The Rumor Buster

Reptil Finds a Home in the Marvel U!

really_rather_not_nice — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:33:58 +0000

Fans of Super Hero Squad (The toys OR the show), are definitely familiar with Reptil, the dinosaur-shape-shifting rookie. Love him or hate him, Reptil will be making his permanent home in the Marvel Universe at the up and coming Avengers Academy.

Both Comicbookresources and Newsarama have the scoop.

Vote the next Marvel Digital Comics figure

WeaponEversor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:45:14 +0000

Marvel.com have a poll up for the next Marvel Digital Comics exclusive MU figure. The three choices are Osborn in HAMMER outfit, Archangel in X-Force outfit, and Dark Avenger Ms. Marvel.

Marvel Q&A!

wwwyzerd — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:32:21 +0000

Alright! We’re good to go with the Marvel Q&A from Hasbro! We got the information only a couple days ahead of the deadline for the first questions, so we made the first round of questions “Mods’ Choice” and hopefully we picked some questions you all will be interested in, so look for those back in a couple weeks.

In the meantime, why don’t you head over to the board to discuss what questions should be asked in the next round on April 9th.

War Machine Red and Blue

clevernamehere — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:03:47 +0000

Hmm… that title makes me think of an Iron Man story where Iron Man builds tow sets of armor, one red, one yellow, but when both get trashed, he’s got to kitbash an old fashioned red-and-yellow from the spare parts. Anyway, one of the newest variants to hit store shelves is in the Iron Man 2 3.75 inch line. The movie version of War Machine has both a red chest and a blue chest (with corresponding eyes). Both Marvelousnews and Toyark have pieces about it. There doesn’t seem to be a clear consensus about whether it’s a running change or a variant, and which one is the more prevalent, although the early reports from those sites would suggest the blue is the harder to find one.

Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Gets 52 Eps, 20 Ep. Lead

clevernamehere — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:33:44 +0000

Superhero Hype! is one of the places running with Disney’s press release about Avengers: Earth’s Mighiest Heroes, but since it was the first I came across, it gets the link. Here’s the bullet points:

Fall 2010 debut on Disney XD.

52 episodes.

Main cast is starring Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Giant Man and the Wasp.

The United States SHOULD be getting the world premier.

And something that I found particularly interesting: “A 20-part “micro-series” that focuses on each hero’s backstory will roll out in fall 2010 on Disney XD, immediately followed by the series premiere on Disney XD in the U.S. and, shortly thereafter, around the world.”

Head over to our Marvel Animation message board for more discussion.

Iron Man Armored Adventures Season 1, 2

clevernamehere — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:28:38 +0000

While TV Shows on DVD has the cover art for Iron Man Armored Adventures Season 1, and scheduled to arrive May 4, 2010 (and they also have news that Volume 3 appears to have disappeared from Amazon’s pre-orders), Marvel Animation Age has the official confirmation that Iron Man Armored Adventures Season 2 is on the way. That’s not too surprising since way back in November, Marvel’s financial statements mentioned a total of 52 episodes (aka, Iron Man Armored Adventures Season 1 and 2 combined), but it’s still good to get official word that the project is underway. Head over to the Rumor Buster message board to discuss!

Ask Matty 3/1/10

wwwyzerd — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:38:50 +0000

Mattel just sent the newest round of answers to us, so here they are!

1) With the huge popularity of miniatures, are you considering making JLU miniatures?
We will continue to offer DC characters in the Action League line, if that is what you are asking. There are no plans for a separate JLU mini line.

2) Does Mattel have any plans on adding holes for pegs in the feet of the Brave and the Bold Action League figures? Many of the figures like Batman, Aquaman, and the Top suffer from difficulty standing.
Yes, we can confirm future figures will have holes in their feet!

3) Now that the suggestion has been “passed along” (in another Q&A) for the inclusion of Music Meister in the BatB lines; due to the episode’s and character’s popularity, is there any chance of also considering making him in a few of his different ensembles? The Action League line has not said no to doing repeats of characters before, and our beloved maestro of villainy just begs for it.
At this time there are no plans for Music Meister, but if he does get into the line we’d love to do some of the exciting outfits he had! Which ones would fans want the most?

4) The Batman Action League figures that are in a running position are extremely hard to stand up. Most of them end up lying on their backs after a few minutes. Collectors and kids alike have expressed their frustration with this issue. Can this leg pose be retired? There are many leg sculpts that work great.
We will certainly look into addressing this for future figures!

5) It was last stated that there are no new plans for The Secret Saturdays. Is it possible to provide us a list of the items that have actually made it to retail? The Griffin Attack Jet Vehicle that appeared last month has advertisement for Fiskerton and Piecemeal as well as other figures due out in “April 2010″ leading to confusion of their fate. Are these items still slated to come out in April?
Yes, these items are still on tap for this spring.

There you have it! As always, if you want you can go discuss it on the board.

New Marvel Universe Pre-Orders at Entertainment Earth

clevernamehere — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:42:08 +0000

New preorders are up at Entertainment Earth for some upcoming Marvel Universe figures!

Marvel Universe Comics Packs “Wave 5″ in July featuring the Cyclops/Phoenix pack and Daken/Venom pack:

2x Hulk & Cyclops
2x Cyclops & Phoenix
4x Wolverine & Spider-Man (Dark Reign)

Marvel Universe Wave 8 (May)

1x Spider-Man (House of M)
1x Iron Man
1x Captain America (Original)
1x Havok
2x Colossus
2x Juggernaut
1x Kitty Pryde W/ Lockheed
1x Archangel
2x A.I.M. Soldier

Wave 8, rev 1 (July)

1x Hulk
1x Green Goblin
1x Captain America (Ultimate)
1x Iron Man (Classic)
1x Red Hulk
1x Spider-Man (Red / Blue)
1x Spider-Man (House of M)
1x Wolverine
1x Iron Man
1x Captain America (Original)
1x Modern Thor
1x Juggernaut

Head over to the Marvel Universe message board to discuss!

Jango’s Slave I and the Episode III Starfighter Galactic Heroes Out

clevernamehere — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:29:49 +0000

Rebelscum has two pieces of awesome Galactic Heroes news, which is good because so far 2010 Galactic Heroes news has been pretty slow going!

First, the long awaited Escape from Kamino (aka, Jango Fett’s Slave I) and Attack on the Invisible Hand (aka Anakin’s Episode III Starfighter) have been spotted at a Walmart in Oklahoma! Second, new Galactic Heroes sticker sheets have been found in some sets! Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Clone Trooper are all represented. Head over to the Galactic Heroes message board to talk!

Contest: How Cool is Your Collection?

clevernamehere — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:15:00 +0000

This post is stickied. Regular news updates continue after this post.

The Story: A little while back, the fine folks of Hasbro passed along a box of swag to pass along.

The Question: What do we do with it?

Read the rest of this post to find out more, or head over to the message board

What followed was a civil war. A contest for our upcoming birthday? Photos? Text? Captions? A system of registration was implemented. Dissidents were rounded up and sent to another dimension. Evil took hold.

Then dawned a bright age. A contest was born.

The Contest: Tell us why your collection rocks. Any collection, any size, anything goes.

It’s not about the size of the collection or how expensive it is, but in how great it is. It can be a well-manicured collection of autographs, an exhaustive collection of fast food toys. Maybe your collection is just a bunch of different versions of Spider-Man.

This contest isn’t necessarily about an inventory of what you’ve got. You might have a hundred thousand books BUT what you really want to talk about is that handful of first editions you would never part with.

The Rules: Head over to the Message Board to describe your collection. The one that rocks. You’ve got 1000 words, of 500 words and one picture. Once the submission deadline passes, all of the collections are going to be entered into a poll and you fine folks have to vote for the winner.

The poll results will be kept secret until the end. Everyone gets TWO votes. Most people will vote for themselves. With two votes, you can still vote for yourself, but you also get to show some love for another great collection.

Failure to participate means you’re giving up free stuff, and come on, who doesn’t want free stuff?

The Prizes:

First Prize: Electronic Wolverine claw

Second Prize: 6 inch Iron Monger figure from the Iron Man Movie Line

Third Prize: Marvel Universe 3.75 inch Iron Man figure

The Deadline: Pictures and stories are due by March 20, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Once entrants have been collected and entered into the poll, voting runs until March 27, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

The Fine Print: Board moderators are out of the running (which means myself, Wwwyzerd, Clanure, Livedog, Really_rather_not_nice and Toxin don’t get to share.) Everyone not listed above is free to compete.

The Disclosures: Oh, and the FTC hates pay-per-blogging so we have to disclose that these prizes come from the fine folks at Hasbro.

Ok, now you’ve read all that, get back to the contest thread!