Thursday, July 23, 2009

SDCC: It has begun...

Well Preview night, was, last night. Pretty cool things seen so far. Some new ML are coming out. A new freakin' ML Deadpool too. I had my eyes on White Phoenix and Black Widow. There are so many other figures to look forward to. There were Constrictor, Classic Costume Ms. Marvel, BAF Hulk, etc., lets just say, if they are released in lots, so everyone can get them, everyone will be happy. Though the MLs might be one of the main parts of the show, the 3 3/4" figures are probably going to steal it. They are downgrading most of the figures to that scale nowadays. New Marvel Universe figures were shown, plus an MU scaled Iron Man movie line, and MU scaled Spider Man line. I am rather intrigued by the Rhino figure, it has tons of finely sculpted details.

Transformers is kinda eh now, just repaints, rereleases. The only thing I saw interesting were the exclusives which, hopefully will be chugged out into the stores. They had Walmart Exclusive Materpiece Skywarp, Walmart Exclusive Movie Ram Jet repaint, and TRU exclusive Commemorative Perceptor. I hope Skywarp reaches my Walmart, I always loved that mold, but lacked the Starscream when he was released.

Now jump into GI Joe, which I am very excited about, they never fail to impress. Though I wish they didn't have SDCC Exclusives, I'd like to get my hand at the 12" Baroness. Pretty cool looking. The sculpt looks dead-on with a smirk. It seems they are releasing Past and Present Target Exclusive packs, in which they include the original mold of the figure and vehicle and the updated version of the figure in vehicle. In this case, they show Snow Job and the Rockslide ATV, and the little tag says ARP of $12.99. What the hell? The exact ATV that is on the shelves are listed at $15 or so dollars, for the vehicle and figure. Who knew adding more degraded the price...don't care though, it all works out in my pocket, huzzah! They also have some 12" figures, which are bleh to me, never got into it really...

This was just a preview, in the upcoming days, they'll release other info on more cooler stuff. This was just the icing on the cake...

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