If you are into toys at all, you’ve undoubtedly thought about it. If you are into toys and have friends who are also into toys, it’s more than likely that you’ve all had this conversation with each other. What is your holy grail? It seems simple enough… but what if you don’t have a grail?

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What follows is an email exchange between myself and Paul Levitz, President of DC Comics.  If you want something, I always say aim for the top.  And I had his email address.  I hope he doesn’t mind.

me:

Fri 1/7/2005 4:55 PM

Subject: Mattel, JLU, and Captain Atom

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As most board members know from reading my posts, I’m not only a big fan of the JLU action figure line…I’m also a vocal proponent of the line being "complete."  By "complete" I mean all of the important characters being immortalized in plastic.  Now, I realize that some characters like Captain Cold are important to some folks (as to why, I have no idea…heh), but I’m defining "importance" here as to the show itself.  Significant amount of airtime, speaking roles (not just lines), being focal to the plot and story arcs, history in the DCAU, defining moments, etc.  I factor in all of these when deciding which characters NEED to be made before the line rides off into the sunset.  Seeing as how I’ve used up my quota of quotation marks, I’ll begin.  Yes, these are ranked for a reason.   

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 You may remember my recent article about "A Perfect JLU 3 Pack".

 http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/blog/superfriend/a-perfect-jlu-3-pack/

 Unfortunately, I’m not sure Mattel saw it.  Because this isn’t one of them.

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Sigh.

As an action figure collector this is one of my least favorite times of the year. It’s the Countdown to the San Diego Comic Con, and the toy news lull the preceeds it.

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Part 5 – Saturday, Sunday, Monday.  Catholic mission, trolley tour, the Con, Tijuana, aquarium, marine history.

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You may be wondering why these are so close together.  I’m trying to get this up so folks who have never been will get an idea of what else you can do there.

Wednesday thru Friday.

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So there you are, in San Diego, and you have a week.  How do you spend it?  Well, we used the AAA tourbook to pick out a bunch of stuff.  This is how we spent our 1st 4 days.

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Every year there are more and more exclusive toys and statues at San Diego Comic Con. Who can keep track of all of ‘em? Well, get your wallets out  ’cause here’s the list you want to bring with you to the big show! (Images, prices, piece numbers and more items to be added as they are announced!) 

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Perhaps you’ve heard me refer to my "little brother," Johnny. To avoid confusion I’m referring to the terrific 10 year old boy I was matched up with through the "Big Brothers Big Sisters" program.

Johnny has 3 brothers (the sibling kind) and 2 cousins. Whereas I thought all of these boys would be easy prey for indoctrination into the wonderful world of action figures it didn’t quite work out that way. Don’t get me wrong, they all think my collection is cool but there just isn’t that spark for them. Back when Johnny and I were first matched up he was playing a lot of World of Warcraft. This was well before DC Direct launched their amazing WoW line so I had to scramble to find one of the SOTA’s 2004 WoW PVC figures (the Tauren Shaman.) Again, Johnny thought it was cool but there was none of that "look at the back of the package to see what other characters are available" thing. I backed off.

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