Adding fuel to the debate of whether Rumble is red like the toys or blue like in the G1 show, an image has been found off of the Wal-mart site of Alternators Rumble in robot. He features his large pistons as arms, however, it is unclear if he also has regulars arms as well. It is also of note, the chest is a clear tribute to Rumble’s original transformation as one of Soundwave’s cassettes.

I will be eagerly awaiting the blue repaint and the further debates over which should be called Rumble and which should be called Frenzy.

RIBFIR!

Thuderous Iron Moose 3000! of the Allspark has shared some scanned in artwork with the community on the Allspark boards. The artwork is designs for Masterpiece Starscream.

 

Mezco Toys has announced their exclusive offerings for the San Diego Comic Con.

From their site:

4/14/2006: 2006 SUMMER EXCLUSIVES REVEALED!
Brace yourselves as we prepare to unleash six new breathtaking exclusive figures this summer:

LDD Presents: Jason Voorhees
Edward Scissorhands: Vincent Price
Family Guy: Herbert
Family Guy: 12″ Evil Monkey
South Park: 12″ Cartman
Hellboy: Comic Hellboy w/Japanese heads

More details, pricing and photos coming soon. Make sure you join our mailing list so you don’t miss out on important pre-order information.

A press release went out a couple weeks ago, ‘announcing’ pretty much what we already know about this exclusive wave that will be hitting Wal-mart in the first days of the upcoming month. However, an update was sent out to make a clarification about just how many figures are needed to get a full Giant-man. For those unaware, recent waves of Marvel Legends have had individual figures packaged with a piece to a much larger figure. This exclusive wave’s build-a-figure is Giant-man.

I wanted to clarify an oversight on the press release that was sent last week. Please note that you must collect 10 figures to build Giant Man (one of these figures is a variant). The variants in this assortment will not be as hard to come by as other Marvel Legends assortments.

As a reminder, the variants will be Sentry with a full beard (regular is clean shaven) and Age Of Apocalypse Wolverine with a disfigured head. I do not know of any other variants for this wave.

[Source: Superhero Times]

The Battlestar Gallactica merchandise is finally starting to make its way to the consumers. Figures.com is reporting that Majestic Studios will be releasing the first two figures in a series. This first wave will include Captain Lee Adama aka Apollo and the Cylon Centurion. They will make their debut at the San Diego Comic Con and will make their way to stores shortly thereafter. Apollo will stand 12 inches tall while the Centurion will be 13 1/2 inches tall to keep in scale.

Apollo will be sporting his flight fatigues including helmet and interchangeable hands (one set with gloves on) and a blaster. Creative packaging is said to be happening in addition to the decision for the next figure being decided based on fan response. It will either be the sultry Number Six or Number 8 aka Boomer.

An announcement about a San Diego Comic Con exlusive is also said to be coming soon.

[2006.04.09 10:48 EST]Its a bit annoying how MasterCollector trickles information to the fans about convention exclusives. I understand the reason is to build up the hype, but it makes it hard to keep track with news posts about prior exclusives from the set being months ago and most likely in archives on most sites. I thought I would take this opportunity to do an overview of what has been announced thus far for the 3.75″ Exclusive Convention Set. The theme for the set is: “Cobra’s Most Wanted: Mercenaries!”

First announced March 24, 2006 is the Skull Squad Trooper. Six Skull Squad Troopers will be included in the set. Each features a removeable helmet emblazoned with the SKull Squad logo, along with weapons and I assume a stand.

Announced on March 29, 2006, the Skull Squad will be led into battle by none other than Major Bludd (which wasn’t much of a surprise considering the Skull Squad logo features an eyepatch). The Major comes with a rifle and submachine gun. The rifle has a folding bi-pod where the sub-machine gun has a folding stock. The figure’s color scheme will also compliment that of the Skull Squad Troopers.

April 4th, 2006 brought us the Coil Trooper. Six Coil Troopers will be included in the set, similar to the Skull Squad Troopers. Each Coil Trooper appears to come with a rifle, machine gun and stand.

Overlord, leader of the Coil Troopers, was revealed April 7th, 2006. He is an entirely new tooling due to the absence of the original mold. An original head was used though for the new tooling in order to maintain that ‘vintage look’. He appears to come with a removeable helmet with the Coil Trooper logo on it, an uzi and removeable claws on his forearms.

There is still at least one more announcement to be made for the set, so when that is made, which should be soon, I will update this post so everything is all in one place.

[UDPATE – 2006.04.11]
MasterCollector has updated their site with the boxart for the Exclusive Convention Set. The last figure, however, is just a sillouette for now. There is a contest to see who can guess the identity of the last figure for all the Collectors’ Club Members. They are really trying to hype up whoever this last figure is. Whoever it is, they seem to be an excellent marksman. More as it comes…

[UPDATE – 2006.04.17]

The final figure has been revealed! Cobra Mortal will be the last figure to be added to the collectors’ set. He features vac-metallized armor, his special crossbow and a rifle. You can view his tech spec here.

We’ve also been given the bonus of seeing the full box art showing the revealed Cobra Mortal.

At long last, the Four Horsemen have given He-man.org the long awaited pictures of the Leech and Webstor stactions. I uploaded a picture of each for you to see. To see more detailed pictures go to the He-man.org site here.

  

[EDIT: I have added a picture of Snake Face. Wave 4 includes Leech, Webstor and Snake Face. Snake Face’s pictures have been online since October 23, 2005, but its better to see the whole line up at once. Also for those not keeping count, you may notice that each wave features three figures. One figure from three of the four factions; The Masters, Skeletor’s Council of Evil, The Snakemen and The Horde. This is the first wave not featuring any Masters. – Crazy]

Diamond Select Toys has announced that Stargate figure collectors will soon have the opportunity to redeem the UPC’s from their figures for a free ‘Elite Serpent Guard’. Also randomly inserted one into each case will be an unpainted test shot figure.

From the site:

Stargate Promos Ready to Launch!

With the first series of Stargate SG-1 action figures nearing their Spring release, DST is excited to announce plans for several promotional figures to compliment the core assortment!

By purchasing any four of our Stargate SG-1 figures, customers will be able to redeem their UPC’s for a free exclusive Elite Serpent Guard action figure featuring a repainted armor design as part of a promotional mail-in program! Now in addition to building their own figure-sized Stargate, fans will also be able to build Apophis’ army! The details surrounding how fans can get this free figure will be available inside each packaged figure.

Also available with the first wave of figures will be a series of test-shot unpainted figures! Select cases sold to retailers each contain one of these limited figures, with four different versions released: Colonel Jack O’Neill, Dr. Daniel Jackson, General Jack O’Neill and a Jaffa Serpent Guard! These pre-production unpainted figures will be limited and will only be available in select cases for the specialty market, so be sure to contact your local comic book store and ask them to take advantage of this unprecedented offer!

From what I understand there are already quite a few variants for these figures as it is, so it looks like this line will be hard on the collectors out there. Good Luck!