRP: $150
scheduled for Oct/Nov 2008 release