If you missed your chance at the Mo-Larr vs. Skeletor 2-pack after San Diego Comic-Con last year, you’ll get your chance again on Monday when MattyCollector.com has a special sale day. You’ve got Robot Chicken to thank for that, since they’ll feature Mo-Larr in two new episodes on Cartoon Network – this Sunday’s season premiere and next Sunday’s episode, which will reveal Mo-Larr’s secret origin.
As we kick off the new year, I asked the guys to make their picks for for best [insert anything toy-related] for 2010. I wasn’t sure, since we just picked our “most thankful for” figures a few weeks ago at Thanksgiving, if we’d have much to add. Turns out there was plenty that impressed us above and beyond our Thanksgiving picks.
I’ll get us started.
Ron’s pick – Hasbro Iron Man 2 – Iron Monger
I don’t want to get typecast, because I picked the Marvel Legends Iron Man as one of Fwoosh’s Best of 2009. But this year, I think that the Iron Man 2 line from Hasbro, in particular the Comic series, went a long way in winning over fans who were missing their 6-inch Legends to the 4-inch scale.
The line has some really great sculpts, decent enough paint apps, and some fantastic articulation at that size. And, of course, it brought us this awesome Iron Monger – the huge, classic, comic-based blue version that I never thought we’d get, since the movie-based Iron Monger lined shelves for a while.
By the time the Snake Men became part of the original Masters of the Universe line of toys, I had stopped collecting them – so Hssss doesn’t have a special place in my heart. The figure still looks pretty cool, but may be the first one I don’t display – I’m running out of room!
King Hsss is coming!
Hssss from the front. Check out the cool Snake Men sticker!
Hssss from the back. Note that his bio went to print before we adjusted the timeline. It should be 5,000 years, not 500 that he was imprisoned! If we ever do a re-release we can look at updating this.
Wouldn’t leave our MOTUC fans out in the dark with our big DCUC Wave 17 reveal! King Hssss package samples just showed up. He will be our March Club Eternia figure (with additional units available for non Club members as well).
I know there’s a lot of folks who’ve been waiting for the Masters of the Universe Classics Panthor since Mattel announced Battle Cat. There was also the controversy that arose from the San Diego Comic-Con vote in 2009 for whether he would flocked. Personally, I’m glad to get him without flocking, even though the vintage figure had it.
Panthor is coming!
Hey He-Fans!
Panthor in his box. The Helmet is packed to the side.
We just got in packaged samples of Panthor and wanted to get them up for your viewing pleasure. Panthor goes on sale in April only on Mattycollector.com as part of the Club Eternia program (with extra units for sale to non Club members as always!).
