By Action Figure Insider » @Walmart ‘s #CollectorCon is back on March 16!
The season’s hottest collector’s event is back for 2023! Walmart’s Collector Con is here again with two days of new releases and exclusive launches from March 16 – 17.
Collector Con will feature the most exclusive and sought-after collector items from top brands and franchises including Star Wars, GI Joe, WWE, Marvel, Transformers, LEGO, Disney, Barbie and more.
For this event, fans can shop a variety of action figures, vehicles, dolls and game trading cards, including 47 Walmart exclusive products, such as:
- 20th Anniversary Star Wars Black Series Clone Wars
- Spiderman Legends Kraven
- WWE Stone Cold Monster Truck
The festivities begin tomorrow with chances for fans to get their hands on products starting at 10am EST for both days of the event.
You can check out all the details on Walmart.com.
Daniel Pickett
AFi founder and Editor-In-Chief Daniel “Julius Marx” Pickett has been around toys his whole life. The first line he ever collected was Mego’s World’s Greatest Super Heroes line back in the 70s. He has been surrounded by collectables ever since.
In 1999 he was confounded by a lack of information and news about some of his favorite toy lines he was collecting. Since he couldn’t find the information he decided to pursue it himself thinking other people might also be interested in the same news. He started writing a weekly column on the toy industry and action figure for a toy news site and in a years time he tripled the sites daily traffic with his updates, reviews and product features.
He built relationships with every major toy manufacturer and many sculptors, painters and mold makers. He grew his hobby into a world wide expertise that the industry has embraced.
In 2004 he teamed up with his toy buddy Jason “ToyOtter” Geyer and they created their own website www.ActionFigureInsider.com.
Daniel has been quoted in both industry and mass media press outlets. Over the years Daniel and AFi have been sought out as experts in the field. Daniel was regularly featured on “Attack of the Show” on the G4 network as the primary contributor to their “Mint On Card” segment, and our front page has been linked to from USA Today’s
“Pop Candy” Blog twice. Daniel’s content has also been featured on Bloomberg News, MSNBC.com, Time.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, CNN.com, AssociatedPress.com
Wired.com, Fark.com, Boing-Boing, Gizmodo.com, Ain’t It Cool News, the Official
Star Wars blog, Geekologie, G4, CNet and Toy Fare magazine, among many
others. He has consulted on toy lines, books, documentaries and TV shows.
But all of that really just sounds snooty and “tootin’ his own horn” – the long and short of it is that Daniel loves toys and he LOVES talking about them.
