Sideshow Collectibles
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| Industry | Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | U.S. |
| Products | Figurines, action figures |
| Brands | Hot Toys |
| Website | sideshow.com |
Sideshow Collectibles is an American specialty manufacturer of movie, film, and television collectible action figures, statues, and high-end pieces. Sideshow's licenses include Star Wars, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, The Lord of the Rings, Disney, Harry Potter, Masters of the Universe, Pokémon, Dragon Ball Z, Street Fighter, Game of Thrones, and Star Trek.
Sideshow Collectibles is also the exclusive distributor of Hot Toys collectible figures in the United States, North and South America, Europe, Australia, and throughout most Asian countries. It is also an official distributor of Iron Studios statues in the U.S.
Sideshow has a campus located in Thousand Oaks, California.[1]
Sideshow Collectibles was established in 1994 as an artist collective of four friends working in a "pool house backyard studio" for freelancers.[2][1] It originally created toy prototypes for major toy companies such as Mattel, Galoob, and Wild Planet.[3] In 1999, Sideshow began marketing its own line of collectible and specialty products under the Sideshow brand, beginning with the Universal Classic Monsters 8" Action Figure license, which sold through Toys "R" Us and other mass market retailers.[2][1] The company then began creating items in the sixth scale format that sold through specialty markets, at which time Sideshow switched their name from "toys" to "collectibles".[4][3]
Sideshow Collectibles currently partners with Marvel, Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Bros., Lucasfilm, DC Comics, Blizzard Entertainment, and others to create products drawn from the Marvel Universe, the DC Universe, Star Wars, Alien, Predator, Terminator, The Lord of the Rings, G.I. Joe, Halo, World of Warcraft, Star Craft II, Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3, and many more.[4] Sideshow Collectibles' products are currently sold in specialty, trend, collectible and comic shops both in the U.S. and internationally, as well as online directly through Sideshow Collectibles.[2]
Production
A collectible at Sideshow starts out with conceptual art, which may be several layers deep. Then sculpting begins, primarily with traditional clay or wax sculpture tools. Digital rendering programs are also used, which are printed out in a rapid prototyping machine. The output is taken into the sculpture pool, and then cleaned up to bring in an additional layer of detail by human hand. 90% of the collectibles Sideshow makes are licensed properties.[5]
Sideshow previously manufactured its own line of historically accurate 12" collectible figures under the brands Bayonets & Barbed Wire (WWI), Brotherhood of Arms (American Civil War) and Six Gun Legends (western characters). Sideshow also manufactures products under different brands, including Sideshow/Weta Collectibles and Sideshow/Morpheus Collectibles.[2]
Licensed properties
- James Bond
- Friday the 13th [6]
- Ghost Rider [7]
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [8]
- Jaws [9]
- Jurassic Park [10]
- Spider-Man 3 [11]
- Star Wars [12]
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [13]
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day [14]
- Terminator Salvation [15]
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen [16]
- Tremors [17]
- Tron: Evolution [18]
- How To Train Your Dragon[19]
- How to Train Your Dragon 2[20]
- Kung Fu Panda[21]
- Star Trek[22][23]
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Monty Python's Life of Brian
DC Comics
Marvel Comics
Television
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer [36]
- Get Smart[2]
- G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero[37]
- Goliath from Gargoyles [38]
- Hogan's Heroes[2]
- Outer Limits[2]
- The Muppets from The Muppet Show
- The Simpsons[2]
- The Twilight Zone[2]
Video games
- Diablo III [39]
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light [40]
- Tomb Raider: Legend [41]
- Tomb Raider: Underworld [42]
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception [43]
- World of Warcraft[44]
Additional statues
- Dinosauria series, including Triceratops, Apatosaurus and Gastonia.
