The Question will be out sometime late this year or early 2010, and in the meantime, ToyFare and Mattel present the next DCUC Fan Poll. The poll should go online sometime this month.
Here are the contenders for your vote:
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that Toyman’s going to win, with Raven as a potential dark horse.
Mattel has posted in-package photos of Egon on their Facebook page. Some fans are complaining about the packaging, but I like it, particularly the way the blister resembles the Gozer building.
The toys look good too (except for Egon’s glasses…I may have to see if I can find a good replacement for those). Oddly enough, I think this set has become the SDCC exclusive I’m most looking forward to.
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The Four Horsemen and the students of the DAVE School of animation have produced this excellent Magma Corps trailer (sorry, no embed available). I can easily see this as a Cartoon Network show.
In the 1960s, as DC Comics developed their revamped Silver Age world of superheroes, they found themselves in a quandary–how could they explain all those earlier adventures of Batman, Superman and other heroes while maintaining the integrity of the new Silver Age stories? Thus was born the DC Multiverse, in which the Golden Age adventures now took place on “Earth-2” while the Silver Age took place in the contemporary “Earth-1.” Once this concept had been introduced, writers immediately began to play with it, introducing other Earths such as Earth-3, a world where Superman is evil and Lex Luthor is good.
Alexander Luthor was an acclaimed scientist on his homeworld of Earth-3, one of many “alternate universes,” where history often played out in opposite versions of the Earth we know. When two of his counterparts from Earth-1 & Earth-2 set their sights on conquering his Earth, Alexander enlisted the aid of the evil Luthors’ respective archenemies, the Supermen of their world, to come to [sic] and help fend off the attack. In response, the evil Luthors partnered with Earth-3’s twisted version of Superman, the evil Ultraman, to back their cause.
Born on the planet Krypton of an alternate universe where good and evil are reversed, Ultraman quickly became the most powerful super-criminal of that planet. A mirror-image of Superman, Ultraman had all the powers and abilities of Kal-El, only with the desire to use them for evil. He joined with other super-criminals to form the Crime Syndicate of America, the evil opposite force of the Justice League. Ultraman’s primary opposition came from Alexander Luthor, Sr., a genius scientist devoted to bettering humanity through his inventions.
According to Scott of Enchanted Toy Chest, DC Universe Classics will go up $3 per figure starting with Wave 11.
I’ll write more on this later, but feel free to discuss/rant/go apeshit below. Try to maintain a modicum of decor, por favor.
Poe and I have many things in common. We’re both incredibly sexy, we both can bench 300 pounds, and we both love the old Kenner Robocop line from the late ’80s. For today’s show and tell I pulled my beloved Robocop line out of storage to both share and educate. First up is the regular old Robocop:
Good old Peter Weller here has the classic five points of articulation, features a removable helmet, and a stupid cap firing mechanism on his back. He’s also supposed to have a gun that plugs into the side of his leg. It’s one of my favorite features and unfortunately I lost the gun. It was one of my biggest toy accessory losses I had as a kid. (more…)
