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New York Comic Con 2011 – Mattel DC Universe Classics

At San Diego Comic-Con, Mattel announced the start of the Club Infinite Earths subscription for DC Universe Classics and a shift back to more mainstream character mixes for their retail line. A lot of you took this as a harbinger of the demise of DC Universe Classics at retail. The subscription failing to hit the sales target originally set by the Mattel team, was yet another signal of impending doom.

Mattel hopes to set the record straight, showing off new figures for Club Infinite Earths, the retail line, and some more retailer exclusive 2-packs. And, yes, the “last” DC Universe Classics wave in production form, the Nekron Collect and Connect wave. Is it enough to put the collector community at ease? You tell me.

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New York Comic Con 2011 – Bif Bang Pow!, Funko, and Toys R Us Exclusives at Entertainment Earth

Entertainment Earth will be at New York Comic Con for the first time this year. They’re continuing their partnership with Toys R Us, so in addition to the Bif Bang Pow! and Funko exclusives, they will also have some of the TRU items, like Minimates, Real Ghostbusters, and an exclusive Rick Grimes from the Walking Dead line of figures from McFarlane.

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Halo Minimates Wave 2 Packaged Pics

Halo is such a great fit for the Minimate format. Glad to see more coming!

Halo Wave 2 Minimates are here

Following up on the huge success of Halo Minimates series 1 comes Halo Minimates series 2! Toys R Us will have 2 packs featuring Emile and Jun, Spartan ODST (Blue) and Arbiter (Active Camo), Spartan (Active Camo) and Elite Assault (Blue), and Spartan(Green) with Jackal Major (Violet Shield).

Specialty stores will have an exclusive 4 pack featuring Spartan(Teal), Spartan Rogue (Green), Brute Chieftan, and Jackal Major (Red Shield).

via Art Asylum Blog » Halo Wave 2 Minimates are here.

Toy Fair 2011 – Mattel Masters of the Universe Classics Report

Mattel held their Collector Event at Toy Fair yesterday afternoon, and it’s gotten a lot bigger across the board. By that I mean more figures on display, a little more space to do it in, and a bunch more people milling about. We’ve got a ton of pics to process and share, so in the interest of getting something up in a more timely fashion, we’ll cover Masters of the Universe Classics first – while they had new figures to show, it wasn’t an expansion like we’ve seen with DC, which has a bunch of new lines coming (we’ll get to those hopefully later today).

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Toy Fair 2011 – Hasbro Marvel Report – Marvel Legends and Marvel Universe

Hasbro held its collector event for the online media outlets – how we qualify for this I’ll never know, but I won’t fight it. It’s a great event that covers all the Hasbro collector-oriented lines, including Star Wars, GI Joes, and Transformers. But my first love is the comic book properties, so I’ll be sharing the pictures and recaps of the Marvel lines first.

First off, let’s start with Marvel Legends. I was a little surprised that they decided to show some items – at least in the slide show. None of what we were shown was available in the showroom, and that’s not surprising since this is 2012 product. And unlike last year, no pictures or video was allowed during the presentation. But, across the board, I can say what was in the slide show looked good.

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