Masters Of The Universe Pre-Sale Photos: Hordak, Faker, TriKlops, Mer-Man

Pics from Matty and ToyGuru of Mattel

Hordak



Tri-Klops



Faker



Mer-Man



Stratos



Zodac

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Post-JLU week Roundup - Series 9 (AKA Wave 3)

Action Figure Insider features four of the newest singles and both of the 3-packs from the 3rd wave of DC Universe: Justice League Unlimited Fan Collection (to long-time fans, the 9th JLU series of figures). Click the links below to see their exclusive previews. Day 1- Booster Gold Day 2- Superwoman Day 3- John Stewart: Green Lantern Day 4 - Parasite Day 5 - The Batman Beyond 3-pack Day 6 - Cheetah, Lex Luthor and Shade 3-pack

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A2ZToys Pulls Unreleased JLU/DCUC Figure listings

In light of recent developments, A2zToystore has decided to pull the listings of all unreleased Mattel product from their e-bay store. The e-bay store will continue to operate but without the said product.

I've read from your site that seems there's some impact on the product listings.
As mentioned before I'm just a collector and pick up the toys from local stores, and just want to share the fun with others. However I don't want the eBay listings hurt Mattel or other related
companies. I just acknowledge that really matters after reading the message. As a fan and collector of DC and Mattel I've pulled out the listings already. I hope you and Mattel would understand.
I'm also looking forward to the new figures from Mattel on the market :) And we have to wait for the official photos from Mattel and hope we could get the new information soon.
I'm happy to make friends with you and hope to see more information on your
website.

Cheers,
A2ztoystore

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Finally. A way to heal 'yellowed' figures

But careful, this isn't something to mess with. Looks to be about 90% workable.

As posted by Catilla on www.thetf.net

Click on the images to view the fix (warning-long thread)

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New figures on the internet? Ebay?

Mattel fans,

A lot of fans have asked this week about unannounced figures from different lines as well as packaged images of figures showing up first on Ebay or other sites as well as why some fan sites have figures for "review" before they are in stores. Allow me to shed some light.

First off, the figures for review are sent out by me or Toyguru to different fan sites for PR. We get a very small sample of early figure for our review and I try to send them out to key fan sites so that all of our fans can enjoy final product images as a sneak before they hit stores.

As for unannounced figures or packaged images showing up on Ebay, well all I can say is 1: sometimes these are custom figures we have nothing to do with, and 2: sometimes these are figures removed from our vendors without permission and Mattel vigilantly will go after anyone involved in these auctions from the seller to the buyer. Our best advise; stay as uninvolved in these auctions as you can. Everyone at Mattel is very proud of our product and the hard working people who work on it. Auctions of non final product hurts everyone. It hurts our sales, it hurts our licensors and it hurts our fans as many times this product is not final (both toy and package) and gives the wrong impression of what product will be like leading to false conclusion.

Until product is revealed officially either here or on a fan site (and by officially on a fan site we mean as in when we send a sample out for review like we did with a few JLU figures and Mer-Man last week).

Mattel will continue to legally defend its property and have it returned to us. Bootleg and prototype theft has always been a problem with highly collectable lines for every manufacture in the business and I highly recommend fans not getting involved in it. It is not something you want to poke around with as this is Mattel property and we will go after it and involve resources needed to do so.

We will continue to use this forum and the fan sites to get the most up to date OFFICIAL images to our fans. We have many figures "in the cooker" for all of our lines, some will see the light of day sooner than others, some may not come out anytime soon for multiple reasons (legal, logistic, otherwise) which is why we try to hold back any images or announcements until we know the figure is officially coming out and final.

And on a cheerier note, look for some big announcement later this week of all new official product that IS coming out later this summer on my Facebook page!

Matty

Of course being a portal that houses as much of JLU info as we could find we are of course at a crossroads. We went ahead and asked ToyGuru where the DC Hall of Justice stands in this as well. We basically archive as much of the news around the net (which means not ALL of the news is from us but we try to put it in one source). We've asked him if we are to ignore the auctions entirely or if we're allowed to reflect the news yet disclaim.

We'll let you know as soon as we have the answer.

-Christophe

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It's the Year of Gentleman Jim

Seen here are images of the Gentleman Ghost figures from Justice League Unlimited and DC Universe Classics. Two more figures are slated to arrive from the Batman the Brave and the Bold Line. Thanks to a2ztoystore for the image.

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Elongated Man ver 2 on E-bay

This costume depicts him in one of his more familiar costumes from the comics. Mattel continues with their line of comic-book repaints and classic suits. From the convention reveal last 2008 he finally makes his way to E-bay. Click here to see the auction

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Cards: Smallville Series 1 feat. Aquaman, Impulse AND Zatanna

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ALL NEW! DC Universe Cards!

Collect Em All! And Look for this week's chase 'Gold Card' at the forum.
Chase card only limited til March 30

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Wave 3 3-packs! A short review

All the figures in these packs are awesome when it comes to paint aps and sculpt. Many kudos to Mattel for this great improvement. Cool how Cheetah has two open hands and an articulated tail (making the entire figure, technically, a unique sculpt.

Seems though that the new figures are waaay too rubbery Might have a bit of trouble keeping these guys standing as they stand for long periods of time.

Still I'm very happy with these new figures. Batman Beyond kept the Batman arms. Bruce is a bit tall (as are most guys with the suits) but the sculpt makes up for it.

Acquired in the Philippines in specialty stores. I'm not certain for myself but dyjinn (also from the Philippines) said they're also available in select mainstream stores.

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DCUC 9 Deadshot

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A Message from ToyGuru/DCUC 9 Press Pics

Black Canary, The Guardian, Black Adam, Green Arrow




Mantis (both versions), Wildcat




Chemo CnC

Please note that the Guardian figure will indeed be the Classic Guardian and not the modern Guardian as shown at NYCC and in Toy Fare. (this was due to the fact that we did not have tooling available to do both and vintage version was farther along in the process).

Also note that we will have a second variant of Wildcat but have not confirmed what that is yet.

Finally, we are working very hard on getting the MattyCollector Facebook page back up and running. There were a few one-time-only problems but we are working these out with Facebook right now and hope to either restore the original page or get a new permanent page up by the end of the week. We did want to announce that the DCUC Ultraman and Alex Luthor 2 pack will go on sale April 15th and the JLU LOSH pack will go on sale May 15th.

Faker will be on sale this Tuesday March 16th and will be limited to 4 per person due to his availability at NYCC.

- Toy Guru

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March Batch of QnA from Mattel

1) When will the rest of the releases for 2009 be revealed? By our counts, there are about 20 or so more figures that have not been announced.

We will announce one more wave before SDCC and then another at the show along with the first 2010 wave.

2) When will you be revealing the SDCC exclusives? An alleged DCUC exclusive has already been "leaked", but no word on Cars, MoTU or JLU.

Sometime in April.

3) Will you be getting back to bulkier characters with this Falls 6 pack?

We will be doing larger characters in the near future. When and where they will show up has yet to be announced.

4) Now that Mattel is expanding the figure line past characters that were in the JLU cartoon, where will you be getting the packaging art from?

DC Comics has supplied us with original drawn turns of the characters as reference for our sculptors. We will be using these on the card backs.

5) What was Mattel's thoughts behind going with Wizard Shazam instead of Captain Marvel Jr?

We already had three heroes with capes and lighting bolts. We thought the Wizard was a good way to be a bit different in one slot. We do love Freddy and in time could get to him too.

Thanks to ToyGuru and Mattel for taking the time to answer our questions.

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Forums Down

Just a quick word to let you know that yes, the forums are unfortunately down. Stew is working to get them back up as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience. Stupid security updates. -texgnome1

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Mattel Question and Answer for February batch 2

1. With the Secret Society and Legends packs ending their run, would it be possible to see the characters again in later assortments as singles or 3-packs?

Yes, we will definitely look into doing this. Our goal is to make sure all of the characters get re-released sooner then later. Deadshot, who was only available in a hard to find 3 pack will be out as a single in Wave 5. Keep in mind that the line is planned about 14 months in advance, so the figures you see now were slotted in back in early 2008. But we will begin working on ways to get these figures back out as we move forward.

2. When we see Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman in the new assortments, are you considering doing more relevant repaints such as has been done with Superman Prime and Classic Batman? Are you also releasing more color-corrected characters as you are Lex (SS), Dr Fate, Booster, Zatanna and Red Tornado?

Yes. We when we do repaints of main characters we are doing our best to make them collector relevant such as the Superman Red and Superman in JLU singles wave 5. We are not looking to do the wacky kid friendly repaints in this line. That is more for Brave and the Bold at this time. And yes, we are working on getting show accurate versions of all of those characters you mentioned out as well. In fact, all of those mentioned have been announced!

3. Many figures were discovered databased in Matty Collector.com but soon after the discovery have been pulled out. Were these for building a database?

That is exactly what that is for. We are doing our best to launch an all inclusive data base of images as soon as it is complete. We’re very busy on this project!

4. Will we be seeing more figures from the Batman Gotham Knight series of Infinite Heroes or is it only the 3-pack? Will there be other DTV versions of DC characters?

Yes. And in fact we just announced a Wonder Woman DVD figure in the IH line which will be packed in with the DVD exclusive to Best Buy. Look for this in early March!

5. What types of changes do we expect to see with Infinite Heroes with regard to articulation and style? Meaning what are the issues that have been addressed with the current design? Will the new figures match well with the ones in our current collection?

We have actually redesigned the IH buck from the ground up adding knee, elbow, wrist, ankle and neck articulation. Look for Animal Man in an upcoming three pack to be the first figure with this new articulation level.

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New DCUC Joker?

This is floating around the web. Seems to be the new DCUC Joker figure. Looks a lot better then the older one. Click the image to view the whole image

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New York Comic Con Day Two Revelations for Mattel

Jesterboy and H-balm are back from New York Comic Con with pics of new DC Universe Stuff

Click on these links to see more

DC Universe Justice League Unlimited Fan Collection Pics- Includes Capt. Marvel set, Superfriends, Legion and more

DC Universe Infinite Heroes- What to do with those Anti-Monitor Points

DC Universe Classics- Green Arrow and Black Canary head up the Chemo series.

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Mattel Question and Answer for February

Questions about Playsets, Wonder Woman Infinite Heroes figures, customs, Wal-Mart and civilian JLU figures. Drop by the thread to see the answers and send more questions and be here by the beginning and middle of each month to see if you'll find more interesting tidbits about your favorite toys from our favorite toy guy ToyGuru.

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