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Best Week Ever (the Toy Version) and the Spread Good Karma Giveaway

I’ve had a really good week (or so) for toys. It started on our anniversary – as a gift, my wife got me the Wal-Mart exclusive Avengers Hulk that has been eluding me for some time. And she didn’t even blink when I told her that I was planning to Frankenstein him with some other Hulks to make the best Hulk ever (maybe some day). And it’s kept going since then:

Hasbro Return of Marvel Legends – BigBadToyStore let me know that my pre-order of Wave 3 was in.
3A Toys Action Portable – My most-anticipated figure, the Fighting JC, was announced in 1/12 scale, and on order day I also scored an AP blue-suited Zomb for a great price on eBay and the secret Dark Sarge Zomb on bambalandstore.com, right as the JC sale was closing up.
Hot Toys The Dark Knight – I missed out on the pre-order window for the SWAT version of Jim Gordon, but Sideshow just let me know that they found one for me (I had put myself on the wait list).

With all this good stuff happening to me (aside from now being completely broke :)), I figured I should spread the good toy karma around with a Free Stuff giveaway. Here’s what’s up for grabs and how to get up to three chances to win.

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Reminder: Mattycollector.com Cyber Monday Sale 11/29

Mattel is running a Cyber Monday special across it’s collector-based lines. Items are listed at their original prices, but if you spend over $100 on Monday only, you get a 10% discount.

Masters of the Universe Classics: He-Man® Figure, Skeletor® Figure, Battle Cat® Figure
Justice League Unlimited: Lobo Figure, “Shazam!” Family 4-Pack, Doom Patrol 4-Pack, Legion of Super Heroes 4-Pack, JLU Gotham City Criminals 4-Pack, Justice Guild 4-Pack
Ghostbusters: 12″ Ray Stantz™ Figure, 12″ Egon Spengler™ Figure (with trap), 12” Peter Venkman™ Figure, 12” Winston Zeddemore™ Figure, 6” Peter Venkman™ Figure, 6″ Ray Stantz™ Figure, 6″ Winston Zeddemore™ Figure (with trap), 6” Walter Peck™ Figure
DC Universe Classics: Adam Strange and Starfire Figures, Alexander Luthor and Ultraman Figures, Justice in the Jungle: B’Wana Beast and Animal Man Figures, The Color of Fear: Romat-Ru and Karu-Sil Figures, 6” Superman
DC Infinite Heroes: Infinite Heroes Crisis 4-Pack (Psycho Pirate, The Flash, Supergirl & The Monitor)

Here’s a link to the bundle page for your shopping convenience. Improvements to the Digital River site have been delayed until January at the soonest, so be prepared for the WSOD. Best of luck!

Cyber Monday Sale Details

Sale Starts: Monday, November 29th at 9 AM PT
Sale Ends: Sunday, December 5th at 11:59 PM PT
Extra Savings Day: Monday, November 29th ONLY 9 AM PT – 11:59 PM PT. Save 10% off every order over $100 (excluding taxes and fees). All products must be purchased during the same transaction and shipped to a single address.
Battle Cat® Coupon: You must have the original code to redeem the coupon. Enter the code at checkout. Lost/deleted coupons cannot be redeemed.

via MattyCollector.com Online Store – Create Your Bundle.

Border Patrol: San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive 30-inch Anti Monitor

In AFP’s Border Patrol, we scour active eBay auctions for customized action figures that you won’t want to let slip by!

30 inch Anti-Monitor 2009 Mattel Convention exclusive!! – this isn’t technically a custom, as it was made by folks at Mattel, but since each (of only ten pieces worldwide) of these 30-inch Anti Monitors were fully hand-crafted, this could be the most rare non-customized custom that you’d ever have in your collection – ends Oct 18, 2010 19:02:23 PDT

If you’ve got the scratch – happy bidding!

AFP Ask Matty Round-Up for 10/1/10

Hey Mattel fans – it’s time for the newest Q&A session of Ask Matty! Thanks to Toy Guru and the gang at Mattel, and happy Friday!

1) You’ve told us that a Masters of the Universe Classics vehicle is planned for late next year. Have you started the product design process? How has the Four Horsemen’s Battle Ram influenced what you will produce for the line?

We have begun preliminary design work. The Horsemen “pitch” vehicle was more of there way of saying, “We can do vehicles too,” since they did not do the vehicles in the 200X line. We are excited to have them on board as we review which vehicle to do!

You can find more pics of the Battle Ram prototype in our SDCC 2010 coverage of the Four Horsemen.

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DC Universe Classics Wave 17 – a Response by Cliff Francis

After we posted about the much-discussed rumored line-up for DC Universe Classics wave 17, we received this response from Cliff Francis. While I don’t often agree with his point of view, I do often find myself amused with how he tries gets his point across. On this topic, I think he has some interesting ideas. So, give it a read and see what you think!

You can also find Cliff at Costume Contumely, his blog about “Comic Books, Action Figures, and More.”

No Pot Of Gold At The End Of Mattel’s Rainbow

Did you enjoy the DC Universe Classics 6” action figure line by Mattel and the Four Horsemen? Did it take the place in your heart as THE DC Comics action figure line of all time? Did you have fun tracking down new figures and anticipating ones to come? Well I hope you got a lot of satisfaction out of it because it’s over.

Done. Finished.

It comes to and end next spring when Mattel will ship wave 17.

You think I’m joking?

Then clearly you haven’t been paying attention to the recent (as yet unsubstantiated) leak of the character assortment for that wave.

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