Category: Marvel

NYCC 2011: Hasbro Preview Night Thoughts

While ASM wasn’t at Hasbro’s Preview Night yesterday (congrats to the lucky ones who were!), that doesn’t mean we didn’t go searching the net for pictures of what was on display. Here’s a quick smattering of thoughts from me. Transformers From TFormers.com’s gallery (see it here), I think I’m most psyched about Cyberverse. I used to hate having characters in multiple size-classes. It ruined scale, plus it meant that in my completist days, I had to buy the same character over and over. Well, my completist days are over, and now I love the idea of Cyberverse. If you are

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Press Release: Hasbro Announces New York Comic Con Debut and “NYCC Kids!”

HASBRO ANNOUNCES NEW YORK COMIC CON DEBUT AND TITLE SPONSORSHIP OF “NYCC KIDS!” The Global Branded Play Company to Showcase Its Iconic Pop-Culture Properties at the Convention and Host the National BEYBLADE Championship at New York Comic Con’s “NYCC Kids!” PAWTUCKET, R.I. – SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 – For the first time at New York Comic Con, Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) will attend the convention at the Javits Convention Center in New York City from October 13-16 to present many of its iconic brands and meet with fans. Hasbro will have a significant booth presence featuring current and upcoming products from

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#SDCC Friday Afternoon Gallery Update!

Got some more pictures for you from San Diego Comic-Con 2011: Hasbro – Star Wars – new Vintage, The Clone Wars, Star Wars Transformers and more! Hasbro – Marvel – ROCKET RACOON! Hasbro – Transformers – a second gallery of Transformers Prime toys and more. Diamond Select Toys – Minimates of all sorts Entertainment Earth – Doctor Who, Venture Bros. and more Lucasfilm Pavilion – costumes from Museum Replicas Sideshow Collectibles – Star Wars, DC, Marvel, GI Joe and more ThinkGeek – plush Portal turret, Star Wars Dark Side coffee beans, Space Slug Oven Mitt and more Keep following our Twitter

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Toy Review – Hasbro Marvel Lightning Clash Thor

The Geek Bits Toy Name: Lightning Clash Thor Toyline Name: Thor: The Mighty Avenger Manufacturer: Hasbro Released: March 2011 Availability: General retailers (Target, Walmart, Toys R Us) Price: $7.99 Includes: Thor with light-up hammer and detachable cape Worth the price? 2 out of 5 – Get it on clearance. In honor of the new Marvel/Paramount movie THOR, I decided it was worth reviewing a Thor toy! But which one? After scouring the aisles at a local Target, I chose Lightning Clash Thor. Why? Well, it has a light-up hammer. Light up toys are cool. But was it worth the money?

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Hasbro Marvel Q&A – March 2011 Call for Questions

It’s a new year — okay, so it’s several months into the new year, but who cares about semantics because the Hasbro Marvel Team Q&A program has started up for 2011!  Questions must be in to us by 11:59pm Eastern Time on Thursday, March 24! You can post your questions below, send them to us on Twitter, or send them to hasmarvqa@asmzine.com. We’ll pick the three best questions and send them off to Hasbro. There were no rules sent to us with the new schedule, but we’ll assume that the same rules from last year apply: Hasbro won’t answer questions regarding when certain

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Hasbro Marvel Q&A – December 2010 Answers

You asked and Hasbro answered! Hit the jump to see the answers from Hasbro and Hunter PR! Movie tie-in lines, especially, are known for doing variations of a small set of characters to the point of — what some would call — ridiculousness. What kind of brainstorming process goes into coming up with ideas for gimmick-based variations, what criteria get used to narrow the list down, and which ideas do you lament being cut–or can’t believe actually got used? What criteria do you use to balance the line between how many hero figures (different characters or same character with different

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