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Wednesday, April 23

300 Leonidas Spartan Helmet Update

You may or may not have noticed, but we have finally received the long awaited NECA 300 Leonidas Spartan Helmet and now have it available in extremely limited quantities! If you're not familiar with the story behind these helmets, then I invite you to cruise through our blog's archives to get a sense of what's been going on. In a nutshell though, we're approaching the anniversary of when the helmets were originally supposed to be released.

From the stories we've heard from NECA and others, the helmets, part of our popular 300 Spartan Swords section, started from a prototype image and worked its way through a number of design changes and manufacturing wrinkles over the past 9 months. As we neared the end of 2007, each month was marked by an endless series of time line changes and it wasn't until January of this year that we received somewhat concrete word that the helmet would indeed see a release date in April, but thanks to production issues, probably wouldn't be produced for too long.

Anyway, here we are in April and we have indeed received the helmets we ordered long ago. The helmets do not really resemble the original prototype images except perhaps in the basic styling. They're also a lot more fragile than we anticipated, making them great display pieces, but probably not too suitable for "everyday" costume wear. Now don't get me wrong, they don't look bad, they just look a little different than what we were expecting.

So, if you're a 300 fan, I urge you to pick up one today from this website before they're all gone...I do not expect that we'll get any more of those helmets based on the last word we had from NECA.