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Four Horsemen and Joe Amaro to Host “Behind the Scenes” Toy Panel at El Paso Comic Con

Our pal Joe Amaro sent word that he will be hosting an action figure behind the scenes panel at El Paso Comic Con with Shane Dittsworth and O-Dawg from Four Horsemen Toy Design Studios. Shane and O-Dawg will also have a 4H booth setup and will be selling 4H figures at the show.

EPCON runs September 14 – 16,  the weekend before Power Con – so maybe we’ll see some of Joe’s completed Manta Raiders there too!

“Four Horsemen Toy Design Studios – El Paso Comic Con Toy Exhibit”

For the first time in El Paso come and see in person prototypes from the Four Horsemen Toy Design Studios featuring paint-masters and prototypes from the Masters of the Universe toy lines! Exclusive Four Horsemen merchandise will be on sale including action figures!

“Action Figures & Toys – Behind The Scenes”

Join Shane Dittsworth, Owen “O-Dawg” Oertling from the Four Horsemen Toy Design Studios and Joe Amaro as they talk about how your favorite figures are made. Joe and the Four Horsemen have worked with most major toy companies on all of your favorite toy and action figure properties.

EPCON Returns!

El Paso Comic Con is back! The 2012 El Paso Comic Con (EPCON), is the Sun City’s pop culture and mainstream media event.. EPCON brings to the El Paso and Ciudad Juarez region a high level of entertainment. An event that includes notable artists, authors, and movie and television stars. With numerous exhibits, events, contests, and sponsors.

EPCON 2012
El Paso Convention Center
1 CivicCenter Plaza, El Paso, TX
Preview Night Sept. 14th
September 15th – 16th

DC Universe Classics Legion of Doom

I’ll admit that when I was a kid watching reruns of the Hanna Barbera Super Friends cartoon, I never really gave any thought to the Legion of Doom. For me, it was all about the Super Friends. The bad guys just existed to give the good guys a reason to display their heroics – and in hindsight that may have been the basis for the show to begin with.

Growing up with these characters in comics, cartoons, and movies, it slowly started to change. The bad guys became more interesting. I started understanding their motivations, and even started rooting for them. DC Universe Classics, with an assist from its predecessor DC Super Heroes, has let me reassemble the Legion of Doom in plastic form. Stack them up against the DC Universe Classics Super Friends, and tell me you don’t want the bad guys to win!

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Five Takeaways from the Batman and DC Unlimited Reveals

A couple of days back, BigBadToyStore listed the second waves of Batman Unlimited and DC Unlimited, with estimated arrival in the 1st quarter of 2013. For Batman Unlimited, we’re getting the garishly colored Planet X Batman (I guess “Zur-En-Arrh” isn’t packaging friendly) and the Dark Knight Returns Batman. And in DC Unlimited, we’re getting Batman from Injustice: Gods Among Us and Wonder Woman in her New 52 costume.

There’s been a lot of flux in Mattel’s DC collector-oriented retail offerings – here are the five key takeaways from these reveals:

1) Thank Grodd that the DC Universe Club Infinite Earths subscription went through, because Mattel’s DC collector-oriented offerings at retail haven’t been this limited since before Classics launched five years ago.

It wasn’t that long ago that we were seeing waves of seven figures, with retailer exclusive waves and two packs – so we’ll be suffering withdrawal going down to waves of four figures. The first waves of Batman and DC Unlimited had 3 figures each, but if retail has pushed that down to 2, Mattel DC is at the stage in the retail channel that Hasbro was at a few years back with their 2-pack offerings. It took a couple of lean years before Hasbro came back with a reinvigorated Legends re-launch, and we’re probably just at the start with DC.

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Last Chance to Sign Up for the MattyCollector 2013 Subscriptions

There’s just a few hours left to sign up for the 2013 MattyCollector.com subscriptions, so it’s time to nut up or shut up – just put your order in at the MattyCollector subscriptions bundle page.

I get it – there’s lots of reasons why you might be thinking about quitting the subs this year – like how Mattel has delivered the news that even the Masters of the Universe Classics Club Eternia subscription is at risk, or the price increases, or some of the character choices, or the uncertainty about who else is in the line-ups. Ultimately, you’ve got to have faith in the creative teams at Mattel and the Four Horsemen to keep on delivering the action figures that we love from these lines.

Last I heard, Club Eternia is close to the finish line – your sub could get us over it. And Club Infinite Earths has made some significant progress – it’s at least 3/4 of the way there. I haven’t heard anything about the Watchmen Club Black Freighter sub, so I’m hoping that one is done (one and done, I always say… I said that once) – and with 6 known figures, if you’re a Watchmen fan, this should be a slam dunk! Don’t delay – club subscriptions close at 11:59PM Pacific tonight.

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