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War Machine 12-inch Figure - Iron Man 2



100 “Extra” Gleeks distributed outside of SDCC 2009


from Mattycollector:

I can already hear the urban myths and rumors starting.

To ensure we had product to sell each day of SDCC, we divided product up by day so that fresh cases would be brought in each day. We knew from day one that we would have more Wonder Twins than Gleeks at the show and would sell out of Gleeks before the Wonder Twins sold out. And we did advertise this multiple times online and on message boards.

What we didn’t count on was one box of Gleeks getting buried in the stock room and not turning up until Sunday when we had sold out of both WT sets and Gleeks. Suddenly we were faced with a problem. We had a box of 100 Gleeks and no WT sets left. What to do?

In an effort to get these to fans, we arranged with a fan site (Fwoosh in this case) to distribute these Gleeks to fans after the show. We could have just kept this box and not told anyone and no fan would have known, but we had them and I wanted to get them out there. Fwoosh had a plan and it seemed like a good way to work with the fan community.

That’s the whole story. There is no agenda, it is as simple as one box getting misplaced and turning up after Wonder Twin sets had sold out.

And now you know the whole story!

Matty

he later added:
Mattycollector.com
Comic Con security changed the rules on how we could sell and how we could give out fast pass tickets a total of 7 times throughout the show. We did our best to comply with them. Last year we only had two registers and not all the product on preview night. Things were better this year but not perfect. Ideally things will get better next year too. Our goal is to make as many fans happy as possible! We’re trying- really we are!

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