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Screenshot: Marvel AnimationThe scene with Callisto and Leech is quickly covered up by a passing issue of the Daily Bugle blowing across the screen, and it’s jam-packed with details. The biggest is the cover story highlighting a mutant fashion show—including a few intriguing mutants from the comics: Dust, introduced in the early aughts during New X-Men; Stacy X; Maggot; and Banshee. In a small pop-out bubble, two more young mutants are included in the form of Nature Girl and Loa, suggesting X-Men ‘97 is going to pull from…

Image: Christopher Moeller/LucasfilmThe Epic Continues never made it past this presentation point, however—conflicting stories say either Lucasfilm approved the idea only for Kenner’s upper management to wind down the Star Wars line anyway based on market research showing declining interest in the series, or that Lucasfilm just wasn’t quite ready to take steps in solidifying a new Star Wars continuation at the time. Either way, The Epic Continues was over before it started, and with it, Kenner’s Star Wars toy line came to…

Chief Executive Chris Cocks expects declines in sales of its toys to be concentrated in the first half of the year, with stabilizing sales in the third quarter and growth in next year’s holiday season. Chief Executive Chris Cocks expects declines in sales of its toys to be concentrated in the first half of the year, with stabilizing sales in the third quarter and growth in next year’s holiday season. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic…

A monopoly game sits under the Hasbro logo during Brand Licensing Europe at ExCel on November 18, 2021 in London, England.John Keeble | Getty ImagesToy company Hasbro reported a more than 20% hit to its fourth-quarter revenue and issued a downbeat 2024 forecast Tuesday morning. Shares of the company plunged about 10% in premarket trading.Here's how Hasbro performed in the fourth quarter compared with estimates from LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv:Earnings per share: 38 cents vs. 66 cents per share expected.Revenue:…

Back when the Pokémon anime first premiered in the ‘90s, nearly every kid had a Pokédex—the renowned red device that identified the delightful creatures—on their wish list. Nearly three decades later, a YouTuber has created a real-life version of the Pokédex using ChatGPT—and it looks like it actually works. Watch Chris Pratt and the Guardians of the Galaxy Cast Open Their Own ToysEngineering hobbyist Abe’s Projects posted a video about their quest to build a working Pokédex on YouTube earlier this month. The YouTuber had…

Hello there, custom-made Obi-Wan Kenobi head by Centerpoint Studios.Image: Centerpoint StudiosA few months back, I was walking around DesignerCon and something impossible caught my eye. It was a Star Wars Black Series figure, but something was off. This looked different. It looked, dare I say, too good. The face looked so much better than usual. The outfit somehow more detailed and interesting. Then I stepped back and realized the entire booth was just that. Action figures that look standard from afar, but up close, are…

Image: HasbroIn another life, the E-Wing was meant to replace the iconic X-Wing as the go-to starfighter of Star Wars’ post-Return of the Jedi fiction. But even if—in neither the original Expanded Universe it debuted in, nor rebooted canon after appearing in Ahsoka—the E-Wing never really got its time to shine, at least in merch it’s doing very well for itself.When Ahsoka launched last summer, we got to see Lego’s take on the legendary starfighter, but now it’s Hasbro’s turn: io9 can exclusively reveal that the E-Wing is…

Image: HasbroIn the world of Transformers, Optimus Prime is the guy. The traditional leader of the Autobots is the most popular character in the entire franchise and for good reason. He rules. You’d imagine it couldn’t get much bigger than him, but thanks to Hasbro, Prime is about to get a lot bigger.Hasbro just announced its newest HasLab project and it’s set in the world of Transformers. It takes the biggest, most famous Transformer of them all, Optimus Prime, and combines him with the Autobot next in line for the…

Image: HasbroWe might be getting a lot of new Star Wars this year, but when it comes to new Star Wars toys, Hasbro is playing things close to the vest so far for 2024. The toy company kicked off its first livestream from the galaxy far, far away today with a series of reveals that focused less on the new, and more on the familiar.That’s not to say there weren’t some highlights among the familiar re-releases and repaints, however. In the 6" Black Series line, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Phantom Menace, Hasbro…

Image: HasbroNo metal tokens here; instead, this edition comes with little cut-out figures of the superstars you shuffle around the board, including wrestlers-turned-actors Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and John Cena. Also, forget about landing on properties; instead, the squares represent trademark ring maneuvers including “Jackhammer, Moonsault, and Stone Cold Stunner! The more Moves a player owns, the tougher they are.” Could come in handy if a fight breaks out while you’re playing. $15.39 at Amazon. Image: HasbroNo…