NANCY FANS - NANCY DREW ACTION FIGURES KICKSTARTER LIVE! - Your mission if you choose to accept it is to head on over to Doc and Gavin's Wandering Planet Toys Nancy Drew Kickstarter page and you've got only 30 days to help fund this awesome venture! As a kid in the late 70s/80s, I was a huge Star Wars fan and loved my action figures - still have them! - and to see these awesome retro Nancy Drew action figures come to life from all the hard work that's gone into pre-production on these, is so beyond cool! This year is the 70th anniversary of the late Nancy Drew artist, Rudy Nappi's ND cover art career which began in 1953 and these figures pay homage to some of your favorite and festive 60s and 70s Nappi covers! Nancy's iconic and so are these illustrations of her and Wandering Planet Toys has done a fantastic job of styling them, with accessories from the cover scenes and even adding in extra figures in two sets - Nancy's doppelganger - the villainess - from Lilac Inn and the creepy Robby the Robot from Crooked Banister. Figures are based on Old Clock, Hidden Staircase, Lilac Inn, Old Attic, Dancing Puppet, and Crooked Banister.
The packaging is fantastic - card backs for the simple collector and book style cases for the book collector - check out the internal illustrations used and the cool endpaper scenes. The packaging is collectible in and of itself! Buy a set to keep mint in package and a set to sleuth around with! I'll be doing that and getting a set to send to Toledo Public Library for my Nancy Drew Collection there. PLUS! There are neat incentives - don't even get me started on how much I am thrilled with those. The silhouette figure complete with tweed book background. The cool silhouette stand to keep your figures posed on your shelves. And so super-beyond-cool is the 5-chapter Nancy Drew Novella, The Case of the Curious Collection, written in the classic Nancy Drew mystery style AND ILLUSTRATED BY RUTH SANDERSON!!!!! One day a few months ago, Doc asked me who would be a good person to illustrate the Novella and my immediate answer was Ruth Sanderson - besides her wonderful history as a classic paperbacks Nancy Drew illustrator, she's fantastic and her style is perfect for this, so I'm beyond thrilled she was excited to do it and I love the cover scene she's illustrating based on a general outline and synopsis I wrote up. It's so cool to see that come to life.
As the pledging goes and the goals are being reached at Kickstarter, that will unlock even more super cool things! You've got to help make this happen, so Nancy fans, head on over to the Nancy Drew Kickstarter campaign and support this awesome indie toy company run by Doc and Gavin! Making this a success ensures a second wave of more figures to come in the future! I'm so happy they brought me on board to consult on this line of action figures and am thrilled to see it all come to life in such a nostalgic way! They have gone above and beyond the Call of Drewty on this one :)
See the rest of the figures below plus the cool Novella with Ruth's art, click on the images to view larger ones.
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