Celebrate Bring Your Action Figure to Work Day 2024

If you’re a professional geek, or a geek within any profession, we know you carry your fandom with you. Perhaps your desk features photos of your family and your favorite characters. Or you’ve got bumper stickers, keychains, and clothes declaring your love for pop culture. Well, what if you also took your collectibles on the job?

Now it’s your time to shine. Because action figures aren’t just for kids! While Sideshow might embody the spirit of Bring Your Action Figure to Work Day every day, the national holiday falls on the first Friday of March each year. And this year, you can win big for doing something as simple as letting a Hot Toys figure hang out on your desk.

We are celebrating the event with an awesome giveaway opportunity on March 1, 2024. Learn more about this annual collector’s holiday (and get all the contest information) below.

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How to Enter

Want to enter for a chance to win an awesome Marvel collectible figure prize? To enter Sideshow’s Bring Your Action Figure to Work Day giveaway, follow these steps:

Step 1: Take your favorite officially licensed figure (or figures!) to work with you on Friday, March 1.

Step 2: Snap a creative photo. Have some fun with it — maybe you’ll inspire your coworkers to liven up the office space, too! If you work from home, of course you can still enter. Just show off that work space with your figures having fun.

Step 3: Upload your photo to your Facebook, Instagram, or X. Tag Sideshow’s official social media account(s) in your post and use the hashtag #SideshowAFWD2024 (not case sensitive). Make sure to upload correctly before 11:59 PM PT on March 1, or your entry won’t count.

Step 4: Double check that you’ve met all the posting requirements before you send it out into the world. Then sit back, relax, and wait for the winner announcement next week.

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Rules and Regulations

You can only enter once on each platform. This means you cannot submit multiple posts on one platform, but your one entry post may contain multiple images if you’d like. However, you can enter on multiple platforms (Facebook, Instagram, X) for a total of three unique, eligible entries to the contest.

Figure(s) pictured must be officially licensed. They can be from any of your favorite fandoms, and can be from any official manufacturer, not just Sideshow. Show off your collection, whether you have DC figures, Marvel figures, Star Wars™ figures, or others.

Due to international giveaway laws, this contest is U.S. only.

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I’m In — What Can I Win?

This year’s Take Your Action Figure to Work Day prize is the Classic Loki Sixth Scale Figure. One lucky winner will be chosen to claim this glorious prize, based on eligible entries.

“Glorious purpose!” 

This Marvel action figure features a newly developed headsculpt with a horned helmet. Classic Loki also includes interchangeable face sculpts with grinning and serious expressions. His iconic, screen-accurate comic-inspired costume has expert weathering effects to reflect its appearance in the live-action Loki series.

Loki comes with highly detailed accessories including Frog Thor in a bottle, a battle-damaged helmet, a travel bag, a sixth scale Alligator Loki, and green magic effect accessories. Collectors can complete the scene on their shelf with a character backdrop as well as a specially themed figure stand.

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HELP! I Need Inspo!

We get it! Figure photography can be overwhelming. To help, we’ve included a few inspirational shots from a previous year’s entries in this blog. Which shot is your favorite?

This Freddie Mercury action figure clearly didn’t receive the office training and safety manual! Make sure to brief your action figures so they can follow the proper on-site protocol.

At least he’s trying to be helpful? We’ll give you an A for effort, plastic Freddie Mercury.

Your own entries can be as creative as you’d like — tell us a story of office chaos, or just show us how you keep your fandom close when you’re clocked in. We can’t wait to see what fun and creative things you’ll come up with.

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Which action figure is coming to work with you on Friday, March 1? You still have time to find the perfect figure friend to accompany you on Friday, so don’t miss your chance to enter!

If you’re looking for even more posing ideas or want to show off your own figures, join the community and chat with fellow collectors at side.show/geekgroup or in the Sideshow Social Network. Have fun on the job, and don’t forget to Let Your Geek Sideshow!