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SDCC Hasbro News Round-Up Part 2

More news coming out of SDCC 2010 today as Hasbro gives it’s long-awaited panel.  The future of Marvel Legends, awesome Marvel Universe reveals, and even some (if I do say so myself) lackluster Super Hero Squad reveals.

Marvel Universe:

A Masterworks Sentinel.  Actually, two! (Seen Here)

Marvel Universe Gigantic Battles Bill Foster “Giant Man” or Goliath, and Thor Clone/Clor/Ragnarok, together with a Loki/Frost Giant pairing seen here and here.

Spring sees an original Avengers set, with Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp and Hulk (seen here), and a Deadpool, Wolverine and Warpath X-Force set seen here.

The Hasbro diorama and display case was updated with some of these new figures, as seen here.  Jessica Drew’s Spider-Woman helps round out the New Avengers, while Spider-Man 2099 and Doc Samson are also shown.  Cybernetic War Marchine is also shown in this picture.  Heroic Age Iron Man, and better pictures of Spider-Man 2099 and World War Hulk are visible at this gallery.

Spring 2011′s Wave 1 has World War Hulk (here), Captain Marvel (here).

Meanwhile, Spring 2011′s release of 2011 Wave 2 includes a Jim Lee inspired Cyclops (here), and kitty-eared First Appearance Wolverine (here) to round out your collection of Giant Sized X-Men, and Gladiator (here), and Apocalypse (here).  Yeah, that’s a lot of X-Men in one wave.

Spider-Man’s 3.75 inch line will apparently be adding Scorpion (here).

And finally, for Super Hero Squad news: repaints a plenty.  Red Hulk/Iron Man, Spider-Man/Spider-Woman (aka Arachne, Julia Carpenter), and Wolverine/Polaris (well, we’re only reasonably sure.  It’s a repaint of the Scarlet Witch) were shown on one slide. War Machine/Iron Patriot, Spider-Man and the City in Crisis Green Goblin, and the Secret Wars 4-Pack Spider-Man are shown with the new Thor sculpt on a second slide.  Ultimate Captain America gets a Squad Cruiser shown on one slide, while if you look at the Toyark slides, you can see the Cyclops and Wolverine with a Quinjet slide.

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SDCC Round-Up – Hasbro Edition

We’ve rounded up some Hasbro related pictures from SDCC 2010.  Early on, from Twitter, comes a picture of the Thor booth at Hasbro and a a picture of Captain America’s booth too.

Spider-Man 3.75 gets some new pictures too, including Ben Reilly (here), a new Venom (here).

Super Hero Squad gets some love too, including a new Collector’s Pack featuring Enchantress, Loki, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man and a giant Frost Giant (as seen here), a Super Hero Squad Hercules and a new Iron Man vehicle (here), and an Invisible Woman/Iron Man/HERBIE pack (here), Namor’s old foe Tiger Shark (here), and a new playset featuring Galactus (here), and Rescue and the other upcoming Iron Man 2 SHS figures (here)

Now, Iron Man 2 isn’t out on it’s own, there’s some coverage of the newest Hall of Armor armors (here), new armors (here), comic based classic Mandarin and Whiplash’s newest look from the Iron Man Whiplash mini-series (here).

Marvel Universe has had some love too, with lots of shots of previously released figures, and previously previewed figures, although it’s nice to see the new battle packs like Thor/Iron Man, Wolverine/Captain America (with his battle damaged shield), Daken and Venom as Dark Wolverine and the Sinister Spider-Man, Sentry and Spider-Man, and Cyclops and Dark Phoenix (here)

Iron Man Wave 5 up for Pre-Order at BBTS

Whiplash and two Drones, along with a host of new Iron Man armors round out Wave 5 of the 3.75 inch Iron Man 2 toys according to the newest pre-order by Big Bad Toy Store:

# 1x Whiplash
# 1x Razorwind Armor
# 1x Final Battle Iron Man Mark VI
# 1x Black & Gold Iron Man
# 1x Weapon Assault Drone
# 1x Air Assault Drone
# 1x Munitions Armor

Now, the Weapon Assault Drone and Whiplash are also listed as Wave 4 figures, so no word yet on whether or not they are the same figures, but hopefully pictures will be forthcoming! Head over to the message board to discuss

Super Hero Squad Iron Man Wave 3 Out

Entertainment Earth is currently listing the third wave of Iron Man 2 Super Hero Squad figures as available.  That includes the Armor Vault and Iron Defense Squad sets containing:

• Armor Vault – Iron Man, Hulkbuster Iron Man, Torpedo Armor Iron Man
• Iron Defense Squad – Rescue, Iron Man and Captain America

So head over to the message board to discuss!

Super Hero Squad Pepper Potts as Rescue!

Think broke the news that the upcoming Iron Man 2 Super Hero Squad set Iron Defense Squad has Pepper Potts as Rescue, a repaint of the Wave 9 Captain America, and another repaint of the World War Hulk Hulkbuster armor. Head over to the message board to give him some praise!

Marvel Universe 2-Packs and Iron Man 2 4-Packs Displayed

Brianregan09 has been on the ball recently, pointing out both Marvelousnews’s article about the upcoming Marvel Universe 3.75 inch figure 2-packs and the Iron Man 2 3.75 inch action figure 3-pack, along with Marvelousnews’s article about the upcoming TRU exclusive Iron Man 2 4-Pack. For those keeping track, the figure rundowns are:

Iron Man 2 – Fury of Combat 4-Pack

Iron Man 2 Concept Series – Proving Ground 3-Pack

Marvel Universe Target 2-Packs

Marvel Universe Wave 10 Photos, and Iron Man 2 News

The most recent Marvelousnews Q&A has news that an official Hasbro Marvel Universe checklist is in the works! Of course, the Q&A also has the sad news that a movie Happy Hogan is NOT in the works.

Meanwhile, The Toyark Q&A hints that Mandarin and Whiplash may be coming.

Neither are off limits for collection 2 of the comic series. You should definitely check them out and see if Mandarin or Whiplash make an appearance. You might even be lucky enough to find BOTH villains in one collection!

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Meanwhile, Marvelousnews was one of the sites to feature pictures of the upcoming Marvel Universe Wave 10, including Havok, Mystique, Johnny Blaze as Ghost Rider, Captain Britain and Jamie Madrox. The pictures were scanned from Previews magazine though, and sites featuring the pictures have subsequently removed them. The link WAS at this url though.