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The year 2015 is upon us. The future of Back to the Future Part II is almost here, and the world is no where near the future they envisioned. There are no hover boards, flying cars, futuristic-looking ’80s clothes, or people wearing their clothes inside out. But, it looks like Nike plans on having power laces! Nike designer Tinker Hatfield showed up at the Jordan Brand’s Flight Lab space in New Orleans recently, and when he was asked about power laces this is what he said,

“Are we gonna see power laces in 2015? To that, I say YES!”

Hatfield didn’t go into any details on whether the power laces will show up on the Nike Mag or some other product, but does it really matter?! Power laces are coming! That’s enough to get me excited. 2015 just got even more awesome.

I wonder how long Nike has been holding on to this power laces technology.

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Hasbro Fan Collectors Event held at the New York Times Center on 41st Street in New York City, we have a full gallery of pictures from Habro’s 2014 Transformers and Star Wars lines, the former featuring new toys associated with Michael Bay’s upcoming fourth film Transformers: Age of Extinction, to be released by Paramount Pictures on June 27.

As might be expected, especially with 2014 being the 30th Anniversary of Transformers, Hasbro is going all-out with toys associated with the upcoming movie including brand-new molds of many of the Dinobots who will be showing up on the big screen for the first time including Grimlock, Strafe, Slash and Slug. They are introducing a High-Octane Bumblebee as well as new molds of Autobot leader Optimus Prime which changes into a different version of his truck form, matched by a similar vehicle look for Decepticon Galvatron. Other robots in the line include Autobot Drift, who changes into a Bugatti and a large-size Leader scale Jetfire.

Hasbro’s Star Wars line is continuing the popular Black Series with new figures in the line, as well as launching a new directive with the Versus series, but the biggest introduction is the line tying into the new animated series “Star Wars Rebels” with new figures of the main baddie, The Inquisitor and his Advanced Prototype Tie Fighter. They also have a role play item based on his main light saber weapon that can be used as one double-bladed weapon, two single blades, as well as a force disc.

Other characters introduced from the series for the new toy line include the new young hero Ezra, a Jedi who doesn’t know he is one yet, as well as his mentor Kanan, and a creature called Zeb, who is based on some of the original concept art for Chewbacca. There is another new Imperial villain called Agent Kallus. In fact, many of the new characters for “Star Wars Rebels” and Hasbro’s line were inspired or based on the designs by late “Star Wars” designer and concept artist Ralph McQuarrie.

As far as the Black Series, Hasbro were proud that their new packaging would allow for larger figures including one of Jabba the Hutt as well as an “Episode VI” Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker.

Another new “Star Wars”-related initiative for 2014 is Star Wars Command, which takes the concept of the “Little Army Men” and brings it to Star Wars with lots of small plastic figures based on Star Armies, throws in a couple of vehicles and creates a new form of gameplay for kids. The presenter for the Command initiative cracked the rather amusing joke that this new line gives the “power to kids to wage war… it’s Star WARS, not Star Hugs.”

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Here’s LEGO Cuusoo project looking for some fan support. It’s a build of the X-Mansion from the X-Men universe. On one side you have the exterior of the building, and on the other there are various rooms devoted to our favorite mutant superheroes like Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, and more. Click here to show your support for the project!

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At the climax of Iron Man 2, Ivan Vanko appeared in his new Whiplash Mark II armor and proved to be a formidable foe for both Tony Stark and Colonel James Rhodes. The Whiplash Mark II’s incredible mechanical design has left a strong impression for Iron Man fans and since the appearance of collectible figure’s prototype at various Hot Toys exhibitions, fans have been longing for the official reveal of this amazing armor.

Now we are very excited to present this eagerly awaited 1/6th scale Whiplash Mark II Collectible Figure. It will also be the newest addition to our MMS Diecast Series which the collectible figures are made of diecast material, realistically designed to look more like Whiplash Mark II as he appears in the movie. The MMS Diecast Series will take fans to the next level of authenticity, focusing on the materials, fine details and engineering of the collectible figure.

The movie-accurate collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash Mark II in the movie featuring a helmeted head sculpt with authentic likeness of Mickey Rourke, an interchangeable helmeted head with LED light-up eyes, a magnetic mask, highly detailed mechanical design, metallic black painted full body armor with distressed effect, interchangeable battle damaged chest armor, pair of whips with real-like flashes and light-up function, and a specially sculpted diorama figure base. 

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LEGO will be bringing us the Ghostbuster Ecto-1 set for the film’s 30th anniversary. The project was part of the Lego Cuusoo program last year, and it got the 10,000 votes it needed to be considered. LEGO approved the project, but there are no specific date on when it will be released. Stay tuned for more details. In the meantime, check out the photos from the original Cuusoo project.

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Hasbro has released an official image showcasing their upcoming 6-inch Marvel Avengers All-Star series of action figures. Click the thumbnail above to check them out.

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Gentle Giant has released images of their super-cool Venom Zombie mini bust!

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“You must be truly desperate to come to me for help.” A new powerful enemy has appeared to destroy the nine realms, and Thor is forced to seek assistance from Loki in order to save us all in the Thor: The Dark World, but can the God of Mischief be truly trusted?

Regardless of which side Loki is on, he has been extremely popular with fans of the Marvel Universe! Even Mr. Tom Hiddleston himself was very happy to see Hot Toys’ The Avengers: 1/6th scale Loki Collectible Figure which was released last year.

To continue the popularity of everyone’s favorite trickster, Hot Toys is excited to present the new 1/6th scale Loki Collectible Figure from Thor: The Dark World. The movie-accurate collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the movie, featuring the newly developed head sculpt, highly-detailed costume, weapon and accessories.

Hot Toys – MMS231 – Thor: The Dark World: 1/6th scale Loki Collectible Figure Specification
~ Movie Masterpiece Series ~

The 1/6th scale Loki Collectible Figure specially features:
– Authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Tom Hiddleston as Loki in Thor: The Dark World
– Movie-accurate facial expression with detailed wrinkles and skin texture
– Black hair sculpture
– Body with over 30 points of articulations
– Approximately 32 cm tall
– Six (6) pieces of interchangeable palms including:
– One (1) pair of partially clenched palms
– One (1) pair of relaxed palms
– One (1) right palm for holding dagger
– One (1) left open palm
– Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted

Costume:
– One (1) black long vest with leather-like materials and bronze-colored armor
– One (1) long-sleeve leather-like black and green long coat with bronze-colored armor and strap
– One (1) leather-like pants with patterns
– One (1) pair of black boots

Weapon:
– One (1) dagger

Accessories:
– One (1) pair of handcuffs with chains
– One (1) pair of legcuffs with chains
– One (1) neck collar with chains
– Figure stand with Loki nameplate and the movie logo

Special Edition – Bonus Accessory (for selected markets only):
– One (1) 1/6th scale Aether

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DC Comics has released this cool statue featuring Wonder Girl for their Ame-COMI Heroine Series. It was designed by Sanford Green, and sculpted by Jonathan Matthews.