Kotobukiya made Marvel fans salivate at the start of this week when they revealed the Adi Granov full-color concept art posted for the Kotobukiya ARTFX+ Marvel NOW! Avengers statues lineup.
That tease has now paid off in dividends, as Kotobukiya has shown off half of the lineup for their comic-based Marvel NOW! Avengers ArtFX+ line at SDCC 2013: Captain America, Black Widow and the Hulk statues!
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Remember last week, when we saw that very early prototype teaser image of a new comic book style Sideshow Red Skull Premium Format Figure? Yeah? Well… it turns out it wasn’t quite as early in the developmental cycle as we may have thought. Just how far along is the new Premium Format Red Skull statue?
Well–as it turns out, the all-new 2014 Red Skull Premium Format Figure is completely finished and on display right now at the Sideshow Collectibles booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2013!
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Even if you were daring enough to brave the treacherous, hours-long line to get up to the Funko booth at San Diego Comic Con 2013 today, there was a little extra treat there that most visitors missed: an all-new Funko book that debuted a lot of previously unannounced upcoming Funko POP! Vinyls.
Two of these newly-revealed figures will be of special interest to Marvel fans–it’s the Funko Marvel POP! Vinyls Peter Parker and Compound Hulk!
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Someday I will write a long-winded post in which I discuss, in detail, why I believe the usage of the “Mandarin” character in this summer’s Iron Man 3 movie to be the stuff of purest genius. But that is not this day! No, this day is another day of import, for the Mandarin and Iron Man both!
For this day is San Diego Comic Con 2013 Preview Night, and it is also the evening that the Iron Man 3 Hot Toys Mandarin and Silver Centurion Iron Man figures made their long-awaited debuts!
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Man, we haven’t even made it to the first official full day of the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con yet, and already companies are being absolutely relentless in their efforts to secure our future dollars! (And I love it!).
Next up at bat is Sideshow Collectibles, which has somehow done the impossible by debuting a statue at SDCC 2013 that’s even bigger than their Gladiator Hulk Premium Format–it’s the Sideshow Apocalypse Premium Format Figure Statue!
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Hot Toys clearly knows what fans are anxious to see at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con 2013 convention this week, and they’re not the least bit shy about exposing tantalizing teaser photo after teaser photo! Following up on their preview images from earlier in the week of the Avengers Hot Toys Chitauri Footsoldier and Iron Man 3 Hot Toys Iron Man Gemini Armor and Iron Man Heartbreaker armor, they’ve got one more preview image for us before the show begins tomorrow: the much talked-about Hot Toys Iron Man 3 Iron Man Igor Mark 38 Figure!
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It seemed like the wait would go on forever, but I finally blinked and reopened my eyes to discover that the week of San Diego Comic Con 2013 has arrived! While many companies are keeping their biggest surprises safely under wraps until the show begins, Hot Toys is on a mission to get fans excited with a series of teasers. And today we’ve got their second SDCC 2013 Iron Man 3 teaser: it’s the just-announced Hot Toys Iron Man Gemini Armor Mark 39 Movie Masterpiece Series figure!
UPDATE 7/17: The Iron Man 3 Gemini Armor MMS has now been revealed at SDCC 2013!
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Although San Diego Comic Con 2013 Preview Night won’t begin for a few hours yet, news is already starting to emerge from the convention halls! If you’re like me, you were probably expecting that Hasbro would hang onto the secret of their next series of Marvel Legends until their panel later in the show, but nope! Front and center, on display behind glass for Preview Night of SDCC 2013, it’s this fall’s upcoming 2013 Marvel Legends Series 3 (Wave 6) series, featuring Agent Venom, Jubilee and more!
UPDATE: Jubilee has now been confirmed as the Build-A-Figure of Marvel Legends Wave 6!
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Considering that Hot Toys had held out this long, you would think–you would just think–that they would want to wait just a few more hours to do a grandiose reveal of their upcoming Iron Man 3 Hot Toys Heartbreaker Iron Man Diecast Movie Masterpiece Series figure at San Diego Comic Con 2013 Preview Night. But if you thought that (like me), you thought wrong! Overnight Hot Toys posted the glamor shots of their diecast Iron Man Heartbreaker Mark 37 armor MMS, and the beauty is now up for order on Sideshow Collectibles for just $250!
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Hot Toys is preparing to lay siege to collectors’ future dollars when they unveil a multitude of new Movie Masterpiece Series sixth scale figures this week at San Diego Comic Con 2013 including Heartbreaker Iron Man, Gemini Iron Man, The Lone Ranger, Tonto and more. But that’s not all–they’ll also be showing off a now fully-painted final prototype figure to add to one of the most successful Hot Toys lines ever–it’s the long-awaited Avengers Hot Toys Chitauri Footsoldier figure! And could the Chitauri be joined by a Hot Toys gamma-powered alter-ego figure as well this week…?
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Just when you thought there couldn’t be more Marvel SDCC 2013 Exclusives, an unexpected (and I do mean unexpected) straggler has swung into the fray! Coming to San Diego Comic Con 2013 this week as a surprise last-minute Marvel Exclusive, it’s the high-end Gentle Giant Ltd. Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham Mini Bust!
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Though I’m still hot on the trail of the freshly released Hasbro Marvel Universe Wave 22 set with Mysterio and Rhino, Hasbro has now let out the details regarding the next set after that! It’s filled with fan-favorite secondary characters like Cloak & Dagger, Baron Zemo and the Abomination–and it’s scheduled for release in just one month! Coming in August 2013, it’s Marvel Universe Wave 23!
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Hot Toys was cruising along at breakneck speed with announcements about the Iron Man 3 Hot Toys figures line–right up until the movie came out two months ago. Ever since, things have been eerily quiet in Iron Man 3 world (at least as far as Hot Toys is concerned). But fear not–the silence is at it’s end! Hot Toys has revealed a teaser photo for an Iron Man 3 Movie Masterpiece Series figure to debut at San Diego Comic-Con 2013 this week: it’s the Hot Toys Iron Man Heartbreaker Armor Mark 17 sixth scale figure!
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I might have an obsession. See, once Marvel officially announced the SDCC 2013 Exclusive Funko Metallic Red Hulk POP! Vinyl figure, I became pretty fixated and seeing what they’d do to the most huggable of the Hulks. But the image Disney/Marvel sent out with the press release was just a photo of the plain Red Hulk. Thus, for the last week-plus I have been a man on a mission, with my quest being to find photographic evident of the actual Metallic Red Hulk SDCC Exclusive figure. And finally, today, my investigation turned up the first photo of the elusive POP! Vinyl Metallic Red Hulk!
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Hallmark Ornament Premiere comes but twice a year (no, seriously, they have two), and this year’s event brought with it the release of two brand new 2013 Marvel Hallmark Ornaments! For fans of the Marvel movies, it’s an Iron Patriot ornament in honor of this year’s “Iron Man 3” movie! And for comic book and cartoon fans, there’s a classic Spider-Man ornament that plays a familiar jingle. I stopped by my local Hallmark to check out both!
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