This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's Transformers: Generations Nightbeat.
Now, there was a Generations Nightbeat, under the "Thrilling 30" heading in 2014. It was retooling of Goldbug, but that wasn't the original plan.
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Thanks to Green Lantern, we know the planet Melmac, in the Adromeda galaxy, exists in the DC Universe - but it turns out it also exists in the Marvel Universe!
In the '80s, Marvel published an ALF comic that managed to run for 53 issues. 
In the '80s, when companywide crossovers were just gaining popularity, Marvel tended to restrict theirs to the books' Annuals, rather than interrupting the main story; the 1988 crossover was "The Evolutionary War," in which the High Evolutionary undertakes several simultaneous efforts to accelerate human evolution, meaning lots of different heroes could fight him in lots of different ways without having to, say, gather in one room and talk about it first; it's hard to conceive of a threat that both the Silver Surfer and the Punisher can deal with, y'know? Anyway, ALF Annual #1 got the "Evolutionary War" trade dress and the High Evolutionary showed up in two of the contained stories, warning ALF not to interfere with his plans for humanity. And also theorizing that Phoenix was the one who destroyed Melmac (though ALF said he had never heard of her).
Shift and Scope weren't the only ones to get specialized Weapons Packs in Series 2 of the Final Faction toys: team spy Torn also had a dedicated set, though it's very odd and not really what you'd normally think of as being conducive to sneaky infiltration types. It also isn't something that's appeared on the cartoon yet, but considering where he was left off last time, he may find it (or something similar) soon.
Find out what toy-related items you can get at your local comicshop this Wednesday.
This art was created by Jordan Gibson for a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II variant cover:
Designed to look like one of the old VHS boxes, it was used on issue #4, though not the logo - apparently that was too much of a legal hassle.
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At long last it's happened: Goncharov Funko POP!s:
Everybody always talks about the boat scene, or the stuff about the clocks, but for my money, the thing everybody should be talking about is the fact that director Matteo JWHJ0715, a man who is ethnically half-license-plate, somehow managed to get a young Andre the Giant as the goon guarding that old-timey computer bank!
Super7 Animaniacs addendum
Unlike Yakko and Wakko, Dot does not have a signature song. It's not like Tress MacNeille can't sing, but "I'm Cute" is more of a trivia note than something memorable. Come on, guys, she could have sung the universe song or something!
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