Phat Company's 1/8 scale Swamp Witch Metallica is currently available for pre-order. This wickedly cute witch is the star of The Witch and the Hundred Knight, which released in Japan earlier this year and is slated to appear in the West as well.
I love Swamp Witch Metallica's general style which I feel has translated beautifully to figure form. The pose is lively, showing a fair deal of the character's energy, even before getting into the wide array of elements present and vibrant colors. As such, Phat Company's Swamp Witch Metallica is something of an eye-catcher. Swamp Witch Metallica features a removable hat.
For those enamored by this figure, Phat Company's Swamp Witch Metallica is slated for an April release and is currently available for pre-order with a ¥12,190 list price.
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Shawn of Mega64 ruined this Grand Theft Auto V midnight release launch. What a jerk, right?
Edit: This video doesn’t really spoil anything, it’s a prank.
These beautiful photos captured by photographer Thomas Prior show off the Mexican city of Tultepec and their annual fireworks fight held every March 8th. The city is most famous for its fireworks export, so every March 8th the city goes outside to celebrate by firing off fireworks with each other and having a city-wide fireworks fight. Check out more photos of the Tultepec shoot at Prior’s official photography website.
As a child watching this toon of two beavers that enjoyed yelling at each other, you kind of just watch cartoons fade away and become replaced with another generation of animation and newer shows. The Angry Beavers was canned in the early 2000’s. After 62 episodes being aired on Nick, it was done. But it never had its finale because it never aired on television. And as a child you might have not known that, or the reason why Nick wouldn’t allow it to air on television.
Truth is, The Angry Beavers did have a series finale planned out. It was titled "Bye-Bye Beavers," and it involved the show’s two stars, Daggett and Norbert, breaking the fourth wall and directly mentioning that they were being cancelled. According to Micah Wright, a staffer at Angry Beavers, Nick didn’t like that very much.
Off his official website:
Norb has to break the horrible truth to Dag that they are only cartoons. Nickelodeon hated this episode because it actually told the kids the truth: that the show was ending!
There are rumors stating that Nick has a strict rule on cartoons breaking the fourth wall and telling kids that they are actually cartoons. I’m not sure how true this is, but I actually don’t ever recall a cartoon other than Ren & Stimpy (maybe?) pushing that boundary in any way. Plus, it’s one thing to tell Nick’s target demographic they’re not real. It’s another to tell kids they’re being cancelled. And it’s a whole different ballpark to literally make jabs at the network that’s presenting your cartoon.
And that’s exactly what "Bye-Bye Beavers," did — it jabbed at Nick at every which way possible. Norb and Dag are going off about being cartoons, their show getting cancelled, and Nick making so much money off of reruns without getting the show’s creators a dime. Thus, the episode never got a green-light to air, and the series was cancelled an episode short of being finished.
The audio of the script was released by Wright himself on his website. There’s also a YouTube link, for those who don’t want to download the .mp3 file. It’s a rough draft being read by voice actors Richard Steven Horvitz (Dag) and Nick Bakay (Norb), occasionally using improv between lines and calling themselves by their first names. The ending of the episode also had the two shouting “APRIL FOOLS!,” prompting people to begin rumors that this episode was meant to air as an April Fools episode, but was canned on the spot since Nick doesn’t like fourth wall jokes.
Seeing on how it never even got storyboarded in the first place, I doubt the episode will ever see the light of day. The rough audio working may have just been recorded for the Hell of it, or because they simply worked backwards on their show. Don’t know, but at least the audio has surfaced on the web somehow.
Results are in from a series of polls conducted by Premium Bandai in Japan this year in honor of the release of the Master Grade Gundam RX-78-2 ver 3.0 kit. The "Best of My Master Grade" poll was done in four phases from June 24 to September 1 to decide which MG Gunpla was the fan favorite. Some 13,000 fans took part with each vote entering them into a chance to win one of 10 prize packages of 10 MG items. Not bad.
The results? They're interesting for sure, but with polling like this it's hard to say if the results are really for the model and not just for the particular Mobile Suit. Let's face it, Gundam fans are a pretty dedicated (to put it nicely) bunch, so this could just as likely be about having the loudest fan factor. Somehow all three versions of the RX-78-2 kit got into the top 10 despite the 3.0 kit not being released until the third phase and still ranking 17 in the second phase.
The top three looks like this:
Gold: Nu Gundam Ver.ka
Silver: EX-S Gundam
Bronze: Turn A Gundam
Follow the jump to see the entire results.
[via Anime News Network]
Took a while, but the sixth figure, Chromedome, for the 2014 Transformers Subscription Service 2.0 has finally been revealed. He was among the first group of figures to be announced, but the last to be fully revealed. He's a blend of both the original G1 toy's color scheme and the IDW comic version's design key features. He's trading in his original square head for something much more angular. He'll also include his partner, Stylor, in Micron form. The figure use the Transformers Prime Wheeljack mold with a new head, yet doesn't quite match his TFSS comic self, especially the misstransformed shoulders and the missing windows on the chest, which is kinda odd. Considering this is mostly a cobbled together photoshop they'll likely make a few changes. What probably wont change is the strangely elongated face, but you never know.
And that brings us to the last of the TFSS 2.0 six-piece set. Chromedome will be joined by Thrustinator, Rewind, Fisitron, Barricade, and Treadshot along with the three Microns and comic. And that's not all, there's still the seventh incentive being added this year and only available to subscribers as opposed to on the club store where other sub figures have been found.
Still no details like price and sub periods have been announced, but I'll keep you posted when more is known.
[additional images via TFWiki]
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We have some new images and updates on the Unicron Head Replica play set that has been revealed as the Original Refine Star Emperor. The new color images show the set featuring removable parts to change mode (normal / battle damage / evil) and Light-up eyes as well as expose inner elements of the Unicron head. Get a look at the new color and prototype images for a preview of what is expected to release sometime in December 2013.
