Welcome to Day Four of "Impromptu Super Powers Gallery Week!"  It’s Euro-Disney time!   Okay, that was lame, but do you know how difficult it is to write concurrent witty opening statements for days on end?  It’s damn tough, I tells ya.  Today we serve up a healthy helping of European goodness, both with "Free Poster" stickers and without.  As you can tell, the cards are much smaller than their US counterparts…with what looks to be Spanish, German and English language on them.  Hey, that might be where I got the "Tri-Lingual" moniker from, eh?  Every figure was probably released with and without the sticker, tho not all of them have surfaced in the collecting community as of yet.  Here’s what I’ve got so far, and of particular note is the Lex Luthor…the crappiest condition figure I own.  It’s a turd, but hey…I’m happy to have him as a permanent resident.  I’ve only seen one other example and it’s in just as turdy of shape.  Okay, enough about turd-boy-Luthor…pretty picture time, so enjoy! 

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The 2009 Mattel / Toyfare Magazine DC Universe Classics Fans’ Choice Vote is now live!  Click the image below to go cast your vote now!  Then head over to to the forums to discuss the voting..  (Thanks to forum member xrmc20 for pointing out that the vote was live!)

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It’s Day Three here at "Impromptu Super Powers Gallery Week," where on a whim I decided to just take good shots of everything I have foreign-wise and share them with everyone here at AFI and…well, does anyone *outside* of AFI read this thing?  Chime in if ya do, I’d love to hear from you.   Anyway, this go-around we have Gulliver…a Brazilian toy company that I’ve gotten quite fond of over the last 6 months or so. They produced both Super Powers, Secret Wars and Future Warriors (yeah!) figures, tho their Super Powers releases were pretty much in-line with the path Kenner took early on as opposed to the rockin’ designs they did for their Secret Wars releases.  Save for one crazy hallucinatory moment that produced the quirky and bizarre El Captain Ray figure, their releases are pretty much main characters.  Since I don’t have Ray himself I won’t be picturing him here, but rest assured that when I acquire one he’ll be the subject of his own blog.  He’s just too cool to not highlight by himself.  Gulliver Super Powers are all about cheap…flimsy cards, wafer-thin easily-damaged bubbles, and figures that Cason, Pierre and Matt could destroy as far as quality.  Don’t take my word for it, tho…on to the photos!

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Hello, and welcome to Day Two of "Impromptu Super Powers Gallery Week" here at "The Highlight" as presented by "Men of Action" here at "Action Figure Insider."  Yes, the quotation marks are being thrown around "liberally" and "frequently" for this go-around as we take a look at Brazilian company Estrela’s Super Powers releases.  The more I think about it, the more I’d like to do a "run-down" blog of all the companies that produced Super Powers figures throughout the world.  I think that’d be a nice companion piece to all these galleries.  Then maybe Jason "Toy Otter" Geyer could copy/paste it into his archive at some point.  While y’all are formulating your thoughts on whether or not you’d like to see that (please let me know if you do), enjoy the images!

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I was goofing around with the light box today and taking some pictures for the website when I decided to start taking good, quality images of everything I have.  So, I figured people might enjoy seeing some of the results.  While I don’t have enough information to do a formal blog on the Super Amigos line, I’ll just let the pictures do the talking for now.  Luthor and Darkseid are en route as I type this, but I’m sure Alex won’t mind me using his pictures of them until I replace them with my own.  Enjoy!

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Hey there, Xenozoic fans! After posting a blog about the Cadillacs & Dinosaurs toy line a month ago I received some feedback from creator Mark Schultz. I had a couple specific questions I was hoping Mark would elaborate on and he kindly obliged. Although there are lots of other interesting topics we could talk about, like him being the writer on the Sunday Prince Valiant strip or his new book: The Stuff of Life we’re going to focus again on an old line of action figures.

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Here’s wishing everyone a fun and safe holiday as we celebrate our independence.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

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The annual Origins Games Fair was held this past week in Columbus, Ohio and I was able to go and check things out for two of the five days the show ran for.

Every year it seems there are a couple of games that catch my eye. This year is no exception.  Ex Illis from Bastion and Arcane Legions from the newly formed Wells Expeditions (a new game company from the founders of WizKids) are the two games that I am actively following the development of this year.  Ex Illis is a bit further out, so we’ll save that for a future blog. Arcane Legions, however, was on display at Origins.

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