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Superman Batman: Public Enemies Best Buy Exclusive Infinite Heroes Figure
Just like Wonder Woman and Green Lantern First Flight, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies gets a Best Buy exclusive release with an Infinite Heroes action figure! This time it’s a Batman and while the picture at Bestbuy.com is pretty small, the figure apparently went with a bluer-tint cape and cowl and instead of the full-over-the-shoulders-meet-at-the-neck cape shown with The Fwoosh’s early preview of the Public Enemies set, it appears to stop at the shoulders but like I said, that picture’s pretty small. As always, feel free to discuss the new figure on the Infinite Heroes message board.
And on a related note, today we’re going on an Infinite Heroes photo shooting spree, so hopefully this weekend there will be a huge gallery update.
More SDCC 2009 News
SDCC 2009 is continuing along, so here’s a rundown of some of the bigger discoveries today:
Super Hero Squad Castle Doom playset
A shot of the SHS Iron Man and Doom statues together.
The Marvel Universe Wal-Mart Exclusive Gigantic Battles sets are shown here by Marvelous News, while the 4-inch Iron Man line is here with both comic and movie related figures, including War Machine, Crimson Dynamo and a bunch of movie armors. A loose shot of the Hand Ninja, Hydra Soldier and SHIELD Agent 3-pack.
There’s also Marvel’s new 4 inch Spider-Man line, featuring Doctor Octopus, Rhino, Venom, and Green Goblin (along with a variety of 90′s era Toy Biz Spider-Man variants.
Then non-registration required shots of the Marvel Universe Secret Wars sets, including Enchantress and Thor, Mr. Fantastic and Ultron, Magneto, Hawkeye and Piledriver, the Julia Carpenter (Arachne) Spider-Woman.
Marvel Legends fans can rejoice at the pictures of various Marvel Legends prototypes like Valkyrie, Hood, Bi-Beast, Phoenix of the White Crown, Fantomex, Madrox, Lady Bullseye, Paper Bag Spider-Man, Nuke, Constrictor, Brother Voodo, Classic Ms. Marvel, Black Widow, Warpath, Deadpool, Hulk, and Havok. Did I miss anyone? Probably.
Cool Toy Review has pics of the new Marvel Universe figures for Jean Grey, white and blue Thing, black dragon Iron Fist, Jean Grey, Vision and classic Sunfire. Of course, here’s X-Men Origins Wolverine’s deluxe Astonishing X-Men Colossus.
Back to the Super Hero Squad, is this the X-Cutioner’s Song, featuring Jim Lee designed Jean Grey and Cyclops, along with Stryfe and Wolverine? And Moon Knight and a big headed Iron Man? Hepzibah, Cyclops, Warpath and Wolverine in what could POSSIBLY be the leaked X-Force 4-pack, while Wrecker and company are confirmed as Secret Wars. Then front and back shots of the new Toys R Us exclusive Collector’s Pack featuring Ultimate Hulk, Emma Frost and the Falcon.
Fans of those wacky Mighty Muggs style designer toys may enjoy Mattel’s prototype Attitubes, including Webstor, Mer Man and Orko from Masters of the Universe. There’s more of those Justice League PVC statutes coming.
Infinite Heroes fans might be bummed by the lack of news, but here’s a shot of Red Arrow, and if you picked up Anti-Monitor, you’ll see the card back lists the following four figures as Mattycollector exclusives: Supergirl (battle damaged, and carded to replicate her Crisis cover), Barry Allen with the famous death face, the Monitor and Psycho Pirate. 43, Infinity, 49 and 48 respectively.
Then there’s Brave and the Bold Action League B’Wanna Beast and Ocean Master.
We’ve started a SDCC 2009 page on the Wiki to try and track new discoveries, so feel free to jump in or browse the coverage so far.
The Wild Wacky World of Advertising
We’ve just added a new section to the gallery for some good old fashioned ads, and to introduce the section, here’s a hodgepodge of interesting ads including:
Del Monte Pudding Cup exclusive Fantastic Four trading cards
Marvel Heroes golf club covers
And Marvel Heroes bowling balls
Devil Dogs exclusive Marvel Mini-Comics
Cheez-it’s contest to be in a Spider-Man comic, or possibly score a watch
K-Mart exclusive Superman/NASCAR crossover t-shirts
Chef Boyardee X-Men canned pasta (which, from personal experience, I can promise was the worst canned pasta I’ve ever eaten)
Target exclusive POGs featuring the X-Men and X-Force (because POGs, at one time, were the rage)
And Nerds exclusive X-Men trading cards
So hopefully those ads, and the rest in the section, will trigger fits of laughter or, at the very least some fun nostalgia.
Newsclips 05/18/09
And in shorter news today, the Spectacular Spider-Man Season 1 DVD is announced. 2 discs, $25.95 MSRP, and two new featurettes, all coming this July 28th!.
And in not-quite-sad news, we’ve seen the last of the 3.75 inch Dark Knight figures.
And DC solicitations for August 2009 are out!
DC’s BLAMMOIDS!
DC is entering the chunky stylized urban vinyl-style action figure market withBlammoids, advance solicited for January 2010. Series 1 is going to have
Batman
Green Lantern
Sinestro
Firestorm
The Joker
Aquaman
But Superman and Power Suit wearing Lex Luthor can also be seen here.
