Comic-Con Peanuts exclusives EXTRA!

QeeWe’ve covered all the items that will only be available at the Peanuts booth at the San Diego Comic-Con, but that’s not all the exclusive Peanuts items you will only find at the con. Dark Horse Comics, publisher extraordinaire (by which I mean that they paid me on time for the thing that I wrote for them) is offering a “Snoopy Qee Mystery Figure Gold Edition”. Now, a Qee figure is a designer figure by the Hong Kong company Toy2R, and Dark Horse has launched a line of Snoopy mystery figures, which means that you get it in a closed box and you don’t know what the design is until after you’ve bought it. But I suppose that if you know that you’re buying a gold one, the mystery is gone! Anyway, eight bucks gets you the shiny dog.

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