Exploring The Toy Insider “Holiday Of Play” 2016; Part 1

Back in July, I attended an event called “Sweet Suite” which was a part of the larger “Blogger Bash” conference and was set up by the fine folks at Toy Insider. If you’re new to the website and missed those posts please click through onto THIS LINK so you can learn what it was all about. It was a good time for sure but now we are diving in to another event that they do called “Holiday Of Play”. To give you a better idea of what this one is, I reached back in time to their own website where it was lined out as…

“HoliDAY of Play event is where 120 bloggers, vloggers, and members of the press will meet face-to-face with some of the top companies in the toy industry and get hands-on experience with the best toys on the market.”

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The sign in the lobby sent us up to the penthouse of this Manhattan skyrise and when we close up on this one I will make sure to post a visual from “way up here”.  Next up is the “step and repeat” for those who wanted a quick photo op.

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PiercingMetal Goes To “Star Trek: Mission New York” 2016 @ Javits Center

The folks at ReedPOP have launched a brand-new Science Fiction convention called “Star Trek: Mission New York” and I attended this for the PiercingMetal website. Readers of “The Chronicles” who find this stuff interesting can check that out by clicking HERE.

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Please Note: As the narratives reside on the PiercingMetal website, we have disabled the means to comment on this post since its mainly a traffic sign. That said we do encourage your topical input on any of the chapters that you will be led to after clicking that link above. Enjoy.

Official Website: http://www.reedpop.com

PiercingMetal Went To Liberty City Anime Con 2016

Hello there my fine feathered friends of “The Chronicles Of Piercing Ken”; I’m using the website this afternoon to once again direct you to some content that resides on my main music and media realm of PiercingMetal.com instead of over here – I’ve tended to keep the comic book related conventions there since they used to be on the “PiercingMetal Musings Blog” which many of you might know as being integrated content on the PM.com domain at this point. This convention was fun and my first ever of this kind as a member of the press. Please click HERE to be transported over to my coverage of the Liberty City Anime Con.

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As I’ve done in the past, this little redirect does NOT offer you the means to leave any comments since you can do that where it makes the most sense on the assorted chapters that I’ve posted. You can however pay a visit to our Official Instagram and see some of the slightly different visuals which were snagged for that profile exclusively. You can find, follow and bring that great love to life by clicking HERE. Of course we also hope that you are following PiercingMetal on both Facebook and Twitter as well. Thank you for your attention, now back to the regular stuff from “The Chronicles Of Piercing Ken”.

Official Websites:
Liberty City Anime Con: http://libertycityanimecon.com/

Eating It Up @ BurgerFi

I’ve been wanted to try the recently opened Burgerfi restaurant in my Bay Ridge neighborhood since I first saw it but like most plans, they got shifted to the wayside until the other day.  Now the time had come and I would finally get to sample their offerings.

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Once you place your order, you get one of these little buzzer devices to let you know when your meal is ready.  I chuckled at this because the place isn’t really that big so just shouting “number five” is not out of order.  Oh well.

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Unboxing The Toy Insider “Sweet Suite” 2016 Schwag Box

Over the summer I attended my first-ever “Sweet Suite” which is an event that is set up by the fine folks at Toy Insider.  I had met them at this years American International Toy Fair thanks to our good friend in media Mr. Skeleton Pete. Shortly after the event, this massive box arrived and I figured it would be fun to do one of those “unboxing” posts, even though I know this stuff is better suited for a YouTube.com channel.  I opted to use the Chronicles of Piercing Ken for this post based on the event and the contents of said box being more suited to my folks with kids readership so here we go.

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Okay so before I begin I will stress that this is NOT all of the stuff that was in the box. It was massive as you can see and packed to the brim. No complaints on that at all so here we go with something adorable called “Twozies”. They come care of the makers of Shopkins.

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