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First Look: Marvel Captain America Infinite Series 6-Inch Legends – at Target

Hasbro’s latest series of Marvel Legends (we’ll just call them Captain America Legends instead of the so hard to remember official name) may already be in the store room of your local Target. Our good pal trs was enterprising enough to purchase a case of these figures yesterday. As you may know, both Cap Legends and Spider-Man Legends (also shortened for simplicity) are due to hit in the New Year. So, if you’re brave enough to venture out on some of the busiest shopping days of the year, you might find these already on shelves – but more likely, you may have to talk to a salesperson about checking in the back.

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Want to See How the Four Horsemen Made Castle Grayskull?

Eric Treadaway’s Desk Jockey feature on the SourceHorsemen website has got a cool series of posts underway right now. Taking a twist on the popular holiday theme, it’s the Twelve Days of Grayskull. TDoG covers the creation of the Masters of the Universe Classics Castle Grayskull prototype, starting with the blank armature. Very cool!

They’ve posted eight days so far (I’ve included a few of the pics from the first three), so if you haven’t seen it, you can start catching up before the big finale.

DESK JOCKEY HOLIDAY EDITION: THE TWELVE DAYS OF GRAYSKULL

Back in January, when I was digging my original Castle Grayskull playset out of the basement, my three year old son saw the castle for the first time and was instantly fascinated. He actually came into the office with me that same morning which was when the digitally output armature first showed up at the studio. At that point it went from fascination to a temporary obsession. When I first saw the size of the armature, knowing the amount of time we had to work on this monster, I knew I was in for some very long days and nights at the office! To keep my son up to date on the castle I decided to take shots of the castle every night when I was wrapping up work. It was really the first time I started using my phone to document projects in progress, and it was actually the beginnings of the idea for the Desk Jockey segment!

via DESK JOCKEY HOLIDAY EDITION: THE TWELVE DAYS OF GRAYSKULL «.

DC Collectibles Reveals New 52 Earth 2 Hawkgirl

Before we got tied up with CustomCon 36, DC Collectibles wrapped up another Spoiler Alert game. They revealed the New 52 Hawkgirl. Some folks had it guessed from the first image (a portion of her wings) but I had no idea – not reading the New 52 Earth 2 didn’t help.

The grumpy old man in me wants to know why they had to mess with her color scheme – I know New 52 is, well, new, but I’d like more nods to the history, and the brown, red, green, and yellow always worked for the Thanagarians. Hawkgirl’s still a Thanagarian, right?

DC Collectibles

The day has come! The big reveal for this round of Spoiler Alert… Congratulations are in order for many of you for guessing correctly! We present DC Comics – The New 52 Earth 2 Hawkgirl Action Figure, in stores August 2014.

via DC Collectibles.

ThreeA Toys Adventures of Isobelle Pascha Kuma and Pony-Tail Pre-Order Today 12/19

3A Toys is offering a trio of bear-suited Isobelle Paschas for pre-order later today. 3AA members will be able to get a 3-pack of pony-tailed variants, each of which may show up in blind-boxed singles available to everyone.

I’ve not bought a lot of the Adventures of Isobelle Pasche figures – they are a little heavy on the fetish side for me, and bear-suited versions take it even further. But if this is your kind of thing, check out Bambaland starting today at 5PM PST.

KUMA PASCHA, let’s go bearing!

On sale this Friday, Dec. 20th at 9:00am Hong Kong time

Pre-order details:

Blind Box Single – $110 USD (3 Variant from Kuma and 3 Variant from Pony-Tail)

3-Pack Kuma Version – $280 USD

3-Pack Pony-Tail Version – $280 USD (for existing 3AA Members Only)

As always at www.bambalandstore.com !

And at WO3A website you can add the event directly to your calendars:

http://www.worldofthreea.com/events/twoipkuma

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Mattel Missing the Mark with Epic Creations?

Maybe I’ve been conditioned over the years by quick sell-outs, but it was still somewhat of a shock to check in on the Mattycollector December sale to find that the big three Epic Creations items, the Masters of the Universe Classics Castle Grayskull, and the prop replicas for the Batman Utility Belt and the Ghostbusters Neutrino Wand, are all still in stock. None of the three are even at the point where they’ve got the special tags indicating they’re “Almost Gone.” This is particularly surprising for the Castle – from the point of pre-order through the pre-hype for this sale, Mattel has consistently said that they’d have just a very limited amount of Castles for day-of sales.

If we don’t see this change in the short term, here’s what I’ve reasoned could be behind the slower than expected sales.

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