As SDCC rapidly approaches, things are fairly quiet. Toy companies are being tight-lipped, saving their major shocking revelations for the con, which means the board has been fairly docile (for fwoosh), but pent up with anticipation.
A few important pieces of information came out this week, so let’s get right to it.
The Microverse:
In a bit of catchup with some older news, he Nemesis wave, long delayed, finally hit. Well, “hit” is overstating it a bit. More like tickled. It seems it is, in fact, a Waiting exclusive wave. Which makes sense. We’ve been waiting forever, so of course Waiting finds it first. This revelation was met with minor disbelief, due to the overwhelming odds of a single person finding what is apparently the only case in America, (or so they’d have you believe).
New Poster Double M wrote:
It’d kinda be like if you were watching the news, and they had reported that a space shuttle blew up during launch, and a piece of falling debris had killed Neil Armstrong (who was in the crowd watching) but nobody else on the ground was even injured, it would be rather “odd”… wouldn’t it? Doesn’t mean you didn’t beleive the story…
Confirming what we knew all along…the Nemesis wave is on the moon, and that’s where Waiting found them. Or something.
Being the first person in the nation to find the toys is a scalper’s dream. Coincidentally, Waiting just retired.
But seriously, this should hopefully mean that the toys will finally be hitting stores everywhere, within the next two months. Maybe three. By October for sure.
The following opinion is my own, and does not reflect the management or staff of Fwoosh:
Astonishing Beast is a horrible, horrible figure. Seriously, Hasbro, but DO YOU PLAY WITH YOUR OWN TOYS? Hell, do you people have legs? Spread eagle is not the default setting of human motion. Occasionally I cross my legs. I KNOW. Unbelievable, right?
*ahem*
Yeesh.
In other news, revelations that Ultron is heavily rumored to be in the upcoming Secret Wars Two packs…along with some other figures…have made collector’s anal cavities clench with fear that this Ultron will be screwed up as well. That makes the 1,000,000th time the word “Ultron” has been uttered in typewritten form on fwoosh. I just won a pony!
The Multiverse:
In the ongoing drama over a Monkey…Gleek will be a free gift handed out in a little baggie to people who vomit up 40 bucks for a set of Wonder Twins at SDCC.
FORM OF: INFLATED PRICE
SHAPE OF: PISSED-OFF FWOOSHERS
Actually, it’s not a bad price, considering the two packs have been costing 25 dollars with minimal accessories. It’s only 15 bucks more. What price can you put on nostalgia?
Apparently 15 bucks. That’s science.
Series 8 still has not hit retail. Which means it’ll be any day now when Waiting finds them.
The Expanded Universe:
There will be a MOTU art book exclousive to SDCC. This has caused a minor uproar, causing many fwooshers to remember how when they were a kid, and they were on the swing, Mattel ran up behind them and grabbed the chains on the swing, thus forcibly ejecting them into the monkey bars. The monkey bars also being an SDCC exclusive. Then Mattel walked off hand in hand with the cute girl with the freckles that you always wanted to sit with at lunchtime.
Man-At Arms comes out This Wednesday. He has already sold out. Sorry guys.
I’m kidding, get off the ledge.
The Macroverse:
Still waiting for more NECA Turtle news. Apparently Shocker has some toy things or something. I don’t know, it’s hard to get any news about the toys with all the drama. Zing!
The Multiplex: Ryan Reynolds will play Hal Jordan in the upcoming Green Lantern movie. Co-starring will be Ryan Reynolds abs. This news has been met with the revelation that half of fwoosh is totally gay for Ryan Reynolds, and would watch him as Wonder Woman if it came to that. Which would honestly still be a better choice than when Megan Fox was being considered.
Technical difficulties:
Fwoosh was dead Saturday night. I blame Mattel.
And that’s the major points in this quickie.
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