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East Coast Hobby Show 2003

The East Coast Hobby Show was advertised as trains, r/c cars, boats, planes, models, miniatures, comics, collectibles and more. But only some of that was correct. The show is overall basically a train and radio control vehicle show which included a very small subgroup of the other items listed.

Of interest to people outside of the world of trains, miniatures and R/C there was the Ultarama stand. Ultarama is an up and coming company who is making a name for themselves in the action figure world with their great display units. Their system allows collectors and kids to create great dioramas with almost any action figure under eight inches tall. Along with their basic sci-fi scenes two new scenes were unveiled at this show, another lighter sci-fi background and an excellent superheroes city skyline background. The latter is perfect for all those cool new Justice League figures hitting the stores now.

Ultarama was also one of the very few stands to offer any type of collectible besides miniatures and diecast cars. As well as offering their display systems for sale they had several different types of action figures available which included Star Wars and Playmates Star Trek figures. Both are a perfect match for the Ultarama.

Visit their website www.ultarama.com for more information or to order your action figures display system today.

Next to the Ultarama stand was Destination Entertainment, a marketing and design company for the publishing and collectibles industries. They offered many of the comics they have worked with; I Dream of Jeanie, Lethargic Lad, The Munsters, VIP and others. They offered several comics and collectibles for sale.

The main attraction was their fantasy statues the newest of which is based on the Heavy Metal covers. Show visitors were treated to a look at the prototypes of the "Red Stacy" statue one was painted while the other was unpainted. This statue was available for pre-order and will be limited to 1500 pieces. Fantasy collectors will want to get their hands on this one. The sultry warrior depicted in this statue is based on the art of Alex Horley of the model Stacy E. Walker.

Destination Entertainment also had two versions of their other statue available at the show. Vladimira is an "exquisite 3-dimensional portrayal of the Scion of Dracula". She was available in both a regular and special crimson editions. The Vladimira statue is very limited with the regular edition limited to 500 pieces and the crimson edition is limited to only 75 pieces.

Destination Entertainment does not yet have a website, but when they do head on over for these statues and other great collectible items. Stacy E. Walker's home on the web is at www.stacyewalker.com.

One other point of interest was the Amazing Figure Modeler stand. Amazing Figure Modeler is a great magazine featuring tips, hints and resources for the sci-fi, horror and fantasy modeler or collector. They had many model kits for sale form the flying saucer from Forbidden Planet to the gillman from The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Most of the available models were either science fiction or horror related.

Also at their stand was a working artist who was working on painting resin busts of Frankenstein, Nosferatu and The Phantom of the Opera while and another person was working on piecing together what appeared to be a 12" or 18" resin kit of Ray Harryhausen's Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth.

In addition to the models they had their magazines and videos for sale as well as some of the X-Plus Harryhausen collectibles.

You can find Amazing Figure Modeler on the web at www.amazingmodeler.com and X-Plus at www.xplususa.com.

The remainder of the show had R/C cars, planes and boats plus train miniatures [I found a nice little cemetery that will work somewhere in my horror collection], NASCAR models, military models & miniatures and of course train, trains and more trains. [The pictures below feature the train display from Bachmann Industries. The details were just amazing and I just wanted to share it with you. If interested in trains you can find more information out on their site at www.bachmanntrains.com.]


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