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If you hear your gamers talking about WoW Starter Decks not being out, this is what they are talking about and you can relay the information to them. The World of Warcraft TCG Fall 2011 Class Starter Deck were supposed to by out in October. Cryptozoic had to delay the release, for unspecified reasons and the release date has been pushed back to December 6. Your gamers might already now this, but if not this will allow you to join in the conversation.
Season 1, Vol. 1 of Redakai: Conquer the Kairu which airs on Cartoon Network on February 28. The two discs set will come with an exclusive Blast 3D “Harrier” card for the Redakai TCG. This would be a good give-away for your library for your gamers and might even attract your anime fans.
Don’t forget to let your gamers know about the latest release of new Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. The new cards from Konami are booster packs titled Photon Shockwave. The packs will be priced at a suggested price of $3.99 with a release date of November 15. This is only a few weeks away, then gamers will need to start checking out their local stores that carry Yu-Gi-Oh cards. A couple of the cards will be “Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon” and “Rescue Rabbit”.
IDW Publishing is having a contest in conjunction with Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF). To enter the contest a fan will need to e-mail a 300 word or less explanation of how their retailer is the best and how they would sacrifice themselves defending them to contest@IDWPublishing.com. The winning fan, along with their retailer, will be depicted on a variant cover of IDW’s Star Trek. The fan, retailer and CBLDF will each receive 100 copies of the variant cover. CBLDF will be able to use their copies to assist in future fund raisers. The winning fan will also receive the original art by the Sharp Brothers.
If you happen to live in the Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orange, San Francisco, or Seattle areas and happen to like J-Pop you will want to check around at your local concert venues. The Vocaloid Hatsune Miku on November 10 will be broadcasting a concert to these 9 cities. This is a one night event only, so check your area to find out where the concert will be broadcast and join in on this music event.
ICv2 is reporting that Warner Bros./DC Comics has extended, an unspecified, multi-year deal with Mattel to be DC’s master toy licensee. This license includes Mattel being able to use DC properties throughout it’s core brands which include: Hot Wheels; Matchbox; Barbie; Fisher-Price; and Mattel Games.
If you have an iPad and are interested in comic books you might be interested in this new App in the iTunes store. It is the Champion Magazine iPad App. The App. itself is free. So if you are interested check it out. Below is a link to the iTunes preview page of this App.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/champion!-magazine/id455870554?mt=8
The United States is wanting to standardize copyright laws between Japan and seven other Pacific countries. Japan has had a unique marketing tool with Doujinshi. Doujinshi is fan made manga that fans can sell at doujinshi conventions, only for that one convention. The fans use copyrighted characters and produce fan manga. Comiket is one of the largest conventions for this type of product. The Japanese publishers have always let these conventions happen because it also helps promote their characters and keeps interest and possible create new interest in their published titles. Thank of it as you get a small taste of the characters and then you want to purchase the whole meal. It would be nice if the U.S. publishers would recognize that this could help them in their business here in the U.S.
For your gamers that enjoy miniatures the Axis & Allies game, produced by Wizard of the Coast, is coming out with Axis & Allies Air Force Miniatures. This set will have 30 mini’s for game play, for a suggested price of $39.99. This set will also have booster packs that contain 3 mini’s called Angels 20, which will be available for a suggested price of $19.99. Remember if you have any gamers in your library, the library could provide a space for them to gather and play as a program.
Some of the products that gamers will be looking forward to in 2012. In January there will be a Star Trek Expansion and Naruto CCG Tournament Booster Packs. The next month of February will have another Naruto release, Naruto CCG Series 24 Booster Packs. Then in March horror fans will get their turn with the release of the Resident Evil Expansion: Mercenaries.