Figures & Collectables (page 3)

Justice League papercraft

Fold and assemble Justice League bobble head figures will be available with Arby’s K!DS meals. Their website still says coming soon,

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but readers on the Experience Wonder message board have reported sightings in the wild.

The figures themselves were designed by Matt Hawkins of Custom Paper Toys. Matt posted pictures of the assembled figures to his Flickr account.

Arby's JLA set

Unfortunately the line doesn’t include Batman for licensing reasons, but reverse the Superman figure and you get Bizarro instead.

[via Robot 9]

Earth-One Supergirl variant figure – the dead one

This could be one of the stranger DC action figures that I’ve seen…

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These are pictures of the DC Universe: Infinite Heroes – The Heart of Crisis variant of the Earth-One Supergirl. More specifically they’re of the dead Earth-One Supergirl from the cover of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #7.

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Notice that even the blister pack has Superman holding Supergirl. Maybe they’ll do a Green Lantern variant that comes with a refrigerator.

Cry For Justice (quote/cover), JLU Bail Out, Unwanted Advice

  • Dan Didio on the status of the League: “We’re leading into a very interesting story taking place with the Justice League of America. The Cry For Justice miniseries premiers in July, and again, it will reexamine the status quo and the motivation of our heroes. There’s some really interesting twists and turns along the way, and more importantly what it will do is bring a stronger focus on what the Justice League is all about and create the through line into the Justice League as well as other series going into the new year.” [IGN]
  • DC’s Source has posted the cover for the second issue of James Robinson’s JLA mini-series.

Justice Speedway of America

One of the stranger cross promotion events came to a conclusion last weekend at the Michigan speedway. The Justice League cartoon show in conjunction with Hotwheels Toys and NASCAR racing used one of their races to stage a mock superhero battle. A number of the cars were painted with livery displaying the heroes of the Justice League cartoon. The race was (logically enough) won by The Flash car driven by Greg Biffle. I’m not really sure how familiar the drivers were with their League totems, but Biffle wasn’t the only person to refer to the Flash as Flash Gordon and others mistook the Green Lantern for the Green Hornet.


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