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Marvel Universe, Spider-Man and Iron Man Action Figure News

This is a quick wrap-up of the latest news Brian has rounded up for the Hasbro’s Spider-Man 3.75 inch line, Iron Man the Armored Avenger and of course, Marvel Universe as well.

First off, Brian found a picture of the newest version of Venom from the Spider-Man 3.75 inch line featuring a decidedly Mac Gargan version of Venom.

Then Iron Man drops the excitement factor by presenting us with a wave of fancy armors for him and War Machine.  Didn’t a lot of these armors make an appearance in the old 90′s Iron Man cartoon?  Maybe there’s nostalgia at play.  There’s a concept Drone, but those hoping for a second shot at Mandarin, Ultimate Iron Man, or comic Whiplash are out of luck.  Maybe they’ll come in case revisions.  Anyway, Iron Man 2011 Wave 1 will have:

• War Machine Mark II
• Quick Change Iron Man (Mark IV to Mark VI)
• Hypervelocity Armor Iron Man (Redeco)
• Shield Breaker Armor Iron Man
• Inferno Armor Iron Man
• Iron Man Mark V (New Version)
• Hammer Drone (Concept)
• Deep Dive Armor Iron Man
• Light Up War Machine
• Space Armor Iron Man
• Subterranean Armor Iron Man

And finally, someone on Toy Ark apparently managed to snag a carded Karla Sofen Moonstone figure from Big Bad Toy Store along with the dark Daredevil and red Warpath, so the future of the figures looks pretty good.

Marvel Universe, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Super Hero Squad at NYCC 2010

Brianregan and a bunch of others kept up with all the NYCC news yesterday, and boy were there a lot! Marvelousnews has pictures (boy do they!)

Marvel Universe Apocalypse (here), Cable with Hope (here), the Sentinel (here), Archangel as Death and translucent vision (here), Bill Foster Goliath (here), Frost Giant without his helmet (here), Ultimate Alliance Galactus (here). There’s also the Giant Size X-Men box set (finally!)

More Marvel Universe news with Gladiator (here), the Jim Lee Cyclops (here)

There’s a classic Steve Rogers Captain America (not the Ultimate repaint!) with a dune buggy type vehicle (here), new Winter Soldier, WWII Captain America and the first demo of the new Captain America First Avenger line (here).

The Thor The Mighty Avenger line is also represented with Thor, Loki and Battle Hammer Thor (here), and an up-close of Odin (here).

Super Hero Squad gets a new subline as Iron Man 2 becomes Iron Man The Armored Avenger, and War Mechs is the first set to be shown featuring Iron Man, War Machine and Detroit Steel (here). Detroit Steel gets an upclose here. Thor The Mighty Avenger line brings us Odin, Hulk and Thor in Asgardian Smash (here), with an upclose of Odin and a new Thor in his modern armor here (here). Behind War Mechs, you get a glimpse at the Destroyer/Thor/Loki three pack Battle for Asgard’s Vault (here), with a gray/silver version of Destroyer here.

The mainline gets an X-Men Blackbird and a new Spider-Man vehicle (here), HERBIE, Tiger Shark, Red She-Hulk, repaints of motorcycle riding Wolverine and the Leader are amongst the figures here, the black Silver Surfer (here)

Iron Man’s 3.75 inch line gets a plethora of new armors of course (here)

Spider-Man’s 3.75 line shows us the newly articulated Venom (here)

In Handful of Heroes news… are those new colors shown here?

So now that you’ve done the link viewing, head over to the message board to discuss the Avengers Super Hero Squad figures, the Iron Man 3.75 line, and all those crazy Marvel Universe action figures.

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.

Ok ladies and gentlemen, head over to the Rumor Buster’s message board to talk about the SDCC 2010 revelations and be sure to log in and cast your yay or nay vote!

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)

Pictures of Carnage Up

Well we first mentioned the pre-order of Carnage for the Spider-Man 3.75 inch action figure line back in April, and now there’s pictures!  Oh, and Ben Reilly is one of the Spider-Man sculpts so that’s two new characters in the wave!  What other 90′s characters would you like to see in the 3.75 inch line?  Cardiac?  Nightwatch?  Carrion?  Doppleganger Spider-Man?  Head over to the message board to share your views.

Carnage in 3.75 Inches!

The 3.75 inch Spider-Man toy line rolls on with Wave 4, pre-order here, and an almost offense one-per-case Carnage! Say what you will about the line, Carnage is sure to have some fanboy love, but geez… one per case? Head over to the message board to discuss!

Spider-Man 3.75 in stores!

Kastor’s Korner has a review of the new Spider-Man 3.75 figures, specifically the super-articulated Spider-Man and Green Goblin figures. They answer some questions about scale and specifically, how the Spider-Man 3.75 inch figures stack up against their Marvel Universe counterparts. Head over to the Rumor Buster message board to discuss