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Mattel’s Legends line for WWE is really picking up steam. Mr. Perfect is one of my favorite wrestlers from that long past era, so it’s great to see him get a Mattel figure.
via Facebook | Mattel / WWE’s Photos – Legends Series 3. Here’s the print ads from series 1 – 3. Awesome stuff!
Mattel had previously announced the WWE Hall of Fame collector events today at Kmart, but there will also be two in-store special appearances. Sgt. Slaughter will appear in Gastonia, North Carolina, and Dusty Rhodes in Tampa, Florida. More details are in the official announcement. It’s nice to see Mattel’s event exclusive WWE figures extend beyond the basic series, as I’m really only interested in the figures with the Elite style articulation. It’s also pretty cool that Mattel can turn around a series with event-specific decos after only a few months. WrestleMania 27 took place at the start of April.
Kmart jumps on board with Mattel’s WWE Legends line with the Hall of Fame assortment, which is essentially Legends Series 1 minus the Road Warriors plus Funk and Snuka from Series 2. Of course, if the packaging is different, then you might have some mint on card collectors out looking for these guys too. I’ve already picked up all of Series 1 with the exception of Dusty Rhodes (I was never a big fan), and Funk was a little before my time. But Snuka was always entertaining, so I’ll probably still stop by to see if I can pick one up. Click on the picture (or here) for a list of Kmart stores that are participating.
I should know this by now, but Matty can be very strict when it comes to deadlines, even when those deadlines fall on the Sunday the weekend after Comic-Con when we’re still recovering. In other words, we missed the submission deadline for questions this installment – and judging from what I’m seeing for round-up links, so did a few other folks. Luckily, we had a round of answers from a previous installment that we missed. Unluckily, this was from the weeks leading up to San Diego Comic-Con, so there’s a bit of a time warp effect… 1) The carded pics of DC Universe Classics Wave 14 are a lot of fun – I love Ultra-Humanite’s head peeking out of Hourman’s package, and the placement of stickers that allows that. Quick question on the names you put on the packages – we know you said that the Obsidian name is held by another company now, but we’re still curious why you went with Green Lantern instead of Alan Scott? John Stewart and Katma Tui had their names on the package.
At the end of the day, DC Comics lets us know what name to use on package. Sometimes, like with Obsidian, a name may not be available for a toy (if another company owns the trademark, for example) and we will work with DC on an alternative name. There’s more… click to continue reading AFP Ask Matty Round-Up for 8/17/10 Q and A | August 17th, 2010 |
Don’t forget – Monday at Noon EST, Mattel’s exclusives from San Diego Comic-Con go on sale on MattyCollector.com. Here’s the link to the bundled page. Orko and Plastic Man sold out at the show first, and I imagine some people who got Orko at SDCC will be trying for this version too, because it doesn’t have the semi-translucent appearance that the Con-only color-change version does. Good luck!
News | August 1st, 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. Events | July 31st, 2010 |
If you haven’t already done so, be sure to check out the video of the Mattel WWE Panel at San Diego Comic-Con from yesterday. Here we’ve got the collection of pics we took on Preview Night with the new figures they put out after the panel. Enjoy! There’s more… click to continue reading San Diego Comic-Con – Mattel WWE Pics Ohhhhh yeahhhhh! Mattel held its WWE panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, and there were a couple of big surprises. We caught the bulk of the announcements on video after getting the green light to tape after first being told not to. There’s more… click to continue reading San Diego Comic-Con 2010 – Mattel WWE Panel
Two pretty awesome updates from Mattel on the MattyCollector site today. First up, a demo of the packaging for the JLA Presents Starro the Conqueror exclusive. I had heard that Kevin Conroy was providing the voiceovers here, but I didn’t realize that there was going to be so much of it. And second, for those of you attending San Diego Comic-Con, maybe the lines for exclusives won’t be quite so bad this year. Mattel is offering pre-sales via MattyCollector on Tuesday, July 13, with pickup times next door to the San Diego Convention Center on Thursday – Saturday. News | July 9th, 2010 |
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