Preorders Now Open for Yamato USA's Fantasy Figure Gallery: Black Tinkerbell (Luis Royo) PVC Statue

TORRANCE, CA, June 29, 2010. The legends of white fairies dressed in gowns of diaphanous silk have died. The fragrant, multicolored flowers they wore in their blonde, curly hair have died too; leaving the air thick with the evil to come...

This winter, Yamato USA promises to cast a spell on you with the next installation in its Fantasy Figure Gallery, the magnificent Black Tinkerbell by Luis Royo. This devilishly dark beauty from a sculpt by Japan's Shin Tanabe stands approximately 5.50" from head to toe, 11.25" from her massive, diorama base to the tip of her expansive wings, which ingeniously turn translucent in light. No detail is left untouched. The first edition of this wondrous piece is limited to only 3,000 pieces worldwide, comes with numbered display base, certificate of authenticity, and art card all packaged in a collector style window box.

Yamato USA and its distribution partners Diamond Comics, AAA Anime, BBCW Distributors, Grosnor Distribution, Entertainment Earth, and Sideshow Collectibles are now accepting retailer preorders for its Fantasy Figure Gallery: Black Tinkerbell (Luis Royo). For more information, contact your local comic / pop culture shop or visit us at www.YamatoToysUSA.com.

ABOUT LUIS ROYO

Luis Royo was born in 1954 in Olalla, a small town in Teruel. In 1972 he starts painting and exhibiting in various forums. In 1978 he begins his career as a comic-book artist. In 1983 he goes to illustration, where he will harvest his greatest successes.

In 1992 his first book, Women, appears, followed by Malefic (1994), Secrets (1996), III Millenium (1998), Dreams (1999), Prohibited Book (1999), Evolution (2001), Prohibition Book 2 (2001), Conceptions I (2002), Visions (2003), Prohibited Book 3 (2003), Conceptions II (2003), Prohibited Sketchbook (2004), Fantastic Art (2004), The Labyrinth Tarot (2004), and Conceptions III (2005). To these titles we must add the publication of six series of collector cards, six portfolios, posters, and two packs of Tarot cards, The Black Tarot and The Labyrinth Tarot.

The growing popularity of his pictures has allowed us to find them as well in postcards, calendars, packs of cards, T-shirts, CD jackets, videogames, and even on some sculptures.

With this large production, Royo becomes a true mass phenomenon. His books have been edited many times, being rendered into French, German, English, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, and Japanese. Magazines such as Stampa, Airbrush-Action, or Penthouse publish articles about him in their pages. Festivals, art galleries, or stores specializing in art and comic-books continuously organize exhibitions and tributes to him. He has received, among others, the following awards: Silver Award Spectrum (USA), CartooMics (Italy), and The Pilgrim (Russia).

Royo's success is nothing but the acknowledgment of his original work which has come to revolutionize the world of illustration.

ABOUT YAMATO USA

Yamato USA is the wholly owned subsidiary of Yamato Co., Ltd with headquarters in the otaku capital of the world, the Akihabara district of Tokyo, Japan. For over ten years, Yamato USA has proudly served otaku on this side of the world with a wide offering of miniature collectible figures, PVC and die-cast action figures, as well as poly-resin and PVC statues inspired by the hottest titles in Japanese anime, manga, and video game properties. Yamato's original collections include Story! Image! Figure! collectible miniatures and trading figures and Story! Image! Figure! EX PVC statues, as well as its newest lines, Creators' Labo and Sculptors' Originals, highlighting the talents of the leading artists and sculptors working in Japan; The GN-U, a tribute to transforming super robots; and the explosive Project Dynamite. Nor to be overlooked are Yamato's Scopedog, Garland, and Motoslave engineering marvels from Armored Trooper Votoms, Megazone 23, and Bubblegum Crisis, some of the most impressive collectibles you will ever own! And now Yamato USA adds its own line of collectible figures with its Fantasy Figure Gallery, a groundbreaking union of East and West as the leading portrait sculptors of Asia bring to life the vision of legendary fantasy artists from Europe and the Americas to create resin quality PVC statues.