Thank you for the fantastic success of the Simi Valley Toy & Comic Fest and the anticipation for the upcoming Robo Toy Fest and the new location, the Burbank Marriott convention center.
As advance tickets are now live on robotoyfest.com,
Advance tickets are now Live and guests announced soon.
Ticket Link https://shorturl.at/gEL38
Guests announcements soon
DX VIP Package Included Early Admission Event Pin Millennium Puzzle replica and a random Japanese YuGiOh Game Boy Cart. Any left over Millennium Puzzles will be avlaible at the event only. Hand made resin cast limited to 20 pieces . Japanese Gameboy carts random for DX and Early bird packages only. Event Pins are with DX and early packages and sold at the event. Two inch glitter enamel black metal back pins. All items and extras while supplies last
Online ticket sales – Link
Location: 999 ENCHANTED WAY , SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA 93065
Hours: 10am – 5pm
DX VIP Package 9am Early entry with Event Pin , Game Boy Cart and Millennium Puzzle replica. $100
Early Admission : 9am Early entry with Event Pin $25
General Admission: 10 am admission $10
Children 12 and under are free with paid adult ticket
While Supplies last
Both Garrett and Darren will be selling lots of great stuff at the show. Clearing the garage of some treasure so be sure to swing by and say hi.
Garrett Sander (on the right) is most notable as the creator of global phenomenon Monster High. He started his toy career as a package designer at Mattel, working on Winx Club, My Scene, and Pixel Chix. He then became a product designer, overseeing Monster High and Polly Pocket. He also designed the 12″ collector She-Ra doll. Currently he is principal designer at Moose Toys known for Capsule Chix, Failfix and Sweet Seams.
Darren Sander (on the left) has designed packaging for such Mattel brands as My Scene, Polly Pocket, and Barbie. He designed the Graphic Design USA award winning package for the 12″ Collector She-Ra. Designed the doll and package for the Power-Con exclusive Starburst She-Ra collector figure, and both product and package for the DreamWorks She-Ra toy line. Currently he is the Packaging Art Director for Girls brands at Moose Toys having worked on Real Littles, Bluey, and Sweet Seams.
Michael Sinterniklaas is a French voice actor and ADR director based in the United States. He has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series, as well as cartoons and video games. He has worked for Funimation, Studiopolis, Konami Cross Media NY, Central Park Media, Bandai Entertainment, Viz Media and Media Blasters. He is the founder and owner of NYAV Post, a Bi-coastal studio located in New York City and Los Angeles, which dubbed many different anime titles and recorded several original prelay works.
He is best known for his roles as Leonardo in the 2003 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dean Venture in The Venture Bros. and Taki Tachibana in the English dub of Your Name.
His most notable roles as a voice actor are Leonardo in 2003 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dean Venture (and other small parts) in the Adult Swim cartoon The Venture Bros, Mikey Simon in the Nicktoons series Kappa Mikey, Orphan in Final Fantasy XIII and as Deady in the 2011 Friday the 13th event of the online MMORPG AdventureQuest Worlds. He also replaced David Moo as Xellos in the English dub of Slayers Revolution and Evolution-R.
He is also a well known voice director, for a variety of shows, such as Berserk, Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, Kappa Mikey, Kurokami: The Animation, Magic User’s Club, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Slayers Revolution, Slayers Evolution-R, Let’s Go! Tamagotchi, Three Delivery, Care Bears and The Venture Bros.
This years Event pin is a two inch emamel pine with gliter coated logo.
These are included with VIP and Early admission packages and for sale at the event
Online ticket sales – Link
Location: 999 ENCHANTED WAY , SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA 93065
Hours: 10am – 5pm
DX VIP Package 9am Early entry with Event Pin , Game Boy Cart and Millennium Puzzle replica. $100
Early Admission : 9am Early entry with Event Pin $25
General Admission: 10 am admission $10
Children 12 and under are free with paid adult ticket
Digger is an American Transmedia Artist/ Director/ Writer/ Producer of Toys, Film and Comics. He is widely known as the Founder of Art Asylum, creator of Minimates Toys, Adam Sandler’s Scuba Steve from Big Daddy, IDW’s The Other Dead, Agent 88 and his role as Bain in Payday 2.
The controversial NYC artist founded the U.S.A. design house Art Asylum in 1996 fighting for artistic credit in an industry where all talent operated in virtual anonymity. He was a creative driving force behind the success of Toybiz, Diamond Select, Toymax, Fun 4 All, Happiness Express and worked extensively with Kaiyodo Toys Japan.
Art Asylum Toys was formed in 2001 where Digger reinvented the collectible toy world with the launch of Minimates that had over 50 waves of licensed collectibles for Marvel Comics alone. Minimates is the only specialty brand created in this era to have amassed 20 years of brand equity and is an obvious influence for both LEGO’S animated universe and ROBLOX. As a pioneer in the toy world, Digger led the youngest company to be awarded the worldwide master rights for “Star Trek” by Viacom.
After years of working creatively with the likes of Marvel Entertainment, Lucas Film, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Revolution Studios, Heavy Metal, Clive Barker, Kevin Eastman, Ozzy Osbourne, KISS, & Eminem to name a few, Art Asylum was sold to Diamond Select Toys and Digger has pursued Omni Media as his life’s work. Digger is currently creating for the NFT Drop sensation ZINU The Immortal Zombie Dog , preparing for his first solo exhibition in Spring 2023 and the subject of a feature length documentary about his life Titled Digger and
The Art Asylum being written & directed by Ryan Brookhart.
Christopher Khayman Lee is an American actor who played Andros in Power Rangers in Space. He was born and raised in New Jersey, and at 17 years of age, moved to Miami to start an acting career.
Solofa Fatu Jr. is an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring names Rikishi and Fatu with World Wrestling Entertainment, where he is a one-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time World Tag Team Champion, and one-time WWE Tag Team Champion. He is a member of the Anoa’i family of Samoan wrestlers
Back by popular demand and demand and schedules we have both Janice Kawaye & Keone Young coming to Simi Valley Toy & Comic Fest.
Janice Kawaye
Janice Kawaye is an American voice actress known for her roles as Gi in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Jenny Wakeman in My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Lysithea in the Fire Emblem series. She is also Ami in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi and Yuzu Kurosaki in Bleach
Keone Young
Keone Young is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for his television roles as Dr. Michael Kwan in Kay O’Brien (1986), Mr. Wu in Deadwood (2004–2006) and as the dual roles of Judge Robert Chong and Mr. Wan in The Young and the Restless (2007–2010). His voice-over roles include Storm Shadow in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Kaz in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, and Luong Lao Shi in American Dragon: Jake Long.
Chuck Patton joins some of his Alumni from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Series he directed 2003-2009
Both Mark Thompson Casey Jones and Wayne Grayson Michelangelo are already at the event so this makes a mini TMNT reunion on top of the already ongoing YuGiOh reunion.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (also known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Ninja Tribunal, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward, and TMNT: Back to the Sewer for the fifth, sixth, and seventh and final seasons of the series) is an American animated television series developed by Lloyd Goldfine. It is the second animated series and third television series in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The series premiered on February 8, 2003, as part of Fox’s FoxBox programming block (later known as 4Kids TV) and ended on February 28, 2009. A sequel film, Turtles Forever, serving as both the series finale of the series and a crossover with the 1987–1996 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series (via the plot element of the multiverse), was released on November 21, 2009.
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