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Review: The Captains

Going boldly where no documentary has gone before, The Captains is a behind the scenes look at the tough job of playing one of sci-fi’s toughest jobs, Starfleet captain.

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Ask Mattel Q&A for October 1, 2011 – DCUC, Ghostbusters and More!

Another couple weeks, another edition of the Ask Matty Q&A!

In the DCUC subscription, does the tooling budget allow for slightly larger accessories than traditionally available? For instance, could Oracle with a wheelchair be a regular figure, assuming of course that her chair is nowhere near as large as Metron’s?

We love the DC Universe subscription program because it is the perfect place for us to release larger form factors and accessories. Metron and his Mobius Chair is just one example of the amazing design creations you’ll see in the DC Universe Club Infinite Earths program. And in case you haven’t heard, the 2012 subscription has been re-opened to allow fans one last chance to sign up. If you haven’t already secured your subscription for 2012, you have until October 3 to do so on Mattycollector.com.

Considering the failure to meet the DC Universe subscription threshold, aren’t you concerned that charging the so-called “cherry pickers” a premium will only serve to continue alienating potential customers? In other words, if scalpers and online retaile

Our goal was to make awesome figures available via the Mattycollector.com subscription program.

We hope that we’ve made that possible with options for both collectors that want to secure all of the figures as well as fans who want to pick and choose.

Any plans for Ghostbusters 3.75?

Nothing at this time but you never know what the future will bring!

Any plans for MOTU 3.75?

Not at this time. We putting all of our limited resources into the 6″ Classics line right now.

Any updates on what the new scale talked about at SDCC will be for the WWE line?

All we can say is this: it is planned for Fall 2012 and it will make you feel like a kid again.

Marvel Squinkies Thanos, Galactus and Kang

Bring on the bad guys with a couple new series of Marvel Squinkies, as found by Bigredmachine17!  Lots of new characters to choose from, and a dramatically filled out X-Men line up as Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Storm and Professor X join the battle, a theme pack dedicated to the Super Hero Squad brings us Thanos, Dormamu, Falcon, MODOK and (either as a tribute to the toys, or a sad reminder of the cartoon show) Spider-Man.  The Good versus Evil set gives us Hawkeye, Galactus, Kang, Venom, Daredevil and Nick Fury!

X-Men

• Angel
• Beast
• Blob
• Colossus
• Cyclops
• Iceman
• Juggernaut
• Nightcrawler
• Professor X
• Sabretooth
• Storm
• Wolverine

Super Hero Squad

• Captain America
• Doctor Doom
• Dormamu
• Falcon
• Hulk
• Iron Man
• MODOK
• Juggernaut
• Spider-Man
• Thanos
• Thor
• Wolverine

Good Versus Evil

• Daredevil
• Galactus
• Hawkeye
• Hulk
• Hydra Agent
• Iron Man (Hulkbuster armor, 2 versions)
• Kang
• Mister Fantastic
• Nick Fury
• Spider-Man
• Venom

A rundown of the previous Marvel Squinkies figures is here, and BRM previously showed us the four squinkies that came with the Spider-Man dispenser (Doctor Octopus, Hobgoblin, Wolverine and Spider-Man)

Marvel Mega Bloks Series 2 Cheat Sheet

A big thank you goes out to Easyreader for assembling most of the these cheat codes, but here’s the first cheat sheet for Marvel Mega Bloks Microfigs Series 2:

• A02071MM – Red Skull
• A04071MM – Wolverine
• A05071MM – Loki
• A06071MM – Thor
• A07081MM – Whiplash
• A08071MM – Iron Man Drone
• A09071MM – Iron Man IV
• A11071MM – Captain America

Now, as wildstarjl pointed out with Series 1, there was at least one, possibly more, variations on the cheat sheet, so if you spot a new variation, help us track it!

Still no word yet on whether we’ll ever see the SDCC 2011 microfigs of Angel, Colossus, Beast, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Human Torch, Doctor Doom, Cyclops, Daredevil, Beast, Hydra Agent, Captain America (Comic Book style), Namor, Black Cat, Iceman, Scorpion, Bucky, Magneto, Juggernaut, Rhino and Grey Hulk before Lego takes over the license this summer.

Marvel Universe News Rundown

There’s a couple new developments in the Marvel Universe world this week to keep everyone hunting!

First, the Power Man/Iron Fist and Spider-Man/Captain Britain comic packs are out and have been sighted by Toyark members.

And as Jabalong and Brian point out, people in Manilla have already started finding Marvel Universe Wave 16 featuring Tony Stark Iron Man, Iceman, Absorbing Man, Astonishing Wolverine and Magneto (or should it be Ultimate Magneto?)

And then Marvelousnews points out that the Toys R Us Avengers Assemble sets have been spotted.  At $20, for what so far looks to be repaints that each come with an identical stand, the complete set of 8 needed to make the light-up “SHIELD” stand will set you back $160, not counting tax.  The back shows Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, “Bucky Cap”, while MN speculates that Wave 2 is Steve Rogers Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Black Panther.  Good guesses since we see a bow, a shield and a big-haired lady, but the thin silhouette of the remaining character doesn’t quite look like the Panther to me.  No cape means no Vision, but maybe Spider-Man?  Hopefully we’ll find out soon.

Ragens Reviews New poll and Winning Review!!!!

 Check out the new poll for this week where i give you a choice of the Fantastic Four boxset figures and the K-mart exclusive International Patriots pack you can vote exclusively here http://therumorbuster.com/board/index.php?topic=1503.0 best of luck to the competitors you have two choices

Once you’re done voting head over and see how last weeks winner the Taskmaster did under my scrutiny http://therumorbuster.com/board/index.php?topic=1502.0 a great figure for sure and a worthy entrant into the Review hall of fame

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 !!!