The good folks over at Marvelous News released a bunch of pics of the upcoming Iron Man 2 6" line of figures that will be released as exclusive figures to Walmart.

On one hand, this is great news to the people out there who were less than pleased to heart about the Iron Man 2 figures making the switch to 1:18 scale (not me, I love them!), and now all of your 6" figure lovers can have new Iron Man figures to match your figures from the first movie. Yay!

The one downer to all of this is that they are Walmart exclusives, because, quite frankly, I'm getting sick of all of these exclusive toylines. It's bad enough that Walmart snagged the exclusive rights to the entire How to Train Your Dragon toy-line, but now they have to have all of the 6" Iron Man 2 figures too?

Don't get me wrong, having an exclusive vehicle or a special collectors pack in a toyline is one thing, but to completely monopolize an entire line is not cool. Especially for people like me, who doesn't have a Walmart that close by (Yes folks, there are still some places on this Earth where Walmart has not encroached.)

Still, I may just end up out that way one day and have to stock up in one go. In the meantime, I'll just have to content myself with the brilliant 1:18 scale figures. Did I mention that they are awesome? Well, they are. Reviews to come.

Well, once again, Mattel serves up a heaping amount of misery for it's fans as another stellar example of poor customer traffic management and inadequate stock production this past Monday when their much anticipated, and equally debated (flocked ears or no flocked ears?), MOTUC Mossman figure went on sale.

I have made no secret about my love/hate relationship with Mattycollector, and have occasionally had to make the decision either to skip a figure out of lack of interest (Trap Jaw) or lack of funds (Skeletor reissue), but I was there with bells on at 9 AM Pacific time when the Mossman figure went on sale. To make a long story short, 9 minutes of white screen later and the figures were completely sold out. I never even got a chance. I later heard that one version of Mossman sold out in 4 minutes.

Couple this with the fact that I spent several hours at a comic convention this past weekend looking at piles and piles of over-priced MOTUC figures being hawked by low-life scalpers (none of which were being bought by anyone, so how exactly does this work?), and I have decided that I have to take drastic measures.

I hereby declare that I am washing my hands of this whole MOTUC thing. Collecting action figures is supposed to be about having fun, not being routinely exasperated by toy-makers and gouged by scalper scumbags. I'm not having any fun whatsoever in my endeavor to find these figures. Sure, they're awesome figures, as you'll see in my upcoming Battlecat review, but they're just not worth the aggrivation to me.

So, I quit Mattel. I will no longer buy your MOTUC figures. Which is probably fine for other MOTUC collectors, because that's just more figures for them, or at least more figures for the scalpers to snap up and resell to you for over twice their original prices. You all have fun with that.

Thanks to the good folks over at Toy News International, we're getting a sneak peek of DCU's latest World of Warcraft offerings.

I'll be the first to admit that these figures are stunningly sculpted, amazingly painted and brilliantly detailed, but for me, that just doesn't make up for the fact that these are essentially statues with a couple of points of articulation. The pose you get is the pose you get. So you better really like it.

I don't play WoW, so maybe I'm missing something here. I imagine to WoW fans, these statues figures are pretty epic.

In fact, being a Conan fan, I have been tempted to pick up the Lo'Gosh figure, because he looks an awful lot like the King of Aquilonia, but the lack of articulation has kept me from shelling out the cash.

Anyway, take a look at the TNI link above or visit DC Unlimited: World of Warcraft site for more pics of giant monsters holding swords.

I was never a big She-Ra fan, mostly due to the fact that, as a kid, I considered She-Ra to be a girls cartoon, despite the fact that her arch nemesis, Hordak, was 800 lbs of sheer awesomeness. So, I'm only mildly excited about the upcoming release of the MOTUC She-Ra figure.

However, it's my duty to point people in the direction of some cool pics that Matty just released, which has set many MOTUC fans abuzz with excitement. You can see the pictures by visiting the Mattycollector Facebook Page.

The part I did find interesting however, was her biography, which you can just make out in the pics, or read thanks to Poe Ghostal's efforts in typing it out for us:

Channeling the combined Power of the Universe and the Wisdom of the Elders of Eternia, Adora transforms into She-Ra, the most powerful woman in the Universe. Her strength comes not from brute force but from sheer will and her cunning magical powers and healing abilities. She also has the power to communicate telepathically with animals. As both She-Ra and Adora, she helped lead the Great Rebellion of Etheria against the Horde invaders. Later, when Hordak found an escape to Eternia, she followed him along with several of her friends and allies. Once there, the Princess of Power joined forces with her now-renegade Masters of the Universe, who without King Randor, had become outcasts in their own land, fighting against Hordak's new tyranny!

Now I wish I would have watched She-Ra more as a kid. Not that I needed another reason to get beat up a lot.