via: wired.com

SAN DIEGO — You just made it home from Comic-Con and are looking forward to sleeping in your parents’ basement and having something to eat other than a craptastic pretzel, but as you rummage through your ginormous swag bag you realize you got nothing but three lame television show T-shirts, a handful of temporary tattoos and a promotional poster.

We don’t want to rub it in your face, but instead of standing in line for hours to see the “Is Your Cylon Girlfriend Cheating on You?” panel in Room 907, you could have waited in line to take home one of these boutique baubles. Here are the 10 things you should have bought. 

 King Kun, designed by Jarvis and Bounty Hunter, created such a stir that gaggles of people had to be turned away. “Aesthetically, I think it’s dope,” said Jim Crawford, co-owner of Strangeco. “It’s got a gorilla-gone-punk rock thing.” King Kun sold for 75 greenbacks.

 Beastlies by our very own, Leslie. Stop by the Meltdown to get yours!
The Beastlies are handcrafted polymer clay creatures brought into this world by L.A.-artist Leslie Levings. Show attendees were seen walking past the booth again and again, unable to forget the gaze of these little fellas. Then it was just a matter of time before they plunked down the 15-20 bones necessary to adopt one.
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