Archive for the ‘Other Toy Lines’ Category:
Preziosi Marvel Heroes Collection
As an update to the continuing saga of the Preziosi Marvel Heroes Collection, Toon brings word of some of the Italian sculpts being released in Europe in blind packs. Doctor Octopus, Mr. Fantastic, Thing and Captain America can now round out (some of) your collections. For fans of the US release, the UK single packs have a series of biography cards similar to the hologram cards inserted in some of the US packs. US fans can currently pick up the ten sculpts released by the now-defunct Playground Maniacs in two carded five-packs available at Toys R Us. 
Classic Marvel Figurine Doctor Doom Review
Juuuggs continues his tour of the mighty Marvel universe with a visit to Latveria, home of dictators, robot pretzel wagons and maybe even a missing mutant or two, in his review of the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection issue 10, featuring Doctor Doom. Does the tin tyrand and otherwise not-so-good Doctor get high marks, or get tossed in the recycling bin?
Classic Marvel Figurine Collection and DC Comics Super Hero Collection Updates
Nightstar and Juuuggs did a team-up of news of upcoming Classic Marvel Figurine Collection and DC Comics Super Hero Collection releases. First up, Thor’s big daddy, Odin, is the 16th special issue in the line, while on the DC front, Blackest Night gets it’s own subset featuring Black Hand in issue 1, and Atrocitus in issue 2! Black Manta and Kyle Rayner (in his modern Green Lantern costume) round out the DC main line, and Nightstar also shares a conversation he had with Alan Cowsill and Richard Jackson of Eaglemoss at NYCC concerning the possibility of Death’s Head and Death’s Head II. Head over to the board to discuss!
Classic Marvel Figurine Collection Blade
Juuugs has a review of the 6th Classic Marvel Figurine Collection figure Blade, the vampire slayer, the daywalker, aide to the Harkers, nemesis of Deacon Frost, partner of the Hannibal King and Frank Drake, sometime boyfriend to Spitfire, and most recently, ally of the X-Men in their battle with Vampires. So what did he think of Blade? Movie monster hunter supreme? Or should the daywalker go back to the Tomb of Dracula?
Classic Marvel Figurine Collection Thing and Doctor Octopus Reviews
Juuuggs Gotcha! (words) and TheToon (pictures) have teamed up to provide reviews of Classic Marvel Figurine Collection 3 (Doctor Octopus) and Classic Marvel Figurine Collection 4 (the Thing). Head on over to the board to read his thoughts on the Fantastic Four’s ever-loving blue-eyed Thing , and Spider-Man’s arch-enemy, Doctor Octopus, then join in with your thoughts on Doc Ock’s CMFC look, and the size of Eaglemoss’s Thing.
Classic Marvel Figurine Collection Reviews
Juuuggs Gotcha and TheToon are teaming up in a mighty marvelous fashion to tackle the titanic, the immense, the heavy as lead but awesome as marshmallow: Classic Marvel Figurine Collection. And they’ve picked a good spot to start too, beginning with Spider-Man. So head on over there to see what you may have missed, and what you may want to catch up on.
Marvel Mighty Beanz 2010 Checklist
We’ve updated the wiki’s Marvel Mighty Beanz checklist with the 2010 editions. As always, lots of characters, from obvious choices like the Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, Captain America and Wolverine, to some interesting additions like the Shuri the Black Panther (as opposed to T’Challa), Anti-Venom, Emma Frost in her Morrison era-costume, and Skrull versions of many characters like Thor, Captain America, Cyclops. Target has some exclusive beanz, including the only Iron Man in this wave, Black Widow and Fin Fang Foom.
And if you want to see what the characters looks like, visit our gallery to see a scan of the checklist
