Monthly Archives: May 2008

Halo’s Spartans Join Spawn At San Diego Comic Con

Fans of McFarlane Toys’ line of awesome Halo action figures can start scrambling to get to San Diego, because the company announced today that they’re releasing a brand new two-pack that will be exclusive to this year’s Comic Con. The two pack will feature the EVA Hellspartan, deco’ed in Spawn-type armor, as well as a CQB Active-Camouflage Spartan.

McFarlane Toys will have coupons at their convention booth that you’ll be able to use to order the two-pack online after the con. The set will sell for $30 plus shipping.

McFarlane’s Fantasy Toys Get Featured

The first wave of McFarlane Toys’ new fantasy series, Legend of the Bladehunters, is now hitting stores, and Spawn.com is ushering it in with a new featured website detailing all the toys in the line. The site includes bios, concept art, photos, Quicktime VR 360 shots, and more. If you’re into dragons and ogres (and really, who isn’t?) this release is worth checking out.

Visit the site here: Link

NECA Uncloaks The Predator For San Diego Comic Con

NECA rolled out photos of their fourth exclusive toy for this year’s San Diego Comic Con today. Featuring a half-invisible / half-painted deco, here’s the Half-Stealth Predator SDCC Exclusive figure! Not only is the Predator half-invisible, but his weapons have the treatment as well. Additionally he’ll come with the all-new Alien Face Hugger and Chest Burster accessories. You can nab one of these guys directly from NECA during the convention.

Sideshow Collectibles: Star Wars Ambush on Hoth Diorama

The next piece announced in Sideshow’s line of super amazing Star Wars diorama statues is Ambush on Hoth. This will be the first diorama from the classic trilogy and depicts the scene from The Empire Strikes Back in which the Wampa attacks Luke Skywalker’s Taun Taun on the snowy planet of Hoth. The piece should be going up for preorder next week, but here’s an advance look at it.

Source: Sideshow Collectibles

Sideshow Collectibles: Dracula Diorama Up For Preorder

The next piece in Sideshow’s Universal Monsters dioramas line is now up for preorder, and it features Dracula facing his disloyal minion, Renfield, in this classic scene. The statue will be a limited edition and retails for $159.99.

Preorder it here: Link

Sideshow Collectibles: Bruce Lee Premium Format Figure Video

Sideshow Collectibles’ upcoming Bruce Lee premium format figure looks plenty awesome, and the new video they’ve posted that spotlights the piece only hammers that point home even more. Check out the detail in the likeness, the accuracy of the pose, and even get a look at what the base for the statue will be.

Watch the video here: Link
Preorder the statue here: Link

Electric Tiki: Tarzan 16″ Statue Announced

Electric Tiki, creators of such awesome collectibles as the animated Elvira statue and the upcoming line of Tooned Up Buffy the Vampire Slayer maquettes, has announced a new addition to their lines. Coming late this year will be a 16″ Tarzan statue, part of their new Classic Heroes series. Tarzan will retail for $149.99 and will be a limited edition.

Preorder it here: Link

Medicom: Indiana Jones and Mutt Williams Up For Preorder

Medicom’s line of 12″ Real Action Heroes continues with the announcement of new Indiana Jones and Mutt Williams figures, featuring their likenesses from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Sideshow Collectibles is distributing these figures domestically at $149.99 each and will have them in stock late this year. You can preorder both of them through Sideshow’s website right now.

Preorder 12″ Indiana Jones here: Link
Preorder 12″ Mutt Williams here: Link

Sneak Peek Of The New 12″ GI Joe Snake Eyes From Sideshow

Sideshow Collectibles announced a while back that they’d gotten the license to make GI Joe collectibles. After a brief flurry of excitement, all fell quiet… until now. Here’s a sneak peek at their first 12″ figure in the license, Snake Eyes! It’s mostly just a silhouette for now, but what you can see looks pretty cool.

Source: Sideshow Collectibles

Hot Toys: Skeleton Jack Sparrow Cosbaby SDCC Figure

Hot Toys is getting in on the San Diego Comic Con exclusive action with this new figure in their line of Pirates of the Caribbean Cosbabies. The exclusive cosbaby is Jack Sparrow in his skeletal form from the first movie in the trilogy. Like the other, previously released pieces in this series, Skeleton Jack stands about 3″ tall. If you’re going to this year’s SDCC, you’ll be able to pick him up from Sideshow Collectibles’ booth. If not, you can still place an online order and have Sideshow ship you a figure after the convention. Either way, you’ll want to go ahead and place a preorder, as there are only 1000 available, and he’s priced super low.

You can preorder the attendee version to pick up at the con here: Link
Or you will be able to order the non-attendee version starting Friday at 10am PST here: Link