A gift for the New Year

So, oh well...Ghost Rider and Wolverine can't join your stack underneath the tree...but hey, who says you can't have a "happy-new-year-gift"? Both figures are limited to 2000 and will be available to ship by january fourth. But no need to wait, Upper Deck is taking preorders now.

Brady Bunch

Papa Tommy is yet another footballer to me immortalized by Upper Deck.
Black, Road, and Retro Brady will go on sale to the general public on Wednesday at 9:12 am pst.
Grass stains never looked so good. =)

Ben wants a rematch

[get them bens! l to r: Black, Road White, Retro. photo courtesy of upperdeck.]

After their preseason defeat, Ben wants to battle Brett.
Okay, so I'm spreading rumors. Well, it could happen...in your home.

Have an All Star Vinyl rematch! Upper Deck will be releasing their Ben Roethlisberger figure to the public this Thursday at 9:07 am pt.

More drops to look forward to...
September 26 - Martin Brodeur

October 3 -Tom Brady
Reggie Bush
Carmelo Anthony

November
LaDainian Tomlinson
ShaQ O'Neal [uh oh Kob...]

December
Brian Urlacher
Steve Nash
Henrik Lunqvist

Upper Deck's subCASTS

[image courtesy of upperdeck]
yO Con-erz....Didya check out Upper Deck's SubCasts line of Marvel Super Heroes? TWEEQiM Creative Lab designed the figures. They are a Portland Oregon based design team of wife and husband artists Twee (Thuy) Pahn-Willmott and miQ (Mike) Willmott. Clever, right?

[image courtesy of upperdeck]
The Con had prototypes and also had a pre-release offer to the lucky con-goers of the Spider-Man figure. 1000 were released at the Con and the rest of the 2000 edition went on sale on August 28. All figures are hand numbered. And still can be purchased here.

[image courtesy of upperdeck]
Each figure in the series will be a limited edition of 2000 and will be hand numbered.

[some of the marvel heroes that will also join the series. image courtesy of upperdeck]
Two more figures will be dropping this year: Marvel’s Iron Man™ (Oct) and Ghost Rider™ (Dec.) Additional iconic heroes such as, Captain America™, Wolverine™, and the Hulk™, will be releases throughout 2008.

[subCASTS figures seen at the SD Comic Con. image courtesy of UD Dave. photo collage by juligie™. ]

Play with NFL’s only three-time league MVP

Get Brett!

[the Bretts: l to r: Black, Road White, Retro. image courtesy of upperdeck]
Brett will be going on sale TODAY, Wednesday, September 5th at 9:04 am PST!

Upper Deck's All Star Vinyl Series will be releasing three Bretts! Sah-Woon! All Star Vinyl Figures stand approximately 11 inches
The Edition Sizes are as follows: 1,500 Road White, 500 Retro, 250 Black Edition, which are priced at: $50 Road White, $100 Road/Retro Dual-Pack, $200 Road/Retro/Black Three pack.

Save up your pretty pennies for more NFL hotties:
Ben Roethlisberger - Pittsburgh Steelers (09/13)
Tom Brady - New England Patriots (10/03)
Reggie Bush – New Orleans Saints (October)
Ladainian Tomlinson – San Diego Chargers (November) - RETSIRHC gave us a sneak peak
Brian Urlacher – Chicago Bears (December)
Peyton Manning – Indianapolis Colts (January)

More drop dates and photos to follow...

Watch out Kob...

If you were the lucky few that picked up Kobe at Comic Con, have no fret.
Your Kobe has a playmate! or I suppose an arch enemy.

Upperdeck's All Star Vinyl series is releasing the LeBron action figure on August 7th at 9:23am pst (is the time symbolic of something? :23=Lebron's number?) They are to release four versions of LeBron - A Red Road uniform, a White Home uniform, a Black uniform, and a retro uniform.

[away vs home]

Each variant will of course be limited...the most being the Red one, which will have 1500 produced, while the Black one being the most limited at only 250 figures.

[retro vs black]

Just like Kobe, the Retro Lebron is actually an event exclusive for attendees of the National Sports Collectors Convention in Ohio.

Lebron is not new to the vinyl game.

Upper Deck has already launched The LeBrons, which were based on the popular Nike Ads.

Tony and Cal's Sweet Spot

Will you be one of the lucky few to get the two newly inducted Hall of Famers Tony and Cal's signed sweet spot?

Yes, the card is embedded with the "sweet spot" of a baseball. and its an actual game used ball. SAH-WEET!

Find these and other super duper cool collector cards inside of the upcoming releases of 2007 UpperDeck Ultimate Collection and series packs: MLB Sweet Spot Classic, MLBGoudey, SP Legendary Cuts, MLBMLB Masterpiece.

[exclusive photo provided by upperdeck]

KOBE at Comic Con!

Well sorta.
Upper Deck has joined in the urban culture phenomena of vinyl figure collectibles and created, "All Star Vinyl," which depicts our favorite (and least favorite) sport figures. Staying true to trend, Bryant is shown in a whimsical-comic style, as are other figures in the collection.

Other colorways of Bryant were introduced earlier this year and, in true Kobe fashion, quickly sold out. Unbelievable! =D

All-Star Vinyl has a production run of only 250 and will only be made available to attendees of San Diego Comic-Con July 26-29 at the Upper Deck booth #2829 for one hundred bucks...cash money only, they ask.

Check out the rest of the featured athletes in their showroom section.

[photo courtesy of Upper Deck]