Toy Fair 2012: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Action Figures

A few weeks ago, MTV Geek had the honor of debuting the entire lineup of new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from Playmates Toys. While we thought it couldn't possibly get any better, during Toy Fair 2012 Playmates had a few tricks up their sleeves and unveiled 2 painted figures, an unpainted prototype, and 3 pieces of character artwork based on creatures old and new from the TMNT-universe! Naturally, upon seeing this we geeked out right there in front of the Playmates Reps, and then proceeded to take a bunch of photos. Now it's your turn!

Read on for closer looks at the upcoming figures that will give the Heroes in a Halfshell something to fight.

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Tags Action Figures, Baxter Stockman, Metalhead, mtv, MTV Geek, Playmates Toys, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT, Toy Fair 2012, Toys

ThinkGeek always seems to have some of the coolest superhero gear around. Whether it's awesome Marvel hoodies or stylish Art Nouveau character tees, we usually never have a hard time finding new threads over there. Now, they've even got some novelty socks for us comic book nerds. Read more...

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It may not be an "unexpected journey" (the Hobbit movie game rights have been split between Wizkids, Cryptozoic, and LEGO), but Fantasy Flight Games has enough Tolkien titles to take you on their own trip through Middle-earth.

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A team of scientists led by led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler from the Carnegie Institution for Science in the U.S. has discovered a new “Super-Earth” planet. The newly discovered planet is 4.5 times larger than Earth and revolves around its parent star (which much smaller than ours) in 28 days. The discovery suggests that habitable planets could exist in a wider variety of environments than previously suspected. Read more...

Tags exoplanet, planets, Science, space, super-earth, Tech

Underground Toys may not have had to travel through time and space to bring Doctor Who to Toy Fair 2012, but they did pack way more toys, figures, and cool accessories on the inside of the booth than it might have seemed on the outside. To find out more, we chatted with Robyn Morgan, the Licensing Director of Underground Toys, and discovered that she’s just as excited about their plush toys as she is about their rubbish bins:

Toy Fair 2012: Underground Toys Dishes on The Doctor

That wasn’t the only cool little item we discovered at Toy Fair, though... From a squeezable Adipose, to - spoilers, sweetie - a baby River Song in an impossible astronaut action figure, Underground has all your Timelord needs covered. And not just the Eleventh Doctor, either, there’s plenty of classic toys, from Tom Baker, to David Tennant, and more: Read more...

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I feel like I've been thinking a lot lately about formative anime titles—those gateway shows and movies that got me and a generation of current fans hooked on the form back in the early and mid-80's. The U.S. version of Leiji Matsumoto's Space Battleship Yamato wasn't especially one of those titles for me (although I was vaguely aware of it as a kid), but as I got older, I came across more people for whom this was the show that got them into anime.

Well, the series got a reboot of, of sorts, for the big screen, making its debut in April as Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and it's got a trailer. More details after the jump.
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Tags Leiji Matsumoto, Space Battleship Yamamoto 2199, Space Battleship Yamato, Star Blazers, Yamato

A packaging mock-up for the upcoming Clue Elimination shown at Toy Fair 2012

Of all the games I was expecting to see from Hasbro at this year's Toy Fair, a dart shooting version of Clue was not among them. Color me surprised, but also color me impressed. Clue Elimination draws more inspiration from the free-form live-action game of Assassin than it does from traditional Clue, but Clue Elimination also looks quite fun.

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The news broke at Katsucon over the weekend that the classic Shonen Jump manga Kimagure Orange Road, which has never before been translated into English, will be published digitally in English starting in April, via NTT Solmare's ComicFriends Facebook App and eventually in the Kindle and iBook stores as well.

The manga, which is 18 volumes long, is a love triangle with a supernatural twist, because the main character, Kyōsuke, is an esper, and he and his family have had to leave their hometown because of their supernatural powers, which they do their best to conceal. The other two corners of the triangle are Madoka and Hikaru, who are also best friends with one another; in the beginning, at least, Madoka comes off as "whimsical" and sweet, while Hikaru is rougher, although she warms up over time—a classic "tsundere" character. The original series ended rather abruptly, but Matsumoto expanded the ending for the wideban edition. Read more...

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Toy Fair 2012: Square Enix Visits Arkham

Being huge fans of Square Enix' Play Arts Kai figures, the company's booth at Toy Fair 2012 was one of our most anticipated stops. While we are anticipating having the upcoming Batman and Joker from their 'Batman: Arkham City' line in our collections very soon, we are already anticipating even more figures after seeing the Armored Batman and Harley Quinn on display! Square Enix is producing figures that , while more expensive than some, are works of highly-articulated art. Don't believe us? Just check out the upcoming photos!

Read on for a case file's worth of photos from the Batman: Arkham Asylum display!

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Tags Action Figures, Armored Batman, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn, mtv, MTV Geek, Scarface, Square Enix, Toy Fair 2012

The biggest question going into Dynamite and Top Cow’s new crossover series Witchblade/Red Sonja, which brings modern day cop Sara Pezzini together with barbarian Red Sonja is: does the title pass the Bechdel Test? Do the bearer of the Witchblade, and the least clothed warrior of all time actually talk to each other, and not about men? Happily, the answer is yes... Though they do fight a big old snake monster, so take that as you will.

Okay, glibness aside (for probably half a sentence), whatever has been done with the characters over the years, I think we can all accept that both Witchblade and Red Sonja started off as cheesecake, pure and simple. Over time, writers like Ron Marz (Witchblade), and Brian Reed and Mike Oeming (Red Sonja) have transcended the origins of each title, and made the characters something special and unique. There’s a problem, though, and that’s at the end of the day, the Witchblade still rips all of Pezzini’s clothes off when she puts it on, and Red Sonja is dressed in what could generously be called two bicycle chains. Read more...

Tags Dynamite Comics, Red Sonja, Top Cow, Witchblade, Witchblade/Red Sonja