Miraclo Miles

     The lure of things we don't need, could easily find greater needs to apply the cash to, and which we may not even have the space for, is a very First(ish) World Problem, to be sure.        HasLabs is a special projects division of Hasbro, that occasionally pitches large and/or elaborate items - oversized figures and/or vehicles - essentially crowdfunding each project. They set the price, and a funding line - the number of people who need to pledge to buy one (or more -- up to five) at the announced price, then collect the names and information of interested parties for a period of 45 days. Once the number of pledged buys hits the target, the project is greenlit.      A couple years ago there was a HasLabs special build project aiming to fund a production run for an oversized (32" tall), elaborately-articulated action figure of Marvel comics' Devourer of Worlds: Galactus. Back on July 18, 2021 I posted a piece on the pro...

Frommmmmmmmm Spaaaaace Advance looks at a few of the cosmic beings coming from Heroclix later this year. ( edit 3/28 - slightly different angle of the Surfer added.) The following are pics from the Vegas trade show that were passed along today. (Click on each for a much larger view.) These are all early mock-ups, not the finished products. Here's the repaint of Galactus, holding the new Silver Surfer LE that'll be the first of the tournament participation prizes in July's Coming of Galactus tournament run. Here's a slightly different angle on the Surfer, though not revealing much more detail -- we really need to see it from his right side and/or from a downward angle, but in this shot it's looking a little more like the Nullifier, and the rest of what I was taking as a mini bazooka-like weapon actually just his arm, elbow and forearm held high. What confused me earlier, it seems, was the way some of the highlights/reflections off the Surfer are blue; that flash ...