Custom Bobblehead Blog

First of all, let us define what a wedding caketopper is – a wedding caketopper can be a figurine or something that is used as a keepsake of the wedding that has been or will be culminated.  You may need to be specific as to how big you want your wedding caketopper to be – meaning, you should not expect that all wedding caketopper figurines are like all the others in the market. One source says her wedding caketopper products are approximately six inches to 7.5 inches high, so that should give you an idea how big your own wedding caketopper ought to be.

Some wedding caketopper manufacturers have pre-established models of the types of wedding caketopper they are known to make and all you have to do is specify which model you want to use. Others may allow you to specify your own design, but you should insist on seeing a prototype before you have mass production of that design done for you.

One thing is for sure, wedding caketopper figurines come in a wide variety of categories now. You may have culture sensitive wedding caketopper figurines where you can specify if the figurines are of some ethnic culture (like maybe African American, or Caucasian.) Pricing may depend on how many figures are in the final version, the size of the entire figurine, and how much shipping of the product may be for your area.

For instance, one source says a two-figure wedding caketopper (such as that which commonly features a bride and groom in various poses) may be priced at least $2500 (exlusive of shipping costs.) If you ask for more figures to be added to those basic two figures on the same wedding caketopper, you may have to pay $1250 per additional figure. If, on the other hand, you just want a single-figure wedding caketopper, it may cost you $1250 only. A small animal wedding caketopper could be priced $500 each. Bigger animal figures would probably cost much more.

You need to insist on seeing a prototype because the real thing may differ very much from what you expected, based on proportions used by the artist, the way it was interpreted by the artist, and the actual size of the wedding caketopper. This helps eliminate any possible misunderstandings about what the final product should really wind up being and looking like. Some couples may want to have the wedding caketopper look exactly like them (being the bride and groom of that wedding) then get disappointed that the wedding caketopper figures do not look much like them, particularly with regards to the faces. The reason for this is that it is very hard to copy faces of clients accurately using the manufacturing process for making the wedding caketopper and the raw materials for that manufacturing process. A working prototype is helpful for explaining this distinction to a puzzled client.

You might also want copyrighted characters of some organizations used for your wedding caketopper, but you have to be cautious lest you violate some intellectual property laws this way. The real owner of the copyright might ruin the mood of the occasion by insisting on compensation for use of his logo, symbol or character whose copyright or trademark he owns.

Sport gifts are basically memorabilia that an individual or organization may have custom-made to commemorate a sports-related event like a winning championship match. And the people most likely to appreciate sport gifts are those people who truly enjoy sports either as an occupation, as a spectator, or as a weekend warrior. In short, sports fans are your best recipients for sport gifts.
Sport gifts can be used to mark a particularly thrilling championship series in popular sports like the National Basketball Association (NBA) of the US, or the National Football League (NFL) also of the US. And just as sport gifts can vary greatly depending on the type of sport they are celebrating, the types of sport gifts available nowadays can also be of a great variety. This is good news for sports fans everywhere who really like receiving sport gifts or who would like to give them away to friends, relatives and colleagues.
Sport gifts may be customized especially for those you consider very important people like executives of your organization. Some popular choices for sport gifts of executives are golf balls (which may have the name of your organization or you emblazoned on them), golf club head covers, large golf umbrellas, golf clubs and putters, and even leather golf gloves. It may depend too as to what sport is popular among executives of your organization. What if they like more gentlemanly types of sports, like chess? Then maybe you can select unique designs for chess pieces of customized chess sets as a very special type of sport gifts. Remember, the more unique your sport gifts, the more likely the recipient will remember you.
If you cannot seem to come up with any brilliant ideas for good sport gifts, why not try to choose some safe types of sport gifts instead for now? For instance, sport watches are a nifty idea for sport gifts because everyone will probably need a good sports watch at some time. The bigger your budget for sport gifts as giveaways, the higher will be the quality of your choice of sport gifts. But this does not automatically mean that higher cost will translate to more appreciation from your intended recipients. The level of appreciation will depend a lot on the tastes of your recipients. And that is where choosing appropriate sport gifts tends to become nerve wracking.
For instance, why choose very expensive designer watches as sport gifts when your people would be satisfied just receiving practical sport umbrellas with your logo emblazoned on them? Sometimes, choosing expensive sport gifts can send the wrong message to people – your expensive sport gifts might be perceived as corporate greed rather than wholehearted advocacy of values of the organization. Thus, the giver of sport gifts has to have a hand on the pulse of the organization so that he knows if his choice of sport gifts will be perceived the same way he himself perceives them – or not, as the case may be.

It has to be emphasized first of all that a bobblehead has to represent a person or character of a certain organization. Thus, if you are looking for a sport bobblehead figure to have mass produced, that sport bobblehead has to have some kind of significance to you and to anyone who will be the recipient.

Take, for instance, a sport bobblehead modeled after Hideki Matsui (a baseball player with the New York Yankees) – the value of the official sport bobblehead is that it comes as a Limited Edition product, meaning there are only a few of them made at one time so that the uniqueness and exclusivity of the product is retained. A sport bobblehead made by the millions has less uniqueness and maybe no exclusivity compared to a sport bobblehead under a Limited Edition manufacturing license.

This is where the concept of a collectible sport bobblehead comes in. A sport bobblehead that is made in a limited volume (like, say 500 items only for that type of bobblehead) is deemed more collectible (or has a higher value as a collectible) compared to a sport bobblehead that has been made by the millions. Even if the quality of manufacture is comparable or even exactly the same, it is the uniqueness and exclusivity of the sport bobblehead that will determine if it is a true collectible or not. And the value of a collectible lies with the perception of a person doing the collecting. A person who values one sport bobblehead of Michael Jordan will pay a good price for it even if that edition was made by the millions simply because the collector thinks that sport bobblehead has a good value for him.

Does a sport bobblehead have to be highly expensive to be highly valued? Not at the start, no. For instance, if you bought your Michael Jordan sport bobblehead back in year 1990 when it was priced at $19.00 but nowadays (due to the scarcity of Michael Jordan sport bobbleheads) is priced at $100 each, you may observe that the rise in financial value of your bobblehead was due to the lower supply at present, the rise in perceived value of that bobblehead version among collectors, and the fact that Michael Jordan is no longer as active a player as he used to be. There is a saying that for memorabilia of celebrities to go up in value, it helps if the celebrity in question were to die. Though we don’t necessarily want Michael Jordan to die yet, if he does pass away soon, rest assured practically all sport bobblehead items out there made in his likeness will shoot up in value real quick.

In sports, your value as a player rests a lot on your performance per season. But there may be players who are not so scintillating yet still remain quite popular among their fans anyway. For such players, the love of their fans will keep their memory alive even when their performance has left them on the reserved players bench for the rest of the season.

CustomBobble.com positions its bobbleheads as keepsakes, mementoes and ways to remember loved ones and beloved pets by. But if you’re a geek, would you think that you have some use for a bobblehead, after all?

For Star Wars freaks, you may want a replica of Luke Skywalker. Or Darth Vader. Or Chewbacca. Or Yoda. Or maybe you’re not a Star Wars freak, you’re a Lord of the Rings freak, and you would love a replica of Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Frodo, or even… Sam Gamgee.

If you are not a geek, you may go “What?! What would you need a bobblehead of Yoda for?!” Well, the principle is simple. If you are one of those who are just squirrels for collecting the likenesses of your favorite characters, it’s not so inconceivable to actually have a shelf filled of Yoda’s in all shapes and forms.

If you are one of those who had been waiting for a certain figurine of your favorite character, but was unfortunate to have found out that the stores ran out of stock of those and those were of the limited edition, should you panic? No! All you need to do is hop on over to CustomBobble.com and submit a picture of that figurine, and have their expert artisans craft a remarkable replica of that hard-to-find item that you had been dying to get.

CustomBobble.com’s bobbleheads are more than the usual dolls and replicas. These bobbleheads are hand-crafted by expert artisans who want nothing less than a 70% accurate likeness of the photos you send them. So if it’s Yoda you’re asking to be crafted, it’ll be Yoda you’ll get. Not Darth Maul.

For those who had been wanting, needing, salivating over that certain replica of their favorite characters, this is somewhat of a “new lease on life,” so to speak. If you didn’t win that Ebay auction of Darth Vader’s 10-inch figurine by a matter of 50 cents, then it’s your chance to get back at that bad person who snatched up the object of your obsessions. You weren’t able to have that one on Ebay? Then get one made specifically for you through CustomBobble.com! Besides, that one on Ebay may have been a used item! This one will be lovingly created just for you.

If you want to take geekiness to a different level, you could also have replicas of your favorite tech industry icon created just for you. Maybe you want a bobblehead of you being hugged or kissed by Steve Jobs. If you’re a girl and you like Steve Jobs that much, ain’t that a great thought? If you’re a guy… That’s just gross. Or maybe you would want a replica of Steve Jobs’ main man and über-designer Jonathan Ive. If you can’t steal him from his wife, at least you have a bobblehead of him on your nightstand.

As a geek, you won’t run out of ideas for new bobbleheads to be ordered. If you are on a quest to have that one collectible you missed getting, or you so desperately want a figurine of Steve Jobs or Jonathan Ive, Linus Torvalds of Linux, Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Linux, or even of Bill Gates or, heaven forbid, Steve Ballmer, then hop on over to CustomBobble.com and feed your inner geek’s hunger. You won’t lack for ideas on what else to order.

If you order in bulk, there are special discounts! So complete the entire Star Wars or Lord of the Rings cast and crew, or you could go for the complete lineup of today’s tech greats! Hop on over to CustomBobble.com now!

A custom gift is a gift that you have either assembled yourself or ordered especially from a manufacturer so that the recipient will feel highly valued because you took the time and effort to customize the gift. A custom made gift is different from an off-the-shelf type of gift in that the latter is often mass-produced from the public. To illustrate, my custom made gift could be a bath towel monogrammed with your own nickname in your favorite colors while an off-the-shelf type of gift is simply a white bath towel I picked up at the nearby department store. A custom made gift has more value than an off-the-shelf gift because a custom made gift is one that was assembled or picked out due to its special value to the sender and recipient. We might say you communicate your caring thoughts  about the recipient when you send a custom gift to him or her that you know he or she will appreciate.

Examples of custom gifts could be gift baskets that you yourself assembled, filled with goodies like chocolates, fine wine, and gourmet canned food; pretty plants or fresh flower arrangements that you have ordered from a florist; or corporate giveaways like clocks, watches, writing pen sets, or leather schedule planners embossed with your corporation’s logo. Since custom gifts are basically items that were picked out for a particular occasion (such as because of an illness in the family of the recipient; important family events like the wedding anniversary of the recipient; or corporate anniversaries like the founding day of your company or organization), you should choose custom gifts that seem appropriate for the event.

Take, for instance, leather schedule planners – it is not generally common policy for an organization to send these when a business associate falls sick and is in hospital. Rather, the more common type of custom gifts for convalescence would be a gift basket with flowers, special food that is not offered in hospitals, and maybe balloons (though that would depend on the age of the recipient and his personality.) Some people like to infuse a bit of humor into their custom gifts, like when a marketing tactics speaker used giveaways of mock straightjackets to show his point that marketing can sometimes drive you crazy – and the audience found it funny to have mock straightjackets handed out to them. How many of them still have such wacky custom gifts remains to be seen though.

Practicality comes into play when selecting good custom gifts as well. Corporations do this all the time because they want to be known as organizations you would trust your business to. It is part of the overall corporate image – meaning, a corporation that gives out practical gifts is a responsible organization. You may have received nice watches with the corporation’s logo in the past, or maybe leather-covered data organizers (which are hot stuff with young corporate types on the way up the corporate ladder actually) which all aim to show that the corporation sending these is thinking of the recipient (you) in practical terms.

So what do you do when you receive custom gifts like these? Well, in business it is usually a good idea to send a courteous note thanking the sender. If, however, you feel the custom gifts put you in an unfavorable position, you may always send back the gifts with a polite note saying why you cannot receive the gift. This helps bridge the etiquette gap that may come with the flow of custom gifts between individuals and organizations.