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More SDCC News
Another day, another SDCC news round-up:
Marvelousnews has teasers about Fantastic Four airing on Nicktoons, and upcoming Wolverine and the X-Men stories, while Comic Book Resources’s Robot 6 blog features more Super Hero Squad animated series casting reveals.
In toy news, Brave and the Bold Action League story sets (such as one featuring Plastic Man, a pterodactyl and Batman) are coming, the Super Friends line gets a Green Lantern. Eclipso gets a Justice League Unlimited figure.
Finally, Infinite Heroes news includes a black costume Mary Marvel, Wildstorm Armageddon style Captain Atom and Firestorm, Robin and Renegade Nightwing, Parralax and Sinestro Corps Sinestro (and John Stewart for good measure), Booster Gold and Maxwell Lord coming in a Wal-Mart exclusive 6-pack featuring Wonder Woman, Superman and some OMACs, followed by a Death of Superman related set with Bloodwynd, Fire, Ice, Doomsday, battle-damaged Superman, and Warrior era Guy Gardner.
Not to be outdone, Target has exclusive 3 3/4 Public Enemies related figures in both 3 and 6 packs. A three pack featuring Batman, Black Lightning and Captain Atom, another with Power Girl, Superman and battle armor Lex Luthor, a 6-pack featuring Grodd, President Lex Luthor, Superman, Hawkman, Batman and Major Force. Pictures here.
Unrelated but fun, check out the Mego inspired World’s Greatest Heroes and Comics Continuum brings a run down of the upcoming Blammoids.
Not to be outdone, Marvel Universe shows up with modern Thor, Luke Cage and a new Iron Man, World War 2 uniformed Captain America and Bucky, and Black Widow. And can someone confirm that Carnage and Tarantula are in the new 3.75 inch Marvel line?
So we’ll continue trying to wade through all this information, but in the meantime, feel free to browse previous SDCC reveals at the wiki and of course, discuss SDCC 2009 on the message board.
More SDCC 2009 News
SDCC 2009 is continuing along, so here’s a rundown of some of the bigger discoveries today:
Super Hero Squad Castle Doom playset
A shot of the SHS Iron Man and Doom statues together.
The Marvel Universe Wal-Mart Exclusive Gigantic Battles sets are shown here by Marvelous News, while the 4-inch Iron Man line is here with both comic and movie related figures, including War Machine, Crimson Dynamo and a bunch of movie armors. A loose shot of the Hand Ninja, Hydra Soldier and SHIELD Agent 3-pack.
There’s also Marvel’s new 4 inch Spider-Man line, featuring Doctor Octopus, Rhino, Venom, and Green Goblin (along with a variety of 90′s era Toy Biz Spider-Man variants.
Then non-registration required shots of the Marvel Universe Secret Wars sets, including Enchantress and Thor, Mr. Fantastic and Ultron, Magneto, Hawkeye and Piledriver, the Julia Carpenter (Arachne) Spider-Woman.
Marvel Legends fans can rejoice at the pictures of various Marvel Legends prototypes like Valkyrie, Hood, Bi-Beast, Phoenix of the White Crown, Fantomex, Madrox, Lady Bullseye, Paper Bag Spider-Man, Nuke, Constrictor, Brother Voodo, Classic Ms. Marvel, Black Widow, Warpath, Deadpool, Hulk, and Havok. Did I miss anyone? Probably.
Cool Toy Review has pics of the new Marvel Universe figures for Jean Grey, white and blue Thing, black dragon Iron Fist, Jean Grey, Vision and classic Sunfire. Of course, here’s X-Men Origins Wolverine’s deluxe Astonishing X-Men Colossus.
Back to the Super Hero Squad, is this the X-Cutioner’s Song, featuring Jim Lee designed Jean Grey and Cyclops, along with Stryfe and Wolverine? And Moon Knight and a big headed Iron Man? Hepzibah, Cyclops, Warpath and Wolverine in what could POSSIBLY be the leaked X-Force 4-pack, while Wrecker and company are confirmed as Secret Wars. Then front and back shots of the new Toys R Us exclusive Collector’s Pack featuring Ultimate Hulk, Emma Frost and the Falcon.
Fans of those wacky Mighty Muggs style designer toys may enjoy Mattel’s prototype Attitubes, including Webstor, Mer Man and Orko from Masters of the Universe. There’s more of those Justice League PVC statutes coming.
Infinite Heroes fans might be bummed by the lack of news, but here’s a shot of Red Arrow, and if you picked up Anti-Monitor, you’ll see the card back lists the following four figures as Mattycollector exclusives: Supergirl (battle damaged, and carded to replicate her Crisis cover), Barry Allen with the famous death face, the Monitor and Psycho Pirate. 43, Infinity, 49 and 48 respectively.
Then there’s Brave and the Bold Action League B’Wanna Beast and Ocean Master.
We’ve started a SDCC 2009 page on the Wiki to try and track new discoveries, so feel free to jump in or browse the coverage so far.
SDCC News At Last
Edit: Feel free to follow developments over on the board. It sometimes takes a bit for new news to hit the front page!
Well the dam has finally broken and now there’s tons of SDCC 2009 news and pictures.
Super Hero Squad picture 1 featuring a new Collector’s Pack with Ultimate Hulk, diamond Emma Frost, Falcon, Mr. Fantastic and Iron Man, along with Enchantress, a new Doctor Doom, Warpath and Hepzibah!
Super Hero Squad picture 2 featuring Bucky-ized Captain America with a motorcycle and Spiral’s arm. Thrusting Wolverine looks cool too.
a Giant SHS Iron Man statue to promote the show
And a loose shot of the Wolverine Evolution set.
For Masters of the Universe Classics fans, Battle Cat
Marvel Universe fans are also in for a treat as Bucky Captain America and Giant Skrull, Enchantress, Thor, and Hawkeye in the Marvel Universe Secret Wars sets
Dark Avengers Minimates
Actually, there’s a bunch of Marvel Minimate news out there today. First, Marvelousnews had pictures of the upcoming Waves 29 and 30 (featuring Spider-Girl, Black Panther and more), and joining the previously announced Norman Osborne led Thunderbolts Minimates, there’s a bafflingly complex SDCC exclusive set of Dark Avengers coming. You see, it’s a Toys R Us San Diego Comic Convention exclusive, only available at Toys R Us’s and the Entertainment Earth booth at SDCC. So it’s really neither exclusive to Toys R Us or SDCC, or even EE for that matter.
Wanna See the MU SDCC Exclusive?
You can! Head on over to Marvel’s site to get a sneak peek of what the Invaders Box Set will look like!
As always you can discuss it on the message board.
The Champions of San Diego
LA’s greatest super hero team, not counting the Runaways or Avengers West Coast, will be getting a Minimates box set this year at San Diego Comic Con 2009 according to Marvelousnews. Black Widow, Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider, Angel, and Hercules are coming your way. Although we’ll gladly accept corrections, this is should be the first time Black Widow and Hercules get the Minimate treatment, and I think this is the first non-Archangel version of Angel in the line. If only they’d given us Darkstar though!
Misadventures in Q&As
One problems with Q&As is that sometimes you end up getting a question answered with an obvious lie. For one example, let’s look at this Cool Toy Review Q&A:
Cool Toy Review: At one of the recent conventions you had mentioned that you are looking at other ways to release Hal Jordan in the Justice League line, any updates yet?
Mattel: Not yet, but we are talking to DC about different possible ways to release a Hal.
And then a few hours later Cool Toy Review puts out the list of Mattel SDCC exclusives including:
Justice League Unlimited Green Lantern Origins Three Pack
“At long last Hal Jordan will be joining Mattel’s Justice League Unlimited collection. In this pack, you can get not only Hal Jordan (in his trademark Ferris Aircraft flight suit) but also his predecessor Abin Sur and his mentor/arch enemy Sinestro both in different versions of their Green Lantern uniforms. Plus, as an added bonus, for the first time in the JLU line, all of the heads in this pack are swappable, letting you play out Hal’s transformation from Test Pilot to Green Lantern of Space Sector 2814! Available on MattyCollector.com after the show.”
Geez Mattel, you couldn’t just say “we hope to have details soon” or “we love Hal and hope to get him to fans soon”? Oh, and in other news from the Q&A, He-Ro is coming as an SDCC exclusive for the Masters of the Universe Classics line, all those major characters missing from Infinite Heroes (Hawkgirl, Aquaman, Riddler, Red Tornado) are planned for release “in time”, and Mattel says they plan to re-do the articulation on previously released Infinite Heroes figures “in time”. As for the big Super Friends figures… the future looks bleak because when asked if there will be figures beyond Cyborg (specifically Joker and Robin, and not to mention the Hawkman they’ve previously said they were going to re-release without the lollipop-looking mace) they say:
Mattel: At this point the Super Friends line will be continuing as an Imaginex line in the Fisher Price aisle. We know there are a lot of adult collectors out there looking to make a larger 6” collection, but right now, our 6” line will be focused on the DC Universe Classics style. At the end of the day we have a limit on the number of figures we can do and we have some new exciting styles we are working on which we hope fans will be just as excited about.
In other Q&As, they reiterate their desire for better articulation and more accessories in the Infinite Heroes Line at Kastor’s Korner, and the revisiting previously released Infinite Heroes figures with better articulation is also asked at Poe Ghostals. On the plus side, pretty nice pictures of He-Ro and the Anti-Monitor are up at the Mattycollector Facebook page
