Royal Bobbles Offers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bobblehead

This is not exactly domain-related news, but it’s big news for a domain investor who has become one of the dominant online bobblehead retailers since acquiring Bobblehead.com and Bobbleheads.com for $36,000. Congrats to Warren Royal and his growing bobble empire! This goes to show what you can do when you acquire a category killer domain name in a vertical you like.

From the Royal Bobbles press release:

The officially licensed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bobblehead will be available for pre-orders in mid-December through Bobbleheads.com and other quality bobblehead dealers.  Produced by Royal Bobbles LLC, this oversized, limited-edition model with exquisite details—crafted in high-quality resin—will come in a colorful collector’s box and be sold at the King Center, museums, gift shops, and through online web stores, like Bobbleheads.com.

“We are honored that the King Estate has granted us the opportunity to produce the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bobblehead as the first in our series of great ‘American Heroes’,   said Warren Royal, Founder of Royal Bobbles.   “The King Estate is rightly very selective about the products which they authorize, and the outstanding quality of our product line was a major factor in their decision to work with us on this exciting product.”

Best known for his “I Have a Dream” speech—delivered at the 1963 March on Washington—Martin Luther King Jr., the youngest man to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement.   And since his assassination on April 4, 1968, political, civil rights, and historical memorabilia collectors around the world have grown increasingly interested in preserving his memory.

However, with most of the documents, personal items, and artifacts related to this slain civil-rights leader’s life rightfully gathered in institutional collections, MLK memorabilia collectors will have an exciting opportunity to acquire their own treasured centerpiece of American history with Royal Bobbles targeted release for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bobblehead on King’s birthday (January 18, 2010), an historically significant time of the year when interest in and the value of King Memorabilia consistently rises.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
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4 COMMENTS

  1. Warren’s one of the absolute best examples of the greatness that can be achieved by focusing on just a couple of your top domains and pouring your heart into growing them each day.

  2. very nice website and its clean looking.. he is doing a great job.

    does anyone know what kind of software he is running on things..??

    not a heavily searched term from wordtracker..never knew bobble heads was that big of a business…tons of advertisers on google.

  3. I use a CMS, it’s the only way I can run all my various sites without having to rely on a tech support team. Most people use Joomla or something like that, but I’m a Windows guy so I use DotNetNuke (open source) which is designed for the Windows platform.

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