We’re at the Mattel Nerd Herd today. Here’s some quick pics of DC Universe:
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Mattel is hosting its event for online media today, the official first day of New York Toy Fair. To get you the pics you want as fast as I can, I’m hooking you into my Instagram feed. If you’re on Instagram, follow me at afpron – that’s for AFP Ron, not AF Pron :). Stay tuned for better pictures soon.
Missing something? If you did not sign up for Club Eternia for 2013 and were hoping to snag the sure-to-be-an-instant-sell-out Masters of the Universe Classics Ram Man today, save your F5 button for another month – Ram Man is delayed. I suppose we should have expected it. After all, our friend Logistics has struck the MOTUC line for four months running now. Maybe it’s time for Mattel to just acknowledge that they’re off by a month now and adjust the schedule accordingly – at least before the next line-up announcement at Toy Fair next month.
What’s left is somewhat tepid sales day in Ram Man’s absence. We’ve got Princess of Power Netossa for Club Eternia, Blue Lantern Saint Walker for Club Infinite Earths, and… hold on, Rorschach is here to save the day for Club Black Freighter (do you mind if I just call it the Watchmen sub from now on?) So, maybe January isn’t so bad after all! Hurm.
For your convenience, here’s the MattyCollector bundle page for January. And if you are a subscriber, here’s the login page for subscriptions. Early access is also available through the top navigation there. Inexplicably, it’s not linked anywhere on the regular MattyCollector page.
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Rorschach from the DC Comics Watchmen is coming our way on MattyCollector’s January 15 sale as part of the Club Black Freighter subscription, and Toy Guru has just revealed the packaging for it. I think it looks pretty slick, with an outer slip cover and a book-style inner package that looks relatively more friendly for folks who like to play with their action figures and keep the packaging too.
TG also previewed the Masters of the Universe Classics Snake Face, the Snake Man who is scheduled to arrive in April this year. Check out the video for Rorschach and Snake Face, as well as pics of Rorschach and the additional card inserts from his upcoming sales page.
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.
DC Universe compatible comics-based Watchmen figures were one of the most exciting reveals for me at San Diego Comic-Con, and a limited, six figure subscription is a great way to deliver them. Club Black Freighter will deliver one of the modern “Crimebusters” every other month. Mattel just posted their official pics of Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan on their Facebook page.
- Rorschach – Hurm…
- Dr. Manhattan – He can’t prevent the future.To him, it’s already happened.
Club Black Frieghter [sic] is in full effect! Only 4 more days to sign up on Mattycollector.com to get all 6 of Mattel’s comic styled Watchmen figures, one new figure approx every other month throughout 2013!
And all of these figures will come on an AMAZING Watchmen package based on the Absolute Watchmen box. Frank Varela our collector package designer extraordinare is hard at work on what may be his greatest packaged execution ever! Images of the final package as soon as we have it. But for now, here are the first two figures Rorschach with his grapple gun and base and Dr. Manhatten (base not shown, but same as Roschach).
All the Watchmen figures use the same “shared part” system as DCUC/Club Infinite Earth so they will fit right in with your exisiting collection!
Source: Watchmen 2013 preview!
