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San Diego Comic-Con Mezco Mez-Itz Art Show

Mezco Mez-Itz He-Man and Skeletor Customs by Air Max and Spy Magician — Mezco Mez-Itz He-Man and Skeletor Customs by Airmax and SpyMagician

In their original incarnation, Mezco Mez-Itz were 3-inch mini-figures they produced for their licensed properties, like Aliens and Dick Tracy, and some original creations, like Pirate Mez-Itz. I know I have some of the older Hellboy and Predator Mez-Itz around here somewhere – most likely they’ve been gobbled up in my wife’s growing collection of designer figures.

This year, Mezco is relaunching Mez-Itz as a 6-inch urban vinyl brand. I reviewed the Con exclusive comic Hellboy yesterday (in short – it is awesome) and Mezco is releasing a Cinema of Fear 2-pack with Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees soon.

To promote the launch of the new Mez-Itz, Mezco invited customizers and designers from the toy industry to make some customized Mez-Itz. Their creations were collected into an art show and also shown at San Diego Comic-Con. In addition to the He-Man by Airmax and Skeletor by SpyMagician (shown above), be on the lookout for entries from Iron Cow, Joshua Izzo, Eddie Wires and more.

Cool stuff!

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AFP’s Gleek Giveaway Now Closed

Gleek is peering into your very soul! (original credit: Ibentmymanthing)

Thank you very much to all who signed up for one or more of AFP’s free updates services. Silly me – I didn’t take a count of how many subscribers we had prior to the start of the contest, but as close as I can tell, we picked up:

Close to 400 new e-mail subscribers,
around 230 new fans on Facebook,
and around 80 new followers on Twitter.

Who knew a little blue monkey from an 80’s Saturday morning cartoon would be so popular today?

Please check your e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts – a little over an hour ago I finished sending messages to the three lucky subscribers who were favored by Microsoft Excel. If you didn’t get a message from me on how to claim your prize, I’m sorry! It’s the fault of the random number generator algorithms!

This little promotion has really exceeded all my expectations, so thank you once again, and thanks to Toy Guru, Mattel, and my buddies at TheFwoosh.com for making this possible. I hope that you’ve found our content informative and fun, and that you’ll continue to follow us on ActionFigurePics.com!

Mez-Itz Con Exclusive Comic Book Hellboy

Mezco Mez-Itz - Comic Book Hellboy will shoot you in the face!

You know what? I wanted to take some pictures of the Mezco Mez-Itz Comic Book Hellboy that’s exclusive to San Diego Comic-Con and their online store because I thought it would be a simple review. After all, it’s a vinyl figure, right? With vinyl, you plunk them down on a shelf, you dust them off once in a while, and that’s about it.

Not so with this guy. As you’ll see, there’s more to this figure than you might be expecting. I was certainly surprised.

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Moss Man Unflocked – Mattel Wants Fan Input on Change to Masters of the Universe Classics Figure

Mattel is asking that you weigh in on Masters of the Universe Classics Moss-Man. They’re having trouble flocking him and want you to pick from two options.

Flocked with limited articulation (no elbows, knees, or ankles)
Unflocked with all the articulation

The guys at he-man.org came up with what I think are two very reasonable alternatives.

Spot-flocking – only flocking certain areas of the figure that wouldn’t hinder articulation (credit: JonWes, he-man.org)
Flocked heads with unflocked bodies (credit: shantustarsun, he-man.org)

I don’t know if spot-flocking is an option, but I prefer that the best. If that’s not possible, I think that having a flocked head with a fully articulated body is the next best thing.

Please let your voices be heard. Leave comments here, on Mattel’s Facebook page, or on he-man.org. Mattel will be making a decision on this next Monday.

Hey He-Fans,

Just to let everyone know, we are working out some of the kinks with Moss Man right now. The flocking on a highly articulated figure is a bit tricker then we expected. There is a chance Moss Man may get pushed out to April and the “as-of-yet-unannounced” April figure will get bumped up to March (see why we have bonus figures in tow, stuff like this happens a lot!). This is not confirmed yet, just want to keep you all in the loop.

And along those lines, would fans be interested in Moss Man if he was not flocked? Or is this a make or break deal? We are doing everything we can to keep him flocked, but just curious what fans think?

If the only way to flock him would be to limit the articulation would that be okay also? Curious what you all think?

We want to hear your feedback!

Matty

Here is the flocked version with head 1.

Here is what Moss Man looks like without flock with head 2. Still pretty cool. And both versions would come with both heads whether we flock or not.

via Facebook | Mattycollector.com: Update on Moss Man for March.

Marvel Legends 2-Packs – Ninjas vs. Super Spies – Hand Ninja and Nick Fury

This is the second of three reviews I’ll be doing for the second wave of Hasbro’s Marvel Legends 2-packs. I reviewed the SHIELD Leaders 2-Pack with Maria Hill and Iron Man yesterday, and thought that Maria Hill is a continuation of the good female figures that started with Shanna the She-Devil and Elektra, and that Iron Man is arguably the best one we’ve gotten in the 6-inch scale.

Today, I’ll be reviewing Ninjas vs. Super Spies, which pits a red Hand Ninja against former head of SHIELD, Nick Fury. I received a set of 2-packs as part of the Marvel Universe Covers Contest, and while I couldn’t open that set, I did take some packaged pictures. Here they are again, to refresh your memory.

Here were my thoughts at the time: Marvel Legends 2-Packs Wave 2 – packaged

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