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Have you ever seen the TV sitcom Nathan Barley? Because that's where I was last night, a Shoreditch brick walled club filled with hundreds of gorgeous media luvvies in the most ridiculous of outfits all looking at plastic toys, while knocking back mojito after mojito. Basically it was a dimly lit San Diego Comic Con, with[...]

A novelty rebuild of the Avengers trailer that will, we hope, tickle fans more than a bit.

These were the images of the DC New 52 toys, when released in a flyer by DC Comics in January. This, however, is how they look in adverts in some of the New DCU titles today (yes, even the likes of Animal Man and Swamp Thing, which just looks weird) Batman it seems, hasn't changed a pip[...]

So we already know that Mattel is finally making hoverboards that look just like the ones from Back to the Future: Part II, and we've already had some

GutterWatch: Thank you Gutters. Most appreciated, Now please hire me. ToyWatch: I was struck watching the Leveson inquiry yesterday, how much Nick Davies'

he Wayne Enterprises factories are working over time to get The Dark Knight Rises merchandise ready to go and, as with Green Lantern, there are two very clear approaches being taken.

Now Bleeding Cool loves a good typo, in fact we're past masters in creating our own  new and innovative ones. Is This The Return Of Raven To The DC Comics New 52? Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012 But did they miss the headline story? Or is it[...]

Toys! Once your inner six year-old has calmed down a bit, take a look at some of the latest move tie-in toys being exhibited at Toy Fair 2012 right now The fair opened today at Olympia's Grand Hall and saw the debut of a number of new lines related to upcoming films, including The Dark Knight[...]

An extra one and a quarter inches. For their tenth anniversary of publishing seven inch Marvel Select figure,  Diamond Select Toys is putting out a fully articulated Colossus figure at a towering eight-and-a-quarter inches in February. And to prove it, here's a photo of Colossus kicking Gambit in the… seven inches. We've all thought that Colossus,[...]

The Elongated Man too obscure to have a new action figure? I don't think so.  First, there's an excellent case to be made that there are no insignificant

Bleeding Cool have run a number of articles on the Mattel DC Universe Infinite Earths Action Figure subscription club, the fan-led attempt for more

The question most often asked about élite funnybook nerds such as Jerry Seinfeld and Jonathan Ross is "Where does he get those wonderful toys?" Well, from very expensive comic book action figure manufacturers, of course. For the rest of us, there are always the mass-produced 6" figures that accrete like some sort of geek coral around the[...]

Itwas announced at the recent San Diego Comic Con International that the DC Universe Classics toyline would be ending its run at retail stores, and replaced with a new, child-focused line of toys refelecting the new looks. However Mattel has put together a subscription program called DC Club Infinite Earths to make use of the[...]

Toy News International has word from yesterday's DC Direct panel at San Diego Comic Con about figures based on Jim Lee designs for the upcoming new

Yesterday at San Diego Comic Con, Shocker Toys held a panel Bleeding Cool tagged it as a possibly controversial one And so it turned out to be Because as well as attracting an audience of fans of the companies toys, it also received a visit from one upset over allegations of non payment to Shocker[...]

Here's the unboxing: And here's some of the official images for the rest of the toys they're releasing So thanks for the box of Captain America, Hasbro Bleeding Cool has enjoyed it. Yesterday, this large Captain America box was delivered to Bleeding Cool USA headquarters I happened to post the above pic[...]

Apparently this shouldn't have been announced quite so soon. Friday would have been a better time, to coincide with the Mattel DC Universe panel. Still,

A rather large box shaped like a Transformer in truck form showed up at Bleeding Cool USA headquarters yesterday.  After giving it a day to transform into

Joe Jusko is the artist for the new Captain Action toy packaging designs. Apparently he was a fan from a kid, and now gets to make his mark on the

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool pointed out that Tony Robles was claiming on his website that controversial head of Shocker Toys, Geoff Beckett, owed him a thousand dollars Geoff did not return emails from Bleeding Cool. Since then, however, the case took a different spin Rather than pay Tony or try to come to some kind[...]

The Captain Action toy/comic revival has been going great guns the last couple of years. A toy character you can dress up as other characters - and then

There seems to have been a bit of a ding dong between DC Direct, the toy/statue manufacturer part of DC Entertainment, and Bioware, develpers of the Mass

Marvel's Tom Brevoort tweeted; Is it really true that, for the Marvel-generated Doc Savage stories that DC has been collecting, they're not paying the

Here's a selection of other Marvel toys on display at Toy Fair 2011. [...]

GI Joe-based Indiana Jones exclusive figures at San Diego Comic Con 2011? That raised a few eyebrows. But here's a look at Hasbro's presentation at

The new design for Venom does bear a little resemblance to the costume of Appleseed Ex Machina's Briareos Hecatonchires, no? In Swipe File we present two

From Entertainment Earth comes this line of Marvel and DC plush toys that stare into you, exposing your very soul… and give you a bit of a hug too You know, Valentine's Day is almost upon us… From Entertainment Earth comes this line of Marvel and DC plush toys that[...]

And the line was financially successful to continue, even be imported to the USA, where restrictions over lead toys had led to this being the only way to get such figurines – small and highly detailed, accompanied by a magazine exploring the history of the character Hell, even I wrote a few of them. Now Eaglemoss[...]

The Indieverse is a new comics line from the controversial toy company Shocker Toys The company describes it as "a new comic universe like Marvel and DC which will feature ongoing story arcs with a diverse number of Indy Comic characters who will fight to destroy evil or become evil themselves." Sounds very indie[...]

IndiaInkWatch: Looks like the upcoming Mumbai Comic Con is taking a leaf out of Wizard World's book and is in talks to bring a WWF wrestler with a comic,