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I’m a little late on sharing a pair of Hot Toys announcements from last week. The first was previewed by Clark Gregg (it’s a figure of him, after all) – Agent Phil Coulson from The Avengers. Hot Toys really nailed the likeness.
My only gripe? His Captain America cards are already bloody. Spoiler!
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In addition to the Action Portable Popbot Tomorrow Queens, over the weekend 3A Toys previewed the Action Portable 1/12 scale 10 Finger Gang. When 3A made the 1/6 versions available for pre-order back in October last year, they were available both as blind-boxed singles and in one huge eleven figure set. No word on price yet, but I’ll guess it’ll be in the $375 to $475 range for all eleven of these. I don’t know if I’m fond enough of the Zombots I have already to order all of these guys, but I definitely do regret not getting all 12 Dirty Deeds Berties back when they were still available as sets (even on the after market). It looks like these will have fully-articulated fingers, so that’s pretty damn cool in this scale.
If you’re curious, in the center is King Thumb, and starting from him it goes 1 through 5 on the left and 6 through 10 on the right. You can find more info on the Nefarious 10 Finger Robot Gang at the 3A Wiki.
Tomorrow Queens in the 1/12 scale made their first appearances at San Diego Comic Con this year, with a 1/12 Little Shadow (technically from Adventure Kartel) and two black / white queens. The APTQ preview above, however, features five Tomorrow Queens seen for the first time in 1/12 scale. From left to right, they are:
Am wondering what we might see for a super secret rare drop when these go up for pre-order, hopefully in December. What do you guys think?
While there has been no official announcement from Mattel, BigBadToyStore has put up pre-orders for the 3rd series of the DC Unlimited line. No big surprises here – we’re going to be getting more of the New 52 designs with Aquaman and Darkseid and more from the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game with Superman and the Joker. From New 52 we’ve already seen Batman and Superman and are waiting on Flash, Wonder Woman, and Hawkman to hit shelves. And from Injustice we’re waiting on Batman from the Batman Unlimited line.
I find the marketing of Mattel’s retail offerings a bit puzzling. I’d think they’d get more pop by putting out an Injustice line separate from their comic offerings. If the game is a hit and spawns a franchise, then they can milk the line the way DC Collectibles has with Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. And if not, at least they’d be able to piggyback on the marketing for the game when it hits next year.
The focus on New 52 is expected but still disappointing to me, in that I’d like it better if Mattel and DC Collectibles could find a way to release complementary products instead of rehashing the same characters and costumes again and again. And sadly for Mattel, DCC has been able to release more New 52 characters sooner (see also Blackest Night and Arkham Asylum / City), rendering the quarterly release schedule of a couple figures here and there somewhat limp.
At the end of this month, 3A Toys is launching a new line of mech figures in the 1/12 scale, with the Krote bi-pedal tank from Ma.K. (I had no idea that) Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000 (Ma.K for short) is a sci-fi series by Kow Yokoyama that started in the early 80s as SF3D and resurfaced in the 90s as Ma.K after resolution of a copyright dispute.
In short, Ma.K is about a post-apocalyptic Earth. After a nuclear World War IV has devastated the planet, colonists are sent to repopulate. A struggle for control ensues, and two factions, the Strahl Democratic Republic (SDR) and the Independent Mercenary Army (IMA), battle for the planet using battle suits and vehicles that draw inspiration from everything from World War I to Star Wars. The parallels with Ashley Wood’s own World War Robot makes clear why this is a fit for 3A Toys.
