Posts Tagged ‘City in Crisis’
Super Hero Squad Kraven in 2010
ActionFigs.com has finally cracked the nut that is Hasbro and convinced them to reveal that Kraven is on the Super Hero Squad slate for Fall 2010. Additionally, they had some good news about the unreleased four packs, or at least the figures in those packs:
ActionFigs: Any updates on the Super Hero Squad 4-Packs that weren’t released in the United States? Winter Soldier Saga, Spider-Man Saves The Day, The New Fantastic Four, The Defenders, Secret Invasion Begins, and Secret Wars. There’s a lot of figures in those boxed sets that we’ve been wanting for a long time to fill out teams.
Hasbro: Look for these figures in our 2010 2-pack lineup…
Beast mentioned this over on the board, so head on over there to discuss this great news.
Newsclips 03/18/09
We’re hard at work on more surprises for everyone, so we’re just going to do a quick news round-up tonight.
First off, Action Figure Insider has a March Hasbro Q&A. Highlights? Hasbro confirms Ultimate Hulk, City in Crisis and Winter Soldier will be released. Lowlights? They say “the timing is not yet confirmed.” It doesn’t take a top-secret decoder ring to know that means it’ll be a while.
Marvelousnews’s March Q&A brings us a look at the Marvel Universe Wave 5 Electro and says that the Nick Fury mail-away is still being finalized, with details “coming soon”. Figure stands, on the other hand, not yet.
And everyone is posting Hasbro’s promotional shots for Marvel Universe Wave 3, so we’ll give this link to Cool Toy Review.
And a DC Characters without Infinite Heroes Figures page has gone up to compliment the Marvel Characters Without Super Hero Squad Figures page that board user Alamo started back in February.
And just a reminder, if anyone else wants to take a cue from Alamo and start a “_____ characters not in ______ toyline” page on the wiki, try to stick to major characters (we love Thena of the Eternals too, but she’s one of the least likely characters to get an action figure in any line) and to currently ongoing toy lines because, for better or worse, Deadpool will almost assuredly never get a 1980′s Mattel Secret Wars figure.
Marvel Universe Wave 2 and More in the Gallery
The gallery finally topped 10,000 image views but that’s not stopping us from adding Green Goblin, Ronin, Ultimate Captain America and Iron Fist from Marvel Universe Wave 2 to the gallery. Stealth Iron Man from MU Wave 1, and Maverick from X-Men Origins Wolverine are also up.
But that’s not all! Clanure has pictures of Green Goblin (from City in Crisis) and Falcon (from Winter Soldier Saga) in Four Packs Wave 3.
And there’s even an update in the Visitor’s Gallery! Not sure who the creative individual or individuals was or were, but check out their SHS Movie posters, and a few new avatars for the message board!
Once More Winter Soldier, Once More.
If Hasbro Toy Shop didn’t manage to cancel your order for City in Crisis and Winter Soldier yet, you probably received an email like this today:
DISCONTINUED ITEM(S)
Item number: 78452
Item name: Marvel Super Hero Squad – City in Crisis: Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson, Green Goblin and Sandman
Quantity: 1Item number: 78453
Item name: Marvel Super Hero Squad – Winter Soldier Saga: Captain America, Falcon, Winter Soldier and Crossbone
Quantity: 1We apologize for any inconvenience. We would like to offer you 10% off your next purchase at HasbroToyShop.com. Simply enter promotion code DISC10 at checkout to redeem this discount.
Regards,
HasbroToyShop.com
Now, we’ve all seen the eBay auctions, or heard from the Asian collectors who managed to snag a set, so there’s still hope that the figures will be coming out soon even if Hasbro has (finally) canceled the remaining orders (because the item has been on pre-order for 7 months now!) Look at how long the Collector’s Pack took! We, the loyal collectors have been waiting a long time for things like Winter Soldier, City in Crisis, Collector’s Pack 2, Wave 9… if only Hasbro would give us status updates every so often! On the other hand, these long waits sure give us a sign of the product development and distribution cycle! Really makes you curious about how far ahead they actually are!
City in Crisis, Winter Soldier official pictures.
And for real breaking news (as opposed to just rumor squashing)…
Hasbro also has up the first official pic of City In Crisis here and the Winter Soldier set is here
City in Crisis Description:
Spider-Man has battled his entire life to keep his loved ones safe, but sometimes even his best isn’t enough. Two of his most dangerous enemies have kidnapped Mary Jane! They’ve got her captive in a position too precarious for the wall crawler to take any chances.
Help Spidey save the day and come to the aid of his smart and sassy girlfriend, Mary Jane! Fun four-pack of chunky, stylized characters includes Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson, Green Goblin and Sandman figures.
Winter Soldier Description:
Cap’s old partner Bucky is back, but he’s been brainwashed by the bad guys, and become the dangerous Winter Soldier! Captain America and Falcon rush to find him, hoping to stop him before he gets into real trouble. Unfortunately, Crossbones is waiting for them, and he can’t wait to tear into the two Super Heroes.
Team up with this fun, four-pack and create lots of exciting adventures! Chunky, stylized characters include Captain America, Falcon, Winter Soldier and Crossbones figures.
Long story short: no, you can not tell your Super Hero Squad figures from their foreheads alone, that was not Kraven’s mane, and official is cool.
Mary Jane
Ok, now I believe in MJ… Actionfigs.com has a few photos, including a very menacing Green Goblin hovering over Mary Jane. Pics are viewable here. Any day now expect the people who could recognize Kraven from the sliver of his forehead, the ones posting “Kraven is coming in the new four-pack”, to start realizing that a plume of orange could just as easily have been Mary Jane Watson Parker’s bright red hair. Of course, having not seen the final 4-pack yet, it could be someone else but right now is when everyone posts everywhere about how they called X Fact, and how everyone else was wrong so I might as well jump on board.
Note: This is being published on 4/21/08. I had this saved as a draft a couple days ago and then forgot it. Now that the City in Crisis reveal has come and gone I probably should just shelve it, but oh well. I once posted on a forum saying “huh… I didn’t think Wolverine/H was going to be Wolverine/Hulk, and it turned out to be Hand Ninja.”
In response, a guy started posting a nonsensical tirade straight out of a 1980′s Dan Rather beat-down… screaming nonsense and asking me what I won. Today, with the Crisis reveal, he bravely posted “guess I was right” (yup, 4 guesses later, and after everyone else guessed who was in Crisis LOL.) I shouldn’t take delight in this, but since he spent the better part of his afternoon calling me stupid, misusing the term irony and just in general being a jerk to me… yeah. I take a little delight.
Long story short: nobody wins anything on the Internet but damned if it’s not fun playing the game. For my next rumor: when the color black was invented.
Since nobody else is breaking the news: Comic Green GoblinSuper Hero Squad, SHS, Hasbro Heroes
http://www.mousedroid.com/feature/toyfair2008/image/hasbro77.jpg
You’ll see that underneath the bank end of the bank playset, there’s a box showing both an unidentified orange character, and the much requested comic Green Goblin.
Sigh. I hate having to break news.
I had decided to post it on the SHS forums, but didn’t feel like going through the hassle (maybe if every time I posted, I didn’t have someone counting my words… but eh, oh well), so I deleted my post. I guess this is the only place you’ll hear about it until someone else sees it. Or, sees this and tries to post it as their own.
Edit: Well, it took like 7 hours, but tinyheroes finally picked up the picture. Of course, now there’s talk that the orange thing is really Kraven’s mane because of the fraction of a head that’s poking through the orange. Until someone actually puts up a reasonable picture, it’s all speculation at this point, and we all know what this site’s policy on speculation is. Seems like a lot of hair if that’s Kraven’s mane, unless they’ve taken some dramatic liberties with the art or they resculpted it from http://www.forbiddenplanet.com/products/24277/Spider-Man_Superhero_Squad_Wave_5_Spider-Man_Vs_Kraven/Superheroes/Action_Figures/Marvel/Spider-man/Product.html
but whatever. We’ll know soon enough.
