Tomopop was on location at C2E2 this past weekend and got some nice shots of upcoming minimates based on the Marvel vs Capcom 3 game. Included in some of the images were Deadpool, Super Skrull, Dormammu, C. Viper, Morrigan and more. I did not see any accompanying information regarding release or assortment pack outs for the figures. Design sheets for these new figures leaked just before Valentine’s Day. Those can be seen here. It looks like many of the Marvel characters will be leveraging existing tooling, while most of the Capcom characters are getting the full treatment including Amaterasu!
Marvel.com has posted new movie photos from Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. The Thor photos don’t show much new, but the Captain America photos include Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Tommy Lee Jones as Colonel Chester Phillips, and Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt/Red Skull holding what appears to be a cosmic cube.
It looks like two more characters are entering the fray. No stranger to the Marvel vs Capcom franchise, Akuma will be an unlockable player at 2000 Player Points (which is said to be about a single play through of the Arcade mode). Newcomer Taskmaster will also be an unlockable player at 8000 Player Points. Taskmaster is a Marvel comics character that has the ability to duplicate the fighting style of anyone he has ever watched or fought.
Supposedly there are still two more characters we have not seen yet. Feel free to speculate in the comments!
It looks like the latest issue of Toyfare not only revealed the April 2011 figure for MOTU Classics, but it also featured the Destroyer figure from the upcoming 3 3/4 inch Thor movie line. It is in scale with the other figures, meaning it is significantly larger. The issue also shows some of the other figures from this line and the Captain America movie line that we had already seen at NYCC this year.
As posable as that Thor figure looks, he seems to only be able to stand thanks to his cape. I’m curious how well balanced he is when posted standing straight up. Destroyer looks pretty solid all around.
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As Marvel Comics emerged into the 21st century, they were also emerging from bankruptcy. Thanks partially to the success of the hugely popular X-Men and Spider-man cartoons, along with Capcom’s widely successful Marvel fighting games, more people were reading the comics more than ever. With a sure-to-be blockbuster X-men movie on the horizon, along with an influx of new readers, things were only looking up for The House of Ideas.
There was only one problem: accessibility. With over 40 years of history behind them (60 if you count their years as Timely/Atlas), it was, to say the least, difficult for the average ‘man on the street’ to pick up a comic book and know what’s going on as well as a hardcore reader would. Heck, look at some of these things. Clones? Alternate Universes? Dystopian future timelines? Resurrections? 4 different versions of limbo? Clones of people from alternate universes battling resurrected people from alternate versions of dystopian timelines (and I’m not exaggerating either. All of these things were in a Marvel storyline at one time or another, often times, more than one at a time). Hardcore readers were having a hard enough time keeping up, so imaging how hard it would be for someone whose X-men and Spider-man knowledge came primarily from the cartoons. However, Marvel devised a solution: Ultimate Marvel.
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