Nancy Drew Action Figures Sneak Peek - Book Box Figures

Nancy Drew Action Figures Preview #2

The Nancy Drew Action Figures from Wandering Planet Toys includes figures packaged like a book in book boxes. The packaging on these is amazing! The attention to detail and information on them is great for fans. Inside, the endpapers from some of the early picture covers are reproduced behind the figures and an image from the book is also reproduced right inside the book box cover. On back is the same copy as that on the card back figures which I wrote for the packaging. 

The four figures that come in the card back style - Old Clock, Hidden Staircase, Old Attic and Dancing Puppet also come in this style but we also have 4 other figures in two double box sets featuring Nancy Drew and her doppelganger from Lilac Inn and Nancy Drew and Robby the Robot from Crooked Banister. These two-figure sets are super fun!

The book boxes are meant to display on your shelf like a book and the style and coloring is similar to the glossy hardcover flashlight series of classic Nancy Drew.

I did a fun series of unboxing videos of all the figures and packaging at my Nancy Drew Expert Instagram - check it out!

Nancy Drew Action Figures Sneak Peek - Card Back Figures

Nancy Drew Action Figures Preview #1

I received my Nancy Drew Action Figures from Wandering Planet Toys - my goodies as part of my consulting on the Nancy Drew Action Figures. I did an unboxing at my Instagram - Nancy Drew Expert if you want to see the videos of me unboxing all the figures and sets.

In this blog, I wanted to focus on the cardback figures - those that are carded. In my next blog I'll highlight the book box figures.

The four figures that are on cards are Nancy Drew from The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, The Secret in the Old Attic, and The Clue of the Dancing Puppet. Each has a fun accessory or two based on the books. Old Clock Nancy has her screwdriver and the old clock from the cover. Hidden Staircase Nancy has a flashlight she uses while on the staircase. Old Attic Nancy has the candle she sports on the cover. Dancing Puppet Nancy has a flashlight and also comes with the ballerina dancing puppet from the cover. The packaging is awesome featuring on the front the book cover in the flashlight style, which is currently in print by Penguin Random House. The back of the cards is also very cool as it has some neat history behind Nancy Drew and a blurb about the figure and the mystery it is based on plus images of the various figures. You can click on the images below to view them in a larger format.

I had the opportunity as consultant on this project to write the copy that is used on the backs of these cardbacks and the book box sets. The package design - and it's fabulous and very thoughtful packaging is by Jenny Carbajal and the fantastic sculpting is by Ed Delos Reyes. 

If you didn't support the original Kickstarter campaign for these figures last year, and missed out - leftover stock after fulfilling backers will be sold at an online store that Doc and Gavin of Wandering Planet Toys will set up. 

4 Days To Get Nancy Drew Action Figures & Special Novella

4 DAYS LEFT TO GET NANCY DREW ACTION FIGURES!

If you haven't made your pledge yet - this is your last chance to get the Nancy Drew Action Figures - and guarantee you get what you want - plus the super cool silhouette figure, t-shirt and Nancy Drew Novella illustrated by Ruth Sanderson which are only available with this Kickstarter Nancy Drew Action Figures campaign! 

40 years ago - early 1980s - I can remember one Christmas Eve at my paternal grandparents' house. I had been playing on my Uncle Jerry's snazzy Apple computer - back when you had the old school spiffy black screen and not much in the way of graphics - and was playing some kind of mystery game. There were all the holiday feels. And I got to open some of my gifts that I wasn't opening the next day at my maternal grandparents' house. One was some of my favorite Star Wars action figures. And boy did my Mom have to hunt those down! That was an adventure in and of itself as they were all the rage for Christmas gifts that year. She had taken them out of the packaging, and they were all in this cool metal tin. Of course, hindsight, if they were still in package and minty...but back then we didn't do that, and she was probably saving space with the travel over to Texas and room for going back home with gifts. 

But most wonderfully in that experience was that I got to be a kid and enjoy playing with them and the tactile energy in being able to handle them and also the freedom in not worrying about collecting and keeping things minty which I was oblivious to at that age. I'll always remember fondly growing up in the 80s when action figures were so popular in the early years of this toy phenomenon. There's something very tangible about an action figure that just brings that nostalgia right back to the surface and those fun memories. I still have my Star Wars action figures in their neat Star Wars case. 

Now we get to be kids again with Nancy Drew Action Figures and ready for your shelf Nancy Drew book style packaging. For some of us that means ripping them out of the packages and taking ourselves right back to childhood and playing Nancy Drew! For some of us, they'll sit mint in package on a shelf looking pristine and very collectible. For me, it will be the best of both worlds! A set to keep mint and a set to sleuth with! In another 40 years, I know I'll look back very fondly on the memories that these Nancy Drew action figures evoke and the fun Nancy Drew mysteries they represent that I always treasured reading as a kid and still do as an adult. Thank you again Doc and Gavin at Wandering Planet Toys for letting me fangirl all the way through this process!

Nancy Drew Action Figures at Kickstarter LIVE - 30 Days to get Nancy Drew!

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.