The Rumor Buster

Combat Heroes and Robot Heroes Target Holiday Sets

The Target holiday Combat Heroes and Robot Heroes sets are hitting stores now. I put up some quick cell phone pictures up over on the message board until they get to a better home. In the meantime, here’s a rundown of the changes I can see between them and the original figures:

Optimus Prime has silver antennae and looks to be a much brighter shade of blue

Ironhide: possibly a repaint of the Ironhide/Mixmaster figure, but not sure yet.

Starscream: Looks like the Springer/Starscream 2-pack figure but painted a little lighter.

Snake Eyes: Possibly a repaint of the Snake Eyes/Neo Viper figure?

Storm Shadow: a repaint of the Heavy Duty/Storm Shadow figure?

Conrad “Duke” Hauser: a blonder/lighter haired version of the Duke/Baroness 2-pack figure. Also, I think the green is a little lighter.

Edit: 9:30 a.m. 11/06/09 – I double checked the figures and realized that the glare from the pictures was making some black things look silver, so Ironhide and Snake Eyes are downgraded to potential repaints.

Marvel Universe Giant Skrull Photo

Wwwyzerd pointed us to Marvel.com’s post about the upcoming Nick Fury mail-away figure and how one of the pictures features none other than the giant Skrull from the upcoming Gigantic Battles set, even if it’s just a back shot. For good news, Nick will come with a profile card and one of those write-ups that the regular figures come with. They also show him in one picture with a big honking alien-hunting gun and in another with a more classic 60′s era shooter, but in the picture with his profile information he’s shown with that big Punisher gun. Come join the discussion on the board!