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By Ron, on August 28th, 2010 Graphitti Designs has a few of the SDCC DC Direct exclusives in stock at their original prices. So if you’ve been looking at the aftermarket, try here first. If I get really motivated, I might pick up a Batman to try to replicate the super-articulated Arkham Asylum Batman custom that Prodigy put together.
After the Con was over, we found ourselves with a very limited quantity of these cool (and desirable) figures remaining. Here’s your chance to purchase some of these figures at the original $20.00 SRP.
In order to get these into the hands of as many different people as possible, sales are limited to two (2) each of each of the remaining figures.
via Graphitti Designs – Comic-Con Exclusives.
By Ron, on August 16th, 2010 
Looks like DC Direct will leverage the year-long Brightest Day event in the comics in its action figure line-ups. Blackest Night produced eight series of figures – with these previews, Brightest Day is on its second series, due in comic book stores in April next year. I think we’ll see some pretty interesting character choices if we get to eight or more series in this line, and I’m really liking what we’ve seen thus far.
There’s more… click to continue reading DC Direct September Solicitations
By Ron, on August 13th, 2010 I was very sad to hear about the passing of Eddie Wires earlier this week. The staff of the Fwoosh put together a small article with our remembrances of Eddie. Some of us had just seen him a few weeks back, during San Diego Comic-Con. Eddie – we’ll miss you.
If you’re an action figure fan, chances are you’ve got a toy on your shelf that Eddie Wires helped create. Some of you probably have shelves full of toys Eddie had a hand in. After Eddie was done painting a prototype, that figure was the best it would ever look and the best it would ever be. That’s because no factory production process could ever hope to match what he created by hand.
I wasn’t lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Eddie, but it seemed to me that he had the same effect on the people around him as he did on the toys he created – life was better when he was there. Always friendly, always smiling, and it was certainly infectious.
  
If you look through his body of work (see his online portfolio or his Facebook albums), like I do from time to time, you’ll be reminded of what might have been in the world of toys. With him gone, I’ll ask myself that every time I see a painted prototype, and every time I’m outside on the balcony at Jolt’n Joes.
via Remembering Eddie Wires | TheFwoosh.com.
By Ron, on August 6th, 2010  Captain Cold, Toyman, the Riddler, Sinestro, Bizarro, and the rest of the Legion of Doom The DC Universe Classics Giants of Doom entry in CustomCon 26 started with my desire for a more scale-accurate Sinestro. As that custom came together, I started feeling the pangs of nostalgia-fueled desire for a complete Legion of Doom. Thoughts for how to improve current figures (Sinestro and Captain Cold) and how to add the missing ones (Toyman, Riddler in spandex, and Bizarro in a classic style) kept forming, but I knew I would never get around to making it happen. So I did what I will probably do from now on – I recruited a dream team of customizers from AFP and the Fwoosh – Buzzy Fret, Ibentmyman-thing, and Robokillah.
There’s more… click to continue reading DC Universe Classics Custom Giants of Doom – Bizarro, Sinestro, Toyman, Captain Cold, and the Riddler
By Sandman21xxi, on July 31st, 2010 
So we’ve been back from Comic-Con for a week, and boy do we have tons of pics to share with you all! To help you guys and gals navigate our galleries, we’ve prepared a summary with links to make browsing easier! Here we go!
First off, you can find the San Diego Comic-Con gallery under Events in our Galleries section. Click on 2010 San Diego Comic-Con and you’ll see all the different galleries for each company and a couple of non-toy galleries too.
There’s more… click to continue reading San Diego Comic-Con 2010 – the Complete Picture Gallery Guide
By Ron, on July 30th, 2010 
I’ll admit that while I was impressed with DC Direct’s Arkham Asylum and Brightest Day figures, I didn’t spend a lot of time at their display. So Fwoosh’s TheGDBatman was kind enough to send me some more pics – most notably, the Return of Bruce Wayne figures that I somehow completely missed. He also sent over some pics from the lines that I did get, including Arkham Asylum, Blackest Night, Brightest Day, and even some of the statues on display there.
There’s more… click to continue reading San Diego Comic-Con 2010 – DC Direct Update – Return of Bruce Wayne
By Ron, on July 22nd, 2010 
We also hit DC Direct on Preview Night – our focus was mainly on the Batman: Arkham Asylum and Green Lantern-oriented figures. Lanterns will continue to be a strong theme for DCD, and we’ll have to go back to get a look at their non-figure oriented stuff – lots of cool rings and lantern pieces to be had.
But for now, let’s start with the figures, and the line I’ve been itching to see up close.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
       
Seeing these up close, I’m really impressed how they leveraged the 3d assets from game development to produce some extremely detailed sculpts. I’m hard pressed to pick a standout here, but I think Harley takes it. The articulation, as you might expect, is limited by today’s super-articulated standards, and both versions of Batman are the low points for me.
There’s more… click to continue reading San Diego Comic-Con 2010 – DC Direct
By Ron, on July 21st, 2010 I hope we’ll see a lot of this and more at San Diego Comic-Con. Here’s DC Direct’s August previews for items that will arrive oh so far away, in March next year. If you thought you were going to get some respite from Blackest Night figures, you are – but if the sales do well then we’ll be buried in Brightest Day figures.
 ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN: GREEN LANTERN VS. SINESTRO STATUE SET
DESIGNED & SCULPTED BY TIM BRUCKNER
The Ultimate Showdown series is DC Direct’s unique, new interactive concept for high-quality collectible statues featuring the world’s greatest heroes and villains squaring off in deadly combat.
Green Lantern delivers a green energy blast to Sinestro, as the Corps’ arch-nemesis burns with yellow fire.
Each character is displayed on a specially designed stand-alone base intended to “interact” with the other statues in the series and to be displayed in a myriad of ways. The statues can pivot independently on their bases and rotate their heads to customize and direct the action. Collect all the other statue sets in the series! Mix and match them to create your own showdown or combine them all in one ultimate battle scene.
These hand-painted, cold-cast porcelain statues measure approximately:
- Green Lantern: 7.35” high x 4.5” wide x 5.25” deep
- Sinestro: 8” high x 4.5” wide x 5” deep
Each set is packaged together in a 4-color box.
Limited Edition.
On sale March 16, 2011 * Statue * $175 US
There’s more… click to continue reading DC Direct August Solicitations
By Ron, on June 14th, 2010 
DC Direct just announced their Batman: Arkham Asylum line last month, but they’re immediately back again with series 2, due out in February next year. Series 2 adds fan favorite villains Poison Ivy, Victor Zsasz, and Bane, as well as the armored-suited Batman from the Arkham Asylum Challenges.
That’s not all. DC Direct is also introducing an All-Star Superman figure set with a new Bizarro, as well as a bunch of busts and statues.
There’s more… click to continue reading DC Direct July Solicitations – Arkham Asylum Series 2
By Ron, on May 27th, 2010 The second issue of the Return of Bruce Wayne hit shelves today, and DC Direct took the opportunity to announce a line of action figures to go with the mini-series. I should know better than to doubt Grant Morrison – the first two issues have been a fun read, and the hook that Darkseid has booby-trapped Bruce to destroy the Earth *if* he makes it back to his own time makes it even more compelling.
Well, how about a first look at DC DIRECT’s RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE action figures?
The first wave will hit in April of next year, and features four different versions of our time lost hero, based on the designs of cover artist Andy Kubert.
   
The figures include:
- Prehistoric Batman
- Witch-hunter Batman
- Wild West Batman
- High Seas Batman
via DC Universe: The Source » Blog Archive » RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE #2 hits today.
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