Marvel Mighty Muggs Logan with Hulk and SDCC Exclusive Wolverine
If you had told me a few years ago that I’d be hunting for urban vinyl figures of Marvel characters, I’d probably have laughed. Urban vinyl is stuff that my wife likes – me, I like action figures! But here I am, taking pictures of the Marvel Mighty Muggs Logan. And yes, I’ve been hunting for this guy for a long time.
In the superhero urban vinyl genre, Marvel has Mighty Muggs, but there’s no such beast for DC, at least in the mass market retail channel. I had wondered about Mattel’s Attitubes prototypes that they showed at San Diego Comic-Con, but now remember that there were no DC ones shown.
I wonder if that’s because DC Direct has the exclusive on vinyl figures. If you’re curious about their offerings, called Uni-Formz, Action Figure Blues has pics of the Uni-Formz Superman on their Facebook page.
NECA is the latest toy manufacturer to jump on the urban vinyl bandwagon with its new line of Bastu figures for Gears of War. In what traditionally has been the realm of niche designer toy makers like Toy2R, Neca’s Batsu joins Hasbro’s Mighty Muggs, McFarlane’s Odd Pods, and Mezco’s Mez-Itz in the mass and specialty markets. I wonder if Mattel will follow suit with the AttiTUBES they showed at San Diego Comic-Con.
Shifting Gears
NECA announces new BATSU Gears of War figures!
Sure, we’ve got our regular Gears of War figures and they’re awesome, but now things are getting Batsu.
In Japanese, the symbol “batsu,” like the English ‘X’ is used to show something wrong. Like when you get a strike on Family Feud, that’s a batsu. For NECA, it’s a whole new way of experiencing some of your favorite characters and lines, and we’re starting with the three most popular Gears of War combatants in limited production runs (translation: get ’em while you can).
The highly-stylized Batsu versions of Dom, Marcus and The Locust each stand over 5″ tall, are poseable at the neck and shoulders and designed with urban vinyl in mind. They also have the Lancer accessory, and you’ll know them when you see them because of the window box packaging.
Once again, these are limited runs, which means they won’t be around forever. They hit stores next month, so make sure to keep an eye out, and of course they’ll be available online at our Amazon storefront. Keep it tuned to necaonline.com for more info on this and other lines from your favorite games and movies.
Mezco Mez-Itz - Comic Book Hellboy will shoot you in the face!
You know what? I wanted to take some pictures of the Mezco Mez-Itz Comic Book Hellboy that’s exclusive to San Diego Comic-Con and their online store because I thought it would be a simple review. After all, it’s a vinyl figure, right? With vinyl, you plunk them down on a shelf, you dust them off once in a while, and that’s about it.
Not so with this guy. As you’ll see, there’s more to this figure than you might be expecting. I was certainly surprised.
I never thought I’d be buying designer vinyl toys – that’s something that’s more to my wife’s liking than mine. But one day she bought me a Mighty Muggs Hulk. (Ok, maybe Muggs don’t qualify as “designer” since they’re targeted at the mass market, but they’re vinyl!) Since then, I’ve been picking ones up here and there.
One segment where we do overlap is Hellboy vinyl. She’s bought a few Hellboy Qees and I think these will fit in with those and my Muggs. I’m not sure what to do. Our collecting worlds are colliding.
Toys R Us Exclusive Hellboy Mez-Itz Arriving In Stores This July!
Toys R Us Exclusive Hellboy and Abe Sapien Mez-itz
Mez-itz 6″ rotocast vinyl collectables that are cool by design. seriesOne of Mezco’s designer vinyl line presents Hellboy & Abe Sapien. These figures, based on the character designs from the film Hellboy 2:The Golden Army unleash the potential of the Mez-itz designer figures. Applying the essence of these dynamic heroes onto the canvas like Mezitz vinyl Mezco produces something exciting and original.
These two figures are exclusive to Toys R Us and ToysRus.com.
. Keep it tuned to necaonline.com for more info on this and other lines from your favorite games and movies.
