Just a quickie. You know that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is opening next Wednesday, right? Leveraging that Transformers hype, Toys R Us is having a sale on Transformer toys this week.
Pardon me if I get a little misty here – this week has been pretty fantastic in the action figure world. We started off the week announcing our Marvel Universe Comic Cover Contest that we’re running with TheFwoosh.com. Mattycollector.com had MOTU Classics Hordak and the DC Universe Classics Battle for Earth 3 set on sale on Monday, and that fittingly kicked off an onslaught of Mattel and Four Horsemen announcements and reviews. If that wasn’t enough, today we get early word on the Marvel Legends relaunch from Wizard World Philly.
But getting back to why I’m posting – seeing as how fantastic of a week it’s been, it’s somehow poetic that we close out the week with a teaser about the Four Horsemen’s Fantastic Exclusive. Gothitropolis was originally supposed to be the property that would be offered this summer, but for various reasons the 4H decided to go with 7th Kingdom and Queen Alluxandra and variants instead.
After all those announcements, they decided to give a little taste of what the upcoming Egyptian-themed Gothitropolis variants will be like.
Thought you guys might want a sneak peek at things to come…
Update: El Diablo V2 provided some more context for the panel and images:
They had a panel titled “Hasbro Toys: Marvel” or something along those lines. Jesse and two Hasbro people were there, one from marketing and the other was a sculptor I think, not sure. They showed three presentations and then held a Q&A. The first presentation was really interesting…it showed the process of making an ML, including some cool shots of the stages of Galactus. He went through it really fast and I barely could get a picture. The second slide-show was on Toybiz and what we missed out on. That one hurt a bit…
The last one was just Jesse opening up three .jpgs of the Mls and talking about each one. People cheered for the first two, and everyone was underwhelmed by Lady Bullseye.
I do need to say this…not ONCE did they mention/plug Marvel Universe. This was strictly 6″ ML talk. It was great. Jesse hung around a bit afterwards and I spoke with him for a minute. He must have been remotely un-creeped out because he walked out with me and shook my hand a few times. I told him I was from the Fwoosh and I thanked him for all of the information, and apologized about the onslaught of negativity directed at him. He was a stand-up guy and seemed to be having fun during the event.
Marvel Legends is back, according to a Fwoosher who attended Wizard World Philly today! Fwoosher El Diablo V2 spoke with Jesse Falcon, who ran the Marvel Legends line when it was at Toy Biz and handles aspects of the licensing relationship Marvel now has with Hasbro. Prior to New York Comic-Con earlier this year, Jesse said ‘I wanted to come on the Fwoosh and let you guys know that next weekend your [sic] going to see something I think is amazingly cool that will be happening with the 6″ Marvel Legends line,’ only to have to recant due to some miscommunication between Hasbro and Marvel. I’m really psyched to see this finally come to fruition – maybe Jesse can start posting at the Fwoosh again. 😀
Please note: the turnarounds for Absorbing Man and Darkhawk, and the prototype of the Avengers Quinjet are from the Toy Biz days. These were toys that were never released, not a teaser for upcoming toys from the Hasbro Marvel team. These were previously shown as part of Action Figure Insider’s “Behind the Plastic” panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2008.
Re: New Legends sneak peeks to be shown at Wizardworld Philly!
by El Diablo V2 on Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:14 am
Marvel legends Teaser - Lady Bullseye, Warpath, and Madrox the Multiple Man (credit: El Diablo V2)
Allright guys, here’s my report.
They will be showing 16-18 prototypes at SDCC for release in 2010.
The 3 two-packs will be hitting in late August at the latest, still distributed by Diamond and TRU.
They hinted at a new Deadpool being revealed SDCC, as well as an Inhuman to accompany Blackbolt.
No BAFs are coming out next year.
They will be doing a fan poll for new ML, the top 3 will be split across 3 new two-packs, with Hasbro choosing the partners. These will most likely come out this time next year.
NO RETAIL EXCLUSIVES NEXT YEAR!!!
They’re still working out packaging, as in singles/two-packs for the other assortments. It seemed to me they’re leaning towards two-packs for now still.
They also had a segment on Toybiz stuff that never made it, and I have a few pics from that as well.
Marvel Legends Teaser – Lady Bullseye, Warpath, and Madrox the Multiple Man (credit: El Diablo V2)
Sword-of-Grayskull, a poster at He-Man.org, was on hand at Wizard World Philly and took some pictures of a painted prototype of the upcoming Masters of the Universe Classics Teela. Unfortunately S-o-G had some camera issues, so there weren’t many clear shots of the “fixed”” booty. Still, you’ve got to applaud the effort.
Both this and the unpainted proto at NY Comic-Con featured Teela in her snake headdress. I am wondering if that is removable. Anyone know?
On display today at Wizard World Philadelphia, booth #400 – the Four Horsemen’s booth – was Teela in all her painted beauty. If you look at her rear, you’ll notice there’s also something different from NYCC.
At the 4HM’s panel, I asked them if there was anything different about this prototype from the one at NYCC. Cornboy replied, “You mean did we fix her booty?” And he said the answer was yes, they did go back and change it. Eric Treadway added that it was because of the “pages and pages” of “unanimous” opinion. Later I stopped by their booth to grab pics, and Cornboy was kind enough to take Teela out of the case so that I could get some clearer visuals (the glass was screwing up the focus on my camera, hence why the last couple of pics are a little fuzzy). So without further ado, here’s my photos:
I’m not a bobble head collector. The last one I bought was several years ago, and it was for my wife. I vaguely remember it being a Frankenberry bobble head, because there was a phase we went through where we were really enjoying the triumvirate of General Mills cereals (the other two being Count Chocula and Boo Berry.) Turns out Frankenberry is my favorite of the three, but not hers. So really, the bobble head turned out to be for me. And I’m not a bobble head collector. And while my wife likes Star Wars, she’s more a fan of the prequels. Regardless, it turns out she’s not a bobble head collector either.
But… if you are, and you also like Star Wars, this deal is about half off the prices I saw doing a quick search.
Star Wars Bobble Heads $29.99 + $5 shipping
Features:
Stands about 7” tall
Over sized head with a spring attached to it’s body causes the bobble motion
Tap its head to set about the bobble motion
Plastic head and body stand upon a sturdy base, allows you to display almost anywhere you want
