Nintendo has granted First4Figures a 3 year licensing agreement for the Metroid franchise. This coincides with the release of Metroid Prime: Hunters in Europe. Plans seem to be for several individual statues standing about 9 to 12 inches tall based on ‘original game data’.

 

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Organic Hobby has announced two more figures that will be featured in the upcoming Revoltech line of poseable anime icons. Eva-02 of Neon Genesis Evangelion and King Gainer of Overman King Gainer.

For more pictures of these two check out the article here.

Figures already announced include:
Eva-00 of Neon Genesis Evangelion
Eva-01 of Neon Genesis Evangelion
Dante of Devil May Cry
Shin Getter Robo of Getter Robo
Dougram of Fang of the Sun Dougram

I have found a gallery of the already announced figures here at CollectionDX. The Shin Getter Robo looks to be the most impressive so far. The Eva figures will be hard pressed to top the previous and now classic Kaiyodo Eva series of figures.

Voting has closed for the Four Horsemen‘s FANtastic Exclusive poll for 2006. It ended a bit early but the answers to the polls were not in question.

People want a wider release than a San Diego Comic Con exclusive.
They don’t want to have to be members of the forums to be able to purchase the figure.
The Four Horsemen need to pursue other avenues to put this product out to the masses.

The Four Horsemen are now following up on all the polls they’ve taken and seeing how to follow through with the results of these polls. This exclusive this year as voted by us in an earlier poll will be the 7th Kingdom: Minotaur. It looks to be a promising figure. Hopefully we’ll get the wider release we voted for.

On a related note, here‘s a day by day update on the progress of the figure.

ActionHQ has up for preorder the Classics Prime and Megatron. Included in the pre-orders are pictures of the two figures, albeit a bit obscured. They are listed to be available September 2006.

The listings are for:
Transformers Classics Voyager Megatron
Transformers Classics Voyager Optimus Prime

 

Schwiggie of our very own boards, has brought it to our attention that BigBadToyStore has posted a pre-order page for Revoltech Optimus Prime.

For those not on cutting edge of toy news, Revoltech is supposed to feature a new ratcheted joint that is actually a combination of 3 different smaller joints that give greater poseability and are more easily hidden. The line kicks off with Neon Genesis Evangelion’s EVA Unit 01 in the coming months.

BigBadToyStore.com has posted a picture of an upcoming ‘wall statue’ of Soundwave. It also has Lazerbeak, Rumble, and Ravage. All four characters are jumping out of the space bridge.

This statue is just really, really cool, a nonlinear contribution, a weird spiral design incorporating a handful of the Decepticon Gen 1 essentials. Soundwave: One of the most memorable Decepticons ever, overtly servile, emotionless, logic-driven but with underlying avarice and ambition. He monitors and records everything, even to the extent that he interprets brain waves, which makes him unpopular among his Decepticon cohorts. Despite his loyalty to Megatron, in Transformers: The Movie, once Megatron was out of the picture, Soundwave promptly volunteered to shoulder the burden of new leadership.

The rest of the description just describes the cassette characters, but you get the idea.

The Transformers collectors club has announced their first club exclusive figure, Astrotrain. Astrotrain will be the redeco of Armada Jetfire that surfaced in images online but never came to retail. He will feature an all new head sculpt designed by Dan Khanna.

From the TCC site:

04/26/06 – The Hasbro Transformers Collectors’ Club is proud to present their first Club Exclusive figure: Astrotrain!

From the far reaches of space comes a deadly new foe on the side of evil. Loyal to no one but himself, this insidious bounty hunter has joined the Decepticons to further his own power. Armed with a vast array of weaponry including his powerful Ionic Pulse Blaster, he and his loyal following tear through space as he transports Decepticons and Mini-Cons on their galactic hunt for the mythical Cyber Planet Keys. As a force to be reckoned with, no Autobot is safe as long as this Decepticon warrior is loose!

Featuring a stunning new head sculpt from original designs by Dan Khanna, Hasbro’s Transformers Collectors’ Club is proud to present the first club exclusive figure reborn from a Hasbro design that never came to fruition. This fall, make Astrotrain part of your Decepticon army, only from the Hasbro Transformers Collectors’ Club!

Pictured here is Hasbro’s original design concept along with sketches of the new head. Watch transformersclub.com for updates this summer on the new deco and ordering information. Pricing has not been determined at this time.

Also, club members, we want your input on part of the deco for this character. Login to the member’s only forum and look in the General Discussion topic area.

 

Remy of Remys World has given us a glimpse of even more design art for MP03 Starscream.