A Kuso Designer Toys @ NYCC'09-Announcement & Scapegoat Billy Raffle (Booth 966)
Oh dear. Seems the current economic downturn has claimed one "victim" in the new year, with Kuso Designer Toys' announcement that their plate of figures [TAGGED on TRE] will not be released at the coming New York Comic Con, as planned. Figures will instead be made available via kusovinyl.com at a later date. But fret not, samples will be on-show at NYCC, with pre-order coupons made available at the show, as well as drawings for figure-giveaways.[CLICK for Full Announcement from Kuso]
In addition to giveaway freebies at their show-booth, Kuso is pleased to announce a special raffle event (sponsored by Kuso) for the "Criminal Billy" figure by Jure Gavran [blogged]. This is the first time release for this 8 inch tall Scapegoat Billy version (with 3 inch tall Blamee), with only 1 figure made available for the free raffle.
Drawing will be held at 3PM on Friday, Feb. 7th. The tickets would be handed out from 11:30AM to 2:30PM on Friday. After the raffle, Jure is going to host a signing event from 3PM to 4PM on Friday. Kuso also mentions: "Please bring your versions of Scapegoat ready for signing."
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM KUSO DESIGNER TOYS LLC:
"Kuso Designer Toys LLC is regretably to announce that due to unexpected factory production delay caused by the vast economic downturn, its figures are unable to be released on time at the NYCC show. Instead, these figures are going to be released at a later time on Kuso's website (kusovinyl.com). Kuso will offer coupons of pre-order for these figures at its show booth for those that already planned the purchases. News and updates of these figures will be released at the Kuso booth during NYCC. Kuso sincerely offer its apologies to its valued customers.
At the Show booth, however, we are going to still host the drawing for the figures to give away. When we have the figures ready, the winners would get them in mail. Also as a token of apology, Kuso is going to give away freebies at the show booth."
