— February 11, 2006
SuperHero Times has great coverage of Toy Fair 2006 already up! Check out their site to see photo galleries and info on DC Direct, Diamond Select, Corgi and Lego. More details sure to come so stay tuned.
— February 7, 2006
An Ultimate Avengers Clip on Newsarama.com has a link to a about a minute and a half preview of the new Ultimate Avengers movie. The movie is not due to be out in stores for 2 more weeks.
I watched the clip, and the animation is pretty good. It also seems to follow the origin of the Ulitmates pretty well. I will probably get the video once it comes out. I have to say it looks pretty credible although they may censor it more for the younger crowd.
— February 5, 2006
The new Toy Fare came this weekend. I was suprised because it usually comes late. I was also suprised to find lots of new information on Marvel toys. Inside it has pics of new Fantastic Four classics, Dragon Man, Kang, Sue Storm and another Thing. Spider-man classics has Hobgoblin, Hydro Man and Spider Hulk. It also has pics of Marvel Legends 13 and a Q and A with Jesse Falcon. Here are the details, but I cannot post scans due to legal reasons.
Fantastic Four: It doesn’t say how big Dragon Man is. It says the figures are in the 6″ scale. They’re not together so you can’t compare. There is also Transforming Johnny Storm with attachable flame parts. Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm, Kang and Dragon Man look super-srticulated. Thing does not. It says that all the FF designs are from the Ultimate Universe except for the villians which are old school. Release date says May.
Spider-man series 17: Hydro-man has an interchangeable lower half. One is a water base and I assume the other is a pair of legs. It doesn’t show it. Spider-Hulk design is from Web of Spider-man #70. Hobgoblin is definitely classic style and super-articulated. He has a pumpkin bomb in his hand and he is riding the glider. The glider looks new and is sculpted with clouds underneath it. Release date says April.
Marvel Legends 13: Pics of the Goblin variant are out there. It looks the same but with the Goblin head instead of the Norman Osborn head. It looks like the new Goblin and Hobgoblin are using the same body type but the gliders are different. Lady Deathstrike looks like crap. Abomination looks super-cool and is definitely a new sculpt. Every figure comes with a piece of Onslaught. All I can say is it looks the same as the pictures that were posted elsewhere from the UK Toy Fair.
Jesse’s interview: Jesse says in the interview the Onslaught is the crab monster version. Not the Magneto looking one.
He says the vs. cards are included plus a cardboard diorama insert will be included with brand new character specfic artwork. Abomination has a destroyed Gamma lab. Pyro has a giant flame monster. Lady Deathstrike has Spiral’s lab.
Jesse says they will do they figures that were supposed to be pack in villians at some point but they don’t know how. And that it didn’t make sense to buy a bunch of Loki figures to get a bunch of Hydra agents. Boxset anyone?
He says all of the New Avengers are being done at some point in ‘06. I don’t believe Ronin has been announced yet. Did he forget about him or is there something else in store?
Jesse says they will definitely do the new Spider-man costume in Marvel Legends. I think any plans after this year are in question until we know more of what Hasrbo has planned.
He says the Fantastic Four line will have 2 lines and then be based on the new animated series that is coming out. The last thing he says is,
“There is a line that we are going to be showing at Toy Fair. It shall not be named. When the retailers came in, we changed from doing one assortment to doing three assortments. So its going to be big. I’m drooling.”
There is an article in there about Hasbro taking over the Marvel license but it doesn’t say anything new. It basically just breaks down what we already know from the press releases.
— February 2, 2006
The UK Toy Fair happened this week. Toy Biz unveiled pictures, not actual prodcut, of Marvel Legends series 13 and 14 at the show. The people that were allowed in could not take photographs but they could report on what they saw.
Some pictures showed up online however of what Toy Biz was showing off. These were most likely taken when Toy Biz was not looking. Anyway, this has prompted a response from Toy Biz as posted on toymania.com. Not sure if this is from Toy Biz or not, but here it is.
The recent images of Marvel Legends assortments 13 & 14 that emerged from UK Toy Fair are inaccurate. Models of the real Marvel Legends assortments will be on display next week during NY Toy Fair. We have always encouraged reporters to verify news through our home office for accuracy. Unfortunately, many people choose timing over accuracy.
So, Toy Biz is obviously not happy that these pictures are online. But they are confirming that they will be revealing actual prototypes of Marvel Legends 13 and 14 next week in New York. There you have it.
— January 25, 2006
I read on one of the forums tonight that at the Toys R Us stores in California, cases of Marvel Legends 12 have the purple X-23 version instead of black costume version and the Maestro figure comes with the Apocalypse arm cable that was missing from earlier shipments.
There has always been some dispute over which is the variant of the X-23 figure. Earlier shipments outside the US had the purple costume version, and shipments to the US had the black costume version. The press photo that Toy Biz released showed the black costume version, and Toy Biz did not officially announce that this was a variant. I recently ordered the purple version online, so I hope I do not find the purple one in the store. I should get it way before they show up around here though, hopefully by the end of the week.
— January 25, 2006
UK TOYFAIR: What’s Happening With Marvel Legends? at action-figure.com reports Marvel news from the UK Toy Fair that is going on right now. I was not aware the UK Toy Fair would be this week, but I think I remember that it is normally held around this time every year.
On to Marvel Legends news! The representatives from that site were allowed in but were not allowed to take pictures. Here are some of the things they saw, which you can read in full by visiting the link above.
My thoughts on this, the Daredevil 2 pack he describes is probably the variant version. I am not very excited about X-babies, but I am excited about the 12″ figures and the Onslaught build-a-figure. I can’t wait until Toy Fair where we can see actual pictures!
Update: I found a link to pictures of more Marvel Legends products, including the Monsters box set, the Young Avengers box set and the Marvel Masterworks line, courtesy of action-figure.com again.
— January 25, 2006
This news coming from action-figure.com, Astonishing X-men Beast Variant shows pictures of a Beast variant with a sculpt from the Astonishing X-Men comic. I actually prefer this version over the regular one. I hope it is easy to find.
Magneto Becomes The Ultimate is a review of the new Magneto figure also from this line. Both figures are from the second series of the X-Men line, which are not showing up in the US yet.
— January 25, 2006
I have been trying to track down the Kingpin mini-bust by Bowen. I haven’t collected mini-busts before. But, when I saw the Spider-Woman mini-bust by Bowen, I had to have it. And I got it for Christmas.
I said the same thing when I saw the Bowen Kingpin bust. I saw somewhere that it would be out in January 2006. I told my local comic book store owner I wanted one. But, here it is almost the end of January and no Kingpin.
I starting looking up every site I could find that sells these, and they all say that it is shipping this month. I saw one site that said it would ship February 22nd. This sounded about right to me being that January is almost over. I even asked my comic book guy today about it, and he told me he heard the middle of February as well.
Well, last night I went straight to the source and e-mailed the manufacturer. Here is the response I got.
In response to your questions; Unlike comics, our statues can arrive to comic shops any day of the week, not just Wednesday. Kingpin will actually start shipping on Monday 1/30.
There you have it. If you are like me and wondering where this bust is, it ships Monday according to Bowen.
— January 23, 2006
The time is almost upon us. Yes friends, the annual New York Toy Fair will be here in less than a month. You can find out all the details here at Superhero Sightings. Once the coverage starts, I will post as much superhero toy releated news as I can find. I myself will not be attending but will be patrolling all the major sites and forums as usual.
What to Expect
Toy companies use this time to make major announcements for the year ahead for their respective toy lines. So for the next couple of weeks, don’t expect much toy related news to be released. Most of the toy companies will be saving it for this event. Expect big news from all the major toy companies on the big lines for 2006, Superman Returns, X-Men 3, DC Superheroes, Fantastic Four, as well as the collectors favorite, Marvel Legends, and others.
This event is not open to the public, but only to members of the press. You can still get in though. If you know someone who has a publishing outlet, for example, a web site that may feature toys among other things, you can get a press pass to get in. But, to talk to any toy reps you usually have to set up an appointment. You also may have to have reservations to get into some areas. Some companies only will allow a certain number of people from any given source per day.
The Details
The Toy Fair is in New York at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center from Sunday, February 12th through Wednesday the 15th. Here is the link to the site where you can find out more information about the 2006 New York Toy Fair.
— January 23, 2006
From AlterEgoComics.com,
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MASK M.A.S.K. T-BOB FIGURE AND VEHICLE T BOB VENOM CARD | 7 | $11.73 | 3h 26m 31s |
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Star Trek Action Figure 1974 Mego Lt. Uhura | 3 | $25.00 | 4h 5m 28s |
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FARSCAPE ACTION FIGURE SET SERIES 1 COLLECTION RARE MIB | 4 | $51.00 | 3h 26m 14s |
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STAR WARS attack of the clones figure lot | 6 | $37.80 | 26s |
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Custom 1:6 Scale-12" Figure, Roman Empire Ignite/Dragon | 3 | $68.00 | 4h 45m 21s |
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