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No Shipping Options on Digital River Bugs Mattycollector January Early Access

Even if you wanted to spend about $50 to pick up a Masters of the Universe Classics Ram Man during Mattycollector’s January Early Access, you were head-butted out of the buying process. A bug in the Digital River shopping cart kept Club Eternia subscribers from completing their purchases this morning – no shipping options were presented in the drop-down menu, and any attempts to continue would result in an endless loop on the page.

I was looking to pick one up for a Free Stuff giveaway and made a couple attempts thinking that I couldn’t read the highly unintelligible Captcha codes. Very frustrating! Just chalk it up as another snafu in Digital River’s service record during their Mattycollector tenure.

No Masters of the Universe Classics Two Bad, But Ram Man Returns for Mattycollector January Sale

I’ve been critical in the past that Mattel’s Early Access for Mattycollector subscribers provided little value. However, I can’t really say that about their first sale for 2014 – the remaining Ram Man stock goes up for grabs first in Early Access, and I’m guessing he’ll be gone in a few minutes – way before everyone else gets a shot the following day. Add the fact that the Club Eternia offering, the very popular Two Bad, does not have any inventory available for day of sales, and subscribers to Mattycollector’s last remaining club should be starting off the year happy. Whether this is good for the line overall – I’m curious what you guys think.

The DC Universe Classics Captain Marvel Jr. (aka Freddy Freeman), MOTUC Dekker, and the Ghostbusters Ecto Goggles will also be on sale. Here’s the link to Early Access for January, which opens tomorrow at 8AM PST. All access opens up Wednesday at 9AM PST. Let’s hope this sale does better for Mattel than their December sale – last I checked, none of the items had sold out or even been tagged with the warning of low stock. I was able to add 99 Castle Grayskulls (the order limit) to my cart – $29,700 plus $2,499 for shipping (and don’t forget sales tax!) and they can be yours!

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Doh! – The Simpsons Joining the LEGO Family Next Month

Back when LEGO first acquired the Star Wars license, I worried that they were killing their business by delving into expensive licensed properties. Now, years later, their licensing program continues to flourish with the most dominant licenses – and it’s about to add another big brand to the fold.

Coming in February, LEGO launches the Simpsons brand with the Simpsons House, comprised of over 2.5K bricks, including 6 mini-figures – Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and Flanders – wow! At about $200, the set is not cheap, but considering people have been cobbling together Simpsons LEGOs for years, I think it could be another big win for LEGO.

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Check Out Eleven Series of Predators in NECA’s Visual Guide

During the holidays, NECA posted an update to their visual guide for their long-standing Predators series of action figures – this is what eleven waves of killer plastic (or is that plastic killers?) looks like. Happy hunting!

Download the Updated Visual Guide for our Predator Action Figures! [FREE]

Thanks to plenty of dedicated fans, our line of Predator action figures continues to be a best-seller — in fact, we just released the 11th Series! As a special holiday treat for all you collectors, we’ve updated the Predator Visual Guide to include all the figures released in the last year, and made it available to download.

via Download the updated Visual Guide for our Predators line! | NECAOnline.com.

Hot Toys Reveals Iron Man 3 Starboost Mark XXXIX

I love me some Hot Toys, but that House Party Protocol finale in Iron Man 3 is a double-edged sword. It’s very cool to have so many armors to make, but unless you’ve got Tony Stark’s bank, you won’t be able to Pokemon them all. I’ll be doing an Iron Man movie marathon pretty soon (the rules – no bathroom breaks – not as challenging as the Lord of the Rings marathon) so I’ll be checking out the scene for all the armors that I missed. Starboost is one of them.

You can pre-order the Hot Toys Iron Man 3 Starboost figure at Sideshow Collectibles. It’s got LED lights for the eyes, ARC reactor, and back thruster pack, plus the usual set of interchangeable hands. Yours for $269, arriving November this year. Not that I’ll ever tire of seeing new Iron Man armors, but hopefully by then we’ll see some figures from the next Marvel franchise – Guardians of the Galaxy. Continue reading “Hot Toys Reveals Iron Man 3 Starboost Mark XXXIX”