Fans of hit anime series RWBY have a little longer to wait until the series’ sixth season starts streaming on Rooster Teeth’s SVOD service, First. But there’s good news to tide them over: Rooster Teeth has partnered with McFarlane Toys to preserve one of RWBY’s battles in resin. The piece, announced Aug. 2, is a limited edition cold-cast statue showing huntresses-in-training Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee taking on an Alpha Beowolf.
The cold hard specs: The RWBY Alpha Beowolf Battle Statue is 12 inches high, 15.4 inches wide, and 12.9 inches deep. It will be available over the winter holidays at the Rooster Teeth online store for $550 in a limited run of 950 — with a separate, more limited run of 50 unpainted artist proof grayscale variants also available.
Fans going to RTX Austin this weekend, however, will have the chance to nab one of 20 of those unpainted variants early — they’ll be up for sale at popup store The Coop.
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RWBY, which became the first American anime to be exported to Japan, is one of Rooster Teeth’s largest ongoing animated projects, with a viewership-per-episode that rivals network television shows like Supergirl, according to Rooster Teeth. The creative company also has another large-scale animated project, the mecha anime gen:LOCK, arriving in January. When gen:LOCK does premiere, though, it will almost certainly follow in RWBY‘s footsteps, rolling out on First (which has 250,000 paying subscribers and 3 million community members) before going live on Rooster Teeth’s site and YouTube for free viewing.
That means you can catch up on RWBY‘s first five seasons right here, right now, for free, ahead of the sixth season premiere.
