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Checking Out The Marvel Legends Series Captain America Shield
And as an adult, I've always wanted a shield to hang on my office wall. Enter Hasbro new line of props The Marvel Legends Series Captain America Shield became available and thanks to Amazon, I had it on my doorstep less than twenty-four hours later (I love Amazon Prime.) It came shipped as is, no additional[...]
New Marvel Legends Line Features Doctor Strange Movie Figures
The newest Marvel Legends series of figures from Hasbro is now available for pre-order and they have a series mystic bent to them Three of them are from the Doctor Strange movie (Doctor Strange, Karl Mordo and Astral Projection Doctor Strange) While the rest are from the comics (Brother Voodoo, Enchantress, Iron Fist, Nico Minoru[...]
Hasbro Enters The Role Play Market…Look I'm Captain America!
The higher end stuff remained a pipe dream. Well no more! Enter Hasbro, who starting this month is entering the role-play field in a big way Premium items at affordable prices, that is the name of the game here When they were first announced back in February, I was a tad skeptical Sure they looked great,[...]
50 Shots From Hasbro's Marvel Panel, From Jim Lee's Cyclops To Sue Storm
By Jeremy Konrad Hasbro held their Marvel Legends panel Saturday afternoon, including plenty of reveals for their 3 3/4 and 6 inch scale lines, 12 inch line, and new role play items. They started by showing their two SDCC Marvel Legends exclusives, the Collector's Vault, which has in scale figure including Howard The Duck and Lockjaw, and[...]
Starscream Stars In Latest Prelude To Transformes: Combiner Wars
This is the third of four preludes from Machinima and Hasbro. [youtube]https://youtu.be/OLo8mWubeZA[/youtube] Everyone's favorite jet fighter / robot that whines a lot… Starscream… takes center stage in the lastest episode of the Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars No longer a Decepticon, things are very different for Starscream This is the third of four preludes from Machinima[...]
First Look At Transformers: Combiner Wars
While at the Cannes Lions Festival, Hasbro Inc and Machinima offered up a first glimpse of Transformers: Combiner Wars, a new animated series debuting August 2nd The series will air on the social entertainment platform go90 in the US,this marks the first time the iconic franchise has launched a digital-first series. During the panel where the images were[...]
The New IDW/Hasbro Action Man Comic Gets A Spotlight In June
Their own back story based around the British special forces, that has now inspired a new comic book line courtesy of IDW and Hasbro. A "rebirth" if you will Here's the solicit in question for June His first appearance however will be in the Rom #0 comic on Free Comic Book Day in May Action Man #1—SPOTLIGHT John[...]
Marvel Takes Tour Of Their New Toys At Toy Fair 2016
Marvel has released this video of Lorraine Cink and Ryan Penagos making a trip around the recent Toy Fair 2016, visiting the booths with new Marvel related toys like Hasbro, Diamond Select, Funko, Lego and more Including showing us the new Spider-Gwen and Captain Marvel Pop! figures. [youtube]https://youtu.be/MlCsawA8osU[/youtube] Marvel has released this video of Lorraine Cink[...]
Hasbro And Mattel Talk Merger
Hasbro, the home of GI Joe and My Little Pony, has an estimated value of $9.5 Billion and Mattel, known for Barbie and Hot Wheels, is worth roughly $11 billion. It's said that Hasbro approached Mattel late last year and the companies have been having on-and-off-again negotiations ever since. Mattel has taken some hits over recently, losing a[...]
Jem And The Holograms Gets A Music Video / Trailer
The latest trailer for Jem And The Holograms is set up like a music video for a song called Youngblood. Based on the iconic Hasbro animated TV series, is written by Ryan Landels and directed by Jon M Chu (G.I Joe: Retaliation), the musical adventure stars Aubrey Peeples, Stefanie Scott, Aurora Perrineau, Hayley Kiyoko, Ryan Guzman, Molly[...]
186 Toys From SDCC '15 Flipped On eBay From $40 To $3000
Marvel's decision to reduce the licences for X-Men properties, in the light of the Fox Studios movies, has seen the Magik character packed into the Book Of Vishanti Hasbro set break out and sell very well on her own As the only SDCC exclusive X-Men toy… Jim Lee Blue Line Figure – Harley Quinn Sketch $3000   Jim Lee[...]
SDCC '15: Hasbro Shows Marvel Is Where Their Head Is At
by Jeremy Konrad Saturday Hasbro held its annual SDCC Marvel panel and while they didn't reveal too many new figures, they always use this panel as an opportunity to interact with their fans and make sure they are getting exactly what they want from them Which is in stark contrast to their Star Wars brand right[...]
SDCC '15: Hasbro Shows First Looks at Force Awakens Figures… Sort Of
Hasbro being one of the most anticipated panels Sadly, not much was shown from that, but what they did reveal was pretty spectacular. Starting off by introducing Ashley Eckstein (fresh off her wildly successful Her Universe fashion show last night) to help show off the new Ashoka Tano 6-inch scale Black Series figure Done in a[...]
SDCC '15: How To Lose $100 In Five Seconds
While much has been made of the crushes at the Hasbro stands at San Diego Comic Con this year, I also wanted to highlight Bleeding Cool writer Jeremy Konrad's unfortunate experience. At the Hasbro booth, a generous man (who also had eight of the figure, but whatever) offered to sell me one for $30, only five[...]
SDCC '15: Street Fighter To Meet G I Joe In Upcoming IDW Comic
Perhaps we will here more during the Hasbro or IDW panels this year. This isn't the first time Hasbro and Capcom have teamed A series of Street Fighter characters were featured as figures in the G.I Joe toy line around the time the Street Fighter film was released.   [Source: Polygon] During the Street Fighter panel at SDCC[...]
SDCC '15: Hasbro And Machinima Make Deal For Transformers Webseries
To be announced at the Hasbro panel today at SDCC, the company as made a deal with web content provider Machinima to produce a new webseries based on the Transformers universe The series will take place during the Combiner Wars and will introduce new lore and new characters along with featuring existing fan-favorite characters. "We couldn't[...]
SDCC '15: Star Wars Fever Causes Chaos At Hasbro Booth
Seems Hasbro was not quite prepared for the onslaught of Star Wars fans at their booth this year We have two reports of the events that took place as the convention began. Joe Glass logged the following report about trying to get a Stormtrooper figure from the Hasbro booth: Getting in a little before the show started[...]
Transforming Male Genre Franchises, From Transformers To Avengers
On Friday, Hasbro announced in USA Today  new female-based Transformers characters and a comic book from IDW. Considering they are all robots, gender may be an intellectual rather than a physical concern They have been referred to in masculine terms through their history, however, with male actors playing them on screen – with very few exceptions. Indeed, female[...]
Marvel Announces New Products Based On Secret Wars Changes
Confirmed to be working with Marvel are Hasbro, Diamond Select, Mighty Fine, Mad Engine, Funko and Hot Wheels as well as Marvel's game division. For more on what's being announced from Marvel today, click here. Besides the Secret Wars books, Marvel is working with a series of companies to produce products based on the new universe they[...]
A Robot In Disguise By Any Other Name: Third-Party Transformers Toys
You can almost hear the Flying Vs, shredding away. He is also called Maniaking, manufactured by Unique Toys, not to be confused with Galvatron, manufactured by Hasbro In fact, he is advertised as "Not Galvatron." Welcome to the world of third party toys Adult collectors have been a factor in the toy collecting market for a long[...]
Solve Thanksgiving With $165 Worth Of My Little Pony Comics In A Humble Bundle
They've sold 7500 so far and Thanksgiving has just begun… and it all benefits the Hasbro's Children's Fund. Make with the clicky… It's Thanksgiving A time of reflectiveness, of gratefulness , of charity, or family And already the kids are running around the house screaming their heads off and you are starting (as predicted) to bleed[...]
Here Comes… Stretch Armstrong And The Flex Fighters
Last month, Hasbro registered comic book trademarks for both Stretch Armstrong and Stretch Armstrong And The Flex Fighters for "Paper goods and printed matter, namely, comic books; picture books; story books; books containing puzzles and games; instructional manuals and printed strategy guides for games; book covers; trading cards; posters; stickers; sticker books; calendars" So what 's going on? Well,[...]
Ouija – A Look Inside Featurette
We've got a behind the scenes featurette talking about the new horror movie Ouija based on the old game. In Ouija, a group of friends must confront their
My Little Pony To Get Feature Film
Hasbro has announced the second film in their new Allspark Pictures label and it's going to be My Little Pony Allspark is Hasbro's new way of either funding or co-funding films based on their toy lines The recently announced Jem and the Holograms was the first film to be part of the Allspark film slate. MLP will[...]