1914 - Toy Fair 2023 In Review

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4.6 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Recently, Toy Fair held their (usually) annual event at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City on September 30th through October 3rd, 2023. Ian attended the trade show for the first time, and he discusses the event with Kris Naudus on this very episode. They delve into just what exactly Toy Fair is, where it will be headed come 2025 after 100+ years in NYC, how this year's event compared to previous years Kris experienced, and so much more. So much more includes highlights from Vault and their AEW figures and professional cosplay you can wheel around in a custom overhead bin friendly suitcase, tons of Lego playsets and buildable art, Bandai's Tamashi Nations selections as well as their Godzilla and Tekken figures, Funko's massive presence and their integration of Mondo's high-end collectibles, Foam Alive's incredibly soothing foam fun and other sensory pleasures like slime and putty, Super7's TMNT and GI Joe offerings, the return of Ty and Beanie Babies, InstaCake (just add water), bubbles and Bluey everywhere, Playmobil's Star Trek and Magnum PI sets (you read that right), Fresh Dolls, including their Black Panther: Wakanda Forever dolls, The Elf on the Shelf Santaverse, and tons more! (1:28:42)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Timing, Episode 2.13, and Comic Geekspeak, episode 1914.
0:09.2	Toy Fair, 2023.
0:37.2	Thank you. Changing up the intro, at least a little bit, since it's slightly different as I'm co-branding this episode and releasing it on both feeds like I usually do, but it makes sense to co-brand it because it makes sense for both shows.
0:43.3	I'm Ian Levesein, and welcome to Comic Timing and Comic Geek Speak this particular episode,
0:46.1	joined by Chris Nautis. Hey, Chris.
0:55.0	Hello, good evening or afternoon or morning, or maybe you're in space listening to this while you orbit the Earth. This is a podcast so they could be listening to it at any time, anywhere.
1:00.0	What a concept. What a country.
1:02.2	Okay. So for all of those people in the world of tomorrow, do you have jet packs,
1:08.6	do you have jet packs that don't suck?
1:11.5	Hmm. No, no, that don't suck? Hmm.
1:12.6	No, no, they don't because those are never going to happen.
1:15.0	I'm sorry. It's just not happening.
1:17.8	Although Steve Rogers was given a jet pack recently in a, in Captain America number one,
1:23.8	and he was thinking to himself as he was given it by Reed Richards that he really hoped he's able to keep it.
1:28.0	So hopefully he was able to keep it.
1:30.0	Good job, James Cresensky.
1:31.7	Good job.
1:33.2	All right.
1:33.7	Still on your mind.
1:34.6	Still on my mind because it was a damn good issue.
1:37.2	Toy Fair.
1:38.3	That happened at the Jacob Javitt Center.
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