April 11, 2003

This is a special update to alert you all to an amazing announcement posted today on spawn.com, as part of the weekly Friday updates. I felt this was too important to wait until Monday.

Please visit http://spawn.com for all of today's news and headlines

EXCLUSIVE BARRY BONDS BASEBALL FIGURE ANNOUNCED
SPECIAL WORLD SERIES VERSION AVAILABLE THROUGH SPAWN STORE

We've got a special treat coming this summer for Major League Baseball fans. As many of you know, McFarlane's Sports Picks: MLB Series 5 � slated for a June release � features a new sculpt of San Francisco Giants left-fielder Barry Bonds in his famous "fingers to the sky" post-home run pose.

In a special gesture from Major League Baseball, McFarlane Toys was given two bases used in a 2002 World Series game between the Giants and the Anaheim Angels. We're passing the love on to our fans.

We cut the bags into 200 equal pieces and are embedding each piece into the home plate base of the special Bonds action figure. Additionally, we added a World Series patch to Bonds' uniform and created special packaging stickers just for this piece.

The World Series edition Barry Bonds figures � at 200 pieces, the most exclusive figure we've ever produced -- will be available exclusively through the Spawn Store at spawn.com in June. More details and photos as they become available.

BREAKING NEWS....
TODD RADIO SHOW UPDATE

In what is literally last minute news, we just confirmed Steve-O, of MTVs Jackass fame and star of his own video and tour, for the April 24 Todd McFarlane Show on MLB Radio. More details to come next week. We just hung up with Steve-O's public relations rep as I was finishing this update.

SPAWN.COM ON THE ROAD... 2003 EDITION
http://spawn.com/news/news2.aspx?id=12137

LATEST MCFARLANE'S SPORTS PICKS ACTION FIGURE NEWS
http://spawn.com/news/news6.aspx?id=12133

MOVIE MANIACS 6 TOY FEATURE LIVE ON SPAWN.COM
http://spawn.com/news/news6.aspx?id=12130

ALL-STAR BASEBALL 2004 WINNERS
http://spawn.com/news/news3.aspx?id=12136

THANKS!

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