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And again we have o colorful mix for our Trailer Tuesday, which will hopefully also attract your interest. Harry Potter fans and sorcerers' apprentices will certainly get their money's worth in the action role-playing game »Hogwarts Legacy«. For those who always wanted to go to Florida can visit post-apocalyptic Miami in the Environmental Showcase trailer for the »Fallout 4« add-on »Fallout: Miami«. This looks pretty good. The trailer for the adventure game »Twin Mirror« made our mystery fans really curious.

We introduced »Archives« a few months ago. It was now shown at the Fantasy Film Fest and will hopefully find a way into our theaters as well. There are four »Blumhouses« in October on Amazon Prime. Definitely worth a look!

Regarding the series, we are waiting for a German broadcast date for the Showtime miniseries »Your Honor«, because a crime / thriller series with Bryan Cranston is a must see with no ifs or buts.

And then of course there is the first trailer for »WandaVision« from Marvel. We admit that even after this trailer we don't get the series sorted properly. The opinions with us oscillate between “original” and “something completely different and wonderfully crazy” to “scratching our heads in perplexity ”. We can get a clearer picture at the end of the year, because the series is scheduled to start on Disney+ in December. What are your expectations of Wanda and Vision?

»Hogwarts Legacy«

»Fallout: Miami«

»Twin Mirror«

»Archive«

»4x Blumhouse«

»Your Honor«

»WandaVision«

Last night, the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards were presented. The "Pand-Emmys", as presenter Jimmy Kimmel called them in his opening monologue, took place without an audience. Nominees and winners were connected via stream. Even if the usual glamor was a bit slimmer, it was an entertaining event.

The big winner of the evening was the Canadian comedy series »Schitt's Creek« with 7 awards in the major categories. In the drama series, the HBO series »Succession« was ahead with 4 trophies. »Watchmen« (HBO) won 4 prizes in the top categories. The miniseries had a total of 26 nominations and received 11 awards. An Emmy also went to Germany: Maria Schrader received the award for best director in a miniseries for the Netflix production »Unorthodox«.

Anyone who didn't stay awake last night can catch up with the Emmys on YouTube.

You can find all winners and nominations here.

Which drama, comedy and miniseries were your favorites?

Those of you who already received a package from us in September surely not only noticed our new blue "goodie bags" (or goodie envelopes, with lots of flyers, stickers aso.) - nope, you probably got stuck also with the included postcard...

Because from this month we have our sensational, noble produced and for you totally free »Postcard Collection«! As you can guess already by the name, we are talking about a collection of postcards which we are creating together with friends, partners and also customers. The motives are top-class toy photograohies which are exclusively made herefor. Every postcard will only be given out for one month - only in our packages to you and only for free! How do you like that? We think it's dope ;)

What can be done with such a postcard - or a whole series of postcards? Well, you can collect them, you can pin them somewhere, of course they are also nice in a little frame on the wall - or you go totally nuts and use the postcard as a postcard! Right: sending somebody a card with a proper motif for a proper event or just like that by mail. Very old school - but surely charming! Caution: don't forget the stamp!

The September motif by the way shows a great Hot Toys »Avengers« composition, wonderfully arranged and photographed by our dear Patrick (@wonderbunk). In October, a lovely gal with a little spooky factor will be expecting you...

Roughly 6 weeks ahead of the launch of the second season of THE MANDALORIAN, Disney+ finally sweetened our evening yesterday with the trailer! Star Wars fans: buckle up and definately click in if you haven't done it yet. There's so much to see - amongst other things somebody from a certain order of sorcerers, called "Jedi"...

In case you can't make it until 30. October without fresh Bantha fodder, then we have a really yummie snack for in between for y'a: two days ago, EA surprisingly uploaded an almost 7-minute long animated short-movie called »Hunted« from the »STAR WARS: Squadrons« storyline to their YouTube channel. This is absolutely worth seeing and it totally heats up for the game which should fly in on 2. October!

Here is our today's Trailer Tuesday selection with a colorful mix of fantasy, sci-fi, comedy, horror and mystery :)

If you are in the mood for a role-playing game in the classic style, »Solasta« may serve you well.
Turn off your cell phone and take a one week break from Facebook, Instagram and push messages and then off to nature and real life... It's just stupid when an alien invasion is taking place during that week and you don't even notice it. Maybe we all recognize ourselves in the sci-fi comedy »Save Yourselves!» along with our social media obsessions.
Body swap stories are a popular comedy subgenre. The makers of »Happy Deathday» cross it this time in »Freaky» with a slasher story. That could work well and is worth a bucket of popcorn to us.
The Hulu horror anthology series »Monsterland» (based on the novel »North America Lake Monsters» by Nathan Ballingrud) also seems to be very promising.
Our highlight of the week is the final trailer for »Ratched» from the makers of »American Horror Story». The series starts on Netflix this Friday!

»Solasta«

»Save Yourselves!«

»Freaky«

»Monsterland«

»Ratched»
 

Today, we're celebrating our birthday, with a funny number: S.P.A.C.E turns 22 years today!

Sometimes we ask ourselves "what, 22 years... where did they go?!". And then, a thousand things, events, experiences and especially emotions come to our minds, that it feels like a reflection of half of an eternity of "history".

Stil after 22 years we are very grateful and reverent, that we are able to WHAT we love - day by day. And especially in a year like this we have to be satisfied, because it's not an easy year for most of the companies out there.

To celebrate this day with you, we have cake for our crew - and a very special discount coupon for you guys (or the 22 fastest ones among you, actually). Get 22,- Euro off your next order (minimum order value: 100,00€) now, but act fast:
SPACE22

There's breaking news from the zombie apocalypse! According to Variety, the cult series THE WALKING DEAD will finally come to an end with season 11. Who could have expected that...

Well, almost everybody, somehow - because the buzz around all the Undeads and Survivors became pretty low lately, didn't it? But it will take a while until the very last episode will air in late 2022. And of course AMC is already after another spin-off series which will focus on Daryl Dixon und Carol Peletier. Well, who could have expected THAT? Also almost everybody, somehow ;)

But let's wait and see and think positive that the grand finale will be a worthy and epic one!
 

You surely are familiar with that... You're really excited for a long-awaited first trailer and you refresh the YouTube starting page every few minutes. And then it is finally the time :)

At about 6:20 p.m. Warner Bros. finally released the first trailer of DUNE online! It starts off cautiously, but then takes off to an epic broadside.

After a couple of repeat clicks we are still flashed and in the happy anticipation of a masterpiece by the outstanding film maker Denis Villeneuve. How did you like the trailer?

At the top of our highlight list of today's Trailer Tuesday is of course the new »Bond«. The November date is getting closer and we are noticing how much we have missed the cinema, even if we appreciate a good streaming offer. At Netflix we're able to make the acquaintance of Sherlock Holmes' little sister »Enola«, embodied by the charming Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things), from 23.09..

When it comes to series, »Raised by Wolves« by Ridley Scott (Sky 16.09) and »The Haunting of Bly Manor« (Netflix 09.10.) by Mike Flanagan are at the top of our watch list.

»Marvel's Avengers« has not yet convinced us 100% among the games, but the superheroes are definitely worth a test. The locations in the Gamescom trailer for »Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One« also invite us to visit.


»No Time to Die«
https://youtu.be/vw2FOYjCz38

»Enola Holmes«
https://youtu.be/1d0Zf9sXlHk

»The Haunting of Bly Manor«
https://youtu.be/cxeiY2W03Mc

»Raised by Wolves« Trailer 2
https://youtu.be/rE92bDAlPXI

»Marvel's Avengers« - Official Launch Trailer
https://youtu.be/-sc2ayKh6uI

»Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One« - Official Trailer | gamescom 2020
https://youtu.be/5tln0DTS1SI


What are you looking forward to the most? What are you going to binge and what do you promise yourself a great daddling pleasure?

Dear collectors of fine wall decorations, we are pleased to present our first FINE ART PRINT!

If you watched us attentively during our POP CON AT HOME at the end of July or if you follow us diligently on Instagram, you probably already got wind of this project. Together with our friend Patrick (@wonderbunk) we have brought the idea of our own Art Print Collection to life in a very bubbly creative spill. Three of his photos, which were taken at the POP CON weekend, were presented to you on Instagram for voting. The winner was... Harley Quinn! :)

The winning design is called »Sexy Ice« and it is now available as a high quality fine art print in a strictly limited edition of only 25 pieces. With a little luck you can win three copies of it this weekend on Patrick's Insta profile!

We have made every effort in paper selection, printing technique, format and other details to create a very special collectible. Each copy is of course numbered by hand and will be packed and shipped with the utmost care.

If you are not lucky enough to enter Patrick's lottery, but don't want to miss this piece of jewelry, you will find it here in our store!

Tomorrow the eagerly awaited 2nd season of THE BOYS will finally start on Prime Video. What Amazon nobly describes as "even more intense" - and what the trailers already gave us an idea of - we can look forward to a wackier, crazier and even bloodier super- and antihero fun around Homelander and Billy Butcher. Surely many of you will have a great goggle marathon this weekend :o)

Just in time for the season opener, Amazon and Sony Pictures Consumer Products started negotiations for all licensing products. Among others (attention: surprise) FUNKO grabbed the rights - as well as GOOD SMILE, who will apparently bring vinyl figures. But the big hit is coming now: NECA has also gotten a license for THE BOYS and will delight us with a 7" action figure line! The designer team is probably already working hard on the prototypes. Unfortunately there is nothing to see yet, but the line will begin with »Homelander« and »Starlight«. How f***ing cool is that...?!

For our Product of the Month September 2020 we again used our Brazil connection to IRON STUDIOS. This time, our highlight though is not one of the popular Art Scale Statues in the 1:10 scale, but it's gonna be smaller and sweeter...

With their so called »MiniCo.« line also the desigers from Iron Studios brought their own "cutie-figures-series" to life. This means they are competing in this niche with their colleagues from Hot Toys, Beast Kingdom, Quantum Mechanix, Funko and many other brands. We actually didn't convice ourselves by the line, but rather by this one character in this particular version: Stan "The Man" Lee!

Absolutely a cult, mischievously turning 'round the corner and of course with a totally exaggerated mustache Stan is sitting on his director's chair and gives us his signature smile. Simply splendid! Excelsior!!

The vinyl figure is about 14cm tall and comes packed in a really ornate window-box. You can count on him being a true eye catcher on your shelf next to your Avengers movies...

Yesterday, round two of KOTOBUKIYA's very own »EXPO Summer 2020« took place - of course online, through a YouTube live stream. Already one week before that, they presented a mixture of their franchises Anime, My Little Pony, Bishoujo, Horror, Dead by Daylight and DC in the first run. Yesterday, they focused on the licenses Star Wars and Marvel.

Well... looking at the way of the presentation and also the quantity of the exclusive, never before shown product reveals, we think that Koto really could have set the bar a lot higher. Of course it was nice that they decided to do this online-alternative for SDCC, but if you look at what for example Sideshow did in comparison, we think that the performance from Kotobukiya was really thin.

But still there were a couple of novelties worth mentioninig, like for instance »Trapper« and »Hillbilly« from Dead by Daylight as non-scale PVC statues, a »Harley Quinn« from Birds of Prey in 1/6 ARTFX format, a new »Bishoujo Stargirl« (unfortunuately yet an unpainted prototype), a beautiful »Bishoujo Mera« aswell as a - also yet unpainted prototyp - »1/6 ARTFX Thor« from Avengers: Age of Ultron.

As always, you will be able to find all new Kotobukiya items on our website for pre-order as soon as they will be announced officially.

Can you still remember that Thursday was always THE day for new blockbusters in the movies? ;)

Actually, it feels like an eternity ago - but today it's happening again: TENET, Christopher Nolan's latest movie, is officially released in German (and most European) cinemas - or at least in those that are not closed.

We wish everyone who has the opportunity and the desire to finally go to the cinema again a lot of fun with the film... AND - with a very special goodie, which Warner offers us on top: The first trailer for »Dune« is supposed to run exclusively on the big screen before every »Tenet« screening. One more reason to think about a ticket.

Today's Trailer Tuesday is of course all about DC. What was presented to us last weekend in the course of the »DC FanDome« has probably put some of you (and us) into gasping breath...


»Gotham Knights«

»Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League«

»Wonder Woman 1984«

»THE SUICIDE SQUAD – Sneak Peek«

»Black Adam«

»Zack Snyder’s Justice League«

»The Batman«


And - what did you like best, or even blew you away? In general, it's just a celebration to watch great trailers or behind-the-scenes material of new cinema blockbusters. We are totally happy!

Matching the first delivery of the ORIGINS there are special news from Eternia today, including a small review or conclusion in the video of MotUDad...

Already more than two months have passed that DC or actually Jim Lee himself invited fans worldwide to their first virtual DC event, the »DC FanDome«. Tomorrow is the day: the ultimate DC Fan Experience will kick off!

Originally this spectacular was set as one event over 24 hours (which was how they announced it in the first teaser clip). Because of the huge agenda and the pleasant anticipation of the fans, the DC crew decided on very short notice to make it a two-part event instead:

This Saturday, 22nd August, we all can be guests at the »Hall of Heroes«. We will be served - eventually in even 9 languages - a thrilling 8-hour program with a mix of panels and exclusive reveals on DC movies, TV series, games, comics and more. The show will air three times during the 24-hour period. Launch is 10 am PDT (American time) which equals Saturday evening 7 pm CET!

Three weeks later, so on 12th September, they will take us in round two, with the »DC FanDome: Explore the Multiverse«. There we will have access to over 100 hours of on-demand-content! You can even schedule your personalized program through the official event-website DCFanDome.com - how cool is that?!

We are really excited about what DC will bring to everyone's screen or smartphone or tablet! Hopefully there will be some great new collectibles along - but as excuse we would of course also accept a teaser on THE BATMAN or THE SUICIDE SQUAD ;)

Our POP CON AT HOME or SDCC AT HOME is already almost 4 weeks behind. Of course many manufacturers and studios have used this happening to bring their news to all fans worldwide on their home screens.

The one or other brand that you would normally walk by on the showfloor in San Diego was missing at all the online events. So KOTOBUKIYA has now surprisingly announced its own little live streaming event - the »Kotobukiya Expo 2020 Summer«.

It will take place on the two upcoming Sundays (August 23rd and 30th) and the news and product reveals will be divided into thematic blocks. Details can be found in the announcement flyer. Let's hope that Koto will keep the streams online, because otherwise it would mean "setting the alarm clock to 3am" for us.

It's Trailer Tuesday again and this time we have two films, a series and two games on the watch or playlist. Maybe there's something exciting for you.

Movies

THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME
A Netflix prestige project based on the award-winning novel »The Devil all the Time« by Donald Ray Pollock. The well-known cast invites us to a sighting: i.a. Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård and Mia Wasikowska. It will arrive on September 16th on Netflix.

THE OWNERS
The horror thriller starring Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) is based on the acclaimed graphic novel »Une Nuit de Pleine Lun« by Hermann and Yves H. The trailer for this cat and mouse game piqued our interest. Unfortunately there is no date for a German release yet.

Series

AWAY
The sci-fi drama series with Oscar winner Hilary Swank focuses primarily on the human and family aspects of a Mars mission. We weren't quite convinced by the trailer yet, but we love Hilary Swank. So let's tune into Netflix on September 4th.

Games

CYBERPUNK 2077 Gameplay Trailer
After this six minute gameplay trailer at the latest, we are all hooked on »Cyberpunk 2077«.

REMOTHERED: Broken Porcelain - Residents of Ashmann Inn
As is well known, we have a heart for atmospheric horror games. So it's no wonder that “Remothered: Broken Porcelain - Residents of Ashmann Inn” caught our attention. That might be something for our wish list to Santa.

It was to be feared that the Disney blockbuster MULAN, after its original start date in March, would rather not get a chance to appear on the big screen. Now it is clear that the film will be released directly on the in-house streaming service Disney+, on September 4.

Those who are already looking forward to it now, because they own a Disney+ subscription, will be a bit disillusioned right away. To get Mulan on TV you have to pay - probably - 30,- EUR for a so-called "Premier Access" (the amount in the USA is $29,99)! So if you want to get the cinema experience at home, you should share the costs with your family or friends - this way you get away cheaper than by visiting the theater. The movie can be watched as often as you want - provided you don't cancel your subscription, of course. ;)

The final trailer, which was released yesterday, makes it clear that the scenes on the TV at home will not be as powerful as they could be though. But from Disney's point of view it's completely understandable that somehow they still try to get at least a decent turnover with the blockbuster. Depending on how long the cinema business will continue to be on the back burner, we have to expect that there will be a comparable model for many movies.