Mattel DC Figure Q & A Round Up!

From Cool Toy Review:

Cool Toy Review: Back during San Diego, it was announced that there would be a series of action figures 2-packs available on MattyCollector.com. When will the DCUC exclusive 2-packs be available, and aside from Adama Strange & Starfire, who will they be? Any hints?

Mattel: The Adam Strange/Starfire pack will be out at the very end of 2008. We will announce a date in November when we roll out the brand specific pages on MattyCollector.com. As for future packs, look for one to have someone with Kryptonian powers.

From Superhero Times:

SHT: There's mixed feelings regarding the new DCU: Infinite Heroes line. While many fans are impressed with the smaller 3 3/4" scale figures, some wonder about the need for a new line with the 7" DC Universe Classics as well as the 3 3/4" JLU figures still on shelves. What was the original inspiration for the line and what does the DCU: Infinite Heroes line bring to fan's collections the other two series can't? The addition of vehicles and/or playsets would obviously help justify fan reasoning to purchase and begin collecting this new series...

MATTY: Ahh, what a question. Originally, the line was actually conceived as something very different and due to many organic factors in the toy making process it became a kick butt 3 ¾ line. It was created to help army-build the DC Universe. While in the DCUC line fans will get highly detailed fully articulated figures, and in the JLU line fans will get animated versions of characters, only in the Infinite Heroes line will fans get an entire army in the palm of their hands including soldiers, flunkies and warriors in addition to the main characters.

This line also allows the characters of the DC Universe to stand toe to toe with other 3 ¾ toy lines. 6" and 3 ¾" are the main leaders in collectable toy line scales today and we wanted to make sure fans could find both scales at retail. Also, if sales do take off, we hope to add vehicles to this line which is much better suited due to the scale and the cost of producing and selling vehicles.

And finally, if you look carefully, some clever fan will be able to figure out what artist helped develop the line and where the inspiration came from...

From Raving Toy Maniac:

RTM: Is Mattel aware that Target is "green-tagging" DCUC returns? As in, once they are marked with a green tag, they can not be resold.

MATTEL: We are aware of this, but toy fans should know that once a product leaves Mattel's distribution center, it is in the hands of our retail partners. How they treat returns is entirely up to them. We don't set rules and regulations. If you are unhappy with how a retail store is handling returns, please let them know!

June 9th, 2009

The day... Esbat will be complete (until a kind-hearted woman with low standards accepts my marriage proposals).

She'll be joining the likes of:









And of course... Cheetah and Catwoman rrrrrrrrowl



So if anyone is wondering what to get me for christmas... *ahem*

Can't sleep... cats will eat me...

Having a hard time getting to sleep these days... I don't know why.

Had a crazy ass dream the other night, it was so vivid, so real. It was just ... wicked.

Started out with me coming home from the office, I stop over at this woman's home, her kitchen specifically and we talk, I don't remember the conversation. When I'm leaving the news on the television set mentions warships are coming into US waters.

I don't remember actually getting home, but I do remember getting into my apartment building with a pack of my neighbors all in a tizzy yelling at my sister who apparently also just got home from work. Looks like we live together for some reason.

Anywho, she freaks and shuts the front door as I walk up to the angry neighbors. They tell me this batshit craziest thing in the world. And this is a direct quote from the dream:

"Hey, we live here and we made a deal with this spirit you see. We're just trying to get by and this evil spirit lives here and we made a damn deal. Then you come in here and don't do nothing. And now its gone alls polergeist on our ass. We're just trying to get by, trying to live here. Whatchu' gonna do?"

Crazy, I tell you.

So I open the front door, let myself in, and as I shut it I say "I work too hard to give a rats ass." And I slam the door in their faces.

I kid you not. Onward with the dream retelling, God it was a weird one.

So I'm in my apartment, more of a swanky ass condo with a flat screen on the wall, nice little kitchen going on, and for some reason I'm barefoot and the carpet feels like a bed. Good times. I mean it, its a helluva job I have if I can afford this.

My sister is on the couch curled up with the blanket she's had since she was a baby. This small threadbare pink and white blanket my mother bought her for her first christmas. Had a large drawing of a panda on it for some reason. Anywho, she's sitting on the couch, curled up all cozy watching like CNN and there is an image of the coastline and this big battleship is coming up fast on the coast. Deck guns out and all that good stuff.

I shrug and all of a sudden...

BOOM-THOOM!

What the hell was that?

BOOM-THOOM!

Again.

BOOM-THOOM!

Its louder now, I look outside. I realize I'm about 20 stories up, beautiful view of the coast. Something on the TV makes me think that the battleship is possibly one from our own fleet. Something about uranium tipped shells.

BOOM-THOOM!

Its even louder and as I'm staring out the window, and we're damn near the coastline as I can see the shells landing in and detonating in the bay now.

The whole building rocks from the explosions as ...

BOOM-THOOM!

Another two shells HIT THE FRICKEN CITY. I freak, I jump into this half crouched pose ready to run and I hold my hand out to my sister and yell "We GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!"

She looks at me, not quite trusting me, as we've had alot of turmoil between us these last 5 years. And yet we live together for some reason.

BOOM-THOOM!

I'm still staring at her as the double detonation rocks the entire building even more violently.

WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE, DAMMIT!

She gets up so slow and nonchantly, leaving her blanket behind, only to stop and slowly head back to pick it up... fold it, and put it under her arm, like when she was little. She finally takes my hand and...

I wake up.

My heart is racing. Turns out my heart was beating so hard and so loud that the sound of the shelling was actually my own heartbeat. Lub-dub. Lub-dub. I had an urge to simply leap out of bed, and I'm a pretty heavy guy, and just take on whatever was coming for me.

I did some breathing exercises and was able to get back to bed. But damn if that didn't stick with me. So bright so vivid. Like a nightmare in IMAX.

And now here I am, the next night and I do not wish to relive this nightmare, but sleep I must.

Good night.

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XLIV "Smackdown To Secret Crisis I"

Preview:

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Here is installment 1 of Smackdown to Secret Crisis! Let the get the party started!