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Kayou Unleashes the Next Wave of Fandom Bringing Collectible Cards Stateside

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The Press Release:
Kayou, China’s No.1 collectibles company and top trading card brand, announced today it will officially launch in the U.S. this holiday season as part of its global expansion plans. The company nearly quadrupled its revenue in 2024 to $1.4B, driven by the explosion in popularity of its high-quality collectible trading cards, which account for 80 percent of its sales. Kayou has quickly made a name for itself among the collector community thanks to its exquisite craftsmanship, studio approach to product design, and fan-first mission to be “Here for the Superfans.”

For the first time, American fans of MY LITTLE PONY, NARUTO and tokidoki will be able to flex their fandoms by collecting officially licensed Kayou trading cards—already blockbuster hits across Asia—and chase a U.S. exclusive card for each series.

“Kayou has become a status brand for superfans,” said Sergio Godinho, general manager and COO, U.S., Kayou. “With trading cards spanning nearly 100 beloved properties, we give fans a new way to celebrate and connect with the brands they love. We can’t wait to bring that experience to American collectors—because if you’re crazy for it, there’s a Kayou card for it.”
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Scenes From New York Comic Con 2024: Day Two Part Three

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Greetings my friends and welcome back to another hopefully exciting installment in our comprehensive coverage of the recent New York Comic Con. I’m up to Day Two Part Three and while I planned on saying this at the close, this will be the final chapter for Day Two. If you’ve only just joined us, please be sure to click NYCC 2024 because I tend to flow in my narratives and each preceding one leads to the current one. Now where were we, oh yeah some cool trinkets that we saw at the Pop Insider booth. We know those folks from their Toy Insider happenings and if you click that hyperlinked text you will be able to see the coverages that have been done for their events.

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As you know I don’t continually chime in or sometimes I just abbreviate but this here cosplay of Carter Slade, Ghost Rider was a lot of fun. When I was younger, I loved the Western version of Ghost Rider who had been renamed Night Rider. There was just something cool about him but I digress.

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Scenes From New York Comic Con 2022: Day One (Part 2)

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Hello again my friends, I am going to pick up where I left off in the previous installment of extended coverage from the 2022 New York Comic Con. It’s our twelfth time attending and suffice it to say there is a lot to do in the Javits Center over the next few days. The plan remains to inspire your senses with lots of photography and editorial rumblings and the occasional video that will be posted on YouTube. When those are all done I will likely make a few posts to follow the general coverage. So to keep pace with us I suggest that you click HERE since that will open up a window with all of our posts about this years convention.

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There was a lot of Anime presence this year and while there generally is, its been uncommon to see this much of it. I don’t mind since more to see.

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Scenes From New York Comic Con 2021: Day One Part 2

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Hello my friends and welcome back to PiercingMetal’s in-depth exploration of the 2021 New York Comic Con. You’ve arrived at the second part of our Day One exploring and to see all the related posts that preceded this just click HERE to launch in a new browser tab. I’ll be chiming in across the images when needed so let’s get moving.

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Exploring Five Points Festival @ Brooklyn Expo Center: Part 1 (6/2/2018)

If you’ve been keeping up with PiercingMetal on the social networking side, you know that it’s been a busy week already as over the last few days I’ve been spending time exploring the Book Expo that was being held at the Javits Center. While some of the discoveries at that convention have made their way here, a larger part of it gets posted on our Lifestyle Blog partner website “The Chronicles” of Piercing Ken. With the Book Expo completed it was time to get down to business at the still new Five Points Festival which has returned for its second year as a convention. This year it would move to the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and this space is very well known to me as its the same place where I attend the NYC Hot Sauce Expo every year. The Five Points Festival is loaded with sights and designer toys galore.   Let’s take a walk.

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