Toy Fair 2018: McFarlane Anime, TV and Video Game Action Figures

Good morning!! It's 10am on the East coast, which means it's 3pm in the UK and Toy Fair is already roaring along. We are currently blazing through the show floor, hunting for toy news from your favorite TV, movies, cartoons and video games, but we are also keeping an eye out for awesome new, original toy lines and that next BIG hot product that will set your wallets aflame come the holiday shopping season. As such, we've got some preliminary pictures for you from some killer stands, with a promise of way more still to come. Let's start with our friends at Star Images who are the distributors for McFarlane Toys...

SDCC 2016: Preview Night with Fantastic Beasts, Walking Dead, X-Men & More

by Saniyat K Choudhury

Well it’s that time of the year again! San Diego Comic-Con’s preview night kicked off this past Wednesday with the bustle and energy that we’ve come to expect. It was preview night so the crowd wasn’t overwhelming. I got in line to pick up my badge and received the standard literature with an awesome tote bag. This being my first year at the show, commonplace things like the giant Warner Bros tote bag and such were all new to me. There were different themes to all the bags but the coolest part was the flap that goes over the top of the bag. If you don’t secure the flap with the Velcro, it looks like a cape! With bags featuring the Flash or Supergirl TV logos (just to name a couple), you could express your geek loves for all of Comic-con to see. My bag contained the poster image from ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.’ It wasn’t exactly cape-worthy, but I still think Eddie Redmayne looks pretty heroic flapping in the wind on my back.

Adult Swim Announces Robot Chicken Walking Dead, New Rick & Morty, Samurai Jack, FLCL and More

Adult Swim, a division of Turner and basic cable's #1 home with millennials for over a decade, is once again departing from the ordinary, announcing two new slates of programming in advance of the Turner Upfront 2016 presentation on May 18 in New York City. Known for its unique approach to content development and having a voice that resonates with its audience, Adult Swim has not only crafted a robust and diverse slate for its top-rated cable network but also for its ever popular digital domain AdultSwim.com. An ongoing leader in the digital space, Adult Swim has charted double-digit growth across multiple platforms and mobile gaming, including a +97% increase in web and app usage.

Toy Fair 2016: Funko's 2016 Lineup *UPDATED! 2/2*

Back into our Toy Fair 2016 coverage... LEGO let loose their 2016 catalog and now Funko follows suit with art for new additions to their mega popular POP! Vinyl Figures, Dorbz, Mystery Minis, plush and a new toy category all together! Listings include additions to the Harry Potter, Futurama and Game of Thrones collections, new movie lines like Zootopia, Pride and Pejudice and Zombies, Independence Day and Clueless, video game merchandise for Fallout and Pac-Manl!! Let's check out the lot...

SDCC 2015: Anchor Bay Celebrates 20th Anniversary At San Diego Comic-Con

Anchor Bay Entertainment, a leader in home entertainment, is celebrating its 20th anniversary! Stop by Booth 4536 to take pictures with a customized walker from AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and the skull helmet from Northmen – A Viking Saga.

Attendees will have a chance to win a limited edition “The Walking Dead” guitar from Artist Series Guitar. Additional swag giveaway items that will be available to con-goers include:

 “The Walking Dead” / “Black Sails” bags
 “Aquarius” buttons
It Follows mini posters
A LEGO Brickumentary buttons

SDCC 2014: A Look Around the Show Floor

As we wait for the first full day of San Diego Comic-Con to draw to a close and Idle Hands' kick ass all female reporting team to buzz in, filling our email with a billion photos from all corners of the convention (quite literally), we thought we'd take this time to run through the convention floor and drool over massive displays for your favorite movies, TV shows and the killer company booths that make this convention fun and memorable. Let's start with a quick tour...

SDCC 2014: Diamond Select Exclusives : Godzilla, X-Men, Star Wars & More

It's almost time for Comic-Con International in San Diego, and Diamond Select Toys will be hanging out at Booth 2607, showing off some cool new products and selling some amazingly cool toys! Check out the exclusives Diamond Select Toys, Diamond Comic Distributors, and various retailers around the show floor will be offering at SDCC!

Godzilla Burning Godzilla SDCC Exclusive Vinyl Bust Bank - $30.00 - Godzilla is more than just a giant lizard – he's also a walking nuclear reactor! This new, limited-edition vinyl bank of the King of All Monsters depicts him as he appeared in 1995's Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, when his atomic heart began to overheat. With an all-new black-and-orange color scheme, this 8-inch bust bank features collectible-quailty paint applications, as well as a coin slot on his back and an access door in the base. Limited to 1000 pieces. Packaged in a clear polybag. Sculpted by Gentle Giant!

New Diamond Select Previews: Godzilla, 66 Batman, Walking Dead & More

The new Previews catalog won't be out for a couple of weeks, but retailers are already opening up pre-orders for the new Diamond Select items that are in it! Not only will DST offer new items for Star Wars, Classic Godzilla, the Batman Classic TV Series, the Amazing Spider-Man 2 and The Walking Dead, DST is also bringing back two long out-of-production Marvel Select figures! Read on to see what's in the works, and find your local comic shop at comicshoplocator.com!

Chucky Coming to Halloween Horror Nights

Universal Studios Hollywood’s premier Halloween event, “Halloween Horror Nights,” continues to unlock the terror that torments movie-goers with the announcement of two new original scare-zones:  The Purge, based on Universal Pictures’ summer blockbuster and upcoming Blu-ray™ and DVD release, and Universal Studios Home Entertainment’s Blu-ray™ and Digital debut of Curse of Chucky, an all-new movie where Chucky returns to horrify viewers in the latest unrated chapter of the blood-soaked suspense saga.  “Halloween Horror Nights” begins on Friday, September 20, 2013.

Designed to provoke an unrelenting sense of fear for “Halloween Horror Nights” guests, numerous scare-zones will be riddled throughout the event to consistently terrify and traumatize them at every unsuspecting twist and turn.

SDCC 2013: Diamond Select & Previews Exclusives

AND WE CONTINUE with the one company that always has the top geek licenses of the moment, and of all time. You can always count on Diamond Select Toys (booth #2607) to be making things you'll lust after with the passion of 1000 burning suns and then pass onto your children one day. Since San Diego Comic Con is the biggest geek gathering on the planet, Diamond knows their exclusives need to be exciting enough to cause a dork-pede as the doors open. I'd say they did fairly well this year! Let's dive right in...


Marvel Minimates Wolverine Saga Box Set - $20
This box set includes four different Minimates spotlighting different moments in Wolverine's life. Symbiote Wolverine depicts the New Avenger when he was possessed by a Venom clone, Spacesuit Wolverine shows him in his frequently utilized space armor, Ultimate Wolverine is his well-known Ultimate Universe counterpart and Logan-san in Japanese Robes shows him circa his engagement to Mariko Yashida. Each Minimate stands 2 inches tall, with a variety of interchangeable parts and accessories, including a shirtless look for Logan-San, and removable helmet and armor for Spacesuit Wolverine, to reveal a modern Wolverine costume!

SDCC 2013: Toys R Us Exclusives

Building on its tradition of offering an unbeatable assortment of toys for kids and collectors of all ages, Toys“R”Us® has revealed its lineup of nine exclusive items available in honor of its fifth appearance at the highly anticipated Comic-Con International in San Diego, which will take place from Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21. Offered in partnership with Entertainment Earth® at Booth #2343, conventioneers will find Comic-Con merchandise based on fan favorite series, like Adventure Time™, WINX Club®, TRANSFORMERS, Batman and The Walking Dead.

Toys“R”Us will also provide Comic-Con goers the opportunity to be among the first to purchase exclusive merchandise not yet available in stores, such as the BATMAN Adam West Batmobile, MY LITTLE PONY NIGHTMARE MOON and RAINBOW DASH SHADOW BOLT, The Walking Dead Comic The Governors Daughter Penny, and TRANSFORMERS Masterpiece Acid Storm and Soundwave, among others. These first look items will become available in Toys“R”Us stores nationwide later this year.

Walking Dead Season 4 Banner Revealed

Miss those rosy, adorable, decaying faces? Miss the sounds of moaning echoing down empty roadways? Miss crazy ass Rick Grimes taking care of business...and stuff...and things? Well AMC is gearing up for their annual love fest at San Diego Comic Con and before the big show, they've got a little eye candy for you. Two words. HAMMER TIME.

Can't wait for October? Well..umm...ur gonna have to! August 27th, you can re-live season 3 with the special edition Blu-ray set...complete with floaty zombie heads, sure to brighten up any room. CLICK HERE to pre-order for 30% off! And you can CLICK HERE for more pics of the Walking Dead Season 3 Blu-ray floaty zombie head case as well as lots of upcoming Walking Dead toys from McFarlane!

Funko's Mystery Mini Figure Army

Back in February, Funko (the undisputed masters of cutie transmogrification on all your pop culture loves), showed off several lines of Mystery Mini figures, forever sealing our fates in the hell of blind box collecting...a hell we've been fighting off for many years now. Amid the DC Comics Domos and DC Comics Superheroes and Villains stood a collection in a very unique style, utilized on the creatures and survivors of the blockbuster TV series The Walking Dead. As we OOO'd and Ahhhh'd over these impending plastics of doom, we did not realize mad Mr. Funko was watching from the wings, stroking his beard and whispering "Exxxxcellllent." Today, we see his diabolical plans come to a head.

Presenting...those little frustrating things you'll be spending all your money on for the forseeable future.

Funko Mystery Minis!

Shadow People Coming March 19th

All through college...and well..most of my life, I had horrible insomnia. The one thing I had in common with most fellow insomniacs I trusted enough to confide in were the Shadow People. I'd be driving home from some place and nodding off badly and every time I'd snap up out of it, I'd see these shapes on the side of the road...some appearing to throw things at the car...some actually appearing in front of the car. How I survived all those years is a mystery and my life is generally so odd, I don't give the possible hallucination of shadow people or even the corroboration of a handful of friends who noted they've seen these things too, a second thought...but apparently, someone out there has.

Walking Dead Minimates Series 3 Will Rise this Spring

The dead cannot be stopped, and neither can the Walking Dead Minimates! With Series 2 in Toys "R" Us, comic shops and specialty stores now, Series 3 is gearing up for production from Diamond Select Toys! And like the first two series, it includes popular lead characters, short-lived favorites and zombies straight from the comic book pages!

Coming in Spring 2013, look for the following figures to hit comic shops and specialty stores:

Funko's Series 2 Walking Dead & Game of Thrones

Loved those Walking Dead Pop! Vinyl Figures? Died over the Game of Thrones Pop! Vinyl lineup? Funko knowwwws your deepest desires and is willing to feed them.....for a PRICE!! Actually, the price is pretty cheap, so you are compelled to buy hundreds of the little buggers. Then people will call you a hoarder, but since you are surrounded with adorable little pop culture icons with soulless black eyes..you won't care. It's a vicious cycle.

Let's start with your favorite carnivorous cadavers and the humans who like to dismember them.

Walking Dead Series 2 - shipping to Funko customers 04/04 - Lineup includes Glenn, Michonne, Michonne's Pet 1 and 2 and the Tank Zombie

Aim For the Head..or Not..with The Walking Dead

It's October, and while the air might not be as crisp as we'd like just yet, all the good people of the world should have one thing on their minds right now. HALLOWEEN!!! You've started putting your favorite monster movies on heavy rotation in the DVD player, broke out your Monster Mash vinyl and draped fake cobwebs around your whole house. Sure, a cat went missing in the process...but it's HALLOWEEEEEEN!!! She'll turn up. Now the only thing missing is a creep filled, gore soaked episodic video game on your computer screen. Not to worry...Telltale Games has just what you need with their Walking Dead epic. Here's the latest...

San Diego Comic-Con 2012 : Action Figure Xpress Exclusives

AFX is an old friend of Action-Figure.com (my old haunt) and so we always keep tabs on what Pat and the gang are up to. Being a collectibles retailer (as well as producer), a bunch of their exclusives will be things you'll remember from Diamond Comics and Diamond Select's lineups. Having more than one location to purchase may come in handy with something like the Walking Dead Minimates set!

Once again, Action Figure Xpress (Booth 3345) will be at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International in full force with some incredible exclusives and guests! Comic-con is that special event for fans to get a sneak peek at upcoming products and also to interact with designers, manufacturers, artists, celebrities, and more.

SDCC 2010 Previews Exclusives

The boys who hold a strangle hold on your local comic shops seem to be cooking up their own San Diego Comic Con Exclusives this year (which may or may not be in addition to Diamond Select's offerings, since they are technically a separate entity.) Here's the lineup...

DOCTOR SOLAR MAN OF ATOM #1 EXCLUSIVE KOMARCK VARIANT COVER 2010 SDCC VERSION
Exclusive SDCC alternate cover by Michael Kormarck! Empowered by a thermonuclear catastrophe, Doctor Solar discovers that he can control energy… immeasurable strength is his at a whim. Power beyond imagining courses through his body. But he knows that the same kind of science run amok that created him can also empower the wicked.
LIMITED TO 2,000 COPIES. - $3.50

STEVE ROGERS SUPER-SOLDIER #1 SKETCH VARIANT 2010 SDCC VERSION
Sketch variant cover! From multiple award-winning Captain America scribe Ed Brubaker and acclaimed artist Dale Eaglesham comes a mini-series no Cap or Avengers fan will want to miss!
LIMITED TO 3,000 COPIES. - $3.99

TRUE BLOOD #1 RETAILER EXCLUSIVE 2010 SDCC EDITION
Exclusive SDCC alternate cover! Bon Temps, Louisiana has never been stranger, or more twisted, in a story co-plotted by True Blood series creator Alan Ball, with a script by David Tischman (Bite Club) and Mariah Huehner, and lush art by David Messina (Star Trek: Countdown). Bonus inside every issue: an exclusive pullout gatefold poster by David Messina!
LIMITED TO 2,000 COPIES. - $3.99

SDCC 2010 WALKING DEAD #75 RETAILER EXCLUSIVE EDITION
Exclusive SDCC alternate cover! Lines are crossed, rules are broken and the peace and tranquility of the community is shattered. After months of safety and security, are Rick and the crew prepared for what they now face? This issue is not to be missed!
LIMITED TO 3,000 COPIES. - $3.99

TRON BEARBRICK 2010 SDCC VERSION
A Japanese import! Medicom celebrates Comic-Con International with a true fan release. The Tron Be@rbrick harkens back to the original 1981 Tron release by Tomy. Even the blister packaging has been respectfully revised to resemble that of the original release. This is only available to fans at SDCC!
LIMITED TO 1,500 PIECES. - TBA

MARVEL MINIMATES 90S BOX SET 2010 SDCC VERSION
While the X-Men had long been a cornerstone of the Marvel Universe and Wolverine had already become a fan favorite, they were never more popular than in the early '90s. This box set goes a long way toward completing fans’ Minimates collections of the '90s era X-Men. Combine the debut of Jubilee with the presence of new looks for fan favorites Magneto (his purple M outfit) and Wolverine (full battle damage) and a brand new Bishop, and you've got a set that might just be a fan’s dream come true.
LIMITED TO 2,000 PIECES. - $16.99

ALICE ULTIMATE DETAIL FIGURE CHESS PIECE 2010 SDCC VERSION
MAD HATTER ULTIMATE DETAIL FIGURE CHESS PIECE 2010 SDCC VERSION
A Japanese import! Fans turned out in droves for the release of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland directed by Tim Burton. Now collectors have two more reasons to come to San Diego Comic-Con, as Medicom releases a pair of variants from their widely successful Alice UDF release! This “chess set” variant re-imagines Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska’s Alice as chess pieces.
LIMITED TO 1,500 PIECES EACH. - $19.99 each

FEMME FATALES WHITE TAROT PVC STATUE 2010 SDCC VERSION
Continuing the exciting new line of seductive vinyl statues featuring the most alluring Femme Fatales of modern comics' history, DST and Broadsword present this “Silver Goddess” variant of Jim Balent's own Witch of the Black Rose - Tarot! Standing over 8" tall, this limited edition version of the Sam Greenwell sculpt showcases the magical beauty as she appeared in issue #11 after retrieving the Sword of the Black Rose!
LIMITED TO 750 PIECES. - $39.99