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Masters of the Universe Classics Whiplash Quick Pic

MattK doesn’t know it, but he’s slowly but surely pushing me out of the picture taking business. It’s bad enough that he lives in Southern California, so he gets his subscription from MattyCollector.com a day before I do. But then he had to start making custom dioramas.

First he made a ruined castle dio – I bet even the most diehard MOTU purists felt a twinge of regret after seeing 200X’s Count Marzo in Matt’s review. Then, to make it worse, he fashioned a rocky cliff face that he used for his review of Whiplash.

That brings us to this lonely picture I took of Whiplash yesterday. Seeing as how I’ll be doing a sort of “face off” review with VeeBee (who for some inexplicable reason digs the vintage head over the bad-ass modern head), I wanted to take a bunch of pics of Whiplash, who is now my top Masters of the Universe Classics figure. (That title had been going back and forth between Man-At-Arms, Tri-Klops, and Trap-Jaw for some time.)

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DC Universe Classics Wave 16 Available for Pre-Order on Amazon.com

DC Universe Classics Wave 16 with the Collect and Connect Bane is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Buzzy pointed out that ~~most places don’t allow you to specify which version of Robin you want~~ Amazon didn’t allow you to specify the variant for previous waves, like with Starman in Wave 15 (fixed per Buzzy’s comment).

They’re all listed with a ship dates of January 1st or January 5th. At $14.99 each with Amazon’s free shipping over $25 deal, seems like a good time for me to put in a pre-order.

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AFP Ask Matty Round-Up for 8/17/10

I should know this by now, but Matty can be very strict when it comes to deadlines, even when those deadlines fall on the Sunday the weekend after Comic-Con when we’re still recovering. In other words, we missed the submission deadline for questions this installment – and judging from what I’m seeing for round-up links, so did a few other folks.

Luckily, we had a round of answers from a previous installment that we missed. Unluckily, this was from the weeks leading up to San Diego Comic-Con, so there’s a bit of a time warp effect…

1) The carded pics of DC Universe Classics Wave 14 are a lot of fun – I love Ultra-Humanite’s head peeking out of Hourman’s package, and the placement of stickers that allows that. Quick question on the names you put on the packages – we know you said that the Obsidian name is held by another company now, but we’re still curious why you went with Green Lantern instead of Alan Scott? John Stewart and Katma Tui had their names on the package.

At the end of the day, DC Comics lets us know what name to use on package. Sometimes, like with Obsidian, a name may not be available for a toy (if another company owns the trademark, for example) and we will work with DC on an alternative name.

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Poll: Green Lantern Classics Top Ten

Between upcoming figures in DC Universe Classics, the Green Lantern 5-Pack, and the Green Lantern Classics line (of which one series is still to be revealed), you may think Mattel has tapped out the GL franchise when it comes to comics-based figures. How wrong you would be!

In honor of the 75th Anniversary of DC Comics, we’ve compiled a list of what we consider the 75 top candidates for Green Lantern action figures, from classic to modern, and from humanoid to not even close to being from this planet – and a planet itself!

Your job is to pick the Top Ten characters you want made into action figures. Submit your vote for up to ten characters listed below. The poll will stay open through the end of August, and we’ll announce the results a couple of days later. Let’s convince Mattel to make Green Lantern Classics Waves 3 and 4!

You can discuss this Top Ten poll in this thread at the Fwoosh. Big thanks to WeaponXII and Piffy for compiling the character roster and pictures for the poll.

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Poll: Which MattyCollector Subscriptions Did You Buy?

The Club Eternia and Club Ecto-1 subscriptions for 2011 completed their enrollment period yesterday. If you missed your chance to buy in, you’ll still be able to try your luck on MattyCollector.com each month (or around every other month, for Ghostbusters). But for the subscription exclusive figures, Preternian Disguise He-Man and Marshmallow Ray, you’re stuck in the aftermarket.

I ended up going just for the Masters of the Universe Classics subscription. I’ve been really happy with all the figures so far (except for Tytus, whom I missed out on a couple of months ago), and the MOTUC figures Mattel showed for 2011 at San Diego Comic-Con were awesome – so Club Eternia was a sure thing for me. Of the figures Mattel revealed for Ghostbusters, I could only really say that I wanted Louis Tully, so I passed on Club Ecto-1.

What about you?