The Avengers Extended Super Bowl Trailer

The Blot’s been meaning to post this one for a while…better late than never I guess! While it’s mostly comprised of footage we’ve seen before, there are a few things that really stand out about The Avengers Extended Super Bowl Trailer. Not only does it give us our first glimpse of the Avengers’ Quinjet, it also shows us our first few seconds of Hawkeye and Black Widow in action. While all three of those scenes are nice, my favorite part is the interaction between Loki and Iron Man at the end. I absolutely love Tony’s response of “we have a Hulk” when Loki declares he has an army. It’s so pitch perfect and all kinds of awesome!

Marvel's The Avengers Assemble in theaters this summer on May 4, 2012.

First Look: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Roadblock G.I. Joe: Retaliation Action Figure

I’m not 100% sure of this, but I’d be willing to bet the most anticipated figure in Hasbro’s upcoming G.I. Joe: Retaliation toy line is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Roadblock. Roadblock has always been one of the most popular characters in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero universe, and it was travesty he wasn’t included in the first live action movie. My only question…what the hell is this figure holding in its hand? Is that a weapon or a dustpan?

Thankfully Hasbro rectified that by not only including him in Retaliation, but making him the focal point of the film. It also doesn’t hurt that they cast Johnson in the role. Maybe not a perfect casting decision, but I love the decision nevertheless. Plus, he’s going to look awesome next to everyone’s Sgt. Slaughter figures! I can’t wait to see some custom The Rocks made from these 3.75” scale figures.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation is scheduled to premier in theaters on June 29, 2012.

“Every Time A Cat Cleans Itself It Is Worshipping The Dark Lord” Threadless T-Shirt

Check out “Every Time A Cat Cleans Itself It Is Worshipping The Dark Lord”, one of the most talked about designs to come from Threadless’ submission process in years! The Blot’s come to learn that cats are the pet of choice for much of the designer art toy community, so I know this shirt will definitely appeal to many of you. What’s really crazy about this shirt is that it’s designed by Jerrod Landon Porter, an amazing artist/graphic designer who I recently found out about through Instagram. You should definitely head over to JLP’s official website to check out more of his designs and then go to Threadless to pick up this killer tee.

Every Time A Cat Cleans Itself It Is Worshipping The Dark Lord
by Jerrod Landon Porter

“Every Time A Cat Cleans Itself It Is Worshipping The Dark Lord” comes printed on a black t-shirt and is currently available for purchase at Threadless.com for $20. The shirt comes in both guys and girls styles, sizes S-2XL.

First Look: Bruce Willis as Joe Colton G.I. Joe: Retaliation Action Figure

Without a doubt the biggest surprise to come out of the first trailer for Hasbro’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation is the inclusion of Bruce Willis in the film as the original G.I. Joe, Joe Colton! It seriously blew my mind when Willis appeared right at the end of the film’s very first trailer, and of course Hasbro has to release an action figure of Willis as Joe Colton in the Real American Hero 3.75” scale. Is this perfect or what!?!

Now you can have John McClane fight along Snake Eyes and all of your favorite G.I. Joe characters. I just hope Hasbro smartens up and release a barefoot variant at Comic-Con! I honestly did not purchase a single toy for 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, but there are already a number of action figures I’ll def be picking up this time around.

Breeanzz x TOYSREVIL The Black Valentine Edition Beatup Boxer

The Blot always gets a little jealous when a toy blog releases an exclusive figure, especially when it’s one as awesome as The Black Valentine Edition Beatup Boxer by Breeanzz and TOYSREVIL! This “Black Valentine” colorway produced by My Tummy Toys features a 10” matte black boxer resin body and includes glossy black boots, boxing shorts, gloves and hat. But best of all, this TRE exclusive Beatup Boxer comes wearing a tailored fabric hooded robe with the TOYSREVIL logo embroidered in white on the back!

Each Breeanzz x TOYSREVIL The Black Valentine Edition Beatup Boxer resin figure comes packaged in a "croc textured box" with a laser die cut cover and includes a giclee print featuring artwork by Breeanzzand. Limited to just 10 pieces, the Black Valentine Edition Beatup Boxer can be purchased today, Tuesday, February 14th, at the TOYSREVIL online store for $180 each.

Zombie Valentine’s Day Jellybot Resin Figures by The Jelly Empire

If cute’s not your thing, then The Jelly Empire has just the Valentine’s Day themed toy for you! Check out these creepy undead Zombie Valentine’s Day Jellybots that would rather eat your brains than show you some love. Selina Briggs seriously makes the cutest monsters and these Zombie Love ‘Bots are some of her best. She makes being impaled by a V-Day Candy Heart look cute!

Pick up one these Zombie Valentine’s Day Jellybots by Selina Briggs at The Jelly Empire online store today, Tuesday, February 14th, at 6pm EST.

Valentine’s Day Jellybot Resin Figures by The Jelly Empire

Happy Valentine’s Day! And what better way to celebrate the holiday of love than buy purchasing some adorable Valentine’s Day Jellybots by The Jelly Empire! Selina Briggs has created some awesome one of a kind Jellybots in honor of today’s “holiday”, including three Splatter JellyBots, one Cupid Jellybot and a very special Bad Cupid Jellybot. How great are the wings on these Cupid Jellybots?

Pick up one or all five of the Valentine’s Day Jellybots seen here from The Jelly Empire’s online store today, Tuesday, February 14th, at 6pm EST.

Marvel x LEGO The Avengers Movie Sets & Minifigures

At Toy Fair 2012 this past weekend LEGO unveiled its new Super Hero toy line, including these awesome The Avengers movie sets and minifigures. So far we know of four Marvel x LEGO The Avengers sets: “Captain America's Avenging Cycle”, “Loki's Cosmic Cube Escape”, “Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout” and “Quinjet Arial Battle”. The Captain America cycle set is pretty sweet, but how awesome is it you can buy models of SHIELD’s Helicarrier and the Avengers’ Quinjet!?! Is there one in this set you wouldn’t want to buy?

Each Marvel x LEGO The Avengers set comes with 1-4 minifigures, including Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow and Loki. These all look awesome, except for Iron Man. Why is his head so freaking big? And strangely there’s no Nick Fury LEGO minifigure included in any of the toy line’s initial four sets. But then again hopefully we’ll be seeing more sets with even more Marvel characters released by LEGO soon.

First Look: SDCC 12 Exclusive Jinx G.I. Joe: Retaliation Movie Action Figures

In one of the strangest promotion moves I’ve ever seen, Hasbro decided to unveil its San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Exclusive 3.75” G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero action figure in February! This is 5-6 months earlier than normal, but who is The Blot to complain! While we don’t know many details, we do know this year’s SDCC exclusive will be Jinx (Kim Arashikage played by Elodie Yung) from this summer’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation (i.e. G.I. Joe 2). The Blot’s a huge Jinx fan, so I’m excited to see her get the spotlight as this summer’s RAH Comic-Con exclusive. As always there will be two versions available, the Standard Edition Red Jinx and the even rarer Variant White Edition.

Like with all SDCC Exclusive 3.75” G.I. Joe action figures, these will definitely sell out and probably fetch some high dollars on the secondary market. So if you think you may want one of these awesome figures start setting up a Comic-Con 2012 mule now!

kaNO “Postal” Fatcap AP Sets

On Friday kaNO released his Fatcap Series 3 Artist Proof sets and they were pretty freaking sweet to say the least! Each set included 1 signed and numbered “Postal” Fatcap with marker accessory, 1 USPS 1/34 scale Dub City Truck customized and numbered by kaNO, 1 kaNO Art Hustle AP artist card and 1 kaNO Art Hustle AP art card. Ten sets were created in all, each retailing for $60 each at kaNO’s online store. Sadly for most of us, these sets sold out in a hot minute.