The Rumor Buster

Attack of Show to have Mattel SDCC reveals!

After causing a mild quandry on the Matty Collector forums, the airdates for the G4 Network’s Attack of Show Mattel SDCC reveals have been revealed: April 12 and 15! Mattycollector.com says there’s 4 reveals each night, with bonus reveals on Friday, April 16th when “we’ll have the complete list of SDCC products with images PLUS a couple more reveals!” No clue what’s going to be revealed, but they did drop some hints:

a couple of hints… 1) a DCU item will have a ton of accessories, and 2) we have an Avatar™ item that, for the first time, combines a 3-3/4″ figure and a 6″ figure in one package.

Head on over to the message board to start the speculation

Matty Q&A Voting

There’s not much time left to vote for questions in the current round of Ask Matty, but you can still submit questiosn for the next round of voting! Remember you can submit questions regarding any of the Mattel lines… Brave and the Bold, DCUC, Action League, Cars, Masters of the Universe Classics, Infinite Heroes… the whole Mattel world is your oyster! Head over to the Ask Matty thread to post those questions

Black Friday Shopping Deals

In a very Black Friday appropriate post, we’ve got a pair of great deals for you. First off, Toxin pointed out that sale.mattel.com (with some great retail Mattel stuff like Brave and the Bold Action League 2-packs and singles, the big 5 inch BatB figures, Avatar and Secret Saturdays figures) has free shipping, which, is just an awesome way to catch up or get started with some great sets.

Hasbrotoyshop doesn’t have as good a deal, but $4.99 flat rate shipping is still a great deal!

And then there’s the Matty Collector sale on DC stuff (DC Universe Classics, Infinite Heroes AND Justice League Unlimited). And since Mattycollector is home to all those great exclusives like the DCUC Adam Strange and Starfire, Romat-Ru and Karu-Sil, Alexander Luthor and Ultraman, the IH Crisis set with Monitor, Supergirl, Barry Allen and Psycho Pirate and all those JLU sets (Doom Patrol! Legion of Super Heroes! Gotham City Villains! Captain Marvel Family!) it’s a great chance to pick up all those keen sets.

Just in time for holiday gift giving, we’re running a “buy more, get more” promotion. Basically, buy two or three DC Universe products and get 15% off your order; buy four or more products and get 25% off! Here are the details:

* Buy any two or three products from any DCU line and get 15% off those products.

* Buy four or more DCU products and you’ll get 25% off!

* Promotion starts 12:00 Noon ET/9:00am PT on Thursday 11/26 (Thanksgiving Day) and expires Monday, 12/7 11:59pm ET/8:59pm PT.

* Offer applies only to products in the DCU shop at MattyCollector.com.

* No code needed — discount automatically applied at checkout!

* Discount applies to product purchase price only and does not apply to shipping costs or taxes/fees.

* Sorry, this promotion can’t combined with other offers and isn’t valid on previous purchases.

We’re talking every set and every figure from the entire DC Universe lineup — DCU Classics, Justice League Unlimited, and DCU Infinite Heroes! So what are you waiting for? Get yourself over to the DCU shop before this limited-time promotion ends on Monday 12/7!

Newsclips 09/09/09

First off, DCUC Wave 12 is announced in Toyfare (Actionfigurepics.com has the rundown of the characters) revealing Copperhead, DeSaad, Doctor Mid-Nite, Eclipso, Iron, Mary Marvel, Spectre and Darkseid as the Collect and Connect. A distinctive, but generally low-level bad guy, two more Kirby/New World heavy hitters (both of which do double duty as rounding out the Super Powers Collection roster), two more JSA’ers, the first Metal Man, and another member of the Marvel Family… all in all a pretty successful roster. I still think the highlight is Eclipso though.

The Fwoosh finishes it’s interview with Scott Neitlich of Mattel and there’s actually some brief Infinite Heroes talk. The 2010 theme will not be limited to Infinite Heroes, but will run through all the Mattel DC lines and it will likely be introduced in the fall. There won’t be a proof of purchase clipping program though, so no more hunting for Anti-Monitor points I suppose.

And finally, Airheads is having a Batman Brave and the Bold theme, with 6 individual wrappers (Batman, Blue Beetle, Aquaman, Red Tornado, Green Arrow, and Plastic Man), but they’ve also got some fun and games on their site like a quiz to find what Brave and the Bold character you are, or the painting screen that lets you paint your own Batman!