I saw the Phantom of the opera in Forbidden Planet in London in 2001 and was very impressed with it.They really were state of the art back then.August 2001 they announced the Bond licence and that was that for me.
I think it was through www.theonering.net when lord of the rings was being made/first released. They used to have announcements on anything to do with the film including products being released.
'Frankenstein', ages back I read in Lee's that a 'small company' was going to produce a 12" frankensteins monster figure, they had a picture of the prototype & it was the best 1/6 figure I'd ever seen.
It went on to win awards, and Sideshow went on to regularly drain my bank account!........
I bought a Headless horseman from the Depp movie. Then I met Mchavyck who had a halo party and saw his collection. I didn't have the room for my horseman anymore so i donated it to him. A few years later he said check out this site, I have been gaming with these guys for awhile and they have a forum. Went there signed up and that is that. I bought McFarlanes Spawn Gunslinger since then but that was it.
I was at Downtown Disney with Pertheseus and came across a store which i forgot the name. ( starcollectibles or something like that) anyway i saw this (actual picture)
Thats Pertheseus in the reflection. anyway they had the Elder Pred & Chooper. so i did my reaserch ( instead of just asking where they were from) and the rest is history. this was around December 2006.
I saw the Bruce Lee and Universal Monsters at a street market in Mexico around 98-99,
and decided to buy them...I wasn't big into 12" figures until I saw Medi Vader, and learned that SS got SW...
I think thats probably the store I bought an elder pred and alien from a while back in the states. My first hot toys figures !. From there it led onto sideshow.
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