SDCC Exclusive TMNT April O’Neil Action Figure by NECA

Peter Laird unveiled on his blog that NECA will be releasing a blue variant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles April O’Neil action figure at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con. (link) The NECA SDCC exclusive April O’Neil action figure will come dressed in a blue jumpsuit (instead of her classic yellow jumpsuit) and includes a Battle Damaged Mouser and a Regular Mouser with a new head featuring an articulated jaw.


The April O’Neil action figure is the first non-Turtle figure in the NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy line. For those of you unable to attend this year’s San Diego Comic Con, NECA will be making a small amount of these figures available online sometime after the Con. The price and run size of the NECA SDCC 09 exclusive TMNT April O’Neil blue variant action figure have not been announced yet.

MattyCollector.com Exclusive JLU Legion of Super Heroes 4 Pack

On Friday, May 15th MattyCollector.com released their latest online exclusive, the JLU Legion of Super Heroes four pack. The LSH has always been one of The Blot’s favorite DC comics and I love that we can now get Justice League Unlimited animated versions of four of the Legion’s most popular members.


The JLU Legion of Super Heroes 4 pack includes its three founding members, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad, as well as Braniac 5. The Blot was more than a little annoyed to find out the Legion of Super Heroes cartoon was canceled after just two seasons, but the show can now live on in this new LSH 4 pack.


I love Mattel’s JLU toy line because of its willingness to produce animated versions of DC characters mainstream America may not be familiar with. Some might complain that the JLU line just reuses the same two or three body styles for every character and they don’t all stand up that well, but I try to look past those flaws due to the fact that Mattel has decided (for now) to stick with this toy line even though the Justice League Unlimited cartoon is no longer on the air.


Each 4 pack retails exclusively on MattyCollector.com for $30 each with a maximum order quantity of 10. What’s interesting about this latest exclusive is that all four LSH figures come individually carded but shipped together in one slip case. This is the first time you can get MattyCollector.com exclusive JLU figures packaged this way. The MattyCollector.com Exclusive JLU Legion of Super Heroes 4 Pack can be purchased here now.