I’m pleased to announce a new competition for our readers! Toy Tragic is available for reading through our mobile application for just about every Nokia device in the market at the moment. It’s a FREE app available on the Nokia Ovi Store that delivers all of the posts here on the site in an easy to navigate and easy to read format, updated live to your Nokia handset.
So here’s the deal – download the Toy Tragic App from Nokia Ovi Store for FREE before August 31st, and you go into the draw to win your very own SDCC Exclusive Wolverine Mighty Mugg! Yes, the one with retractable claws! What you need to do to be in the running for this cool prize is:
- If you don’t already have an account, sign up for the Nokia Ovi Store
- Download the Toy Tragic app
- Leave a comment for the app in the Ovi Store, telling us why you love toys and the Toy Tragic app
- Email us at hello@toytragic.com with your Ovi Store username and shipping address so we can match you up with your comment and know how to contact you
- Hope we draw your name out on Sept 1st!
It’s that easy! Good luck!
Details: 1) The winner will be drawn randomly from all entries received up to and including August 31, 2010 as of 6pm AEST (Australia Eastern Standard Time). 2) Winner will be notified via the email address they used when submitting their entry (as of Step 4 in the details above) as well as on the Toy Tragic website and Twitter stream. 3) Winner must confirm with Toy Tragic their shipping address before prize will be sent. This will be done via email. 4) Shipping will be by standard mail service to all major countries. Toy Tragic has the right to ask for proof of shipping address if it deems it necessary. 5) Result is final and will not be entered into. 6) All personal details supplied to Toy Tragic for the purpose of this competition will be kept confidential and not used for any other purpose other than to judge a winner for this competition. 7) For any further clarification on the competition, please contact hello@toytragic.com
Recently I moved city from Brisbane to Sydney, and had to make the decision what parts of my toy collection to bring with me. As it turned out … I brought all of it apart from two 30″ Batman and Superman action figures, including about 4 packing cartons full of Mighty Muggs. Now that I’ve settled into the new digs, I’ve turned my attention towards growing the collection a little further. So today I happily purchased Ghost Rider, Hoth Luke, Storm Shadow, Iron Man MkVI and War Machine. Check them out on my Mighty Muggs page.
Seems that Marvel Mighty Muggs had the run of Hasbro’s Mighty Muggs display at last weekend’s Comic-Con 2009 in San Diego. More specifically, a re-launching of the Marvel Universe waves (reportedly up to 3 new waves of figures), including some new characters such as Warhammer, Juggernaut, Deadpool and another Wolverine (that makes 4 versions now!). There are some great pics over on The Blot of these guys, and some shots on ToyArk.com also show the hooded version of Spiderman on display as well.
I’m so happy to know that more Mighty Muggs are planned. Even though some of the lines have been discontinued, the popular Star Wars and Marvel lines look like being in good shape for a bit longer at least.
A little while back we heard the news of a metallic finished Optimus Prime Mighty Mugg release for SDCC this year, but were expecting at least one other as well.
Today, images have started circulating of the newly announced companion to the Transformers re-release – it’s an X-Men Origins movie version of Wolverine – complete with retractable claws!
Being an Aussie I have no problems with the Hugh Jackman styled design, which I think they have nailed very well. From the side of the box shot here I think there may be some classic “Wolverine scratches” across the artwork around the back.
Overall a pretty cool choice for an exclusive I reckon, and I’m glad to see that there’s life still in the Mighty Muggs brand. Rumours still circulate about a new Transformers line “Revenge of the Fallen” themed Mighty Muggs, but no confirmation on that front as yet.
As I won’t be making it to SDCC this year (just to clarify – I’ve never been to any SDCC’s at all, but there’s always hope!) I’ll be pinning my chances of picking up this Wolverine through either eBay or perhaps an online retailer who starts stocking them after the conference. Out of the 4 SDCC exclusive Mighty Muggs released so far (Commander Gree, Fertility Idol, Peter Parker, Iron Man), I’ve picked up two from online retailers in Australia (Gree, Idol) and hope to one day buy the others without having to sell a kidney.
I’m not sure when I started collecting Spiderman toys, since I had never really been into Spiderman comics. My brother-in-law was (is) the Spiderman fan in the family (I’m more of a DC kind of guy) but I’ve somehow managed to end up with a fair amount of Spidey-stuff in the collection. Here’s a look at what is on my #1 Spiderman shelf … (more…)
As you can see, a lot of of my recent collecting efforts have been around Mighty Muggs. The more than I’ve gotten, the more that I’ve been determined to grow the collection. I’m sure at some point either I’ll collect them all, or will slow down at least, but that time is still a way off!
For this Mighty Muggs Alert, I wanted to especially mention that I’ve finally added the last missing Mugg to the Indiana Jones part of my collection – The SDCC Exclusive Fertility Idol! I was looking like having to import him from overseas which (at the moment with the Aussie dollar exchange rate) was looking like being quite an expensive little exercise. Luckily I found him from a local supplier and now have all of the Muggs from the short-lived Indiana Jones range.
Of course, I’ve also picked up some more recently as well:
- Indiana Jones: Fertility Idol (SDCC Excl.)
- Star Wars: Shocktrooper (Target Excl.), Grand Moff Tarkin, Darth Vader (Unmasked), Darth Maul (v1), Admiral Ackbar and Shadow Stormtrooper (Diamond Preview Excl.), Commander Gree (SDCC Excl.)
- Marvel: Captain America (Classic), Punisher and Jigsaw (TRU Excl.)
My Muggs have started to really dominate the collection, and the new shelves and bookcases that I recently put into the man-cave are fast filling up. My next round of Mugg hunting will center around the new Star Wars and Transformers waves, and slowly back-filling the Marvel range. I’m just not a big GI Joe fan in general, so I’m not in any real hurry to start on those, although I’m sure I will eventually.
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