Well first things first: Not having “Twilight Princess” done yet didn’t stop Nintendo from showing off a trailer for the new The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on DS. This title looks like its using the Link from Wind Waker, or at least the same cel-shaded style. The video also shows off using the DS stylus to angle your boomerang’s path and even write notes on your map!

In other Zelda news, First 4 Figures has secured the rights to single statues, mixed media statues, and VS dioramas based on the games. Sounds fantastic! Their press release make mention of Young Link, Sheik, Dark Link, and Ganondorf VS Link Diorama from Ocarina of Time. Fierce Deity Link (pictured) and Skull Kid represent Majora’s Mask, and Twilight Princess versions of Link and Zelda are also planned. Great first step, now get a killer action figure line and I’ll be happy. Oh yeah, and finish TP already!
Lots of rumors swirled that Nintendo would change the name of the Revolution, but it looks like they’re sticking with the name. The “virtual console” got a big shot in the arm when Nintendo head honcho Satoru Iwata announced that not only would you be able to download NES, SNES, and N64 games, but they’re addign support for Sega Genesis and Turbo Graphix 16! Holy moly! If they come out with emulator for the Neo-Geo MVS I may never have to buy a new game again, I could spend years downloading old ones!

sources: Kotaku’s Brian Crecente liveblogs Iwata, 4CR Keynote highlights, GI.biz

TFormers.com has posted a gallery of a few of the first wave of Titanium figures hitting store shelves for Transformers. The gallery includes pictures of Armada Unicron, War Within Optimus Prime, and Beast Wars Megatron, both in and out of the package.

Now that we finally have some clear shots of these smaller figures, I don’t know they pique my interest. I might be sticking to the 6 inch transforming figures aside from the possible exception of the 3 inch alternator figures.

Its a slow news day so far today, so I wanted to point out this excellent review of the Masters of the Universe wave 2 mini-statues also known as stactions (statue action figures). These figures were sculpted by The Four Horsemen, the creative geniuses behind the relaunched 2004 series’ character designs. The statues were produced by NECA. This line of statues continues where the now discontinued action figure line ended off. Wave 2 includes 3 more characters that never made it to the action figure line; Stinkor, Clamp Champ, and Grizzlor.

My inbox just got a collector club update:

I will be on TV tomorrow Thursday March 23 on the G4 Channel Attack of the Show doing a GI Joe piece. I know it is not Transformers, that is for a future show but I thought you would want to tune in and check it out!

Thanks,

Brian

According to TNI, Kaiyodo and Xebec are going to be reissuing the popular Eva series in metallic paint.
The listing they link to mentions die-cast in the description, but the originals were plastic/rubber with a two different paint schemes. One with traditional flat colors and another with metallic paints.

The 6 figures to be re-released are:

• Eva Unit 0 (Blue – Rei)
• Eva Unit 0 (Orange – Rei)
• Eva Unit 1 (Purple – Shinji)
• Eva Unit 2 (Red – Asuka)
• Eva Unit 3 (Black – Angel/Toji)
• Eva Unit 4 (Silver – Production model)

TFormers.com has posted a gallery of images depicting the now infamous BW Neo Unicron mold that took the fandom by storm, but never surfaced for more than a blurry image from a test shot.

Looking at this gallery now, I would have to say I’m glad this mold was shelved and we got what became Armada Unicron.

TFormers.com has posted an clearer image of the teaser insert that came the THS-02 Convoy depicting design sketches for a Masterpiece Starscream figure.

Click the thumbnail for a view of the picture.

In addition to Crazy’s post about the new G1 Starscream, there’s some galleries for Blendal (Cybertron Quickmix), Cybertron Unicron and BW10th Optimus Primal at Tformers.

Unicron
Quickmix
Optimus Primal

In other news, I received my BWR-01 set and it is spectacular. Especially the Megatron. Highly reccomended if you can still find a set.