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:

1. If you don’t already have an account, sign up for the Nokia Ovi Store
2. Download the Toy Tragic app
3. Leave a comment for the app in the Ovi Store, telling us why you love toys and the Toy Tragic app
4. 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
5. 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

If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s that toy manufacturers will always make more things for you to buy. So for now, I’m celebrating a possibly short-lived achievement, but an achievement nonetheless! I just purchased the last Star Wars Mighty Mugg I needed to complete the Star Wars series of Muggs in my collection – and the winner is, “Biker Scout”.

I reckon he’s one of the best looking SW Muggs they produced, and I had to end up getting one from the States so I could rule a line under all the SW Muggs there are to collect (including exclusives!). I’m still missing a number of Marvel characters, Baroness from the GI Joe series, the 3rd wave of Transformers and a couple of the very early SDCC exclusives that are now very rare and very pricey!

Anyway, I’m happy with my complete set of SW Muggs for the time being, and will be saving my pennies again to start on the remaining few I need overall. Huzzah!

Yes, I’ve been adding a few new Muggs to the collection lately (with some pocket money I’ve recently earned!), and in searching for the remaining Mighty Muggs yet to fill my cabinet, I managed to grab the SDCC’09 Exclusive Optimus Prime Mighty Mugg.

There was a reasonable amount of disappointment with this exclusive, since he’s basically exactly the same design as the Optimus Mighty Mugg from the second wave of Transformers Muggs, but just with some metallic paint. I probably have to agree, and I think the original SDCC’07 (or ‘08) Iron Man or the recent Wolverine (with retractable claws) was a much cooler exclusive, but nonetheless this was an important one to add to the collection. Now I just need the Wave 3 Transformers Muggs and I have all of the Transformers series … and they’re hopefully coming soon.

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.

MuggLab.com was one of the first Mighty Muggs websites I found when I started getting serious about collecting Mighty Muggs. The site is chock full of great info on the various Mighty Mugg lines, as well as covering the world of customs Mighty Muggs.

Now, to help fund the continuing efforts of the website, Dr. Mugg is organizing a fundraiser sale on eBay of some excellent custom Muggs, created by some of the coolest Mugg artists going around. Check out the eBay listings here, and place a bid on something you like!

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.