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Entertainment Earth has a fantastic sale this week if you’re a fan of Funko’s Pop! vinyl figures.  This week, if you buy 3 Pop! vinyl figures, Entertainment Earth will give you the 4th one for free.  Yes, free!  This includes pre-orders, so it’s a great opportunity to score the Muppets and save some green. Check out the sale here.

That trailer was brand new from Telltale Games, featuring the story of ‘A New Day’ the first of five episodes of the Walking Dead game series. This series takes a look at an unexplored corner of ‘The Walking Dead’ universe – featuring Lee Everett, a murderer who finds himself free in a world of vicious zombies.  This episode is available now on PlayStation Network ($4.99), and available soon on Xbox LIVE (400 points) and as season pass covering all five episodes for $24.99 from the Telltale Online Store for Mac / PC.

To read more details about the game, keep reading after the jump.

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With the opening of ‘The Avengers’ just around the corner – May 4th for the not obsessively tracking folks, eFx sent out a quick update on their upcoming Avengers prop replicas.  These pieces, which debuted at Wondercon to rave reviews, will be available for preorder soon.  If you want to be informed of the pre-order details first, or at least in the first group, send an email to MarvelUpdates@efxcollectibles.com to get added to the list.  These are some awesome pieces, and I wouldn’t post them if I didn’t love them!

It’s a big weekend for Transfans!  The 18th annual Botcon convention will be held in Dallas this weekend. Botcon is the only official, Hasbro sanctioned, Transformers convention. While the exclusive toys have mostly sold out months ago, there are always limited numbers avaialble at the show – and there’s general admission tickets available at the show! Botcon’s always a fun time (I went a LONG time ago when it was in North Carolia).  After the jump, check out the full text of the press release celebrating Botcon.

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Kotobukiya was kind enough to send out a new batch of images for their latest Bishoujo statue, Joker’s one and only gal-pal, Harley Quinn. This Bishoujo statue is 10 inches tall, sculpted at 1/7 scale, and features her on a hammer base. Due out this September and with a suggested retail price of $59.99, this is a great piece to add to Poison Ivy, Batgirl or any other Bishoujo statues you might have.  Look below for images, or after the jump for the full text of the press release.  Enjoy!

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NECA took to their twitter account this weekend and was sharing glimpses into their world. Among the news items, they announced that the 2012 SDCC exclusives Predator item is a “Cloaked City Hunter” figure. Unfortunately they’ve not released any images of the figure, so you’ll have to be satisfied with the cardback, which is below.

Want to celebrate Earth Day?  Do you happen to like Wonder Woman?  If that’s the case, then Entertainment Earth is the place to be.  Through next Tuesday, place an order for $25 of any instock Wonder Woman product and get a free reusable Wonder Woman bag. That’s right – save the Earth with Wonder Woman.  Check the sale out here.

As if the news of DST’s mini-mates relaunch of Battle Beasts wasn’t enough to satisfy your beast lovin’ self, the details on Takara Tomy’s “Beast Saga” popped up online today. For all the details, I’ll direct you to fellow Phoenician Adam16bit’s Battle Beast site – Battle Beasts News. He’s pretty excited about these, I think there’s a few cool designs and I bet you’ll have an opinion too.

But don’t go before checking out a Battle Beast hamster, which would wipe the floor with any Kung Zhu, I think.

I guess that it’s also app night here on AwesomeToyBlog, as I also wanted to pass on the news that Lego has their DC Super Heroes Movie Maker app now available on iTunes for free. This app lets you create a LEGO stop motion movie on your iPhone. It features simple tools and guides allowing you to shoot, edit, score your movie and save it to your phone to share. Check out the trailer below, or just go to iTunes and download the app – its free, so you’ve got nothing to lose!

A little over a week ago, I shared some screen shots and news of the iOS Skylanders game Skylanders: Cloud Patrol. I’ve had the chance to play the game and it’s actually a good bit of fun.  I’ll be posting a full review in the next few days, but until I get a chance to do so – check out the trailer below. If you feel like giving it a go, the game’s just $0.99 in the iTunes App store.

The mail bag was overflowing today! Funko sent a few new images for me to share with you spanning a few different popular licenses. Up first are two new additions to the Michael Jackson Pop! series – his look from the 1984 Grammy’s and his ‘Bad’ video attire.  Both of these Pops! are due May 17th.

And from the land of the force come a new twist on Funko’s Blox figures – Blox Bobbles! These take the 2D-projected into 3D figures and add the fun of a bobble to them. This first batch of Star Was Blox Bobbles includes fan favorites Boba Fett, Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper.  These figures can be yours May 31st.

Finally, as the 50th anniversary of the ‘Mars Attacks!’ trading cards really starts to roll – Funko is releasing a Blox figure of the martian. He will also be available May 31st.  Ack ack!

Images of all these new releases are below.

Hasbro sent out a quick set of images today revealing a few new items in the Marvel toy universe. Of course, all eyes are on the big screen debut of ‘The Avengers’ in a few weeks. The trailer revealed that Loki’s starting a war with earth, but who are his troops – and what do the toys look like?  In the first two images, Hasbro revealed their Avengers scale basic and deluxe “Loki’s Army” figure – of course there’s no additional details so who they are, where they come for, etc…all needs to wait for a trip to the talkies.

The other pair of new images are of Miles Morales as Spider-man from Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man. Miles as Spidey will be available in both 3 3/4″ scale in Marvel Universe and in a 6″ scale.  Check out images of all 4 of these figures below.

Via the Nerdist, Gentle Giant has announced their first 2012 San Diego Comic-con exclusive – a 7.5″ bust commemorating the 50th anniversary of Mars Attacks! The Mars Attacks! alien comes which his torso emerging from a flying saucer with exhaust flames as the base for the bust. This piece will be limited to just 550 pieces – which will make it a very tough item to get at the show, be ready to make Gentle Giant your first stop of the day!

As if the exclusive toys, giant (3rd party toy free) dealer room, Transformers news, and panels weren’t enough to make Transformers fans happy at Botcon; an added perk for attendees was announced earlier in the week. As part of their involvement in Botcon, Jagex – makers of the Transformers MMO, Transformers Universe, will be giving Botcon attendees first dibs at registering their character name and affiliation. Jagex will also be hosting a panel on their MMO where new details and trailers of the game will be revealed.  Check out the full press release after the jump!

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It a bit of re-branding news from C2E2 – DC Direct is dead!  Well, not really, DC Direct is re-launched into the brand DC Collectibles. Other than a name change, they will be launching a full on-line store giving consumers more outlets to get their DC wares.  Check after the jump for the full text of the announcement press release.

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