.. width="425" height="350" ..This spectacular first issue was released in October 1999, titled "Enter the Hellmouth" 2 years after the show first aired. This fantastic issue was filled with interviews from the "Angel" star (David Boreanaz) plus the shows creator (Joss Whedon), an advert for Nocturnal show 2k with guest stars James Masters and Anthony Stuwart Head, and the first look at the Buffy comic strip called Wu-Tang Fang. This comic strip was about Buffy coming face to face with a legendary Chinese vampire. There was also a fun article titled "How to Identify a Vampire" This was also the first Buffy magazine that did not have a poster inside or letters from fans.
By 1999 you could pretty much find anything Buffy! you could buy mugs, books, keyrings, watches, calenders and posters. Every months Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine would publish more memorabilia regarding the show, this just proved how populer the show was becoming. Below is the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Supernatural Defense Kit. This also contained a hardback copy of the cmic strip The Final Cut.
December 1999 came the resease of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer sound track. The first of 4 cds. This cd was full of fantastic songs from the hit show such as The Buffy theme tune, Pain from the episode Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and also Wild Horses from The Prom. The music that was playing when Angel dance with Buffy. The executive soundtrack producer was Joss Whedon. The cds that follewed were The soundtrack cds to the Musical episode "Once More With Feelling" then came the cd "Radio Sunnydale" with a picture of the Sunnydale Cinema on the cover in yellow and orange and after that came the second of the "Radio Sunnydale" with a head stone of an praying Angel in black and white.
In the 3rd issue of the hit Buffy TVS magazine they advitise the release of the BTVS comic books, starting with The Origin priced at £7.99p. This was later released with a different photo cover signed by Dan Brererton and Christopher Golden and sealed by Dymonic Force. They both signed 2000 copies and this was serplied with a full C.O.A
Then came the Figures. In the back of the watchers guide volume 2 it mentions the release of the "More Action Collectable" Figures. They are also mentioned in the 4th issue of BTVS magazine to be released in November 2000. Buffy, The Master, Willow and Angel were the first to be released. At the same time they also released 2 premium figures, Buffy in her spring fling dress and vamped-out Angel. The second wave of figures included Cordy, Xander, Giles and Oz. Angel's figure was made by Moore Action Collectables using an original sculpt of Angel's face. The same way that they make his vampire make up he wears on the show. This is how they made it look so real.
In 1999 came in cutest things you have ever seen. Inkworks released 3 cuddly bears named Buffy, Angel and Willow. Only 10'000 of these bears were ever made and they also came with numbered tags. Buffy was a perpul bear with a gold stake on her chest. Willow was a green bear and came with a gold wicca symble on her chest and the Blue Angel bear came with a red and gold claddagh symble on his chest. On there backs it was written Buffy The Vampire Slayer is gold. You could only buy as a set for £32.99p they were not sold separately.
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On the 10th of March 1997 aired the first of 144 fantastic episodes of the new serise Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this episode called "Welcome to the Hellmouth" we meet the new Buffy Anne Summers played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Angel played by David Boreanaz, Xander played by Nicholas Brendon, Willow played by Alyson Hannigan, Cordelia Chase played by Charisma Carpenter and Rupert Giles played by Anthony Stuwart Head. In the first 2 episodes we're also introduced to the character Jesse McNally played by Eric Balfour. Jessie is one of Xanders best friends. He gets turned into a vampire by Darla. Xander ends up killing Jessie in the Bronze accidently as someone runs into him and impales him onto the wooden stake that Xander is holding against Jessies chest.
The first book to be published was named after the same as episode 2 of season 1 "The Harvest" published by Pocket Books. It was 146 pages and 27 chapters long.
In 1998 Welcome to the Hellmouth and Innocence were the first episodes to be introduced to VHS.
This spectacular first issue was released in October 1999, titled "Enter the Hellmouth" 2 years after the show first aired. This fantastic issue was filled with interviews from the "Angel" star (David Boreanaz) plus the shows creator (Joss Whedon), an advert for Nocturnal show 2k with guest stars James Masters and Anthony Stuwart Head, and the first look at the Buffy comic strip called Wu-Tang Fang. This comic strip was about Buffy coming face to face with a legendary Chinese vampire. There was also a fun article titled "How to Identify a Vampire" This was also the first Buffy magazine that did not have a poster inside or letters from fans.
By 1999 you could pretty much find anything Buffy! you could buy mugs, books, keyrings, watches, calenders and posters. Every months Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine would publish more memorabilia regarding the show, this just proved how populer the show was becoming. Below is the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Supernatural Defense Kit. This also contained a hardback copy of the cmic strip The Final Cut.
December 1999 came the resease of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer sound track. The first of 4 cds. This cd was full of fantastic songs from the hit show such as The Buffy theme tune, Pain from the episode Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and also Wild Horses from The Prom. The music that was playing when Angel dance with Buffy. The executive soundtrack producer was Joss Whedon. The cds that follewed were The soundtrack cds to the Musical episode "Once More With Feelling" then came the cd "Radio Sunnydale" with a picture of the Sunnydale Cinema on the cover in yellow and orange and after that came the second of the "Radio Sunnydale" with a head stone of an praying Angel in black and white.
In the 3rd issue of the hit Buffy TVS magazine they advitise the release of the BTVS comic books, starting with The Origin priced at £7.99p. This was later released with a different photo cover signed by Dan Brererton and Christopher Golden and sealed by Dymonic Force. They both signed 2000 copies and this was serplied with a full C.O.A
Then came the Figures. In the back of the watchers guide volume 2 it mentions the release of the "More Action Collectable" Figures. They are also mentioned in the 4th issue of BTVS magazine to be released in November 2000. Buffy, The Master, Willow and Angel were the first to be released. At the same time they also released 2 premium figures, Buffy in her spring fling dress and vamped-out Angel. The second wave of figures included Cordy, Xander, Giles and Oz. Angel's figure was made by Moore Action Collectables using an original sculpt of Angel's face. The same way that they make his vampire make up he wears on the show. This is how they made it look so real.
In 1999 came in cutest things you have ever seen. Inkworks released 3 cuddly bears named Buffy, Angel and Willow. Only 10'000 of these bears were ever made and they also came with numbered tags. Buffy was a perpul bear with a gold stake on her chest. Willow was a green bear and came with a gold wicca symble on her chest and the Blue Angel bear came with a red and gold claddagh symble on his chest. On there backs it was written Buffy The Vampire Slayer is gold. You could only buy as a set for £32.99p they were not sold separately.
In september 1998 came the release of the first BTVS season 1 card set now priced around £50. This 72 base card set was full of pictures from the first season of the hit show. To acompany this amazing set you could also buy "How To Kill A Vampire Coffin Card" now priced at around £40, also "The Chosen One" 9 card set now priced at £50. Season 2 in March 1999. Buffy Postcards in June 1999. Season 3 in September 1999. Reflections in May 2000. Season 4 in Setember 2000. Buffy, The Story So Far in June 2001. Season 5 in September 2001. Evolution in July 2002. Season 6 in September 2002. Connections 30th of April 2003. Season 7 in September 2003. Buffy, The Story Continues in December 2003. Buffy Big Bads in April 2004. Buffy Sky TV 7 Card Promo Set June 2004. Women of Sunnydale in September 2004. The Ultimate Buffy Collection in November 2004. Men of Sunnydale in July 2005. With each set they also sold binders. There are 18 card sets altogether plus 2 parallel sets to acompany the Evolution and Connection sets plus a photo card set. The last set to be released was Spike, The Complete Story, in february 2005.
In 1999 all sorts of Buffy memorabilie was up for grabs. These lollipops were just the tip of the iceberg. They came 24 lollies per pack and each lolly came with a BTVS stickers of Buffy, Angel, Dru, Spike, The judge, episode sceens, Xander, The Master, Symbles, Willow, Oz and the Claw vampire from Teacher's Pet. You could also buy crazy things such as, BTVS chocolate bars, fake tattoos, jewelery, lunch boxes and shot glasses. It was then that the VHS box sets came on sale. The first to come out was season 1, episodes 1-12. In 1999 limited box sets of the show were introduced to music and video stores world wide. These were a huge success as fans could watch there faverate show over and over again. They bought out 13 box sets altogether that were slowly released over the next 4 years priced at around £35-£40 each.
After the video boxsets, came the release of the DVD boxsets priced at around £70. A full season could be watched on a single boxset, plus extras such as interviews with your faverate BTVS stars and whole skrips of different shows on that disk. £70 might of seemed exspensive but it was the same amount as the 2 boxsets that made up the season plus all these amazing extras.
In the year 2000 came the release of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Chess set with 12 characters from the hit show. Good side Angel-King, Buffy-Gueen, Giles-Bishop, Oz-Knight, Willow-Rook and Xander-Pawn. Bad side Spike-King, Drusilla-Gueen, The Master-Bishop, Ethan-Knight, Darla-Rook and The Judge-Pawn. This sparked the release of meny other games such as The first Board Game, Top Trumps, PS2 Games, Plus Game Boy Colour and Game Boy Advanced, plus a release on Game Cube. Then came the CCG!
This is one of the most selibrated BTVS games. There are website dedicated to it where fans can check list there cards and also talk to other players of the CCG game. CCG stands for Collectable Card Game. There are 3 sets of this game. Theres "The Pergamum Prophecy" "The Class of 99" and "Angels Curse" In each set there are around 250 cards that compleat a set of each. Some are very commen and others are very rare and worth money to the right collector. This card is one of the Promos. 1 of 12 cards just for that section. You can find all of these cards and the location on where you can perches them at www.btvsccg.com/ and maybe some friends to play with you? The most selibrated game I think is the role playing games...
Now I can't lie. I have one of these books but I just dont understand it myself. Its alot to take in. Each book contains characters, there skills and combat infomation. Theres character sheets from Anya to Drusilla. You can become part of the action if you viset www.btvsrpg.com for more infomation. I need a good whole day to sit down and go through the book for myself. I have a copy of the Moster Smackdown. Each book is valued at around £30.
In 1999 came the release of the story Immortal, whch was accompanied by the story also on tape, read by Charisma Carpenter. The twin tape audio story was the first of its kind to be released as part of the BTVS merchandise. Charisma Carpenter uses her own voice throughout the story including all characters. I have this on tape and I'm not that keen on it myself. Yu can pick them up for a couple of pound on Ebay if your interested in this.
In the 50th issue of Buffy TVS magazine they released a Buffy top 10 merchendise. In this list was items such as washing up liqued. This was the top most wanted list...10-Holy Water, 9-The PEZ witch oz gave to willow as a theme present, 8-Buffy TVS on DVD, 7-Novice Witch Kits, 6-Dawn, washing up liqued, 5-Once More With Feeling CD, 4-The Slayer's silver cross necklace, 3-The BTVS Comics, 2-The original Bunny Anya in her halloween bunny suit and last but not least 1-The good old fashioned wooden stake. I'm glad to say I have 5 out of the 10, not bad but still growing.
1999 saw the release of the lovely limited edition season 1 plates of 4 of the characters, Buffy, Willow, Xander and Spike. Limited to only 2000, each plate also came with a COA. These were the first of meny comemaretive plates to be released.
Normal tv shows had the usawel, A4 folders, Pads, Pens and Pencil cases dedicated to the show but Buffy was so much more, A4 folders were not the only thing you could buy Buffy, Chocolate bars, Cans of drink, Lollipops, Chewing Gum and Chewing Gum Dispensers. It didn't take long for the Buffy franchise to take control of our lifes. Next to Friends and StarTrex, Buffy was the next biggest franchise out there at that time. World domination came in the form of a blonde girl with a wooden stake.....
The 1st of June 2001 at 8pm on Skyone saw the season finel that would rock the world. The season 5 finel named "The Gift" was one of the best episodes of all time written and directed by the Buffy creater himself Joss Whedon. From start to finish it had every Buffy fan biting there nales. You could not sit down to watch it unless you had a box of tissues near by. There was not a news paper that didnt print the up and coming finel within there pages. It seemed the secret was out. One news paper wrote "Buffy The Vampire Slayer bites the dust-but not before saving the world from the jaws of hell. The high-kicking babe, played be Sarah Michelle Gellar, lies dead after diving from an electricity pylon, but her heroic sacrifice has prevented the gates of hell from opening and has saved the human race. Now scriptwriters have to find a way of bringing her back for a sixth serise of the cult show she has already signed up for. The final episode of this serise, to be screened on June 1, ends with a lingering look at Buffy's gravestone. The tongue-in-cheek tribute reads: Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001. Beloved sister and devoted friend. She saved the world...a lot.
After the final of season 5 aired, the same question was on everyones lips and the Buffy scriped writers were keeping a tite lid on the up and coming stories that would bring Buffy back to life. The first episode of season 6 didnt keep us waiting for long. Willow, Xander, Tara and Anya all took part in the resurrection of the Slayer who had to dig herself out of her own grave just like a vampire. The scrip writters had done it again, Buffy was back and kicking ass like never before.
And the merchandise just kept on comming. The magazines, chocolate bars, books, dvds, figures, cds, easter eggs, dolls, cards and binders, The industry was thriving. It was getting better and better. Each season bigger and better stuff was being releast for sale to fans all around the world.
There were cellebrations of the show going on all over the world. People could come and dress up as there faverate characters too. The Comic-Con conventions were full of Buffy stars and get them to sign pictures or merchandise from the show too, what ever they wanted signed. There were also conventions such as Collectormania, London Film and Comic Con and the Memorabilia conventions and much, much more. Every time getting bigger and better then the last. People traveling from all over the world just to meet there faverate Buffy stars. At each convention you could buy everything Buffy, and at every convention differnt items being brought out to show and for the right price being sold. They were any Buffy fan and credit card heven.
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This is one of the most selibrated BTVS games. There are website dedicated to it where fans can check list there cards and also talk to other players of the CCG game. CCG stands for Collectable Card Game. There are 3 sets of this game. Theres "The Pergamum Prophecy" "The Class of 99" and "Angels Curse" In each set there are around 250 cards that compleat a set of each. Some are very commen and others are very rare and worth money to the right collector. This card is one of the Promos. 1 of 12 cards just for that section. You can find all of these cards and the location on where you can perches them at www.btvsccg.com/ and maybe some friends to play with you? The most selibrated game I think is the role playing games...
Now I can't lie. I have one of these books but I just dont understand it myself. Its alot to take in. Each book contains characters, there skills and combat infomation. Theres character sheets from Anya to Drusilla. You can become part of the action if you viset www.btvsrpg.com for more infomation. I need a good whole day to sit down and go through the book for myself. I have a copy of the Moster Smackdown. Each book is valued at around £30.
In 1999 came the release of the story Immortal, whch was accompanied by the story also on tape, read by Charisma Carpenter. The twin tape audio story was the first of its kind to be released as part of the BTVS merchandise. Charisma Carpenter uses her own voice throughout the story including all characters. I have this on tape and I'm not that keen on it myself. Yu can pick them up for a couple of pound on Ebay if your interested in this.
In the 50th issue of Buffy TVS magazine they released a Buffy top 10 merchendise. In this list was items such as washing up liqued. This was the top most wanted list...10-Holy Water, 9-The PEZ witch oz gave to willow as a theme present, 8-Buffy TVS on DVD, 7-Novice Witch Kits, 6-Dawn, washing up liqued, 5-Once More With Feeling CD, 4-The Slayer's silver cross necklace, 3-The BTVS Comics, 2-The original Bunny Anya in her halloween bunny suit and last but not least 1-The good old fashioned wooden stake. I'm glad to say I have 5 out of the 10, not bad but still growing.
1999 saw the release of the lovely limited edition season 1 plates of 4 of the characters, Buffy, Willow, Xander and Spike. Limited to only 2000, each plate also came with a COA. These were the first of meny comemaretive plates to be released.
Normal tv shows had the usawel, A4 folders, Pads, Pens and Pencil cases dedicated to the show but Buffy was so much more, A4 folders were not the only thing you could buy Buffy, Chocolate bars, Cans of drink, Lollipops, Chewing Gum and Chewing Gum Dispensers. It didn't take long for the Buffy franchise to take control of our lifes. Next to Friends and StarTrex, Buffy was the next biggest franchise out there at that time. World domination came in the form of a blonde girl with a wooden stake.....
The 1st of June 2001 at 8pm on Skyone saw the season finel that would rock the world. The season 5 finel named "The Gift" was one of the best episodes of all time written and directed by the Buffy creater himself Joss Whedon. From start to finish it had every Buffy fan biting there nales. You could not sit down to watch it unless you had a box of tissues near by. There was not a news paper that didnt print the up and coming finel within there pages. It seemed the secret was out. One news paper wrote "Buffy The Vampire Slayer bites the dust-but not before saving the world from the jaws of hell. The high-kicking babe, played be Sarah Michelle Gellar, lies dead after diving from an electricity pylon, but her heroic sacrifice has prevented the gates of hell from opening and has saved the human race. Now scriptwriters have to find a way of bringing her back for a sixth serise of the cult show she has already signed up for. The final episode of this serise, to be screened on June 1, ends with a lingering look at Buffy's gravestone. The tongue-in-cheek tribute reads: Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001. Beloved sister and devoted friend. She saved the world...a lot.
After the final of season 5 aired, the same question was on everyones lips and the Buffy scriped writers were keeping a tite lid on the up and coming stories that would bring Buffy back to life. The first episode of season 6 didnt keep us waiting for long. Willow, Xander, Tara and Anya all took part in the resurrection of the Slayer who had to dig herself out of her own grave just like a vampire. The scrip writters had done it again, Buffy was back and kicking ass like never before.
And the merchandise just kept on comming. The magazines, chocolate bars, books, dvds, figures, cds, easter eggs, dolls, cards and binders, The industry was thriving. It was getting better and better. Each season bigger and better stuff was being releast for sale to fans all around the world.
There were cellebrations of the show going on all over the world. People could come and dress up as there faverate characters too. The Comic-Con conventions were full of Buffy stars and get them to sign pictures or merchandise from the show too, what ever they wanted signed. There were also conventions such as Collectormania, London Film and Comic Con and the Memorabilia conventions and much, much more. Every time getting bigger and better then the last. People traveling from all over the world just to meet there faverate Buffy stars. At each convention you could buy everything Buffy, and at every convention differnt items being brought out to show and for the right price being sold. They were any Buffy fan and credit card heven.
After the very moving end to season 6 with evil Willow and for the first time Xander saving the world came the speculations that maybe Buffy was coming to an end. Again every news paper was printing the story that it was the end and season seven would be the last. Then in the 46th issue of Buffy the vampire slayer came the news no fan of the show wanted to hear. Buffy to End! Sarah Michelle Gellar had anounced that she would not be signing to do any more shows after the season 7 final "Chosen" written and directed by Joss Whedon. Whendon said he was not interested in taking the show any ferther without Sarah, but that he wanted to leave the story line for the posiblity of a tv movie. So on the 20th of May 2003 came the episode we really didn't want to watch but couldnt tear are selfs away from. It was the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for good. Yes it was the end but an ending to be proud of. Joss didn't let the fans down. It was by far the best episode he had ever created and one that would remain in our hearts forever.
Yes the show was ending but this didn't stop the companies such as Inkworks and Moore Action Collectables from bring out more merchandise, infact I think the demand was far greater for prop replicas and action figures, with the show ending. Maybe it was because fans just didn't want to come to terms with the sad news. Every month there was news of more ideas and fans were hounding websites to tell them more. of cousre after Buffy came to an end we still had another year of Angel to fill our lifes and give us the Whendon drug we so desprately craved but that only lasted for the next 12 months and then that came to an end, bring to a close the Buffy and Angel verse for good.
Que the memorabilia mayhem. The shows prop masters were selling off the on screen used props to auction houses all over the US. On screen Stakes, Crosses, news papers, Clothes, Jewelrey amd Lamps e.g. Ebay was the obviuse choice for selling props but there were and still are websites that sell presentation props such as this on screen news paper sold for £845 and this on screen cross used by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the season 5 Real Me sold for an amazing £1975. This things are still up for grabs. If you have a couple of thousand in your pocket go to...
