{"id":19623,"date":"2012-07-16T00:46:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T05:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=19623"},"modified":"2012-07-16T01:02:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T06:02:56","slug":"sdcc-2012-armchair-coverage-motu-dc-classics-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=19623","title":{"rendered":"SDCC 2012 Armchair Coverage
MOTU & DC Classics Round-Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>SDCC 2012 has wrapped! It\u2019s Monday morning, the SDCC attendees are heading home while the rest of us are already back at work, but, let\u2019s face it, productivity isn\u2019t on the agenda today. This year\u2019s IAT SDCC Armchair Coverage features over 300 links from more than a dozen SDCC-attending sites!<\/p>\n

As you’ve over the last few days, instead of focusing all the Armchair Coverage into one article in constant need of editing, we moved the action over to the IAT Forums and kept track of the reveals by company or by toy line. I know it was a little different than what everyone’s been used to the last three years, but it seems to have worked out tremendously well. It was a lot easier for Vault and I and we were shocked by the forum turnout! So, a quick thank you to all of you guys for sticking with us and embracing the format change! We appreciate you guys – you’re why we’re up at night posting the links after we find ’em.<\/p>\n

For today, I’m going to dip into some details and commentary for MOTU Classics and DC Classics in this article, but if you want to skip right to those links or are looking for news on some other lines you can go directly to the forum coverage<\/a>!<\/p>\n

<\/a> As has been the case with the past few comic-cons, I find myself looking forward to the Masters of the Universe Classics reveals more than most. I love toys for toy’s sake and MOTU is one of those lines where I can unwind from the media (which I do enjoy) and just take the toys as they come. <\/p>\n

I’ve been enjoying the line this year, but I was kinda in-between on the recent figures like Horde Prime & Slushhead and what was already revealed as being in the pike. The SDCC took that slight funk I’ve been in and tossed it on its ear. Right out of the gate we saw the beautifully done Granamyr<\/strong> (Dec) and the best Weapon’s Pak<\/strong> (Oct) yet featuring newly tooled weapons as well as weapons that had to be cut from recently released figures to stay under budget (and they tossed in a few repaints as well). At $18, it’s priced higher than previous packs, but looks well worth the price. <\/p>\n

At the panel, the best reveal was surely the one the collective online community had been waiting for: Ram Man<\/strong> (Jan)! The big guys look as fantastic as I’d hoped. He’s wider than the average figure, includes his trusty axe and an alternate unhelmeted head. Ram Man will be priced at $30 as one of the four extra quarterly offerings. While Ram Man will kick off 2013 alongside Netossa<\/strong> (Jan), there were plenty of 2012 reveals too: the Snake Man Rattlor<\/strong> (Oct), Terry Higuchi’s Cy-Chop<\/strong> (Oct), MAA’s mentor Dekker<\/strong> (Nov), King Randor<\/strong> in Filmation Palace Garb (Nov), Mosquitor<\/strong> (Dec), and the 12″ Procrustus<\/strong> (Dec). <\/p>\n\n\n
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For the 2012 reveals, I was happiest to see the giant four-armed Procrustus, Dekker with his alt young head and MO2K mace, Mosquitor, while Cy-Chop and his giant scissor-hands are slowly growing on me after reading his bio. I’m not too thrilled about the Filmation Randor (I’d rather see Marlena armored up to match toy Randor) and I don’t like much about Rattlor at first glance. I’m not sure if’s the pics and lighting from SDCC, so we’ll see how I feel when he’s in-hand. The bio leaves open the possibility of a Horde\/General version, so I may cling to the idea of picking that one up sometime down the road. And, how could I forget what might’ve been the most fun reveal for MOTU: Castle Grayskull Man<\/strong> (Nov)! CGM was inadvertently revealed by a slip-up at Digital River that posted his pic early (they gotta screw up one thing per comic-con it seems) and I was awestruck right away. I love the idea and the design, not to mention the dual swords from the Castle Grayskull flag (something we’ve been requesting here at IAT). In the display case, CGM featured more washed out\/grayish hair (which I’m cool with), but the stony shoulders had been replaced by smooth ones. I think that takes away from his design a bit, so hopefully Mattel will keep the stony ones in place. <\/p>\n\n\n
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The reveals continued into 2013 with the aforementioned Netossa & Ram Man, followed by Jitsu<\/strong> (Feb), Fang Man<\/strong> (Mar), the subscription exclusive King He-Man<\/strong>, the travelling convention exclusive (non-SDCC) Strobo<\/strong>, and the second quarter oversized item, the Fighting Foe Men<\/strong>. Jitsu, King He-Man (with his awesome battle-damaged power sword), and the Fighting Foe Men 3pk were the key reveals for me signing up (face it, we all knew I was going to…). The FFM 3pk featured the previously unnamed vehicle drivers from the 80s MOTU Monogram Model Kits (another IAT requested set of figures… we ask for a lot of stuff!) updated a bit for the Classics line. Most notably, the Attak Trak driver has been given a welcome sex change. The Fighting Foe Men feature accessories derived from the original vehicles they once piloted and have interchangeable insignia and switch allegiance to\/from the Horde. Pretty cool if you ask me. <\/p>\n

The prices will be going up for 2013, to $25 for subscribers and $27 day of. I don’t mind as much if we see more stuff like Fang Man who features the Sword of the Ancients and the Wheel of Time in addition to his regular accessory or Strobo who features an extra unhelmeted head for Zodak or the piece of Dark Star fragment (and stand) used by Skeletor in his one appearance, but right now Netossa appears to only have one accessory, her standard shield, and that’s doesn’t seem right for the $25 price. Hopefully we’ll see more for here before she’s released early next year. Also for 2013, Snake Face’s shield was placed in the booth on the last day as a teaser for upcoming reveals.<\/p>\n

Finally, all subscribers will get to vote for one of the late 2013 figures in the form of a fan poll. Subscribers will be allowed to choose from Crash Landing Glenn (white repaint of existing Glenn), Cloak and Dagger Lyn (cloak and hood), Geldor (German fan choice), Mini Comic Trap Jaw, Illumina, Songster, Camo Khan, or the “Mask of Power” Demon. It’s a tough vote for Vault and I, as we really want Camo Khan and MC Trap Jaw respectively, but we both feel that this is the best chance for another figure we both would like to have, Illumina. The early favorite appears to be her or Geldor anyway. <\/p>\n

In all, the MOTU part of the Mattypalooza presentation was easily my favorite part of the convention. And as you should be able to guess from all the thumbnails here, the MOTUClassics.Com Visual Checklist<\/a> is updated and ready to go with all the SDCC reveals. To check out all the pics and coverage head to this thread on the forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> Mattel’s DC reveals were a mixed bag for me depending on the panel. The Mattycollector reveals were nothing short of amazing while the retail panel was pretty much a snoozefest (though it got a little exciting at the end). <\/p>\n

For Mattycollector, 2012 Club Infinite Earths is wrapping up the year in style with the oversized Elasti-Girl<\/strong> (Oct – includes a tiny version of Elasti-Girl), Constantine<\/strong> (Nov), Uncle Sam<\/strong> featuring a Doll Man<\/strong> pack-in (Nov), and Lead<\/strong> (Dec)! Lead will ship the same month as Platinum & Tin, so if you’re keeping track than you know that CIE 2012 will wrap both field members of the Metal Men & the Doom Patrol! <\/p>\n

I’m still looking for Matty to figure out Niles Caulder & Doc Magnus, but I’m stoked to be getting Elasti-Girl, Lead, Platinum, & Tin this year. The Metal Men have had some controversy though, Tin is rather small as a pack-in and Lead’s kinda huge – he’s built around the Darkseid buck, but I’m not complaining. I think Lead looks fantastic and I’ll take the good (great sculpt, complete team) with the bad (scale). Constantine is a fun choice for the line while Uncle Sam & Doll Man have me chomping at the bit to get Human Bomb, Phantom Lady, and the Freedom Fighters some day (subscription sold right there…). <\/p>\n

For the 2013 subscription, we’re annoyingly still in limbo. The dreaded thermometer is back, this time with two benchmarks. The lower one (looks to be about 2\/3rds) will trigger the 2013 subscription while the higher one will be used to convince the higher-ups at Mattel to invest more heavily in the 2014 subscription (meaning more development and tooling for figures like Granny Goodness or Mera). The proposed 2013 lineup kicked off strong with the Blue Lantern Saint Walker<\/strong> (Jan), the Phantom Stranger<\/strong> (Feb), Elongated Man<\/strong> (Mar), Larfleeze<\/strong> (Apr), the subscription exclusive and only oversized figure Monsieur Mallah<\/strong> & the Brain<\/strong> (Apr), and Wally West<\/strong> (May)! All of these figures are pretty high on my most wanted list. I want to put an exclamation mark after I say each one, that’s how excited I am for these, right down to the handle on Larfleeze’s lantern (I told you, we ask for a lot around here!). I’ve got my fingers crossed the 2013 sub goes through – I want to see what Mattel has in store for the full year based on the excellent showing at SDCC. <\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more! Mattel also unveiled a new DC Subscription, Club Black Freighter, based on classic Watchmen characters. I’d heard some rumors about this, but quickly dismissed them. No way, I thought! I’m happy to have been wrong and the first figures revealed, Rorschach<\/strong> (Jan) & Dr. Manhattan<\/strong> (Mar), look pretty good. My wallet’s aching, but that’s one more subscription for me. Whew! <\/p>\n

At the retail panel… well, it wasn’t that great. A lot of time was spent on the new evergreen Batman line which, admittedly, I’m slowly falling in love with. I love the mutant Batman that can become Man-Bat, the villain designs look cool, and I’m still a sucker for fun bat-variants (Arctic!!), but as of yet, I’m still not buying, so that says something too. <\/p>\n

So I was mainly looking to this panel to continue growing my 6″ comic-based collection. For that, there wasn’t much. Part of the problem was that the Batman & DC Unlimited first assortments were already spoiled by online retailers, but the character selection just isn’t this “grumpy old” fan’s cup of tea: a metallic repaint of nu Superman, nU Flash, and nU Hawkman for the DC line and a metallic repaint of nU Batman, nU Batgirl, and SP Penguin for the Batman line. The SP Penguin is as good as bought, but the others, meh. Some of them seem to look good – nU Hawkman is pretty damn toyetic, so I’ll hold off on saying never, but this wasn’t the “there’s still hope retail won’t suck” showing that I was looking for. To make matters worse, Mattel said it was their intention to include the nU-nU designs from the Injustice: Gods Among Us video game into the line. Again, maybe some toyetic stuff in there, but nothing I’m actively looking for for my collection. <\/p>\n

There was one fun little ray of sunshine at the end, Mattel has plans to extend Movie Masters to the 1966 Batman television show! This could be good, mostly for the villains – a Gorshin Riddler? Romero Joker? Burgess Meredith Penguin? ? as False-Face?! Yeah, I want some of those – though I wish Mattel would do them in the larger ‘heroic’ 6″ scale instead of the Masters 6″ scale. Those aren’t expected until Fall 2013. <\/p>\n

The Dark Knight Rises Movie Master line also seemingly had a phantom spoiler over at AFi that appears to have been taken down. This previously unknown sixth figure is part of a team required to complete the bat-signal, but could also potentially be a movie spoiler. <\/p>\n

In other DC news, Mattycollector is looking to complete our Young Justice team with a special 2pk offering of Superboy and Miss Martian. Stupidly, Mattel is doing Miss Martian in his stealth look instead of the standard white\/blue costume, but the figure does look good and includes an alternate head. The 2pk will be done on a pre-order basis and will require a minimum number order to be put into production. It’s a steep $50, but I applaud Mattel for putting this in the fan’s hands (though advertising it wouldn’t hurt). Too bad we don’t live in a fantasy land where Mattel could pre-sell so many that they’d lower the price, eh? <\/p>\n

The DC Checklist is still in flux, so I’ve got no update to report just yet, but look for that later in the week. As you can tell from the thumbnails, it’s close to being updated. I’ll be back tomorrow to cover some Marvel updates from Hasbro! <\/p>\n

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Continue to the Forums for Links from around the web!<\/a><\/h2>\n

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