Hasbro has shared some pictures of upcoming products across its boys toys lines – GI Joe, Marvel, Star Wars, and Transformers. Not a lot in both Joes and Marvel – a Juggernaut repaint? – but Star Wars and Transformers have got a bunch to look at.
GI Joe
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The Marvel Legends 2-Packs refresher waves, dubbed wave 2.5, are hitting Toys R Us stores now, and Fwoosher canonball was kind enough to send over some hi-res pics of the two sets he picked up, SHIELD Super Spies and Ninjas vs. Super Spies.
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Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joey Q jumps in on the fun in the latest episode of “MSH: What The–?!”
It’s a send-up of the recently concluded Old Man Logan comic book.
Prepare yourself for a sensational silver-haired send-up of Marvel’s mightiest!
Old super heroes never die, they just age…And age…And age.
Ever wonder what would happen when the years start getting the jump on your favorite heroes?
Find out in the sensational silver-haired send-up we call “Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?! Ep. 6,” or “Grumpy Old Man Logan!”
Featuring a special introduction by Marvel Editor in Chief, Joe Quesada, and the voices of the M.M.M.S. (the Merry Marvel Method-Acting Society)!
Here’s the latest Q&A from the Hasbro Marvel team. Thanks guys!
There’s some promising tidbits about Marvel figures in the 6-inch scale. We did have some questions about Marvel Universe, but they limited their answers to our first three questions.
1. There are a lot of Marvel Legends prototypes that have been developed by Hasbro over the years (mostly shown for “poll” purposes) that as of yet don’t seem to have a planned release. Are these poll non-winners off of the table (aside from whatever three make the cut in addition to the fan choice voting)? What would be the most effective way for fans and collectors to let it be known that they want to see these figures produced? And when will you be sharing the Hasbro picks for the upcoming 2-packs?
All of the figures shown could be used for potential future releases, so they are not off the table. Fans can let us know character preference via the boards or sites by publishing a ranking of these characters. This could help to inform future development. The 2 packs are planned to be revealed in early 2010.
It’s been a few months since Hasbro’s answered any of our G.I. Joe questions, and in this round we still only received answers for two out of our three questions (submitted by Ray from the Fwoosh.) But they make up for it by sending along hi-res pics of upcoming figures, including Target and Wal-Mart exclusives.
Update – the Hasbro PR team has sent over the answer to our first question.
1. Would it be possible to get pictures from the JoeCon slide shows? A lot of the pictures of the stuff from the JoeCon slide shows are hard to see and it be great if we could see nice quality versions of what was shown. They do this with Hasbro Star Wars con presentations, why not with Joe as well?
We really enjoy giving GI Joe fans who attend the conventions a sneak peek of the upcoming line at forums such as JoeCon, ComicCon and Toy Fair, however we prefer to distribute images when they more accurately reflect final production.
2. There’s some debate with Night Adder figure, is he supposed to have African American skin or is he wearing black spandex? Cause it would be strange to have tattoo’s on spandex. Plus his picture on the card art makes it look like he’s supposed to have African American skin tone. Is this a factory flaw and will it be corrected, or is it on purpose?
Night Adder is meant to be of African decent. His arms and torso are meant to be his skin covered with tattoos.
3. We’ve seen leaked pictures of a Python Patrol Televiper, and word was from JoeCon it’s probably nixed. Is there any chance of releasing it in the original Televiper color scheme? Since it has corrected more accurate body than the one came with the flight pod. Plus, the Televiper needs his gear, it’s very iconic and essential – you can’t have a communications trooper with out communication gear.
Unfortunately, there are no plans at this time.
And here’s the pictures:
