FROM WIZARD WORLD CHICAGO DC/MATTEL PANEL
But the main news for Mattel is that the DC Universe line will be coming to toy stores in 2008. "It's the First time we're able to go beyond the Batman and Superman families. Over 3,000 characters are now available to Mattel. We've been working on this deal for a long time. It's a chance to finally give fans what they want."
The new line will also include an all new 6" line sculpted by the Four Horsemen, the four sculptors who once worked with McFarlane Toys, with highly detailed, highly articulated figures and chase characters in every wave. Every one will include a "build-a-figure." There will be five waves, each with five figures, not including variants. Each will have one build-a-figure.
The Classics Wave 1 line was revealed at Comic-Con, which includes Red Tornado and a classic uniform Red Tornado variant, a classic crime-stopper Batman ("who will be able to hold his weapons"), Penguin and a chase version of Penguin, Orion son of Darkseid, and Etrigan: The Demon. The build-a-figure for Wave 1 is Metamorpho.
The second wave of figures in the line have not been announced before and were revealed for the first time in Chicago. Classics Wave 2 will feature: The new Jason Rusch Firestorm with a variant figure available as a chase figure; Aquaman with a variant where he has an alternate head sculpt, also as a chase figure; Black Manta; Harley Quinn with pop gun and wooden mallet; and Blue Superman with a 50/50 split Red Superman. The Superman characters will not be chase characters. Neitlich said buyers do not need to buy both Superman figures to complete the build-a-figure -- only one.
The build-a-figure for the line will be Gorilla Grodd, which will be 25 percent bigger than the regular figure.
i'll probably get them all too.
