MetaZoo Games LLC is founded by Michael Alexander Waddell in May of 2020 out of New York City, New York, United States. – Source
Category: Timeline Stories
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Michael Waddell launches the first MetaZoo Games Kickstarter project. – Source With the launch of this Kickstarter, MetaZoo Games has made clear that it has decided that the company’s core product will be a trading card game. One of the product’s main catching points was its 4th Wall effects, a first of its kind […]
Not but 10 days after having being launched, the MetaZoo Games Kickstarter campaign is fully funded on August 9th, 2020. It ended successfully on August 30th, 2020 with a total of $18,249 pledged by 255 backers. – Source
MetaZoo trading card game sample cards are first made available for purchase to the public. There were 96 sample cards with 100 copies of each printed and distributed. – Source
The first promo cards/packs to be released by MetaZoo Games are made available in early October, and ship out to buyers on October 9th, 2020. These would be the final cards to have black borders, and from hereon out the borders would be changed to red after some discussion with the community at the […]
These Holiday Promo cards would be the first red-border cards to reach the hands of its buyers. They are single-card packs wrapped in clear cellophane, released in tandem with a “New Years New Beginnings” promo card, and would be priced at USD$0.99. The 0/5 front card is included in all packs. Only 500 […]
Roughly six months after the Kickstarter had been successfully funded and finalized, backers of the project would start receiving their pledged products in the mail. The fulfilment, shipment and arrival of product to customers homes would continue into the month of March 2021. The print-run sizes for Kickstarter product was 2,500 per SKU […]
MetaZoo’s first venture into NFTs is known as Genesis 2021. The Genesis NFTs were all minted on March 16, 2021. Genesis had 17 different Cryptids available in really cool 16-bit style graphics, and had many varying multiples of minted copies available for each one, ranging from as little as 10 for some, to as […]
A portion of the MetaZoo Games team attended their first Collect-A-Con in June of 2021. It was the Frisco Collect-A-Con located in Frisco, Texas, United States. The MetaZoo Games team would go on to attend at least 10 events and conventions across the United States throughout the rest of the 2021 year.
Cryptid Nation: Base Set 1st Edition went on sale to the public in July 2021. This would be a reprint of the Kickstarter set, but with the “K” and the QR code removed from the layout, along with other visual changes and issues resolved. It is the first of a few sets that would […]
In late July of 2021, it was announced that Steve Aoki has joined MetaZoo Games as a full equity partner, and becomes a co-founder of the company. Shaw Mead, who is the founder of Game Kastle, joins MetaZoo Games as its new COO (Chief Operating Officer).
The Cryptid Nation Pin Club 1st Edition set was initially released on September 17th, 2021 and started shipping out to customers in November 2021. This would be the first of many Pin Club collaborations to come. – Source
Topps x MetaZoo Cryptid Nation: Series 0 cards were made available for purchase from the official Topps website on September 30, 2021, and were to be available for sale until October 14, 2021; a total of 15 days. Due to heavy demand, the Topps website ended up crashing on several occasions throughout the first […]
Cryptid Nation: Nightfall 1st Edition went on sale to the public in October 2021. This is the first Cryptid Nation expansion set, and the second set entirely to be released by MetaZoo Games. The print-run sizes for Nightfall 1st Edition product was 2x that of Cryptid Nation 1st Edition, at 50,000 per SKU […]
The premiere MetaZoo Games 1-of-1 NFT project was a collaboration between MetaZoo Games business partner Steve Aoki, and famous artist & 3D animator Gal Yosef. The winning bidder would go on to be the owner of the Mothman NFT, along with 100 Nightfall 1st Edition booster boxes, and a matching 1-of-1 Mothman NFT promo […]
There was a total of 5,000 Token NFTs ready to be presented during the November 29-December 2, 2021 Dutch auction, with a total of ten different 16-bit styled spinning coin Tokens; some more rare than others. A total of 2,305 MetaZoo Token NFTs have sold (or been given away). Any Tokens that did not […]