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Highlights and photos from Toy Fair 2011 – The Walking Dead, Terminator, Duke Nukem, Pirates LEGOs, BioShock, Ghostbusters, and more
I visited Toy Fair 2011 today in New York from the comfort of my office in Florida by way of coverage of the annual event from Collider.com and ActionFigs.com.
I wish I had been there in person, but since I wasn’t, sifting through photo galleries was the next best thing. And I pulled out pictures of the toys, action figures, and other fun things that I’ll most likely be buying when they hit the market soon.
So here’s my vicarious photo report from Toy Fair 2011 of what I’m most looking forward to…
Terminator
I have quite the collection of Terminator 2 figures already, so I’m quite happy to see NECA coming out with a couple of Arnold from the original Terminator as well. Plus more fun sculpts of the T-1000 are always fun too:
Best new toys and collectibles at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con
Judging from the amount of toys showcased at Comic-Con, if I attended, I would probably spent most of my time staring at them wishing the release dates were sooner than later. Of course, that’s exactly what I’m doing here at home, so I suppose there’s really no difference. Anyway, here are my favorite toys, sculptures, and other collectibles that I’ve found photos of:
Ghostbusters from Mattel
I’m extremely excited to finally get my hands on some official Ghostbusters action figures. Egon comes out in just a couple of weeks followed by the rest over time. There’s even a figure of movie “villain” Walter Peck coming out, complete with containment unit accessory. It appears that the figures were guarded at Comic-Con by some Ghostbusters booth babes.
Pictures from toynewssi.com and mwctoys.com – Visit both sites to see a ton of more Ghostbusters figure photos.
TweetNew Cobra Commander Action Figure, Kinda
I was almost looking forward to this summer’s G.I. Joe movie, until I saw this…
From retroist.com:
Cobra Commander in silver mask or hood is iconic? Why mess with that? Bad decision…
I also don’t understand why Hollywood feels the need to mess with a good thing. I’m not saying Cobra Commander necessarily needed to be wearing a bright-blue jumpsuit, but the expressionless shiny mask is REQUIRED. Since when does Cobra Commander where a modified plastic version of an aircraft breathing mask? It looks like something we would have seen in from a TIE Fighter pilot in Star Wars rather than in G.I. Joe.
Hopefully, this is just one of many of Cobra Commander’s looks in the film.
TweetFRIDAY FLASHBACK: GI Joe – Then and Now
After seeing the Super Bowl ad a few weeks ago, I thought it’d be fun to post some clips of…
GI Joe -- Then and Now
A teaser/trailer for the upcoming live-action film GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra was premiered during the recent Super Bowl. I was never a HUGE GI Joe fan, but I definitely grew up watching it here and there and owned a few of the coolest action figures. Cobra Commander and Destro were always my favorite.
So, I was excited to see what the new GI Joe would look like:
Hm. Not quite what I had in mind. Other than the new Snake Eyes’ costume, is there anything in that entire trailer that even resembles GI Joe? The Baroness vaguely looks like her former self, but the rest seem to bear no resemblence. Moreover, I saw no shiny silver masks.
Now let’s take a trip back to the ’80s and enjoy the original animated GI Joe film’s amazing intro:
Unfortunately, Chris Latta passed away in 1994, so we won’t hear his amazing Cobra Commander voice in the new film. But how can it truly be GI Joe without that wonderfully awful shrieking voice?
While we’re at it, let’s enjoy the old GI Joe television series intro too:
And wouldn’t it make a great series of promos for the new film if they got the cast to record some live-action PSAs like this:
I don’t have any hope for the new GI Joe film to even remotely resemble the GI Joe of the past, but at least we can still enjoy these clips today.
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