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New York Toy Fair Round-Up: Diamond Select Toys and Marvel Comics

February 21, 2012 - New York Toy Fair is over, and the Diamond Select Toys booth was a whirlwind of activity the whole time, thanks to a bunch of cool new license announcements, as well as some great reveals from their existing lines. Since the show isn't open to the public, Diamond Select was nice enough to send over some shots from around the booth, the first batch coming from their section dedicated to the Marvel universe! Check out the pics attached, including their new offerings from The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man and Marvel Comics!

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HeroClix Online Showcases Marvel Galactic Guardians

Previews New Figures Ahead of Physical Release

February 21, 2012 - HeroClix Online developers today announced the next online set to be featured in the "Figure of the Week" program, in which two figures from an upcoming set are made available weekly for a limited, promotional price. The new set, from Marvel, showcases the upcoming Galactic Guardians collection and will run this Thursday, February 23 through Wednesday, March 21.

Not only will the figures be made available in advance of the full collection and at a promotional price, but they also offer a preview for players and collectors of the physical game as the physical Galactic Guardians figure sets will hit store shelves March 21.

Figure details for the first two weeks will be revealed on HeroClix fan site, HeroClix World, and figures will be made available in the official HCO store.

MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT REVEALS PLANS FOR CHICAGO COMIC & ENTERTAINMENT EXPO (C2E2)

Joe Quesada and Axel Alonso to Join Leading Marvel Talent Including Jason Aaron, Rick Remender and Dan Slott

Official C2E2 Poster to Feature Avengers VS. X-Men in Battle at Chicago Landmark

Norwalk, CT, February 21, 2012: Many top writers and creators will be joining Marvel Entertainment at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) as the renowned comic books and media entertainment company announces plans for the annual pop culture gathering which will take place April 13 – 15, 2012 in the North Building at the McCormick Place Convention Center. Joe Quesada, Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment, and Axel Alonso, Marvel's Editor-in-Chief, will be joined by other notable Marvel creators including Jason Aaron, Rick Remender and Dan Slott.

SABAN BRANDS AND PRESSMAN TOY TEAM UP TO INTRODUCE BOARD GAMES BASED ON POWER RANGERS SAMURAI TV SERIES FOR 2012
- Available at Mass and Specialty Retailers Nationwide in June 2012
- Showcased at the New York Toy Fair, Booth #643

New York, February 10, 2012 – Pressman Toy Corporation, known for delighting families with classic games and innovative licensed products for nearly 100 years, announces a licensing deal with Saban Brands to develop games based on the #1 kids' action series Power Rangers Samurai. The series is currently appearing on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons, five days a week. Pressman Toy's games based on this series will be available at mass and specialty retailers nationwide in June 2012.

"The Power Rangers have been an iconic staple in the lives of children for nearly 20 years," said Jim Pressman, president of Pressman Toy Corporation. "When we learned that the series was being revamped by its original creator, Haim Saban, we knew the Power Rangers Samurai series would be sensational. We are excited to enhance this phenomenon with our line of games."

K'NEX BRANDS Releases First Line Of Angry Birds Building Sets
Officially-Licensed Building Toys by K'NEX Will Allow Kids to Build & Play in the Angry Birds World

Hatfield, PA - February 09, 2012 - K'NEX, the only US construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love™, is pleased to introduce its first line of officially licensed building sets inspired by Angry Birds, the #1 paid app of all time. Young Angry Birds fans will soon be able to build and play with characters from their favorite app including Red Bird, Yellow Bird and King Pig.

The new products combine the award-winning K'NEX building system with beloved characters from Angry Birds, bringing them from the smartphone to the construction aisle for the first time!

Angry Birds Intro Assortment Building Sets

Monster High™ Fashion Fads Are All The Rage At Toy Fair 2012

New York, NY - (February 12, 2012) - Fashion Angels Enterprises readies scary cool, craft and fashion kits, as it debuts all new items in its line of products licensed from Mattel for Monster High™.

Fashion Angels will unveil all new spooktacular Monster High™ licensed product items at New York Toy Fair 2012 (booth #117), like the Monster High™ Hair Chox, Monster High™ Fashion Sticker Stylist, and Monster High™ Velvet Poster Collection, that will join Fashion Angels' hottest selling product line.

Fashion Angels Enterprises CEO, Mark Miller, said, "We are extremely excited to add to our wildly popular product line for Monster High. The characters are so popular that we have really concentrated on adding some intensely innovative new items that complement the brand's fashion-forward, monster-chic aesthetic."

February 2012 - First, we wanted to thank everyone who attended and participated in Toypocalypse 2: Futuretro. Those of you who were able to submit a custom Outer Space Men figure - we couldn't be more grateful to you. Thank you SO much! We think the show was a tremendous success and we had a blast doing it. We can't wait to do it again next year! We're already stressing out about what we're going to try to do to top it.

The very first Cosmic Creators series of figures and special edition print did incredibly well at the show and we wanted to let everyone know that if you didn't get the chance to attend, there will be a very limited amount of them made available on Store Horsemen this Monday night (February 20th) at 9pm est.

As at the Toypocalypse 2: Futuretro show, these four unique figures and incredible print all together will cost $125.00 per set (plus shipping & handling), and once they're sold out, they're gone for good!

February 17, 2012 - (Sponsor Announcement) - Online retailer Urban-Collector has several new items of interest to collectors:

This week we are featuring new pre-orders including Harley Quinn Bishoujo, Harley Quinn Play Arts Kai figure and Avengers Colognes!

Featured Pre-Orders

• Harley Quinn Bishoujo statue
• Arkham Asylum Armored Batman Play Arts Kai Action Figure

LEGO® Minecraft™ Micro World details unveiled, available for pre-order

BILLUND, Denmark – February 16, 2012 - The LEGO Group and Mojang have released purchase details and pictures of the LEGO® Minecraft™ Micro World today.

The new set, which was the first to receive 10,000 votes of support from users on the global LEGO CUUSOO idea collection platform, will be available for purchase in summer 2012, but can be pre-ordered from today, exclusively through Mojang retail partner Jinx.com for $34.99/€34.99 at http://www.jinx.com/LEGOMinecraft. The sets will also be sold in select LEGO brand retail stores and the LEGO online shop from summer 2012.

SPEED DATING RETURNS TO THE CHICAGO COMIC & ENTERTAINMENT EXPO (C2E2)

Popular Dating Event was Subject of TLC's Two-Part Special, Geek Love!

Self-Proclaimed "Geek Dr. Of Love" tells Entertainment Weekly, "If even one couple makes it and is happy, then I've done my job..."