Category Archives: Avengers
This Could Be the Movie S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
I am oddly fascinated by the strange turn of events when toys and other promotional material give away the big secret of upcoming movies. Take, for example, The Amazing Spider-Man that comes out later this year. The villain is the Lizard, but the producers have been keeping him under wraps, not wanting to spoil the surprise. The Lizard didn’t even appear in the first trailer. So nobody was supposed to know what the Lizard looked like.
Until some company somewhere released pictures of the Spider-Man and Lizard spinning lollipop toys. That’s how everybody learned what the new Lizard would look like! Heck, it didn’t stop there. Several toy advertisements have given away the look of the Lizard without any sign of an official reveal.
Well now the same thing has possibly happened for The Avengers! A toy ad from Hasbro has revealed the potential look of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. I think it looks badass! It’s exactly what it sounds, a flying aircraft carrier. If this makes it into the film, I will be quite pleased.
Better than the Ultimate Helicarrier, which was just a normal aircraft carrier with a bunch of propellers on it
Yeah Baby! Avengers Halloween Costumes!
I knew these were coming! We’re still 10 months away from Halloween, but I knew that Avengers movie-brand Halloween costumes were coming! Marvel and, frankly, all superhero movies have jumped on the Halloween bandwagon in recent years. Does anybody remember the millions of Joker costumes following The Dark Knight?
Well I knew we’d definitely be getting costumes for The Avengers movie, and they do not disappoint! If only I was thinner, I would probably buy them all. Not only would they be fun for Halloween, but they’re a great starting point for a cosplay costume. They’d probably even be great for kinky bedroom role-playing too! I’m just saying. Laaaaadies.
You can check out all the costumes here, or check out the few I’m posting.
First up, check out this sweet Captain America costume!
It damn well better come with the shield
Personally, I hate, hate, HATE those costumes that don’t have real boots, just the visual of boots. It looks ridiculous! But that’s easily solved by a kickass pair of red boots. Likewise, red gloves. I just find it weird that these licensed costumes always stop there. Though apparently the gloves are sold separately. The puffiness looks kind of cool, as does the iffy helmet. If the actual shield looks that badass, this costume is a winner.
Obviously they have costumes for Captain America, Thor and Iron Man, the Big 3 when it comes to Avengers. Hulk costumes are on the way, as are Loki. But this costume company doesn’t stop with the big names.
Check out Hawkeye!
What, no bow?
At least this costume looks to have better boots. But I almost feel bad for it. Hawkeye’s movie costume is cool, in the movie, but as a Halloween costume it looks so boring! Nobody will have any idea who you are! Even if they see the movie in May, I bet most people who aren’t absolute comic book geeks won’t remember Hawkeye by October.
Unless he’s somehow the breakout star of the movie. Hey! It could happen.
Otherwise, we all know Thor is going to be really popular. Why else would people need to buy…this!
Those look like some gnarly waves, dude
What? No fake beard? Thor has always kind of looked ridiculous without the beard.
As for our African-American friends, there’s no reason to feel left out. There’s also, apparently, no reason to do something as ‘controversial’ as a black Thor or a black Hawkeye. These costumes have you covered!
You can be a black Nick Fury instead!
Though now I’m curious. Considering white Nick Fury looks the same as black Nick Fury, could that costume double as a white Nick Fury? All you’d need is some hair.
These costumes look hilariously awesome. Any true cosplayer probably wouldn’t bother with them, but for something cheap to buy and wear to a party or the bar on Halloween, these are fantastic!
But these are just for adults. The real people who need to benefit from these costumes are the little children who will actually be going trick-or-treating. Well don’t worry, because the little kids are covered!
He doesn't even need that crappy wig!
And the little girls are covered too!
Finally, a sexualized costume for little girls that I can support!
Marvel and Avengers to Rule Our Lives With New Facebook Game
Hi, my name is Sean M. I’m a Facebook game addict. Sort of. I don’t play a lot of Facebook games, I tend to pick one game and become dangerously attached to it for no discernible reason. It’s not like the games are even that fun. I just…I just like going to them and achieving the things they put in front of me. I need help.
I was only able to break my ridiculous addiction to Mafia Wars by starting up The Sims Social, which I’ll admit to playing ride now alongside writing up this post.
Well hopefully I’ll be able to give up The Sims Social by playing Avengers Alliance, produced by Marvel comics somehow. Announced on USA Today, it’s a free-to-play strategy game in which you’re a S.H.I.E.L.D. trainee charged with putting together a team to fight evil. A team composed of Marvel superheroes, of course.
So...everybody remembers there's a movie coming out in May, right?
Here’s what USA Today and TQ Jefferson, Marvel VP of games production, had to say:
At the outset of the game, players learn to customize their character with accessories and weapons, and are instructed in battle. “That character will go right into the game and fight alongside Spider-Man or Thor and Black Widow,” Jefferson says. “We want to make the game approachable.” Hard-core fans will revel in the appearance of more than 100 characters. “You don’t need to know 75 years of Marvel continuity to understand what is going on,” Jefferson says, “but if you do, those elements are in there.”
I’m happy to say I never have and never will spend actual money to play or improve these Facebook games. But there are worse ways to kill a few minutes online. There are also much, much better ways.
6 Fun Things I’m Looking Forward to in 2012
If we don’t count the bottle of Mountain Dew that I finished off that was still left over from 2011, then so far my 2012 New Year’s resolution to not drink soda is doing just fine! Thanks for asking. But a barren year of nothing to drink but water, milk and the tears of hungry orphans is not the only thing to look forward to in 2012. There’s a whole lot of crap going on, some of it better than others.
Also, it’s supposedly the last year on Earth. So there’s that.
Star Wars in 3D is not on this list
2011 was a great year for geeky pop culture. We had an amazing year of superhero movies, with Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, Green Lantern and the X-Men: First Class. TV was pretty neat, seeing the end of Smallville and the start of Game of Thrones. Everything from video games, comic books, novels and horse racing had a lot going on last year. Can 2012 even stack up? Well it’s going to give it the old college try. Here are 6 Fun Things I’m Looking Forward to in 2012. But rather than just individual things, they’re more like categories.
Who Buys This Shit?
The world is full of a lot of stupid shit. And a lot of it you can buy. Take, for example, some of the recent offerings unveiled for merchandise that ties into the upcoming The Avengers movie next year. The website Comic Book Movies posted several of the images today, and I just have to roll my eyes at how insipid some of these items are. You can check them all out at the link I just posted, but I have a couple of my least favorites.
Who in their right mind would buy some of this garbage? It has nothing to do at all with the Avengers movie other than to slap the logo on a product, along with some highly detailed character images, and then just throw it in stores.
It’s like that scene in Death to Smoochy where the executives sit around a big table making check marks next to all the pointless drivel that will now that Smoochy’s face stamped onto it. Or all the jokes in Spaceballs. So much for either movie being some kind of satire.
I mean, c’mon, look at this shit:
Who in their right mind would pay money for any of this crap? Who needs an ‘Avengers’ bicycle helmet? It’s just a bicycle helmet with Avengers stickered onto the side. There’s absolutely no thought or creativity in any of these items. And that just disgusts me.
But those little plushie Avengers toys were adorable!
