{"id":13651,"date":"2011-07-23T06:45:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2011-07-23T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T03:48:17","slug":"sdcc-11-armchair-coverage-dc-universe-ghostbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=13651","title":{"rendered":"SDCC &#8217;11 Armchair Coverage: <br>DC Universe &#038; Ghostbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=13651\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=left src=\"newsimages\/mattyDC.png\" hspace=4><\/a>If you\u2019re waiting on some overall Day 2 Coverage, it is still coming. We had a tremendous spike in traffic for DCClassics.Com &#038; MOTUClassics.Com and I made the call to get those updated with the latest information. Still, I have some more Armchair Coverage ready to go for DC &#038; Ghostbusters.<\/p>\n<p>Ghostbusters is the smaller of the two, so I&#8217;ll start there. As I did with <A href=\"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?page_id=9102\">MOTUClassics.Com<\/a> page, I&#8217;ve updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?page_id=1989\">Ghostbusters Checklist<\/a> with all the information from the con and will add more images as soon as we get them from Mattel.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of what was added to the checklist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lab Coat Egon<\/strong> &#038; Library Ghost (August) will include 3 PKE Meters with the &#8220;wings&#8221; in various positions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slimeblower Ray<\/strong> is still on target for October and includes the Cinema Ghost.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vigo<\/strong> is now officially announced and will come with a lenticular version of his painting.<\/li>\n<li>The 2012 Club Ecto-1 Subscription Figure is <strong>The Rookie<\/strong> from the video game. No Ghost, just gear.<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2012 will be <strong>Lab Coat Peter<\/strong> with a camera and the Taxi Ghost<\/li>\n<li>April 2012 features <strong>Dana Barrett<\/strong> as Zuul.<\/li>\n<li>The much delayed 2pk of <strong>12&#8243; Peter &#038; Winston<\/strong> is now scheduled for October. Egon &#038; Ray will be in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>AN 8&#8243; Retro 2pk of <strong>Janine &#038; Samhain<\/strong> will be at TRU this fall.<\/li>\n<li>And finally the Ghost Trap will be on sale at Mattycollector in October for $135.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That pretty much sums everything up, even without pictures. Speaking of which, I still haven&#8217;t seen too much coverage of the booth once the new items were added. There is this Facebook Album from GB Fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.220491044661313.54119.112118442165241&#038;type=1\" target=_blank\">slides from the presentation<\/a> (the newer photos are at the end).<\/p>\n<p>Some Ghostbusters collectors are requesting that the Rookie be given a proper upgraded Proton Pack from the game, but I haven&#8217;t had a chance to look into it. Dana is an interesting one because the prototype sculpt appears rather immobile, posed &#8220;sexily&#8221;, sitting on a slab of cement. In the twitter feeds, we were told she&#8217;d include a regular pair of legs, but details are scarce. If you take all that in, Mattel still isn&#8217;t loading us up on cool ghosts. The only new one announced was the Taxi Ghost. And he&#8217;s&#8230; odd. He was more of a zombie in the film and the version here features a nice sculpt &#8211; from the ribs up. Below that he&#8217;s a ghost stand. I&#8217;m not sure if I like that. Admittedly, I don&#8217;t think we ever saw him below the collarbone, but he did have to push the pedals&#8230; right? <\/p>\n<p>Finally, we have the trap. (Do you guys want the props on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?page_id=1989\">GB Checklist<\/a>? I never really thought about it until today) It is awesome, but so expensive&#8230; I&#8217;d love to have it, but I don&#8217;t think I can find $135 in the budget. Still, it&#8217;s cool. I found this YouTube video on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.gbfans.com\" target=\"_blank\">GBFans<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a83xRP5u59A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah&#8230; anybody got some money to donate to IAT?? LOL <\/p>\n<p>And then, there was the DC Panel&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>After the MOTU panel, I was bouncing off the walls. MO2K Fisto. Draego-Man. Demo-Man. So much cool stuff. I tried to focus and work on updating the MOTU Checklist, but the energy of the panel was too great. I tried to explain them to my wife, but then she started adding it all up, so I called up Vault instead while I waited for the DC Panel. <\/p>\n<p>I sat glued to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyark.com\/news\/san-diego-comic-con-58\/sdcc-2011-mattel-dc-comics-panel-live-coverage-4382\/\" target=\"_Blank\">ToyArk&#8217;s CoverItLive Plugin<\/a> as well as <a href=http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FwooshVeeBee\" target=\"_blank\">VeeBee<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/afinsider\" target=\"_Blank\">Julius Marx<\/A>&#8216;s Twitter accounts. <\/p>\n<p>I impatiently waited through some cool non-DCUC news &#8211; an <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.toyark.com\/news\/attach\/1\/dc-matty-SDCC-11-0004_1311373412.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Imaginext Joker Tank<\/a> (via ToyArk), an <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.toyark.com\/news\/attach\/1\/dc-matty-SDCC-11-0007_1311373412.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Imaginext Jail with Bane<\/a> (via ToyArk), some new Heroworld Figures, Fisher Price Little People, Brave &#038; the Bold, Green Lantern, blah, blah, blah&#8230; (Toy Ark has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyark.com\/news\/san-diego-comic-con-58\/sdcc-2011-mattel-dc-comics-panel-live-coverage-4382\/\" target=\"_Blank\">all the slides from the panel<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Then came Batman Legacy Figures and the official announcement of Batgirl, Catman, &#038; Golden Age Batman (and yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.toyark.com\/news\/attach\/1\/dc-matty-SDCC-11-0042_1311373606.jpg\" target=\")_blank\">Bat-mite is an K-Mart exclusive pack-in<\/a>&#8230; boo). <\/p>\n<p>Then came Action League (ugh!) which is <em>full of Flashpoint figures<\/em>. Honestly, that filled me with a little dread &#8211; if anything never needs a toy, it\u2019s one-off costumes from a summer event. What, I feared, was in store for DC Classics&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>And then it began, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyark.com\/news\/san-diego-comic-con-58\/dcuc-wave-20-and-more-at-sdcc-2011-4512\/\" target=\"_blank\">DCUC 20<\/a> (via ToyArk) would be&#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Green Arrow in his current look (snore)<\/li>\n<li>Reverse Flash (yay!) <\/li>\n<li>Hawk (heh, ok)<\/li>\n<li>Dove II (makes sense)<\/li>\n<li>Red Arrow (meh)<\/li>\n<li>White Lantern Flash (shoot me&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sinestro (Corps)&#8221; (uh, maybe a new Yellow Sinestro?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then came Nekron which we already knew about it. <em>I&#8217;m still mad at you guys for voting for him, btw.<\/em> I&#8217;m not sure on Nekron&#8217;s final height. If you look at <a href=\"http:\/\/i.toynewsi.com\/g\/index.php?mode=view&#038;album=2011_San_Diego_Comic_Con%2FMattel%2FDCUC_Day_2&#038;pic=IMG_5678.jpg&#038;dispsize=600&#038;start=0\" target=\"_blank\">this picture<\/a> from TNI&#8217;s coverage, he appears to be as tall as the 2ups. Usually, we see the C&#038;C actual size when display with the 2ups, so&#8230; how big is Nekron supposed to be? I don&#8217;t think he can be 1:1 because that would make him bigger than the &#8220;Mattel limit&#8221; (and personally, a Nekron bigger than the Anti-Monitor would be downright offensive). If he&#8217;s a 2up, then it would seem he&#8217;s not supposed to be a C&#038;C at all and then I&#8217;ll <em>really be mad at you guys for voting for him<\/em>. I really don&#8217;t know what to think, so hopefully we can get that cleared up here soon. <\/p>\n<p>The rest of the wave is meh. I&#8217;d rather have Connor Hawke or Wally West (who?) than a <em>second<\/em> Green Arrow. And Red Arrow is even worse. I&#8217;m content with Hawk &#038; Dove and I so happy to finally see a Reverse Flash (though I wish he were more angry or crazier). And we didn&#8217;t get to see pictures of White Lantern Flash or what is presumably a Sinestro Corps Sinestro (or a GL Corps one?), but I really don&#8217;t want either. Particularly after what came next&#8230;when reality melted away&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/afinsider\" target=\"_Blank\">Julius&#8217; Twitter<\/A>: &#8220;wave 20 is final wave at retail&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WTF! Hours later, this is still the most confusing part of the panel. The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/cdn.toyark.com\/news\/attach\/1\/dc-matty-SDCC-11-0086_1311373756.jpg\" TARGET=\"_BLANK\">corresponding slide<\/A> to this moment in the panel even says &#8220;DC Universe 6&#8243; figures will still be available at retail, but for the most fan-demanded characters, team builders, collector favorites, you&#8217;ll need to subscribe&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As near as I can figure going off of various reports of the people there and a healthy dose of speculation, there will be a new line &#8211; edgy, fresh, and with less words. Okay, I made that last part up, but, basically, Mattel is giving the DC Classics line a &#8220;new #1&#8221; so to speak. The Fwoosh has <a href=\"http:\/\/thefwoosh.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=2118933#p2118933\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> that more or less confirms that speculation. I have mixed feelings. I will read <em>some<\/em> Relaunch comics, but I don&#8217;t want the toys. The DC Line, like 30th Anniversary MOTU, like the Ghostbusters not based on two decades old movies, like much of Marvel Legends &#038; Marvel Universe, trades on <em>nostalgia<\/em>. I don&#8217;t think this new hybrid line is doomed to fail, but that line will need Jay Garrick&#8217;s to survive not just chin-strap Barry in Wally West outfits and Hal Jordan #12. Worse still, if I have to buy Chinstrap Barry to get an old school C&#038;C&#8230; I&#8217;m not going to be happy. Sigh. I could go on, but there&#8217;s little point. Anyway, the earlier MOTU Panel and the <A href=\"\">MattyCollector Leak<\/a> already tells us &#8220;grumpy, old&#8221; fans where to go: the Infinite Earths Subscription. <\/p>\n<p>Which *might* kick off with Jay Garrick, Atrocitus, and Thom Kallor Starman. I say might because it requires interest &#8211; if enough people don&#8217;t subscribe, it doesn&#8217;t happen. Think of it like a Kickstarter program and note how fragile the whole DC License seems when you think of it like that (which is entirely DC&#8217;s fault, by the way). The subscription *might* kick off in April and should include an exclusive sub-only C&#038;C, followed by a mix of 9 regular figures shipping once a month with three quarterly oversized figures. That roughly means $15 a month, but every third month will be $45 (all plus shipping, of course). <\/p>\n<p>I want this subscription to happen. And while I understand and have reservations like many of you,<em> I&#8217;m still going to subscribe<\/em>. I know you&#8217;ve heard the horror stories of Mattycollector.Com and some grumbling about the MOTU subscription, but I haven&#8217;t had any subscription issues in two years. The figures charge, ship, and I don&#8217;t have to do anything except have a credit card and an address. I did have once incident late last year because my card expired, but Matty Customer Service patched me up without missing a figure. Other than that, smooth sailing. In fact, my biggest issue with the MOTU subscription <em>is what&#8217;s NOT in it<\/em>. Mattel continues to add figures and other items to the MOTU line without adding them to the sub. I hate that. The whole point of the sub is to spare me Mattycollector drama. Luckily, the DCUC is truly an all-in subscription, so that one complaint doesn&#8217;t apply. Anyway, if you&#8217;re interested, if you&#8217;ve liked the DC line so far, then you should consider subscribing. Both Vault and I are in and that&#8217;s the best endorsement we can give. <\/p>\n<p>To help encourage collectors to buy in, Mattel is letting collectors to vote on the sub exclusive figure. The choices are Shaggy Man, Rocket Red (why does Mattel think he&#8217;s so big?), Metron w\/ his chair, and Black Lantern Swamp Thing. I&#8217;m okay with three of those, but, seriously, if you guys vote for Black Lantern Swamp Thing, I&#8217;ll lose my mind. Personally, he shouldn&#8217;t even be on the list &#8211; it makes me seriously question Toy Guru and his team&#8217;s sanity, but hopefully smarter DC fans will take care of this for him and pick any of the other three. <\/p>\n<p>Okay, this seems particularly long for covering one dead toy line, huh? Well, Ghostbusters did lead off. I&#8217;m for my nap. I&#8217;ll be back tomorrow (later today, ha!) to take a look at what else happened on Day 2. If you have anything you have questions about or are looking for, let me know in the comments section below and I&#8217;ll try to answer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re waiting on some overall Day 2 Coverage, it is still coming. We had a tremendous spike in traffic for DCClassics.Com &#038; MOTUClassics.Com and I made the call to get those updated with the latest information. 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First, we'd like to thank everyone that kept checking in with us over the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Event Coverage&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":609,"url":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=609","url_meta":{"origin":13651,"position":5},"title":"SDCC Sat RoundUp &#8211; Armchair Coverage Day 4","date":"July 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Coverage is a little later than normal tonight. The ItsAllTrue Crew travelled to Oklahoma City to attend the Grand Opening of Oklahoma's first Lego store! 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