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Take Pictures of Your Marvel Select Figures and Win! – DST Photo Contest

Marvel Select fans – here’s your chance to win Marvel prizes from Diamond Select Toys in their Mega-Sized Marvel Select Photo Contest!

Break out your digital camera or smartphone, and start snapping. You can use as much or as little as you want from the Marvel Select line from the past 11 years, including figures and accessories, but nothing else. That means no customs and no figures or accessories from other lines. Also, DST wants you to highlight the figures, so no Photoshop or captions either.

There’s three prize packs in total, consisting of Marvel Select figures and unique or rare prototypes from the line. Makes me with I had more Marvel Select figures so I could compose a group shot worthy of the prizes. I’ve got an idea for a picture – you guys want to see it?

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This Day in Star Wars: August 13, 2013 (Well, Yesterday Actually)

Yesterday afternoon, I saw this image of a TIE Fighter on the Gentle Giant Facebook page. And as I was thinking about how old the date on the picture made me feel, the UPS truck pulled up and dropped off the first of three boxes with the new Star Wars Black Series action figures from Hasbro. There’s nothing like toys to make you feel young again!

Thinking that this must be the workings of the living Force, I decided to add another auspicious date in Star Wars history. You don’t want to know how long it took, with me bumbling around in Photoshop. Suffice to say, I feel old again.

Incidentally, it’s Amazon that started filling orders first (and I don’t know why they shipped my order in 3 separate boxes) – I had found it available for pre-order there first, and then at ToysRUs.com later, and ended up with orders with both. I went back to check, and it looks like all the Star Wars Black Series 6-inch figures are back in stock at Amazon, for the regular $19.99 price. If you are still looking, that’s the best way I’ve found to get them individually (letting you army build the Sandtroopers.) My wallet has a bad feeling about this.

Reminder: AFP Free Stuff Giveaway – SDCC 2013 Exclusive Marvel Universe Deadpool Corps Taco Truck – Ends Friday

The taco truck 6-pack has been sold out since going on sale at HasbroToyShop.com shortly after San Diego Comic-Con wrapped up, but you still have a shot to win the Marvel Universe Deadpool Corps 6-pack in this special AFP Free Stuff Giveaway. It’s easy to enter, but time is running out. You’ve got until this Friday, 8/16, at Noon PST.

And Hasbro, what is it with the tacos? Everyone knows Deadpool loves chimichangas!

Marvel Universe Deadpool Corps Pack
2013 HasbroToyShop.com Comic-Con Exclusive

Love your tacos and burritos! This El Guero Taqueria Exclusive Figure Set includes Deadpool, Lady Deadpool, Kidpool, Dogpool, Squirrelpool and Champion Of The Universe figures for a spectacular, mind-bending taco time! Each figure is a version of Deadpool himself from an alternate universe and together they’re going to save the world from mind-chowing alien forces! Don’t miss out on this incredible exclusive El Guero Taqueria set!

Includes 6 Deadpool Corps figures. Ages 4 and up. Hasbro and all related terms are trademarks of Hasbro.

Impulse Buy: LEGO Back to the Future DeLorean Time Machine

When my action figure bug kicked in, I reluctantly gave up LEGO. But I’ve loved LEGOs since I was a kid, and I often stare at them longingly in the aisles when I’m on yet another fruitless toy run.

But the Time Machine from Back to the Future? With Marty McFly and Doc Brown mini-figures? Maybe it’s the lack of action figures that I had always hoped Mattel would make when they acquired the license. Maybe it’s the longing I’ve had for the Diamond Select Toys DeLoreans, or the BTTF Minimates that I denied myself a few years back. All that pent-up demand – this I could not resist.

This set is from the LEGO CUUSOO program – CUUSOO is not a LEGO acronym – it’s a phonetic spelling for the Japanese word that means “wish.” This program allows people to submit their proposals for LEGO products. If they get enough support from the CUUSOO community, then LEGO will evaluate the proposal to become official products. This is the fourth LEGO product to come out of CUUSOO.

You can get the DeLorean Time Machine at the Shop Lego website for $34.99. Don’t fight it – it’s your density.

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Speaking of Hot Toys and Iron Man, Can I Borrow a Couple Grand?

If you wanted to own all the Hot Toys Iron Man 3 armors in this shot from the Hot Toys Facebook page, it would set you back a cool $1,659.94 (if I did the math right). And that’s not counting the Mark 38 Igor and the Mark 39 sub-orbital Gemini armors, because while those two Iron Man armors were shown at San Diego Comic-Con, they haven’t been officially made available for pre-order.

On top of that, there’s an exclusive Mark 21 Midas that was just announced. And then of course, we’ve yet to see Hot Toys versions of the Mark 40 Shotgun or the Mark 16 Sneaky. (Yes, I’ve been Googling Iron Man armors.)

So I think I’m going to need a little more than that.

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