DC Direct has sent out their solicitations for October. These items are scheduled to be available in stores next May.
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Author: Ron
Is DC Universe Classics Wave 17 the “Rainbow Lantern” Wave?
Online retailers have just put up their pre-order pages for DC Universe Classics wave 17 – see the order pages for AFP sponsors Big Bad Toy Store and Enchanted Toy Chest, for example – and while they are staying mum, possibly until mid-January, the speculation on the internet about the line-up is running rampant.
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Four Horsemen Friday – Studio Tour
The Four Horsemen started a new regular feature yesterday – Four Horsemen Fridays. For the first FHF, they kicked it off with a tour of the Four Horsemen Studio. I get to the East Coast a few times a year, and hope to one day take the tour in person.
Beginning today, every Friday, unless some more important event arises, we’re going to give you an insiders look at the goings on at Four Horsemen Studios! Whether it be a sneak peek at some new work that’s being done, a section of the Four Horsemen studio tour, a glimpse at some of the equipment and materials we use day to day, or possibly just what’s on the menu for Taco Bell Friday that week.
For this first, inaugural Four Horsemen Friday we thought we’d give you a brief tour at some of the larger areas of the studio, and even a shot of some top-secret work being done!
In this first shot, you’re standing just outside of one of the two main entrances to Four Horsemen Studios. As you can see, this entrance leads into the large machine portion of our studio. Yeah, we know – the place is a little messy. When you’ve got as much work as we have to do right now. Things’re gonna’ get like that. I think we need to hire a maid. I wonder if the cleaning crew we used to use when we were still at McFarlane Toys is available? The first of the two machines shown here are the lathe (on the right) which is used to turn down cylindrical or round parts like articulation points for the figures or the barrel of a character’s gun. The second machine (to the left) is the vertical mill which can be used for LOTS of different fabricating applications. We’ll show you some shots of these babies in action on a future Four Horsemen Friday. We keep these two machines in a separate room from the rest of the studio because they’re very noisy and they can produce a lot of dust – not conducive to sculpting in a wax based clay. You can just make out a doorway to the far left. This is the entrance to the main area of the studio. We’ll show you more of that at another time.
Be sure to visit the Four Horsemen’s website for the rest of the tour!
AFP Was Hacked
Sandman was on last night prepping his review for the Marvel Universe Masterworks Galactus (with some absolutely stunning photographs that should go up on Monday morning) but the AFP galleries were acting strangely. So I checked out the site and found that some malicious code had been inserted into the software that runs AFP.
A quick call to our host, GoDaddy.com, cleared up the problem. Apparently there was a widespread attack on sites hosted there, so they had a script that they ran, and in a couple of minutes, close to 800 files that were affected were cleaned up. So while I’m not happy that there was a vulnerability at GoDaddy, and even less pleased that they didn’t proactively alert their customers, I’m relieved that they were able to resolve it easily and quickly.
The code was a simple redirect script that would randomly take you to another site instead of AFP. If you were visiting yesterday, you may have been alerted by your browser that the site you were visiting contained malware. I was assured by our host that since we’re not an e-commerce site, none of our visitors’ information would be compromised – but if you did try to stop by here yesterday and mysteriously ended up someplace else, please run a virus scan on your computer just to make sure. I use Avast and Ad-Aware, two excellent scanners that are free, and my computer is clean.
Sorry for the inconvenience – I hope this doesn’t deter you visiting us again.
Hot Toys Announces The Expendables Barney Ross
If you’re a fan of the testosterone-fueled homage to the 80s action flick that is The Expendables, then you’re going to be psyched for the latest announcement from Hot Toys – Sylvester Stallone’s character, Barney Ross, in 1/6 scale. I think they absolutely nailed the head sculpt.
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