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Apparently that ESPN thing for the 360 will only work if your ISP supports it. I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of coverage for LBP2 on the various gaming websites. I've been able to find a few videos on YouTube, but mostly just from the Sony conference. I do know I'll probably not venture back to IGN, since they decided to post a "preview" in the form of a list of words, telling us to write our own preview. That would be like DST posting a picture of a parts bin full of random Minimate parts and tell us to figure out which figures we'll see in Marvel series 38.

I'm overall fairly happy. I wasn't expecting 6-armed Spidey. I do wish they had sculpted a new torso though. Maybe the final product will fit better (in that picture, it looks warped at the top). As for the rest, I actually like Thing, though I do hope they work on his face. I can see where people are coming from though, since you can barely even see a Minimate in the figure, but I'm one of the ones from the "bulked can be better" camp, so I like the bigger Thing. I wish the Lizard head had been sculpted, maybe as a slip over mask for a Curt Connor face, but he still looks good. He needs clawed hands though. There's been a couple over the years they could have picked from. Warpath is kind of the dud of the bunch for me. It's basically the TRU version in black and gray. That being said, I liked the new X-Force, so I'm happy to put him next to Wolverine and X-23. It's just a shame that they probably won't give us any more from that team, especially since they said that he was rounding it out by his appearance in this wave. Wonder if they sculpted some blades for him this time, or just reused the same ones we've already gotten? Like Xavier's chair, though I want to see some different angles on it. Hope it fits in the box! Don't know much about that particular Doombot (or any, for that matter), but it looks pretty close to the custom one I've seen (Luke's?), so I'll take it. Doom needs henchmen anyway. As long as we're playing the alternate looks game, here's some things I'd like to see: * Slip over head and extra arms to make the Man-Spider * Alternate head w/hair, alternate hand/arm to make Curt Connor * Slimmed down Thing under bulked up Thing (for the purists) * Alternate arms/legs (does he have legs?) and different tampo on torso for a different Xavier (for the X-fans)

For what its worth, the only one of those games to interest me is Metal Gear, and I already have it for PS2. On a side note, I'm confused about Paper Mario, since I thought the whole point of those games was that it wasn't 3D.

They've got a 30 minute thing today at 11 PST, so maybe they'll mention it then. If they're coming this month, I'd expect them to announce it soon.

LBP2 will have an emitter hat for Sackboy that can make pretty much anything you want appear. In the gameplay video, they showed him shooting missiles from his head.

Portal 2 on PS3, with some kind of Steam support or something. I'll probably still get it on PC (wonder if it'll support Move on PS3?), but I'm glad to see Gabe Newell changing his mind about Sony. Or at least opening his wallet, if not his heart, to them. 3D, like the motion stuff, is lost on me. I saw in the discussions on Kotaku that Nintendo and Sony fans are at each others' throats over who has the better 3D. The Nintendo doesn't need glasses, but you have to have the screen a specific distance from your face and pointed specifically, whereas Sony does need glasses, but you can sit anywhere in the room. Overall, E3 hasn't wowed me much.

I found Microsoft's whole presentation as a bit of a letdown to me. The whole motion controller (or lack of controller) thing is lost on me, as I play my games as a way of relaxing as opposed to having to do all the running, jumping, crouching, etc for my characters. Of course, they didn't show much of that, but instead showed off a bunch of Wii games, which interest me even less. The Star Wars game almost looked interesting, but then the first look we got was an actor trying to mimic the movements of the pre-recorded gameplay video a second after it happened onscreen (which doesn't speak very highly of how well this thing will work), and then the gameplay video looked like a rail shooter with about 4 moves for your jedi. I don't really follow sports, so the exclusive ESPN thing does not concern me at all. A bunch of games were paraded out, about half of which aren't even exclusive to the 360. Then there's the rest of Kinnect. It looks pretty cool, but I'd have to see it work before I'm sold on how well the hand gestures and voice recognition work. I can see it being useful to simply tell it you want to listen to a certain song or watch a certain show as opposed to sorting through playlists or video files, but if you have to yell at the TV several times to get the right selection, then that's not overly impressive. And I don't see it being overly inconvenient to press the pause, since I generally keep the remote somewhere near where I'm sitting. Fast forwarding and rewinding seem like it might actually be more of a pain this way, depending on how the thing interprets gestures and just how exact it can be when you're trying to inch the movie forward or backwards a few seconds.

I agree that this wave was a bit of a miss. Ghost Rider was the only one worth having as it was shown. They had four elemental demons to choose from, as well as a demonic look for Blackheart, and instead we get an army of civilians armed only with shovels. If we could have tossed in some reversible or swappable parts for Blackheart and dropped the transformation Johnny Blaze for a Ghost Rider Caretaker, we probably could have salvaged the wave. You'd still have civilians outnumbering the colorful characters, but the balance would be closer. Of course, the lack of the bike, which should count as a character in and of itself, makes anything Ghost Rider related a hard sell. As for the potential of these resurfacing should a second movie come out, I doubt it for the same reason we didn't see a Green Goblin or Doc Ock come out when Spider-Man 3 shipped. DST's movie licenses are under more time constraint than Hasbro's.

The later levels are pretty fun if you can make it that far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkzK9q_FcH0...feature=related

Great work! I can't imagine how hard that was. Heck, I forgot all about the Heroic Age box set, and that was only mentioned a few times buried within the TRU thread.

No worries. You just always seem to take that swipe, so I was offering a defense. And thanks for the well wishes guys.

Or different facial expression on Marty.

Or you could be like MMHQ and just get your news from here! T. To be fair, we have maybe 2-3 people working over at MMHQ and you have over a thousand people poking around over here. You guys are probably going to spot the news before us. Should we just not post anything at all if we see someone has started a topic over here about it? I didn't think we were in competition, I just thought we reported the news and you guys discussed it.

I imagine they've hit the internet retailers by now too, though they may still be in transit for anyone who ordered through them.

I'm not counting on seeing it unless they specifically announce it. Awesome as it would be to have, there just aren't enough relevant figures left to fill a whole new wave, and I have my doubts that they could successfully pull off repeats a second time. That being said, they could do a con exclusive 2-pack featuring final battle Whiplash and battle damaged Mark V Iron Man, and you'd pretty much have the last "important" characters. Howard Stark and Agent Coulson would be nice, but they are basically 2 versions of "guy in suit" which might not move product very well. On top of which, Howard didn't physically interact with anyone. Coulson could always pop up in a future movie wave though, since its suggested that he'll play a role in the Thor movie or at the very least the Avengers one.

I don't think "flesh" describes the color so much as what the color is representing. Otherwise, there's a shade of black called "hair".

I can see them not wanting to flood the market this year, considering we've reached about as far as some of their licenses will go. Terminator and BSG winded down by the end of last year and you can't tell me that Ghost Busters has much steam left in it. The tone sounds like they aren't sure if they'll go on in 2011. Marvel is stable, but you can't build a brand on one license, so it sounds like they're going to shift off of what's already established next year and try introducing the new lines. Marvel provides the backbone, especially with the TRU line, and your Pirates, Battle Beasts, etc will branch from that. They need to find another strong line to go along with Marvel. DC is pretty much out, since I don't see DST and DCD burying the hatchet anytime soon. Back to the Future is done. Ghost Busters is pretty much done. Halo has some promise, considering how many fans there are for the games, but that won't last forever either, since you hit an upper limit to how many colors you can paint the Master Chief armor, and there's only so many other characters to choose from. Pirates, Battle Beasts, and the MAX stuff is pretty much the only option available to them for a long running line that can be done cheaply. With their own lines, they don't have to pay licensing fees, and with their own made up universes, they can introduce new characters with no problem. Pirates: take a blank, slap a peg leg/hook/eye patch on it and you've got a new character. Battle Beasts: think of an animal, put it in armor, add weapon, done. MAX: doctors, police, firemen, army, cowboys, ninjas, whatever is popular with the kids. So, I can understand them not wanting to rush what could be the future backbone of their product. I'll agree that it sucks that they won't do blanks though. Hell, they could release a single pack/2-pack/4-pack once a year as a con exclusive and it would probably sell. It would be the cheapest product they could release, since there is no sculpted parts, no tampo, no licensing, no nothing that would have to be done. I'd buy it in a plain brown box with Minimate written on the top in Sharpie. I'd even donate the Sharpie. Of course, I can see how it would be a tough sell to their various distributors. Comic Shops would be wary since its just a blank, and TRU might be wary as well. Con exclusive or through the DST site might be their best choices, or through an online retailer who carries customizing tools in their store. I just don't see what it would hurt to try. Stick some blanks up on a pillar at one of the toy shows and gauge interest. Put it up for preorder. If they don't get the numbers they'd like, at least they tried and it might shut us all up for a day or two. If they see a response, then they just made some money. And they'd lose, what, ten bucks if they get no response? We'll take up a love offering if it comes to that.

is it good? Seems to play better than the demo did. Had to play through a race before you could access the menu and multiplayer. Haven't had enough time to give it the full run through though. Pretty fun if you like kart games though.

I just got the PS3 version.

I would consider wave 11 as an X-Men wave that they managed to associate with Spider-Man. We've had a couple X-Men waves without Wolverine. And wave 23 had a couple Iron Men in it, in the War Machine variety. You might could toss one or two civilians into a Spider-Man wave, but I don't think you could have them outweigh the costumed characters, and I don't see it moving without one hero, be it Spidey or one of his amazing friends. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for all of those characters, I just don't see them putting all those figures into a single wave.

I was thinking it was a Nightcrawler chest piece, actually.

I actually hadn't noticed. I imagine the first is due to the way they pull pictures for the packaging. We've seen in the past where they yanked someone's Spider-Woman custom for the packaging art of the official release, so its all in who was compiling the images and how well they were paying attention. As for the second, you can probably chalk that one up to prototype versus final release version.

That's the X-Force box set I was hoping for, but it was not to be.

I'm on PS3. We get free internet, but I hear the 360 has better performance rates. The dick hats are nicer too.

I wonder if the cougars are supposed to be so vicious? I found myself in a last stand against an army of them, and I haven't been able to force myself back into that area since. Speaking of cougars and glitches, there's a video floating around where someone ran across a cougar with the sprite of a man. Creepy. As far as my own glitch encounters, the only "major" one I've seen was when I once got off my horse to skin an armadillo and was unable to skin the animal or do anything else that required the triangle button (not sure what the Xbox equivalent of the triangle button is). I've also had the occasional graphics hiccup and once saw a preacher float a foot off the ground (in game equivalent of a foot, not real life foot). The piano player in Armadillo also has a tendency to stand on his stool, but I don't know if that's a glitch or intentional. And my horse tends to wander off, whether I hitch it or not, but he always comes back when I whistle, so its no biggie (unless I'm walking in cougar territory, in which case I want him as close by as possible).