{"id":2519,"date":"2011-04-02T02:18:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T06:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2013-05-11T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T20:50:14","slug":"flippin-through-previews-april-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Flippin' Through Previews - April '11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's time once again to thumb through the toy section of this month's Previews, and see what goodies we can uncover. Scheduled to start shipping in June.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The DC Direct <b>Flashpoint<\/b> figures we showed you at Toy fair are on page 134. They're due July 20.<\/p>\n<p>Page 137 shows two GL offerings: the <b>Blackest Night Box Set<\/b>, which will come out November 9, and <b>Green Lantern Series 4<\/b>, which should be out the week before.<\/p>\n<p>IDW's <b>Transformers<\/b> listings begin on 149, and run until <b>GI Joe<\/b> starts on page 152.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marvel Minimates Series 41<\/b> is listed on page 372. That's the one with Spidey\/Green Goblin, Hulk\/Iron Man and Mr. Sinister\/Nimrod.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on page 374, an <b>X-Men First Class<\/b> Minimates set. The comic, not the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond Select needs to learn what calling something a \"figure\" means. The <b>Femme Fatales Lady Death<\/b> on page 375 is a statue, not a figure.<\/p>\n<p>But if you flip to 376, the <b>Universal Select Dracula and Frankenstein<\/b> actually do count as figures. Hard to believe it's almost Halloween again!<\/p>\n<p>There are some new <b>Indie Spotlight two-packs<\/b> from Shocker Toys on page 378.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of DC figures on 379, and lots of shocking prices. The <b>Batman Legacy<\/b> single figures will apparently be $20. The two-packs will be $38. <b>Green Lantern Movie Masters<\/b> will be $22. Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>There's a new series of <b>Marvel Universe<\/b> toys on page 384, with Dr. Strange, Falcon, Apocalypse and Scarlet Spider. There are also <b>Thor<\/b> toys and a super generic <b>Superhero Squad<\/b> listing.<\/p>\n<p>The new <b>Thundercats<\/b> toys are listed on page 391, including lots never seen before!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, there are two <b>Thundercats ministatues<\/b> on page 394.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ghostbusters<\/b> fans should check out the \"Imports\" section. There's a sexy bishoujo statue on page 404, and plushes on page 410.<\/p>\n<p>Page 408 has two nigh-identical <b>Doctor Who<\/b> sets, with the scarfy one and some Daleks.<\/p>\n<p>You know those 4\" <b>Crysis<\/b> figures you've seen in Target? There are more shown on page 413, right below a listing for <b>Assassin's Creed<\/b> figs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - April '13\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-13\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - April '13<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - June '13\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/flippin-through-previews-june-13\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - June '13<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Lego Dimensions gets a little underhanded\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/lego-dimensions-gets-a-little-underhanded\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lego Dimensions gets a little underhanded<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"C2E2 - DC Direct Booth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/c2e2-dc-direct-booth\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">C2E2 - DC Direct Booth<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A second Thundercats trailer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/a-second-thundercats-trailer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A second Thundercats trailer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's time once again to thumb through the toy section of this month's Previews, and see what goodies we can uncover. Scheduled to start shipping in June. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Minimate Mini-Review #66 - Lab Coat Egon Spengler &#038; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/flippin-through-previews-april-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[238,52,122,54,90,53,73],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews","tag-assassins-creed","tag-batman","tag-doctor-who","tag-ghostbusters","tag-green-lantern","tag-minimates","tag-thundercats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12193,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/12193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}