Joining the Star Trek Ultimate Quarter-Scale line is your favourite Vulcan, and mine, Mr Spock. Standing a massive 19 inches tall he’s in a detailed Starfleet uniform complete with phaser and communicator accessories, additional Vulcan hands, sound clips from the classic Star Trek series and a display stand… Joe, my colleague in our Edinburgh store saw it arrive this morning and in his own words ‘it’s sodding huge..’.

Ultimate quarter scale Spock

Star Trek at FPI Online >>

Star Trek XI official site >>

Bowen Designs have come up with another stunning, sculptured invocation of Human Rocket, Nova. At 15″ tall including the base, it’s another beautifully rendered design by The Kucharek brothers, as Richard Rider stands in all his modern-garbed glory, with clenched fists ready to face Annihilation. Classy ain’t the word…

’stand and deliver..’

Bowen Designs >>
 

The strange, square, little personifications of your favourite characters have gone all Marvel over at Diamond Select… ‘Series 27 of the Marvel Minimates line will feature both key players and fan-favorites: Ultimate Iron Man & Hulk, Ultimate Thor & Nick Fury, Ultimate Captain America and SHIELD Agent plus the variant Ultimate World War II Captain America. With key accessories like Thor’s enchanted hammer, Cap’s shield and removable Iron Man armor, nothing will be able to stop your Ultimate Minimate army!

Look for both of these all-star waves in the April issue of Diamond Previews and look for these in comic book stores nationwide this August!‘

Now I personally have never seen the rabid attraction of these little guys but a friend of mine goes ga-ga every time a new wave appears. I’ve offered to pay for counselling but he just throws my obsession with Adam Hughes drawings in my face. Go figure (no pun intended)…

Diamond Select >>

Minimates at FPI Online >>

Here’s the official blurb… ‘McFarlane Toys will be offering a Toys “R” Us Grifball Spartan to be sold during San Diego Comic-Con 2009. This Spartan features the highly coveted Recon armor, plus a Bomb, Gravity Hammer and Sword Hilt.

The Grifball Spartan is limited to 6,000 pieces and will sell for $15.’

McFarlane Toys >>

Halo 3 at FPI Online >>

And for some cartoonish joy here’s Father Jack from Father Ted as rendered by the Eclectic Micks.. ‘Feck, arse, drink, girls!..’

Eclectic Micks Happy St. Paddy’s Day!

Terminator Salvation is almost upon us (look, 2 months is almost upon in my book), and we get an action figure that might actually be worth the moolah. Hot Toys have unleashed a 1/6 scale figure of the saviour of mankind, John Connor, with a pretty damn impressive likeness to Christian Bale. Even has Bale’s trademark scowl. Whether it comes with authentic on-set meltdown sounds is unfortunately unlikely. Now for the specs…

Hot Toys True-Type figure body with over 36 points of articulation. The John Connor 12 inch Figure features:

* Leather jacket
* Pants
* T-shirt
* Tactical full body harness
* Headset
* Radio with pouch
* M4 magazine pouches
* Pistol Magazine pouch
* Demolition blocks
* Drop leg panel
* Armband
* Patch
* Assault boots
* Tactical gloves
* M4A1 with tactical red dot sight
* XM-26 LSS
* Line launcher
* Pistol with holster
* Tactical fixed blade

Nice.

Terminator Salvation at FPI Online >>

Terminator Salvation Movie Website >>

And if you want even more, check out Terminator Salvation Game >>

Ok, so there’s a big superhero flick opening this week, but come May the future is coming to kick humanity’s ass in Terminator Salvation; and finally there’s been a bit of design/content updating on the official site - http://terminatorsalvation.warnerbros.com/ - including the first 2 trailers in which Christian Bale continues to do his best Jack Bauer vocal impression. The design is fairly typical of the big budget scifi movie fraternity, lots of little text tics and glyphs that don’t actually mean anything but kudos for the massive in your face trailer stream (you can choose a more low key version). Most annoying? Still no downloads, I mean come on, you can put together a nice flash site for us but you can’t make some wallpapers?

For the absolute latest trailer, released this week, click here >

In the meantime you can also check out our Terminator Salvation merch here >. And if you’re wandering by a news-stand Empire Magazine’s current ish has gone Terminator with info on number 4 and a retrospective on the 25 years since the original was released. Yes, that’s 25 years. I only retain my sanity by the knowledge that I was way too young to watch it then. Legally that is…

Although it seem the world, his wife, their dog, and that strange guy that lives down at number 42 are focussed entirely on Watchmen at the moment (opens on Friday March 6 don’t you know..), another monumental event is happening this month; 2009’s Dungeons and Dragons Day. Strictly speaking it’s ‘days’ though as it’s being split into Players’ Handbook 2 (March 21), Monster Manual 2; and Dungeon Master’s Guide 2.

From Wizards.com > ‘Prepare yourself (and your friends) to join D&D fans all around the world on March 21st for Worldwide D&D Game Day: Player’s Handbook 2. Everything you need to play will be on-hand, so it’s a great chance for new players, as well as veterans, to band together and find some adventure.

Ilvarra, drow avenger
Markaria, tiefling invoker
Roswyn, gnome bard
Squeaks, warforged barbarian
Balasar, dragonborn paladin (uses material from the upcoming Divine Power product)‘

Gamingreport.com has a list of participating locations, including Forbidden Planet in Nottingham (01159 484 122).

Yes, scary though it may seem to my colleague and comics uberman Joe Gordon, The Forbidden Planet International Comics (and all sorts of other stuff) Blog is four years old. Congratulations, and… where’s my slice of cake?

We are (fantastic) four >>

Fear of merchandising saturation arrives with any big budget event movie, and Watchmen is no exception. However every now and then something gets produced which really tickles my fancy and lo and behold, actually does some good into the bargain. The Organic Coffee Cartel has been enlisted by Watchmen photographer Clay Enos to produce a first-of-its-kind movie tie-in coffee for WATCHMEN…

‘Introducing Veidt Enterprise’s “Nite Owl Dark Roast,” a limited-edition confection and collectible designed for fans and organic coffee gourmands alike. A majority of the proceeds from the special roast will be donated to charity.’

I’ve admittedly ordered one… whether I ever actually drink it is another question.

Watchmen at FPI Online >>