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Diamond Select Toys Announces Marvel Minimates Series 54 Featuring Captain America

The September issue of Previews is on its way, and it will include a new series of Marvel Minimates. Series 54(!) will feature Captain America, his allies, and enemies. You’ll have the opportunity to army build Hydra agents, as they’ll come with both Baron Strucker and the short-packed Madame Hydra. Also, gotta love that robot Red Skull – thank you, Arnim Zola!

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Marvel Minimates 54 - Captain America

The new Captain America movie is on the way, but we couldn’t wait to pay tribute to the First Avenger with his own dedicated assortment of Minimates! Series 54 includes four different two-packs, including Fighting Chance Captain America and Robot Red Skull, The Winter Soldier and The Falcon, Baron Strucker and a Hydra Elite, and a short-packed variant set with a Hydra Elite and Madame Hydra! Each Minimate stands 2 inches tall and includes a variety of interchangeable parts and accessories. Designed and Sculpted by Art Asylum!

SRP $9.99/two-pack

via New Diamond Select Products in the September 2013 Previews! | Art Asylum Blog.

Last Chance for a Last Dance with Mattycollector Pre-Orders

Battle Cat (non-animated) Matty Tracker 2014 - T-0

This is it, He-Fans, She-Ravers, DC (umm) collectors, and Ghostbusters! The pre-order windows for the Club Eternia, Club Infinite Earths, and the Ecto-1 close at the end of the day. At midnight (or, if Digital River runs true to form, sometime tomorrow morning) the pre-order pages will come down, and you’ll have missed your chance to subscribe and MAKE IT HAPPEN™. To help you decide to subscribe, Toy Guru posted a few tidbits. They essentially contain the same message, with two different delivery methods – one is a traditional wall of text, and the other is a video, with an opening that is truly Cringer-worthy.

In my latest Soapbox Sunday, I outlined which Mattycollector subscriptions I’m signing up for and why. If for some reason you still haven’t made up your mind, do it today!

(Also, click on Battle Cat above for some disco lights for your dancing cat. Or don’t. I didn’t use the animated version for the main post because I didn’t want to blind any unsuspecting readers!)

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If Club Eternia Doesn’t Go Through, Use Your Masters of the Universe Budget on this Life-Sized Skeletor Bust

It sure is nice to know that even with all the warnings we’ve gotten from Mattel about Club Eternia being at risk that there’s actually other Masters of the Universe products that will definitely get made. Sure, this Skeletor life-sized bust has got a $675 price tag, but just what are you going to do with the money you’ve saved up for Club Eternia if it doesn’t go through? 😉

Pop Culture Shock Collectibles Announces Skeletor Life-sized Bust
Product Pre-order Launches
PCSC Exclusive Version Also Available

There is a dark lord haunting the realm of Eternia…and now he’s plotting to take over your shelf space! Skeletor, eternal enemy of HeMan, is being expertly crafted into life-sized collectible bust from Pop Culture Shock Collectibles. This latest entry into PCSC’s full-scaled collectible line is based on the skull-face despot’s appearance

The fiend once known as Keldor is rendered here with intricate sculpted details, dynamic real-cloth hood, and sinister paint details. Standard edition (limit of 300 pcs) will be available at all regular retail channels. For the loyal PCSC collectors, there will be a dastardly exclusive version featuring LED glowing eyes available ONLY via PCSC’s website.

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Masters of the Universe ‘Skeletor’ Lifesize Bust –

Regular Version

  • Features real fabric hood
  • Size: 29 x 23 x 14
  • Limited to 300 pieces
  • SRP $ 675.00 USD
 Masters of the Universe ‘Skeletor’ Lifesize Bust – Pop Culture Shock Exclusive

  • Features real fabric hood and LED glowing eyes
  • Size: 29 x 23 x 14
  • Limited to 125 pieces
  • SRP $ 675.00 USD
  • Discount of up to 20% if ordered in the first 7 days of pre-ordering

PRE-ORDER begins promptly at 3PM PST on Monday Aug 26th

The exclusive bust will be up for pre-order at 3pm PST on Aug 26th, tune into the PSCS facebook page for more info. To stay up to date on PCSC Master of the Universe News, subscribe to our newsletter by heading to PopCultureShocktoys.com and clicking the “sign up” box.

About Pop Culture Shock Collectibles

Pop Culture Shock Collectibles was founded in 2008 by Jerry Macaluso, the former owner of SOTA Toys, SOTA Sculpture and Design and Plastic Fantasy to manufacture high-end resin collectibles. For more on Pop Culture Shock Collectibles go to http://www.popcultureshocktoys.com and www.facebook.com/PopCultureShockCollectibles

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE and associated trademarks are owned by and used under license from Mattel, Inc. © 2013 Mattel, Inc. Under license to Classic Media. All rights reserved.

Mattel Announces Damian Wayne Robin for Club Infinite Earths

DW_Robin_Rev_01 Mattel DC and Batman Unlimited (3 of 4) Matty Tracker 2014 - T-2

In our last Ask Matty, we asked if Damian Wayne could be added to the Club Infinite Earths subscription. At that time, we got a tentative maybe. Looks like enough people asked – now it’s happening.

This should get a bump in the Club Infinite Earths sub – I don’t think Digital River is updating over the weekend, but I’ve put up the Matty Tracker for today anyways.

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Toy Guru Takes to the Airwaves for Last Chance Mattycollector Subscribers

Matty Tracker 2014 - T-3It was the Invasion of the Pod People this week as Mattel was making its final push for Club Eternia, Club Infinite Earths, and Ecto-1 subscribers. Toy Guru may have officially been out of the office, but that didn’t stop him from participating in a handful of podcasts to get the message out – the decision for these subscriptions to move forward is in our hands now. I’ll encourage you to listen to as much of these as you can, especially if you are still on the fence, or even dead set against subscribing.

Having spoken with Toy Guru more than a few times over the years, I can say with confidence that he loves the brands he represents, and as a collector, he wants to put the best product out there. If part of the reason you are thinking about skipping the subs this year is because of him, I’ll suggest you separate the message from the messenger. He can come off as too sales-oriented – I think that’s because he is very well-prepared before he speaks publicly, making his spiel seem more like a sales pitch and therefore less off the cuff and genuine. Try to take that into account as you listen to these podcasts:

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