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Goth Girl is Now a Toy!

Posted on: 08/13/09

UPDATE: Want a Kyra Minimate? It's easy click for details.

I am really excited to announce this. I've been working on this for a few months now, and it's finally ready to talk about.

Meet Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl!

That's Kyra in "Minimate" form. Minimates are cool little block-style action figures. They're two inches of articulated plastic awesome.

Over the years, there have been Minimates for Spider-Man and the X-Men and Star Trek and Ghostbusters and Battlestar Galactica and lots more (you can learn more at minimates.com ). Now Kyra joins their ranks as a very limited edition Minimate, thanks to the folks at Stupid Kat LLC and Diamond Select Toys, who decided that Kyra just had to exist in three dimensions. (And, you know, in plastic.)

Nose stud? Check!
Lip ring? Check!
Reverse-smiley? Check!
All-black outfit? Duh!

How do you get your hands on this toy? Well, you can't buy it in stores. In fact, you can't buy it -- period. The Goth Girl Minimate will only be available as a giveaway from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and from me.

The first people to get the Minimate will be the entrants in the Goth Girl Rising Trailer Contest. Everyone who makes a trailer will get a Goth Girl Minimate. (For the rules for the Goth Girl Rising Trailer Contest, click here.) But if you have neither the time nor the talent to put together a trailer, have no fear: there will be other ways to net yourself a Kyra of your very own.

So, keep your eyes on my Twitter feed, my Facebook and MySpace pages, and on BarryLyga.com and fanboyandgothgirl.com -- Kyra could be coming your way!

(P.S. If you were following me on Twitter or Facebook, I dropped some hints about this toy. They were "I'm not TOYING with you," "Technically SMALL news," and "Mr. McGuire to Benjamin," this last one an allusion to the famous line from The Graduate: "Plastics!")

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"In all my zitty, sweaty, panicky glory..."
By: Fanboy107 on Fri August 14, 2009, 13:53:18

...I tremble at the awesomeness of this! After getting the ARC (very much thanks again, and it was written amazingly again! I loved all the ways it harkened back to the first one. So many things made me laugh and it was just... like the first one, so close to perfect, but just far enough off to be a masterpiece :)) I wondered if I should really go for the trailer anyways. I'm definately doing so now!

RE: "In all my zitty, sweaty, panicky glory..."
By: M-L-E on Fri August 14, 2009, 23:03:57

I'm totally with you on this Fanboy. Let's get the damn thing done already! School is starting up again! We'll have everyone together! LETS WIN THIS THING!

epic win
By: xforgottenwings on Sat August 15, 2009, 07:21:17

fanboy & goth girl, along with hero-type are two of the best books ever, and this toy is pure epic win/awesomesauce/awesomeness/any other geeky word used to describe this!

EPIC WIN!

WOW!
By: Molly on Tue August 18, 2009, 12:27:30

This is seriously too cool for words.

Minimate
By: Theo.macdonald on Thu August 20, 2009, 02:25:48

That is so great. I find it really surprising that someone wanted to make merchandise as, no offense, it's a book with a cover that doesn't show the characters appearances. It must have been quite hard for the designers to get the image you probably have in your mind on paper/plastic.

I have a few Kubricks, but no minimates. I want to find the Alice Cooper Minimate.

SWEET!
By: Dana Magee on Thu August 20, 2009, 23:37:13

Ah that so freaking cool! You should also make a Donnie, or it would be really cool if you made a mini statue of Susan Ann Marchetti

How Long
By: Taylor on Fri September 04, 2009, 14:01:56

How long have you been into minimates?

Goth Girl Minimate
By: buttheadsmate on Fri September 04, 2009, 14:39:17

It is unusual to see any Goth....let alone Goth Girl......so articulate! The nose-stud is particularly cute.... especially when I considered the difficulty in ascertaining where her nose actually was!

Nice!
By: Jcastick on Sat September 05, 2009, 13:48:39

Very nice design on that figure, simple yet very effective. Great work!

Here's one for ya
By: Nichoolas on Wed September 09, 2009, 10:03:39

My question is this : Is the comic-book/graphic novel featured in the first Fanboy/Gothgirl book going to become a reality ??? Cape Haze Fl, 18 years old

Pretty cool promotional item
By: Erin on Wed September 09, 2009, 16:15:44

I think this may be the first human minimate character to have anything hinting at a nose. :D How involved were you on the design process? I've always wondered how the process worked.

goth girl question
By: Matt Martin on Wed September 09, 2009, 20:27:08

any plans for a companion Fan boy Minimate?

Re: Goth Girl is Now a Toy!
By: Barry on Sat September 12, 2009, 17:54:55

@Erin: I just gave the folks at DST the description of Kyra from the book. They nailed it. They gave me two different hairstyles to pick from, but other than that, it was all them.

@Matt: Probably not. Sorry.

Me in all my not-caring Goth girl... you know what eff the subject.
By: 13WizardGirl13 on Sat March 06, 2010, 16:10:23

I just saw your Goth Girl Rising at my local library and got in trouble for yelling. Eff librarians. Im on chapter 16 and now sort-of hate Fanboy. But i still love your books.

Re: Goth Girl is Now a Toy!
By: Barry on Sat March 06, 2010, 16:14:04

@13WizardGirl13: Sorry you got in trouble. :)

We'll see if you still hate Fanboy by the end of the book. ;)

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