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Marvel Legends Zabu by GrownNerd

Marvel Legends Zabu (custom) with Ka-Zar, Shanna, and Deadpool (custom)

Let me start by saying that I normally don’t take action figures outside to take pictures of them. I do love seeing outdoor shots, but it’s just a lot of trouble to get them set up, and I would rue the day that one of my neighbors catches me doing so. But for this custom Marvel Legends Zabu, I was compelled.

You may remember GrownNerd’s entry in CustomCon 22, Savage Land Face-Off Zabu & Ultra-raptor. If you haven’t seen that, you’ve got to check it out. What you may not know is that the Zabu in that CustomCon entry is the *second* Zabu he made. When he posted the recipe for Zabu on his customs thread at TheFwoosh.com, he revealed that he wasn’t happy with the first. I suggested that I take the first one off his hands because it was such a piece of crap, and shortly thereafter, I had this beauty in my hands. Never underestimate the power of sarcasm coupled with suggestion!

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San Diego Comic-Con – the Fwoosh Staff’s Best in Show – thefwoosh.com

I had to beg, borrow, and steal to get these lazy mofos (me included) to write something up, but here’s what some of the crackjack staff members at the Fwoosh (me included) had to say about what we saw coming out of San Diego Comic-Con.

At last, because no one demanded it and because the show’s been over for a month already, here’s the San Diego Comic-Con Best in Show review, by your friendly neighborhood Fwoosh staff.

via San Diego Comic-Con – the Fwoosh Staff’s Best in Show | thefwoosh.com.

Jurassic Park Toys Unearthed at Toys R Us

Hasbro’s announcement today that it is bringing back Jurassic Park toys as a Toys R Us exclusive has left some people shaking their heads like a chain-smoking Samuel L. Jackson trying to unhack a hacked computer system while carnivorous dinos are ready to pounce. After all, Jurassic Park III, the unimaginatively named last movie in the franchise, was released way back in 2001, and the last time a Jurassic Park DVD saw print was in the holiday season of 2005, a reissuing of all three movies.

None of the news sites had any pictures, so I took a look on the Toys R Us website and found some of the electronic dinosaurs, priced at $17.99 each. Cloning is expensive.

Jurassic Park Electronic Dinosaur – Alpha Velociraptor – carded

Jurassic Park Electronic Dinosaur – Alpha Velociraptor

Jurassic Park Electronic Dinosaur – Triceratops – carded

Jurassic Park Electronic Dinosaur – Triceratops

Jurassic Park Electronic Dinosaur – Dilophosaurus – carded

Jurassic Park Electronic Dinosaur – Dilophosaurus

Jurassic Park Electronic Dinosaur – Tyrannosaurus – carded

Jurassic Park Electronic Dinosaur – Tyrannosaurus

While it’s a curious product offering given the age of the movies, I am guessing that Hasbro and TRU saw an opening in the middle of the dinosaur toys category. At the high end, you’ve got products like Pleo, the Aibo of the dinosaur world that never quite got market traction, and Mattel’s D-Rex. Mattel also has a low-end offering for kids with the Fisher Price Imaginext Dinosaurs. By reusing tools from prior JPIII and Lost World toys, this was an easy way for Hasbro to gain reentry into the category.

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Marvel Universe 2010 Wave 1 in September?

Based on the Hasbro Marvel presentation at San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve been calling this “wave 1” of the 2010 lineup of Marvel Universe. After all, the line is getting a packaging update to represent the Dark Reign currently underway in Marvel Comics and the numbering is resetting to start at “001” again.

However, today we stumbled across this listing for Marvel Universe “Series 06” at BigBadToyStore.com. Perhaps this line is selling through well enough for Hasbro to push up product. That’d be a nice change from what we’ve seen on the Marvel Legends side of things.

Marvel Universe 3.75″ Series 06 – Set of 6

PREORDER

Estimated to Arrive

September 2009

This set is to include the following:

1x Spider-Man (House of M Version)

1x Wolverine (Blue & Yellow X-Men Costume)

1x Warpath

1x Jean Grey

1x Sunfire

1x Vision (Not Currently Pictured)