The Rumor Buster

New Official Photos of Upcoming Marvel Squinkies

Well we’ve already seen some shots of the upcoming sets of Marvel Squinkies but Marvel.com (here) has some new, official photos of the upcoming packs featuring the Super Hero Squad, Good vs. Evil and the X-Men.  This line just gets better and better with the addition of Thanos, Dormammu, Bullseye, and a pretty powerhouse roster of the X-Men, including Professor X, Cyclops, Storm, Beast and Nightcrawler.

News Updates and Welcome to our new Rumour Busters

Just a quick welcome to our newest members of the Rumour Buster family Muddy Fox and Brutal88 and both of them have gotten right into the thick of it with Brutal88 pointing out a new line he found the other day DC Fisher Price Super Friends Little People you can read up Brutal’s post right here http://therumorbuster.com/board/index.php?topic=1493.msg20530#new

And Muddy Fox found this possible 3rd Variant for the Fantastic 4 box set http://therumorbuster.com/board/index.php?topic=1492.0 are you going to shell out for a 3rd box set ?

And also the all seeing all hearing all knowledgable Clevername here found this awesome little nugget of info the second of  Marvel Mega blocks figures are on the way check out the Mega Blocks thread to discuss these awesome little guys

And i can’t leave out Toxin who’s brought a whole host of new lines into the site , The likes of He-Man hot wheels and Pop figures all can be found here http://therumorbuster.com/board/index.php?board=27.0

Keep it up Rumour Busters !!!

New McDonalds Brave and the Bold Toys

Hurrijak had the heads up on the upcoming Batman Brave and the Bold McDonalds toys. In August, McDonalds released a set of 8 Batman Brave and the Bold toys, but this time they’re going all out with the following list from Hurrijak:

1)Batman, Penguin, Batmobile
2)Firestorm, Two Face, Solomon Grundy
3)Aquaman, Batman Robot, Black Manta
4)Batman, Riddler, Plastic Man(as a car)
5)Joker, Batmite, Joker Mobile
6)Batman, Flash(YES!!!), Sportsmaster
7)Batman, Robin, Gorilla Grodd
8)Gentleman Ghost, Spectre, Haunted Coach

Yeah.  That, my friends, is an assortment.  Think of the team-ups!  Grodd and the Gentleman Ghost.  Robin, Flash and Aquaman.  Batmite and the Riddler versus the Spectre!

Marvel Squinkies Series 1 and 2 in Stores

Both the carded Marvel Squinkies Series 1 and 2, and the blind packs, have started arriving at stores.  The carded Marvel Squinkies, as suspected, feature identical characters in series 1 and 2, with one set being solid and one being translucent (with a “flame on” Human Torch) and are mixed in with the new “boy” lines of Squinkies.

Big thanks to cjf28, Bionic Commando, Ohamsie, Bigredmachine17, Cringer and Thecollector22 for all joining in the hunt for these buggers!

Marvel Squinkies Series 1 and 2 revealed

We have more news on the Marvel Squinkies (a couple weeks back we first mentioned Marvel Squinkies in light of post-Toy Fair photos).  This time, Bigredmachine17 has pictures of the series one and two cardbacks!   At this time, an impromptu checklist shows that the known roster will be:

Series 1

• X300 Green Goblin
• X301 Spider-Man
• X302 Doctor Doom
• X303 Magneto
• X304 Thing
• X305 Captain America
• X306 Iron Man
• X307 Wolverine
• X308 Silver Surfer
• X309 Thor
• X310 Human Torch (flame off)
• X311 Hulk

Series 2

• X312 Human Torch (flame on)
• X313 Iron Man
• X314 Doctor Doom
• X315 Green Goblin
• X316 Thing
• X317 Silver Surfer
• X318 Magneto
• X319 Wolverine
• X320 Hulk
• X321 Spider-Man
• X322 Captain America
• X323 Thor

Punisher, Kingpin and Daredevil are the three figures from the first picture that are still missing in action, and the series two figures appear to be (at least for some figures) translucent versions of their series 1 counterparts.  We’ll bring you more news on this line as it develops.

Edit: 4/2/11 – There’s pictures of the blind packs on eBay floating around that reveal the mystery characters/numbers from Series 1 and 2 so I’ve updated the list.

Marvel Squinkies

Bigredmachine17 posted news about an upcoming line of Squinkies featuring Marvel super heroes!  Shown in the picture are Hulk, Nick Fury, Spider-Man, Doctor Doom, Daredevil, Thor, Iron Man, Green Goblin, Magneto, Thing, Captain America, Kingpin, Iron Man (again), Wolverine, Silver Surfer, and possibly the Invisible Woman (it’s definitely a small picture… I suppose it could be a flame-off Human Torch).

I haven’t found any word yet on when they’ll be released, or how many figures will be in the set, but if they’re like the current lines of Squinkies, they’ll come carded on sheets of 16 for about $10.

Thundercats are Go!

Wait… wrong franchise, though it raises an interesting question about whether the Thundercats would chase and eat the Thunderbirds.

Anyway, Brian pointed out that at London’s Toy Fair 2011 a new 1:18 scale (4 inches) Thundercats line was shown by Bandai, while RRNN points us to the first art of the upcoming Thundercats relaunch and news of an 8 inch collector’s line (by way of Topless Robot)