Spin-offs is Blog@Newsarama’s weekly wrap on licensing. Buffy toys cancelled, New Gods toys based on Kirby’s art, and how Aliens Kubrick lead me to find advertisements for old arcade machines.
Diamond Select Cancels Buffy Toys
The comic series is doing well, but the toys are dead. Action-Figure.com reported the Buffy the Vampire Slayer action figures have been cancelled.
As of today Diamond has officially cancelled their Revamped line of Buffy the Vampire Slayer action figures. They are claiming it was due to a lack of interest by the consumers.
Also on it’s death bed is the Judge wave. As per Diamond that wave is scheduled to be cancelled. It has been said they would need to sell an additional 3000 pre-orders of complete sets to make this wave worthwhile.
We are still waiting on an announcement for the upcoming Willow/Kennedy/Kendra wave of Deluxe figures. Based on the above cancellations I don’t get a good feeling for the deluxe figures.
Jack Kirby’s New Gods Action Figures
From DC Direct:
NEW GODS ACTION FIGURES
BASED ON THE ART OF JACK KIRBY
Hot from the pages of COUNTDOWN, inspired by the work of Jack Kirby comes the best-loved heroes of the Fourth World Universe: Noble New Genesis residents Orion, Lightray and Mister Miracle, as well as the evil Darkseid, ruler of Apokolips! Each figure features multiple points of articulation and a base.
Advance-solicited; on sale April 30, 2008 • Action Figures • PIMISTER MIRACLE 6.75”
LIGHTRAY 6.75”
ORION 6.75”
DARKSEID 7.125”
One thing lead to another…
I was trying to convince my boyfriend that buying these would be a good idea.
Mmmmmm… Powerloader.
Unfortunately, I am having a hard time convincing him that Aliens Kubrick is a household need. He’s the kind of guy that only likes things that are “useful”. Or in other words, technological in some way. So I can’t talk him into agreeing to purchase a few little Kubricks, but I did get him into the idea of putting together an Alien vs. Predator Arcade machine, based on the 1994 Capcom side-scroller.
As I was researching this project, I came across this image:
it’s the game flyer for the arcade game. I found on arcadeflyers.com. A pretty nifty website that catalogues promotional advertisement flyers for coin-op machines. It’s a very interesting database with flyers decades old and from all over the world.
They have a lot of scans, including images from Konami’s Uncanny X-Men game, Superman, Star Wars and this image of Captain America crashing through an arcade machine:
August 27th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Darkseid looks sorta…taken aback.
Sweet arcade art, although Captain America looks more like he missed a kick and got stuck in the arcade machine. Or like whoever that is on the screen gnawed his leg off…
Plus the text of that flyer makes mention of a “super hero foursome” which sounds more like a golf outing than an exciting arcade game…
Sorry to hear no powerloader for you. Just find some task it can fulfill, and it’s yours! Maybe Ripley can clean out the cat box?
August 31st, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Not Fair!!! First they cancel the 12-inch line and the regular figures and now they cancel the last lines?! I have been hanging out to get my preorders of Principal Wood, Kendra, Band Candy Giles and Doppelgangland Oz. And whatever happened to the Sanctuary and Enemies Faiths we were teased with pictures of? I was longing for both of those as well.
This is actually the first time I’ve pre-ordered Buffy figures, usually I buy them later on ebay. But I SO wanted these.
Maybe more people would order them if the figures actually looked the same as the prototype pictures for a change. I was disappointed with Chosen Faith and Chosen Giles for example. They didn’t look like the pics, especially Faith. And Giles looked too young. Whereas if he looked young as Band Candy Giles it wouldn’t matter as much since he’s acting young.
September 16th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Any official news on the judge wave….I’ve heard ups and downs…Hope at least that one is saved.