Raving Toy Maniac

The Rhino is Loose in Manhattan! Marvel Select Rhino Ships this Week!

January 29, 2013 - Nothing can stop the Rhino... from smashing into comic shops and specialty stores this week from Diamond Select Toys! The Marvel Select action figure of classic Spider-Man villain the Rhino stands 9 inches tall, so he'll tower over your other Marvel Select figures. He also features 16 points of articulation, so you can get him in all sorts of dynamic poses. Whether you want your Rhino charging, goring, punching, kicking, wrestling or grazing, this is the Rhino figure for you! Check out these shots of the Rhino loose on the streets of New York and reserve your figure today at your local comic shop or favorite online retailer!

January 2013 - Funko has announced a big batch of new items based on the upcoming Iron Man 3 movie, including these POP! Marvel Vinyl figures of Iron Man (Mark 42), War Machine, and Iron Patriot.

Expect to see these in stores around February 18th.

On Sale This Week: Walking Dead Silicone Tray and Expendables 2 Action Figures

January 9, 2013 - It's New Toy Day, and new products are making their way to comic shops and specialty stores from Diamond Select Toys! One is their Walking Dead Silicone Tray, where you can cast up your own body parts and eat them, and the other is the heavily armed first series of DST's Expendables 2 Action Figures! Neither is for the faint of heart!

Walking Dead Silicone Tray

HEROCLIX ONLINE PREVIEWS AMAZING SPIDER-MAN COMIC FIGURES AHEAD OF PHYSICAL LAUNCH

Hillside, NJ - January 8, 2013 - Players, fans and collectors need not wait for the physical HeroClix Amazing Spider-Man set release next month to check out some of the latest figures to join the realm! HeroClix Online today announced a preview, making four famed figures from the collection - straight from the pages of the long running comic Amazing Spider-Man - available in the digital game beginning this week.

The HeroClix Online preview includes Marvel characters Spider-Man, Zuvembie, Blade and Lizard. Each figure will be available for one week only as a new figure is introduced.

Full HeroClix Online Amazing Spider-Man comic-based preview schedule:

Jan. 10-16: Spider-Man
Jan. 17-23: Zuvembie
Jan. 24-30: Blade
Jan. 31-Feb.6: Lizard

The physical HeroClix Amazing Spider-Man set will hit store shelves next month.

For more information on HeroClix Online, visit http://hco.heroclix.com/.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, The LEGO Group and Marvel Entertainment Assemble To Create LEGO® MARVEL SUPER HEROES

Marvel Super Heroes Build Their Way into LEGO Games Autumn 2013 with an All-New, Action-Packed LEGO Videogame Adventure

London, UK – 8th January, 2013 – Marvel Super Heroes are assembling for an action-packed, brick-smashing good time! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, The LEGO Group and Marvel Entertainment announced today that LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes will be available from autumn 2013 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Wii U™ system and Windows PC, as well as the Nintendo DS™ handheld system, Nintendo 3DS™ handheld system and PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is the first installment in the highly successful LEGO videogame franchise to feature famous Marvel characters.

Marvel Select's Rhino Charges Towards Stores This Month!

December 31, 2012 - Watch out, Spider-Man fans! One of the web-slinger's pointiest and most unstoppable foes is heading your way! The leather-skinned Rhino will arrive in comic shops and specialty stores in January, packaged in Diamond Select's familiar Select-style packaging, suitable for shelf and wall display. Designed and sculpted by Gentle Giant, the Rhino nearly 8.5 inches tall with 16 points of articulation, and is ready to tear through your Marvel Select collection like tissue paper. Reserve one today at your local comic shop or your favorite online toy store, and look for him to hit stores in early 2013!

In Stores January 2, 2013: The Hulk, The Walking Dead, Alice: Madness Returns and Street Fighter X Tekken!

December 30, 2012 - We survived 2012! This calls for a celebration! Diamond Select Toys will kick off 2013 with one of their biggest New Toy Days in a while, including action figures, Minimates, statues and bottle openers based on Marvel Comics, The Walking Dead, Alice: Madness Returns and Street Fighter X Tekken! Check out the long list of what's coming to comic shops and specialty stores on January 2nd!

Walking Dead Minimates Series 2 Asst.

Iron Man 3 to Get Top-Secret Marvel Select Figures and Minimates in 2013

December 2012 - The third Iron Man movie is almost upon us, and the trailers are promising plenty of action and drama. Well, Diamond Select is promising toys! Not only will there be two new movie-based figures coming to the popular 7-inch-scale Marvel Select toy line, there will also be an assortment of Marvel Minimates, the 2-inch mini-figure line that's celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2013!

The Best Just Got Better! Best of Marvel Minimates Series 2 Coming Soon!

December 2012 - Collecting Marvel Minimates can be daunting -- after all, they're celebrating their tenth year in 2013, and releasing their 50th consecutive series of mini-figures. So where does a new collector start? Which are the "best" Marvel Minimates? Diamond Select Toys answered that last year with the first Best of Marvel Minimates assortment, which featured the best-ever versions of some of Marvel's top heroes and villains. Now DST is bringing you more of the Best in Series 2!

December 2012 - Funko has announced several new POP! Vinyl figures, this batch based on popular Marvel characters.

Look for Deadpool, Dr. Doom, Ghost Rider, Dark Phoenix, Beast, and Silver Surfer around January 24, 2013.