More JLU News From Toy Guru!

From a personal email I received from Toy Guru(who works for Mattel):


I’m excited to share some great news about Mattel’s Justice League Unlimited line. Due to overwhelming support from the fans, Mattel and Target are teaming up to bring an all new Collector’s Line to store shelves starting this August!

16 brand new figures along with collector requested repaints and reissues will be available in singles, 3-packs and 6 packs. Figures will be out in two waves. Each wave will consist of two 6-packs, two 3 packs and five single carded figures, some with brand new accessories. This line will be sold exclusively at Target stores starting Aug 1, 2008. At this time the line will be an in store exclusive only.

Wave 1 will be revealed at New York Comic Con in April and Wave 2 will be shown at Comic Con San Diego in July.

There may be a few other JLU surprises this year as well. But fans will just have to wait for the summer conventions to find out what!

We are pleased so show the first 6-pack for Wave 1: Attack from Apokolips featuring Superman, Darkseid, Mr. Miracle, Lashina, Mantis and Forager.















Along with these figures, we are excited to announce that the line will also include several major MIA characters including The Question!

*Note to collectors, these are not the final figures and we do plan to adjust Mantis’ cape color and Forager’s shield.



-Power Guy


*Note: Photo shows 5poa Superman. That may be a good sign for those who like the 5poa figures.


Discuss it in our forums

Drive You Crazy...

After years of pining after a JLU Hal Jordan figure, fans get a Hal in New Frontier design. It's yet unconfirmed if it's related to the DCD New Fronitier figures or if it's in a scale/style all its own.
Check out TOY NEWS International for more info. Discuss it at our forums.

DCUC exclusives at the New York con

WIZARD UNIVERSE shows us the DCUC exclusives



For those of you who can’t get enough of Mattel’s DC Universe Classics, a trio of black-clad figures will be available at the Mattel booth. Tech Suit Mr. Freeze will be exclusive to the show, and if you didn’t snag a Knight Shadow Batman or Black Outfit Superman at retail, you’ll get another shot at both.

From the photos it seems that the new stuff we're getting are the long awaited Tech-suit/Full-suited Mr Freeze and a Black Suit Superman that difers from the original by having a solid black neck area (as opposed to exposed skin).

View them at the Wizard site and discuss it at the forums.

News from Wizard World Chicago 2007!

Per Marcus Mebes, the following was announced today at Wizard World Texas:


1.) Hal Jordan will be THE Green Lantern of the JLA. John Stewart will be moving to the sidelines.

2.) In the Arena series, Blue Beetle(Jamie) vs. the Blue Beetle of Earth C!

3.) Risk will be getting "arms" and his story will be told in a Geoff Johns written title.

4.) Titans(the Winick & Churchill series) is delayed until April due to Churchill suffering a shoulder injury.

5.) Superman Prime will be an ongoing villain in the DCU.

6.) Bart Allen's story isn't finished.

7.) Zatanna will be joining the JLA!!!

8.) Red Arrow will remain on the JLA while in the Titans.


Thank you Marcus for your report!!!

Co0mparison pics by Ham Salad

On the left are the original releases while on the right are the new variants from the Original Members 7-pack exclusive.

Batman: new version is blue, instead of the original's gray



Green Lantern: costume is a deeper black, green isn't as bright, and ring is unpainted



Martian Manhunter: greens and blues are lighter shades



The Flash: red is brighter, though its hard to see in this pic



Superman: blue is darker, and flesh tones are darker

Green Lantern variant (?) exclusive to Shayera/Ray/GL 3 pack

Notice the uneteched logo and suit. All colors are the same but the chest piece matches teh sculpt of the Justice Lords version (with no etching). Not at all a must-have, but it's still interesting to know. You know how much I enjoy learning about these 'Christophian' variations (according to our dear AFI friend Krazee). hehe. Thank you to Darth_Ennis who risked pitchforks and torches to inform us about this.


*Left- the exclusive version with unetched chest, Right- the generic staple version with etched logo