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By the Power of Grayskull... We have another special newsletter fresh from Eternia's press for you! Have fun ;)

Picking the product of the month for November was very difficult for us because we had so many great collectibles available. Finally, Tweeterhead's Pennywise maquette made it to the throne - or coffin - with a short lead!

Andrés Muschietti's remake of »Stephen King's It« brought the horror clown to our screens in 2017. And this version of the child-eating monster was chosen from the Californian manufacturer. The 1/5 scale statue shows Pennywise, who was played by Bill Skarsgård, crouching on a coffin. In his hand he's holding his famous lure, a red balloon. It almost seems like he's just waiting for his prey. The extreme attention to detail and the magnificent painting make this collectible a must-have in the collection, not only for Pennywise fans.

To be honest, this is probably one of the best collectibles Tweeterhead has released so far and thus our deserved winner in the fight for our product of the month.

The wait is finally (almost) over! THE MANDALORIAN season 2 starts tomorrow on Disney+.

The popcorn is ready and we are really excited to see how the story of Mando and Baby Yoda continues. We are of course particularly curious about the appearances of Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) and the first live-action versions of Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and Bo-Katan (Katee Sackhoff), both known from the animation series »Star Wars: The Clone Wars«.

»The Witcher« showed the way - the adaptation of the video game as a Netflix series was so successful that the streaming provider is of course putting out antennae for similar projects. With »Assassin's Creed« they have now found a suitable candidate! Netflix announced that Jason Altman and Danielle Kreinik from publisher and developer UBISOFT will be responsible as producers. And just like the Witcher, they are already thinking about further projects like spin-offs and animation series for a franchise in addition to a life-action series.

The 2016 movie had a crash landing - with fans, critics and at the box office. But with a well-produced Netflix series, things can look very different.

Right in time for Halloween week, our Trailer Tuesday also starts spooky with the trailer for the video game »Little Nightmares 2«. The Apple TV+ series »Servant« is also nice and creepy - the second season starts on January 15th. The construction of the horror film »The Empty Man« seems a bit too retort-like, but let's wait and see. The Hulu thriller »Run« with Sarah Paulson looks exciting and in the thriller drama »Dreamland« we meet Margot Robbie again. But we are particularly curious about the Western »News from the World« with Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel (Systemsprenger)!

»Little Nightmares 2«

»Servant«

»The Empty Man«

»Run«

»Dreamland«

»News of the World«

All fantasy fans and children of the 80s will certainly remember »Willow«, the wonderful fantasy adventure in which Warwick Davis (Wicket, the Ewok) played the leading role alongside Val Kilmer. Ron Howard directed the story of George Lucas in 1988 truly great and James Horner accompanied the whole thing with an unforgettable score.

Now it has been confirmed that Willow will get a sequel - as a series on Disney+! Warwick Davis will definitely be in it and Ron Howard will probably have his fingers in the pie too. That sounds promising, we think. We're especially happy for Warwick, who is such a nice guy and you always like to see him - even if you often don't even recognize him...

Gal Gadot follows in Elizabeth Taylor's footsteps and plays Cleopatra in the remake of the historical material. The original movie is from 1963 and it was awarded with four Academy Awards.

Plans for a new edition have been buzzing through Hollywood for a long time. Ten years ago, »Titanic« director James Cameron had the wish to direct the monumental film with Angelina Jolie in the title role. As it turns out, the material is still in demand and some studios struggled to bring the life of the legendary Egyptian queen back to the screen. Ultimately, the Paramount Pictures won the race. The director will be Patty Jenkins, who has also directed the two Wonder Woman films. The script for the historical epic is written by Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island). The constellation of the three strong women (Gadot, Jenkins and Kalogridis) promises that the story will be told from a female perspective. So this could be exciting...

Gal Gadot in an opulent costume as Cleo - that literally screams for a realization as a wonderful 1/6 scale figure, right? We do not consider that to be impossible either. Recently, TBLeague presented us a few pretty Egyptian characters. So that would be a good candidate for a Gadot Cleopatra.
 

The last week wasn't quite as rich with new, exciting trailers, so our Trailer Tuesday is a bit leaner and here and there we make a small (or big) question mark, like behind the first long trailer for »Monster Hunter«, a soulless and not even good CGI orgy... We look forward to get a letter from the Boss and the documentary »Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You« on Apple TV+. The Spanish HBO series »30 Coins« and the Stephen King miniseries »The Stand« make us cautiously optimistic. And CD Projekt RED continues to feed our greed on »Cyberpunk 2077«. We don't have to wait much longer. In Night City, your style determines everything...

»Monster Hunter«

»Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You«

»30 Coins«

»The Stand«

»Cyberpunk 2077 - (Styles)«

»Dexter« gets a new season after seven years. What did we celebrate the series back then, even if after the fourth season it unfortunately lost more and more momentum and the finale was simply disappointing! Now there is the possibility to bring the series to a worthy end with ten new episodes.

In addition to Michael C. Hall, showrunner Clyde Phillips is back on board. SHOWTIME broadcaster Gary Levine said "We wouldn't bring this unique character back if we hadn't found a creative approach worthy of the brilliant original series. Clyde Phillips and Michael C. Hall came up with such an approach and we can't wait to show it to the world."

Now that sounds promising! Season 9 is scheduled to go on air on SHOWTIME in fall 2021. We really look forward to seeing the "serial killer with codex" again.

Today we again have a high-ranking visitor to the S.P.A.C.E headquarters! Marc, whom some of you know as »the Euronerd« from Instagram, has arranged to meet us for a coffee.

Marc didn't come empty-handed, but with a huge pile of the brand new and hot off the press NERDY STYLEZ. This super cool free magazine will be in our distribution starting today. A Nerdy Stylez is included in every package, free of charge of course!

We are especially proud of our really big advertisement on page 13 (props to @collectors_apartment)!

Our »Postcard Collection« goes into the second round - or rather is right in the middle of it... because since October 1st you will get the »Beetlejuice« postcard in every package from us - as always free of charge!

The design shows the beautiful 1/7 scale Beetlejuice PVC statue from KOTOBUKIYA's popular »Horror Bishoujo« series. The fantastic artwork was designed and staged by our friend Peter (@collectors_apartment). A big thanks, combined with a huge compliment for the work goes to Peter "SmerliPowers" Pan ;)

We are convinced that you will love the postcard too! The new card for November will be out of the printing house soon. We only had to pay a bounty...

It's Trailer Tuesday Time again! Today we take you into distant, fantastic worlds and present a lot of thrill with nail-biting tension. In this sense, »Horizon Line« makes a very good impression on us. Is anyone here afraid of flying...?

»Outriders«

»Amnesia: Rebirth«

»The Expanse« Season 5

»Monster Hunter«

»Promising Young Woman«

»Horizon Line«

Originally the annual NEW YORK COMIC CON would start today in New York at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Of course this event is also cancelled due to Covid-19. As alternative the organizers arranged an extensive on-line program under the label »New York Comic Con x MCM Comic Con's Metaverse«. You can find more information here.

Sideshow, who are usually very active at the NYCC, have taken the reins again and are organizing their own con since Tuesday - online, of course. The first highlights could already be discovered during the shows and live streams. Among them were all the »Clone Wars« figures from Hot Toys including Ahsoka Tano or the 1/10 Cave Troll from Iron Studios. But also Sideshow's own, brand new Iron Man Mark XLIII Maquette is a real eye-catcher!

Keep an eye on Sideshow's YouTube channel or the website or snoop through Instagram and co. for the hashtag #sideshownycon :)

In our next ABGESPACED episode at the end of the month we will present you a summary of the most interesting news!

A lot of new trailers have come out in the last few days - accordingly the horn of plenty for our trailer Tuesday is full of promising prospects. These are unfortunately a little bit clouded by the latest news from Warner Bros. about »Dune«: the theatrical release has been postponed by almost a year to October 2021! The Corona crisis is seriously forcing the cinema industry to its knees...

Nevertheless have fun clicking through our selected clips. The story trailer for »Assassin's Creed Valhalla« was the one that shook us the most. Very cool that the game will be released in about a month :)


»The Mortuary Collection«

»The Beachhouse«

»Borat Subsequent Moviefilm«

»The Witches«

»Greenland«

»Free Guy« 2nd Trailer

»Someone Has to Die«

»Paranormal«

»Cyberpunk 2077« (commercial)

»Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War« - Zombie Reveal Trailer

»Assassin's Creed Valhalla«

MOTU fans, heads up: today we have some news especially for you! New Origins for pre-order, Mythic Legions and lots more...

Our Product of the Month October 2020 takes us 50 years back to the Wild West of 1970, when the classic spaghetti westerns of the 60s were followed by two very special, glorious scoundrels and they undoubtedly made film history: Bud Spencer and Terence Hill - legends of our childhood, with their movies for eternity...

It would probably be difficult to make an exact hit list of all Bud Spencer & Terence Hill movies, but »The Devil's Right and Left Hand« is certainly one of everyone's favorites. From exactly this movie the Italian manufacturer »Infinite Statue« took Bud Spencer in his role as Bambino as a model and released a wonderful resin statue in 1/6 scale.

Infinite always go into their statues with great attention to detail and so once again an iconic collector's item has been created - in a strictly limited edition of only 600 copies worldwide!

We' ve rarely looked forward to the delivery of a collectible as much as we did with this one - and of course a Bud Spencer had to make its way to our own showroom as well.

You don't have to fight for Bambino with your fists yet, because we were able to get a few more pieces for you. But don't think about it too long, because Bud will be completely sold out soon!

In the past two months, we've been pushing our creativity controls to the max and gave all our efforts to finally be able to present you our new YouTube format today:
ABGESPACED - NEUES AUS DEM FIGUREN UNIVERSUM

Translated in English, this means something like »SPACED OUT - NEWS FROM THE FIGURE UNIVERSE«. In this show, which is produced in our S.P.A.C.E studio, we will look back with you on the past month, round up all highlights and interesting news and of course we'll also take a glimpse on the upcoming weeks.

"We" are in the 1st episode - the test drive so to say - Sven and Tobi from our crew. For the next episodes we will also have guests at the studio. There will of course also be exiting specials in every show, like unboxings, sweepstakes, discount coupon and some tales from the crypt ;)

From NOW on you'll be able to watch the September episode by following this link.

»ABGESPACED« shall air from now on every end of the month on our YouTube channel. It is held in German only, but it might still be worth clicking in also for every non German speaking viewer. Give it a try ;)

Trailer Tuesday Time! Still, it is rather the "smaller" movies that find their way to the big screen - like the Spanish horror movie »Malasaña 32«, which will be released on November 19th. Could definitely be nice and spooky...

In terms of series, we're also staying in the horror genre: Netflix is showing us the second trailer for »The Haunting of Bly Manor« and a first teaser for the animated series »Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness«. The »Barbarians« and the Battle of the Teuteburg Forest are surely going to be bloody too. Transformers fans can look forward to the trailer for chapter 2 of the animation series »Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy«. Amazon Prime Video offers a preview of the Walking Dead spin-off »World Beyond« and the horror comedy series »Truth Seekers« with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. The trailer for Marvel's »Hellstrom« on Hulu also looks promising and beautifully dark.

We also found three new trailers for games that will pleasantly excite your retinas. Horror is promised by »The Medium« and you can experience an underwater adventure with »Aquanox: Deep Descent«. The NieR Prequel »NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...« will surely find many fans. However, it will not be released before April 23, 2021.


»Malasaña 32«

»The Haunting of Bly Manor«

»Barbarians«

»Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness«

»Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy«

»The Walking Dead: World Beyond«

»Truth Seekers«

»Hellstrom«

»The Medium«

»Aquanox: Deep Descent«

»NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...«

Many conventions such as the San Diego Comic Con dropped out this year due to the Corona Pandemic. Studios and also many manufacturers of collectibles are faced with the task of finding new ways of presentation and are moving events into the virtual world of the Internet. The most recent example is the »Hasbro Pulse Con« on September 25 and 26, where the manufacturer presented a colorful program of panels, background information and, above all, tons of new presentations around the Hasbro lines of Transformers, G.I. Joe, Power Rangers, Marvel Legends, Ghostbusters and Star Wars. You can find an extensive round-up of Pulse Con at the colleagues of THE FWOOSH.

At Marvel Legends we are happy about the first Jocasta figure ever! Thors Stormbreaker in 1:1 is a real eye-catcher. At the Ghostbusters we are looking forward to the Ecto-1 - matching the figures of the »Plasma Series« - and in the Star Wars Black Series there are also a lot of figures that will make our fan hearts beat faster: Rey (Dark Side Vision), The Armorer, Jar Jar Binks, Boba Fett... just to name a few. Very funny are the Stormtroopers in the Christmas look. New in the weapons cabinet you can soon add Ahsoka Tano's Lightsaber to your collection. But the absolute hit is without a doubt Hasbro's newest »HasLab« project - the Razor Crest spaceship from The Mandalorian.

Did you have a look at Hasbro Pulse Con? What was your highlight?

As a blockbuster, »Tenet« was the yardstick for all further large-scale productions. Unfortunately, due to the Corona virus, it fell short of expectations and drew fewer people to the cinemas in the US than hoped. Result: at the studios Fear is spreading and planned start dates are postponed again and again.

»Black Widow« won't hit German theaters until May 6, 2021. Originally, November 6, 2020 was planned. Everything else from the MCU moves to next Summer and beyond accordingly. Looks like the cinema will remain a blockbuster-free zone for the next few months (at least as far as new films are concerned). Those of you who struggle with Marvel withdrawal symptoms can at least watch »WandaVision« (end of 2020) and »The Falcon And The Winter Soldier« (early 2021) on Disney+.