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We're back! Sorry for the hiatus, it's been a long while since i submitted an entry due to the poor internet connection back at home. But never the less, there are so many stuff that we had left behind, so im just gonna post up the key and recent important news for all fanboys there is...the key news right now is  Star Wars... Read on..

The Walt Disney Company announced today it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm and is planning Star Wars Episode 7 for 2015! In a later conference call, Disney revealed that they are planning a new trilogy starting in 2015 with a new movie coming every other year. They were also asked about "Indiana Jones," but said that they were going to concentrate on the "Star Wars" franchise for now. This is following such big purchases as Pixar and Marvel Entertainment. Here is the full press release:

Continuing its strategy of delivering exceptional creative content to audiences around the world, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction. Lucasfilm is 100% owned by Lucasfilm Chairman and Founder, George Lucas.

Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney stock on October 26, 2012, the transaction value is $4.05 billion, with Disney paying approximately half of the consideration in cash and issuing approximately 40 million shares at closing. The final consideration will be subject to customary post-closing balance sheet adjustments.

"Lucasfilm reflects the extraordinary passion, vision, and storytelling of its founder, George Lucas," said Robert A. Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. "This transaction combines a world-class portfolio of content including Star Wars, one of the greatest family entertainment franchises of all time, with Disney's unique and unparalleled creativity across multiple platforms, businesses, and markets to generate sustained growth and drive significant long-term value."

"For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next," said George Lucas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucasfilm. "It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. I'm confident that with Lucasfilm under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, and having a new home within the Disney organization, Star Wars will certainly live on and flourish for many generations to come. Disney's reach and experience give Lucasfilm the opportunity to blaze new trails in film, television, interactive media, theme parks, live entertainment, and consumer products."

Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Lucasfilm, a leader in entertainment, innovation and technology, including its massively popular and "evergreen" Star Wars franchise and its operating businesses in live action film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects, and audio post production. Disney will also acquire the substantial portfolio of cutting-edge entertainment technologies that have kept audiences enthralled for many years. Lucasfilm, headquartered in San Francisco, operates under the names Lucasfilm Ltd., LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound, and the present intent is for Lucasfilm employees to remain in their current locations.

Kathleen Kennedy, current Co-Chairman of Lucasfilm, will become President of Lucasfilm, reporting to Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn. Additionally she will serve as the brand manager for Star Wars, working directly with Disney's global lines of business to build, further integrate, and maximize the value of this global franchise. Ms. Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars feature films, with George Lucas serving as creative consultant. Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future.

The acquisition combines two highly compatible family entertainment brands, and strengthens the long-standing beneficial relationship between them that already includes successful integration of Star Wars content into Disney theme parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Paris and Tokyo.

Driven by a tremendously talented creative team, Lucasfilm's legendary Star Wars franchise has flourished for more than 35 years, and offers a virtually limitless universe of characters and stories to drive continued feature film releases and franchise growth over the long term. Star Wars resonates with consumers around the world and creates extensive opportunities for Disney to deliver the content across its diverse portfolio of businesses including movies, television, consumer products, games and theme parks. Star Wars feature films have earned a total of $4.4 billion in global box to date, and continued global demand has made Star Wars one of the world's top product brands, and Lucasfilm a leading product licensor in the United States in 2011. The franchise provides a sustainable source of high quality, branded content with global appeal and is well suited for new business models including digital platforms, putting the acquisition in strong alignment with Disney's strategic priorities for continued long-term growth.

The Lucasfilm acquisition follows Disney's very successful acquisitions of Pixar and Marvel, which demonstrated the company's unique ability to fully develop and expand the financial potential of high quality creative content with compelling characters and storytelling through the application of innovative technology and multiplatform distribution on a truly global basis to create maximum value. Adding Lucasfilm to Disney's portfolio of world class brands significantly enhances the company's ability to serve consumers with a broad variety of the world's highest-quality content and to create additional long-term value for our shareholders.

The Boards of Directors of Disney and Lucasfilm have approved the transaction, which is subject to clearance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, certain non-United States merger control regulations, and other customary closing conditions. The agreement has been approved by the sole shareholder of Lucasfilm.

This article was taken from Superherohype.com

So this next question is, will Mickey Mouse finally gets on board the Millenium Falcon? Stay tune.

Marvel's New Adventure Game

 

I just got finished talking about DC's new character based fighting game and Marvel lays down plans of their own. Marvel Heroes will pick up where games like Alliance left off - with the group-based, fight-all-over-the-screen genre.

Similar to DC, Marvel Heroes has no announced release date yet but promises to feature a large span of characters and Doctor Doom as the big boss. In the image above, check out Spiderman's alternative costume and the Planet War skin on Hulk, poozers. Gentlemen, it's time to update your PS3 bucket lists.

Watch this space.

DC Comics' New Fighting Game

The first time I saw Green Lantern kick the stuffing out of Scorpion, I knew that this probably wouldn't be the last fighting game the DC Comics and DC characters would venture into. Glad to know that what everyone was expecting actually came true.

The title for the newest DC themed fighting game is Injustice: Gods Among Us, and image stills have just been released. The plot promises to go into the origins of the characters at a deeper level. Also, it gives us a little bit of a nerdgasm to note that character uniforms are updated to the new 52 era (i.e. spandex-less Superman, Wonder Woman in pants, etc.)

To peruse more, visit the official site at www.injustice.com

Action Figure Comic Strip #1

"Take away what you can, Give Nothing back!" - Jack Sparrow

Happy Army Day Bruneian Fans out there, had a very productive day today out celebrating with Close friends and family, hope you are too!

In conjunction with this special day, We are about to introduce our latest edition to the blog, AFComicstrips.

Hope you'll enjoy it!

Marvel Alliance Online

The Latest game that is currently a big hit on Facebook, check out the trailer, and Hero up!

Mother's Day Special

We'd like to thank everyone of our fans for all the love that was given to us, and now it's our turn to give back, we would like give a special shout out to our mom's, close friends and families a very Happy Mother's Day!! You are Truly a Super-Wonder-Women!!

Hot Toys Naked Snake (Sneaking Suit Version) Sixth Scale Figure

 Alright MGS Fans, we've seen The Boss, Now it's time for the Awesomest Super Spy Action Hero on console, Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are proud again to present the Naked Snake (Sneaking Suit Version) Sixth Scale Figure from the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater video game.

 

The figure looks amazing, it's worth considering for all crazy MGS fans out there, too bad the suit cant be changed to the camo version. One can only wish.

The collectible is specially crafted based on the image of Naked Snake in Sneaking Suit Version in the video game, highlighting the newly developed head sculpt, highly detailed costume, accessories and weapons.

The Naked Snake Sixth Scale Figure features:

Authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Naked Snake (Sneaking Suit Version) with right eye mask and bandana in the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater video game

•     Approximately 30 cm tall
• TrueType body with over 30 points of articulation
• Realistic brown hair sculpture
• Six (6) pieces of interchangeable gloved palms including:
• One (1) pair of fists
• One (1) pair for holding gun
• One (1) left palm for holding knife
• One (1) left palm for holding grenade
• Each head sculpt is specially hand-painted
• One (1) black, grey and orange colored sneaking suit with leather-like materials on arms and thighs, including straps, pouches, back pack and kettle with case on waist
• One (1) pair of black boots with tapes on right side
• One (1) machine gun
• One (1) rifle
• One (1) EZ gun
• One (1) pistol with suppressor
• One (1) CQC knife with case
• One (1) survival knife with case
• Three (3) grenades
• One (1) set of binoculars
• One (1) ration
• One (1) cardboard box
• Figure stand with Naked Snake nameplate and video game logo

Snake.....Snake......Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkeeeee!!

Hot Toys The Boss 1/6 Scale Video Game Masterpiece

Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are proud to present the The Boss Sixth Scale Figure from the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater video game.

The collectible is specially crafted based on the image of The Boss in the video game, highlighting the newly developed head and body sculpt, highly detailed costume and weapons.

 

 The The Boss Sixth Scale Figure features:

• Authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of The Boss in the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater video game
• Approximately 28 cm tall
• TrueType body with over 28 points of articulations
• Realistic golden hair sculpture with ponytail
• Six (6) pieces of interchangeable gloved palms including:
• One (1) pair of fists
• Two (2) left relaxed palms
• One (1) right palm for holding patriot
• One (1) right palm for holding knife
• Each head sculpt is specially hand-painted
• One (1) set of white and silver colored sneaking suit with strap in waist and pad on right knee
• One (1) black cape
• One (1) pair of white boots
• One (1) Davy Crockett launching with case
• One (1) Davy Crockett warhead with case
• One (1) patriot
• One (1) CQC knife with magnet
• Figure stand with The Boss nameplate and video game logo 

Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man gets a Review

Look what came in! Ohh yes, I've always wanted a cool Spidey Figure, and after reading most reviews, a lot of people have suggested this figure by Hot Toys. Read on..

As usual, everything was packed brilliantly in a clam-shell. Spidey comes fully packed with accessories. Amazing webs lines that can be attached to the Spidey figure. Multiple hands and a standee diorama of a building for amazing poses. Extra pegs included.

Details to the Suit linings, Do not, this can be very delicate and might stretch out over a long time of posing. Handle with care.

Loving the emblem that represents your friendly neighborhood Spider-man!

As i mentioned, detailed to the fullest, including these boots. It creases!! 

 Red Spider Logo in the back!

Underneath this cool Spidey suit is a TrueType Hot Toys body figure. Pose are cool with this figure, your only limited to the suit's limitation.

The head could be more rounder with the mask on...your gonna see the back of the head. And if you've realized the right shoulder on my figure has a little hinge , but no biggey, its still an amazing figure to add to your collections.

Of course with Spidey, this figure will come only with a suit, so his suit might come with some problems, look at the stitching done to the head mask. Dont worry, everyone is complaining about this, but its not too noticable, hopefully Hot Toys can improve this in the future for future Spidey licenses. 

But out of all the imperfections that comes, Spidey still strikes an amazing similarity to the Movie Spiderman 3 "Tobey Maguire"  look. Too bad no Tobey head-sculpt.

Of course Accessories comes with Spidey is the standard 12 Inch figure standee with cradle and Spidey's Building diorama. Very Cool!

 

How do we rate this figure? We gave it a 7 Star out of 10 (*******) 

Simply because the original price was going for $154.00 with tons of Accessories that comes with the figure, Value does increases over time, Ebay now is going for US259 to US330. 

Details are amazing , Hot toys did an amazing figure. This was a great buy, next to come on our site is the 1989 Batman : Michael Keaton! Stay tune for that! For now, enjoy the pics and thanks for reading!

I Can see Mary Jane from here!

So got a room in the Avengers for your friendly neighbour hood Spider-Man?

If you wanna see more pics, go to our galley at The House of El : Gallery

Peace!

Word from Hot Toys

At first I was excited for a lot of cool figures are lined up by this company, then I saw this article posted on the HTC (Hot toys community) page..read on, Sorry GL.

 Never the less, Hot Toys still continues on getting cool licenses for future figures to come!

Tron Uprising

Hello Tron Fans, Tron: Uprising is an upcoming animated science fiction television series, part of the Tron franchise, which will air on Disney's television channel Disney XD. The show is set to air in June 2012.


This soon to be awesome animated series is set between Tron and Tron: Legacy. Would it tell some untold story, we just gotta find out.

Tron: Uprising has been confirmed to be a 10-parted mini-series.

Stay tune Tron fans!

Logan Is In Australia

All hear this, all hear this! Hugh Jackman is reprising this role as Wolverine in yet another Marvel movie - a sequel, in fact. What's different about this movie, apart from the fact that this movie title has 'The' in the front? Well, this Logan story is set in Japan and will start filming in Australia between July and December of this year

While principle photography was supposed to be done in Japan, the tsunami forced the production team to move its work to Fox Studios in Sydney.

As for the plot, a Japanese setting for a Wolverine story could only mean one villain that would face Logan. That's the big hint, now go work it out for yourselves.

The Amazing New International Poster

If Spiderman were a real person living in this society, he would probably care very little about what you thought of his new 'amazing' costume. Love it or hate it, the movie is coming and riding on the backs of real popular superhero-themed releases (i.e. The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises). 

We're not going to go into the origins of this wonderful Marvel character - you're not stupid, you're intelligent and have done your reading - needless to say that Spidey's first story will be retold once again. 

Opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on July 3, the Marc Webb-directed action adventure stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen and Sally Field.

Rumours: DC Comics LOBO Movie

Taken from Superherohype.com

Warner Bros. has set Journey 2: The Mysterious Island director Brad Peyton for their DC Comics adaptation, Lobo, Deadline reports.

Created in 1984 by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, Lobo is a Czarnian (originally Velorpian) bounty hunter who, as a nearly indestructible anti-hero, drives a space-faring motorcycle across the cosmos in search of his next target.

When Guy Ritchie was attached to the project in 2009, Don Payne had written the most recent draft of the script and had Lobo tracking four alien fugitives to Earth and teaming with a small town girl to track them down.

Though there's no hint at casting as of yet (and, no matter what, the character is likely going to employ heavy makeup and CGI to be realized for the screen), Jeffrey Dean Morgan told Superhero Hype some time back that playing the ultimate bastich would be one his dream roles.


Stay tune for more...

Hot Toys - Captain Jack Sparrow DX06 1/6 Scale Figure Review

Friends! This is the day that you will always remember as the day that...

 The Day that The House of El has review your favorite Pirate from the Caribbean! Here is our Picture Review..

Of course the Box is Huge! It's a DX Matey!

If you got this Label on your Hot Toys figure package, It comes with an exclusive item...wait till you'll see what we got!

Flip the box over and you'll see this cool writing about Captain Jack Sparrow!

On top of the figure is this cool inlay displaying the Captain's flag logo.... "There should be a "Captain" in there somewhere."

Ah Jack ol'boy, Awesome packaging once again by Hot Toys!

Follow the instructions guys, Hot toys figurines cost so much these days, it's important to read them before you break em!

The DX06 comes with an second Interchangeable face with PERS feature as well as a different expression.

Yup, a different expression.

Getting all cushy with the Hot Toys Padding seal for quality perfection!

Again..Quality is quite the focus here from Hot Toys.

Hi Jack!

Movie-accurate rudder with base and movie nameplate.

head sculpt of his mother, Crazy compass, a duck's foot and some dangles.

Detailed compass and a bottle of rum...you know Jack loves his Rum.

Finally I got Jack out of the Box and he looks amazing, check out what's in the bottle..

Ahhh The Black Pearl...

As u know Jack comes in two faces for this DX06, Fantastic likeness of Johnny Depp.

The Details is staggering

This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!

You! You looking at my bottle of Rum!

Ahhh Miss Swann....you look mighty fine!

As mentioned, only the Sideshow exclusive will come with this long telescope, makes a funny looking prop!

Of course this is a DX, Never come without all the extra accessories, i cant make up my mind which hands look good to put on the figure...

The sword is sharp, just dont poke your eye out.

He comes with his removal Jacket and Hat.

Ta Da Da Dam, Da Da Da Dam.

Peas in a pod, darling.

Here is a must see, thought i post a picture of him with the removal head piece so you can adjust the PERS eyes.

Welcome to the Gun Show!

Does this make me look like a bad ass?

Any man who falls behind, is left behind.

Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow. Savvy?

You know, for having such a bleak outlook on pirates you are well on your way to becoming one: sprung a man from jail, commandeered a ship of the fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of Tortuga, and you're completely obsessed with treasure.

Movie-accurate rudder with base and movie nameplate

Figure stand with Captain Jack Sparrow nameplate and the movie logo

Uh oh, Jack has been marked....Enjoy the pics!

Predator : "What the hell are you?" Jack: "What the Hell are you mate!"

So the Predator actually just wanted to take a picture with Jack, just to see how he stack up with the 13 Inch Predator.

"... Drink up me hearties, yo ho".

That's all folks, we think that the DX version of Captain Jack Sparrow is an amazing figure and have no regrets getting him, if your on the fence with this guy, you wont regret it. An Amazing figure with alot of accessories to display him with.

Our Rate: ***** out of 5 stars.

Price : USD$ 219.99 / BND$277.20 excluding shipping rates.