You’ve read about our Maximum Zombies giveaway, but there will actually be a super-secret Minimate giveaway at the Diamond Select Toys booth (#338), just for you, the Minimates fans who read this blog and follow us on Twitter. Come to booth 338, find DST Marketing Supervisor Zach Oat (with the sideburns), and say the words “search and rescue,” and you’ll get a bagged Minimates MAX Series 2 figure. We will have very few of these, and they will go fast! Note: Accessories shown may not be the ones that come with the figure.

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Having trouble keeping track of everything you need to see and do at the New York Comic-Con? Of course you are. It would take a computerized brain to remember everything that’s going on, so we thought we’d help you remember the important stuff — namely, everything Diamond Select Toys is doing at the show! Use this as your handy-dandy checklist for all things DST-related! Exclusives, giveaways, events… Consider this your Diamond Select field guide, complete with pictures below!
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Diamond Select Toys has a long tradition of giving out free Minimates at their convention appearances, and this year’s New York Comic-Con will be no different. However, since it’s only a couple of weeks before Halloween, we decided to make this year’s giveaway extra-spooky. The free Minimate will be from our upcoming Maximum Zombies Minimates line, and will be a Zombie Civilian in a sealed bag. Giveaways will happen at our booth (#338) starting at 10:00 AM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST — there will only be a limited number given out each day. (Note: Giveaways will NOT occur at noon, as they have in the past.) It’s first come, first served, so you will want to make our booth your first stop of the day, and pick up the exclusive Maximum Zombies two-pack (seen here backing up the Zombie Civilian) while you’re in the neighborhood! Check out the pictures below, and we’ll see you at the con!

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Our Femme Fatales Anne Bonny statue is sailing across the seas to comic shops and specialty stores right now, but before she gets there, the beutiful-but-deadly pirate has an undercover mission to go on… at New York Comic-Con! Dying her blonde hair brown and ditching her trademark tan coat for a maroon one, this incognito variant version of the beautiful Pirate Raider will only be available at NYCC in a limited edition of 100 — the same edition size as our sold-out SDCC-exclusive Alice! Check out her NYCC packaging and full turnarounds (with forelock) below, then stop by the Diamond Select Toys booth (#338) on October 13-16 with your 40 pieces of silver, and pick up this rare bit o’ treasure!

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If you plan on attending New York Comic Con this year, you may want to consider wearing a hardhat. Diamond Select Toys will have an exclusive two-pack of 2-inch Maximum Zombies Minimates for sale, and these little guys could be lurking around any corner just looking to sink their tiny zombie teeth into your (comparatively) huge brain! They even come with alternate, interchangeable heads for double the biting action. Luckily, we’ve made sure that they are contained inside of attractive, zombie-proof packaging — what you do with them when you get home is your business, but don’t say we didn’t warn you! Visit the Diamond Comics booth (#344) for a full list of participating retailers at the con, and stay tuned for an announcement about our full zombie Minimates line!

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If you live in the comic book universe, you can count on superheroes like Spider-Man to show up and save the day. But what if you live in the real world? Who will save you then? Luckily, there are men and women out there risking their lives to keep others safe day in and day out. They’re the ones that will come rescue you when you are trapped in a burning building or stuck inside of a twisted car wreck.  In recognition of these true everyday heroes, we present this special NYCC-exclusive 2 pack that includes a brave fireman and your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, both decked out in full firefighting gear, with NYCC 2011 printed on the back of their coats and a variety of interchangeable parts! Diamond Select will have some on hand at booth #338, but visit the Diamond Comics Distributors at booth #344 for a full list of participating retailers at the con!

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Why settle for one Deadpool when you can have an entire set of Deadpools? The Deadpool Corps is getting the toy treatment for the first time in history, and it seems fitting that they’re tough-but-cute Marvel Minimates. But if you want the awesome power of the Deadpool Corps in the palm of your hand, there’s only one place to get it: just stop by the  Action Figure Express booth (#1846) at New York Comic Con on October 13-16, and they’ll hook you up! The figures even come in special NYCC-edition Minimates packaging, which Deadpool has customized to feature his own portrait. Check back soon for more NYCC packaging!

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Whether you attended DST’s Minimates panel at San Diego Comic-Con or not, you need to check out their Minimates panel at New York Comic-Con! They’ll have new pictures! New news! New speakers! New animation! New clothes! (Actually, they will be wearing the same clothes.) Plus, the panel will be sandwiched by signings with Minimates designer and artist Uriel Caton at the DST booth! Here are the details:

Saturday, October 15, 2011

12:30-2:00, Booth 338, Diamond Select Toys
Signing with Uriel Caton, head designer of DST’s Minimates mini-figures, and artist behind many of DST’s Minimates promotional posters. Free copies of Uriel’s Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Minimates poster will be available for signing, and the show exclusives will be available for purchase, but feel free to bring any product for him to sign. (He designs the majority of our Minimates figures, with the exception of Halo.)

2:45-3:45, Panel Room 1A15, downstairs
“Minimates: 9 Years, 1000 Tiny Toys.” Some of the team behind the Minimates mini-figure brand will unveil upcoming products and answer your questions about the 2-inch, highly articulated toys, which were born right here in NYC! Minimates product manager Robert Yee, Art Asylum artist and designer Uriel Caton and DST Marketing Supervisor Zach Oat will share insider info about all of our current lines, including Marvel, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Halo, Universal Monsters, Minimates MAX, Pirate Raiders, Real Ghostbusters, Knight Rider, Femme Fatales, Back to the Future and more! They will then submit to a Q&A session and debut the next stop-motion animated Minimates adventure, based on Pirate Raiders! Plus, there will be a Minimates prize drawing at the end of the panel!

4:30-6:00, Booth 338, Diamond Select Toys
Signing resumes with Uriel Caton.

Check out our NYCC exclusive offerings here, and stay tuned to find out about this year’s giveaway figure!

Diamond Select Toys likes to think of its convention appearances as one long goodwill tour of America, bringing sneak peeks of its products and new, exclusive toys to different parts of the country. And this year’s journey, from Chicago’s C2E2 to San Diego’s Comic-Con, is now coming to an end in New York City, at the 2011 New York Comic-Con! Taking place at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan from October 13-16, the convention is the East Coast’s biggest pop-culture gathering, and in addition to our famous Minimates panel (2:45 on Saturday, in Room 1A15), this year will be the home to four very cool exclusive DST products, including the first offerings from a brand new line of Minimates!
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