Since the alphabet is the building block of our language, the Powet Alphabet is the building block of what makes us geeks.

I know many followers of the site were expecting me to do Transformers for T. I think one of the great things about this article series, though, is the randomness and variety of topics we span from week to week. I like to see articles that I don’t necessarily expect on familiar and/or unfamiliar topics. I could not think of anything more random and unexpected than just about anything from a Tick story. For that very reason T is for The Tick.

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Rumors have been swirling for the past couple days, but Hasbro held its 2009 Fall Investor Event last week showing they were committed to television content, toylines and movies for both Jem & The Holograms and Micronauts. As soon as that announcement was made, it appears that JJ Abrams made a bid for the Micronauts movie. Rumor has it that Micronauts’ appearance in Mattel’s fan poll on licenses they should acquire prompted Hasbro to act quickly to keep Mattel away from Takara and the series from which Transformers originated.

Poweteer Tekwych linked us to this informative blog post made by a Micronauts fan featuring some background and a little speculation.

You can join in our active discussion of the announcements here.

My sister was a big Jem and the Holograms fan, so I saw my fair share of the Holograms and Misfits. I’m happy to see them make a comeback. What do you Poweteers think? Will you watch new Jem and Micronauts media? Buy the toy lines? Let us know below in the comments!

Blackbolt, Punisher, the Punisher variant, and Nemesis/Holocaust get their turn at bat in this second part of my Marvel Legends Wal-Mart Exclusive Wave of figures featuring Nemesis as the Build-A-Figure.

While reviews of Teela and Zodac (2002) are coming in, Mattel has posted pictures of the upcoming bonus figure for January, Battle Armor He-Man. The original figure had an action feature that when touched, the chest would shift from a clean armor to a ‘battle damaged’ version of the chest plate with a slash. When pressed again, two slashes would appear. Pretty basic, but fun. The MOTUC line has no action features/gimmicks due to tooling costs. Instead this figure will come with swappable chest plates for each stage of the armor and its battle damage. Its a neat way to get around the action feature, but I think the lack of gimmick will really nosedive this figure’s potential interest. This was one of the earliest He-Man variants and one of my all-time favorites.

   

One thing I need to point out about these pictures is that the protective mailing box for him is actually labeled with ‘Battle Armor He-Man’ on it. This is really great because prior figures had no identifier on the outside of the outer box making it very difficult to tell which figure was which if you had several of them still sealed.

Battle Armor He-man will be the bonus figure for January.

Join us after the jump for Green Goddess, Randor and Mattel’s taunting facebook update!
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Fellow poweteers Sindra and Raistlin joined me this past weekend at the Fall ’09 Boston Comic Con. This small convention has started getting attention and has been growing by leaps and bounds each show. Traditionally held at the Back Bay Events Center near Copley Square, the show runs twice a year, once in the Spring and once in the Fall.

Read on for more about the convention and what I thought!
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