- Yesterday Warner Bros announced they had extended their master toy license deal with Mattel. Hardly a surprise with Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel on the way, but good news for those of us who love Four Horsemen sculpting on DC toys. Speaking of, I sincerely hope the Horsemen will be working on the DKRises Movie Masters toys. Not sure if that’s been confirmed yet.
- BigBadToyStore has the next (and final?) wave of Batman Legacy figures up for preorder. Enchanted Toy Chest should have them soon as well.
- Pics of the upcoming G.I. Joe Zombie-Viper surfaced yesterday. (And some guy named Edwin “Lifeline” Steen.) The zombie looks incredibly awesome. This is how it’s done, Todd.
- I hadn’t even heard about this until yesterday, but NECA is offering an incredible in-scale Da Vinci Flying Machine from Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. It doesn’t come with an Ezio figure, but if you have one it will fit in the machine. It’s only available via preorder from Gamestop.
- Due to NYCC, I forgot to submit a Q&A to Mattel for November 1, but you can see a roundup of the rest of them here. I didn’t find any answers particularly earth-shattering, but it’s interesting to see they’re committed to continuing Ghostbusters past 2012. The prop replicas are selling out and are apparently pretty cool, but the figures seem to be tanking.
- The fully-painted “Infinity Edition” of Outer Space Men phases three and four will go up for preorder on 11/11.
AmericanHyena
Heh. I'm WAY more excited for Lifeline than I am for the zombie. In fact, Lifeline will the first new G.I. Joe figure I break down and buy since I was a kid. He's always been a favorite of mine. (I'm a sucker for Search and Rescue characters.)
Mario
Yay! More OSM goodness!
Newton Gimmick
More people probably own Ghostbusters now than ever. Mattel should make the new pricepoint $8, lol.
I suspect Mattel is just putting on a happy face as it pertains to the GBs but have no intention of selling much else in the 6 inch scale and just hoping and praying that GB3 coes out while they still have the license. Then maybe we'll see some new stuff.
Mysterious Stranger
"Ghostbusters 3" is the "Chinese Democracy" of the movie world.
I bit on the $8 GB figures (and a $24 12" Egon). I passed on Louis Tully initially so getting him for super cheap worked out for me. Also snagged a couple of proton stream Peter (for the proton streams) and a regular Egon for the PKE meter. So look for a lot of loose "clean" Venkman figures on ebay in the coming weeks as I suspect I'm not the only one to nab him for his accessory.