LATEST NEWS Baby!

The big news of the day is that the cats over at He-Man.org have scored the latest info on the ever popular Masters of the Universe re-releases.

Coming sometime between March and May will be an exclusive Toys R Us 5-pack consisting of He-Man, Beast Man, Man-At-Arms, Skeletor, and Prince Adam. Adam will be exclusive to this gift set.

Coming in July for the JCPenny's Christmas catalog will be an extremely limited gift set containing all 10 figures from the current wave of reissues and a copy of the famous William George poster that was given out at select retailers almost 15 years ago.

And Wave 2 of the reissues will street in September and will as of now consist of the infamous Battle Damaged He-Man and Skeletor, Buzz-Off, Zodac, Stratos, and Clawful.

For all you Quentin Tarantino fans, the first images of the 12 inch Reservior Dog figures have been released on Figures.com
http://www.figures.com/Features/inde...ig&domain_id=4

The much talked about wave of GI Joe Manimals, which were previewed then canceled back in 1995, have been showing up at KB Toys stores across the country. But advanced word on the street is that at $9.99 each, they're disappointing to say the least. For serious Joe Geeks only.

Moore Action Collectables Futurama and Buffy Wave 2 figures are now shipping and should be arriving at retail within the next two weeks if not sooner.

That's it for today. But fear not, Django's on the case...

Oops! Here's one that I forgot.

Figures.Com also has up an exclusive interview with Stan Winston and the first looks at his much talked about series of Stan Winston's Creatures.
http://www.figures.com/Features/index.html?show_article=17458&domain=figur es.com&dom=fig&domain_id=4



[This message has been edited by Django (edited 02-20-2001).]

The first photo I've seen of Cordelia figure from Buffy Series 3 is up over at Comics Continuum.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stori...0/Cordelia.htm

Moore Action Collectables has just issued a press release detailing the 4th wave of those ever present Buffy the Vampire Slayer figures and while many of you may be excited, it does very little for yours truly.

Series 4 will consist of Drusilla, Anya, and The Gentlemen from the acclaimed episode "Hush."

As many of you know, this year will see the first of the Angel figures which at present will include among others everyone's favorite bad girl Faith.

And I guess this next info is better late then never for you Middle Earth fans.

Toy Biz announced at Toy Fair the breakdown of the impending release of their product from the eagerly awaited Lord of the Rings film.

The first waves of the six inch line will consist of...

Assortment 1: Frodo, Witch King Ring Wraith, Strider, Legolas, and Newborn Lurtz Uruk-Hai.

Assortment 2: Gandalf, Gimli, Sam Wise Gamgee, Saruman, and Orc Overseer.

Assortment 3: Bilbo Baggins, Pippin, Urak-Hail, Galadriel, and Aragon.

All of the above should behind hitting pegs come August and will retail for $5.99 each.

For the complete information head on over to Figures.com and read it for yourself...
http://www.figures.com/Features/inde...ig&domain_id=4

For the first picture of and infomation on Evil Genius' (formerly Living Toyz) upcoming Playboy Fashion Dolls...

http://www.figures.com/Features/inde...ig&domain_id=4

For a sneak peek of Toy Vault's incredibly lame Farscape wave 1.5 toys (same ones, new cloth outfits!)...

http://www.figures.com/Features/inde...ig&domain_id=4

To hell with what McFarlane Toys thinks, fact is N2 Toys DOES INDEED have the toy rights to Gladiator...

http://www.figures.com/databases/act...how_article=51

The first photos of the 12 inch figures based on The Dark Crystal have finally been released...

http://www.figures.com/Features/inde...ig&domain_id=4

For the week of March 12th...

- Toy Biz is now shipping it's 4 figure wave of toys based on the now canceled Mutant X comic. Characters represented in the line include Havok, The Goblin Queen, Bloodstorm, and The Fallen.

- DC Direct has just announced the figure line up set for a June release. Included in this wave are the first plastic represenations of such favs as Eclipso, Gorilla Grodd, and the long awaited LOBO figure.

- Figures.com has released some very cool photos of the basic figures from Tim Burton's upcoming Planet of the Apes remake.

You can view them here:

http://www.figures.com/Features/inde...ig&domain_id=4

Figures.com has confirmed today that Art Asylum will in fact be making action figures based on everyone's favorite Wire-Fu epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

The first wave of 5 or 6 figures, all of which include a chapter of a comic adaptation courtesy of those chuckleheads at Image will begin hitting store shelves this October...