SERIES 1

By Daniel "Julius Marx" Pickett and Jason "ToyOtter" Geyer

Marvel Toys’ long anticipated follow-up to Marvel Legends is finally here, and AFI is going to give you an in-depth look at the first two assortments! Harkening back tot he glory days of Mego, Jesse Falcon and the team at Marvel toys has given us what promises to be just the beginning of a giant universe of comics based properties all in the same scale and style as the existing ML one. These first two assortments are wanting for nothing and start the line of with a big ass bang. So let’s take a look, shall we? 

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SERIES 2

By Daniel "Julius Marx" Pickett and Jason "ToyOtter" Geyer

Marvel Toys’ long anticipated follow-up to Marvel Legends is finally here, and AFI is going to give you an in-depth look at the first two assortments! So assortment to continues the frivolity of fun and gives us not only a bunch of cool looking characters but more importantly the building blocks to make one big ass monkey. Do you dare to read on? 

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Once again, Mike "Sdcomics" Walker has braved the crowds, attended the panels, and stood in line for 4 hours to get a bad hotdog just to bring you his amazing reportage directly from the floor of the San Diego Convention Center! Julius Marx risked his life to bring you all the pictures! And ToyOtter sat at home watching reruns of "The Cable Guy" waiting for reports to trickle in so he could type them up and put them all online for you, our loyal readers! So what are you waiting for? Go get reading!!!

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BOTCON 2007!

A look at the madness and the machines by Erik "Superfriend" Skov

Prologue
I never thought Rhode Island was big enough to have a convention. So it came as a surprise when my kids came home last Wednesday and said they had seen a sign for BotCon. I ran to the computer and googled it. This weekend, starting tomorrow in fact, was the biggest Transformers Convention ever. And it was going to be here, practically in my back yard. How could I not go? I checked with the other folks at AFI. Sure they would run a feature on BotCon if I went, took the pictures, and wrote the article. I printed down the schedule and was ready to go.

Saturday I collected my digital camera, a few granola bars and a bottle of water and I was off. Parking was easy. I walked in to be greeted by a giant picture of Optimus Prime, banners for the movie, and a giant robotic hand holding a bomb. The time shown on the bomb = the time left until the movie premiered. Then I went and stood in line.

Getting In
While waiting in line I spied a bunch of AttackTix. It was the remains of the AttackTix tournament, which had been held earlier. When I asked a Hasbro person if I could take pictures of the AttackTix, Chris here asked me if I would interview a fan. I said sure! Chris has been a fan of Transformers since he was 4 years old in 1984. (Trick question – when did Transformers start? Hint – Chris was 4.) So he’s been a fan since the beginning. Chris is posing here with his two best pieces he bought today so far. Chris was also one of a whole bunch of volunteers helping out at BotCon.

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Justice League Unlimited

Hawkman 3-pack

We’re now one more character closer to the Super Powers line

At long last we have Hawkman in the JLU line. Hawkman is an interesting one as he’s been on the list as a possible figure and then was off the "can make" list for awhile. But Mattel kept asking and now we are one figure closer to having all of the Super Powers characters in the animated style from Mattel. With the release of the Joker and Hawkman in this wave (and using John Stewart for Green Lantern and forgetting the Hal debate) we are only missing the Penguin from the original 12 figures in the first wave of Super Powers figures. If you’re not a stickler for scale Hasbro made 2 versions of the animated Penguin in their B:TAS lines.

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