A promise was made by the merc with the mouth, and that promise has been honored at Avengers Campus… with Wolverine in tow.
If there are three things I like it’s collecting toys, Comic-Con, and Marvel Studios. That’s why I jumped at the chance for a very cool opportunity blending all three.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Deadpool & Wolverine opens this weekend, one of the biggest Marvel movies in years. And to celebrate that opening weekend in its own unique way, Funko allowed fans at San Diego Comic-Con to “Pop Yourself” as one of the two characters. It’s a massive operation that happens on the floor at the con and, while wildly busy, is also incredibly fun.
Once you get to the front of the line, a special QR code directs you to a site where you sign into your Funko account and choose which character you want to be: Deadpool or Wolverine. From there, you choose body type, skin tone, hairstyle, and a few other features to get the Pop as close to you as possible. You then pick some accessories, such as the Comic-Con exclusive TVA TemPad, pay $50 each (a fee Funko waved for press covering the experience) and boom, you’re ready to go. A few hours later, an email shows up, you head back to the booth, and voila. You’re a Funko Pop of Deadpool or Wolverine.
While there were a few technical issues during my specific experience, mostly due to the insane strain on the WiFi, the team at Funko was amazing, fixing the problems and making sure I got just the Pop I wanted. Meanwhile, a peek in the back of the booth saw cartons and cartons of different pieces, almost like a Funko Pop graveyard, as an army of employees worked to put them together.
The result? It’s pretty sweet.
Germain as a Funko Pop of Wolverine – io9
The good news for those not in San Diego is that this isn’t just something being restricted to Comic-Con. For more info on that Pop Yourself experience, and to do it yourself at home, head to this link.
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A drone show heralding the arrival of Marvel’s Fantastic Four at San Diego Comic-Con delighted fans last night who had just taken in a special screening of the company’s latest offering, Deadpool and Wolverine. See it in action, below:
He’s hungry…
See you Saturday at Hall H #FantasticFour #MarvelSDCC
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) July 26, 2024
As the performance unfolded, the Brobdingnagian noggin of the cosmic entity, Galactus, dominated the skyline before gently fading into the night. In answer, the tableau suddenly morphed into a giant Fantastic Four logo haloed in flame, almost as if written by the Human Torch, himself. The startling presentation was then undercut by the informative, but less whimsical addition of “Saturday, Hall H”–the location of the upcoming panel–in an uninspiring font. Oh well. At least we know to probably expect some news about The Fantastic Four this weekend.
According to TheWrap, the display above Petco Field officially set a “new world record for [the] biggest image displayed with drones, as well as most drones used in a drone show.” While we do not know the exact number of drones used, the previous record holder was apparently 1,592. So at least one more than that.
Though using modern technology to present the image of either an alien invasion or a being worshipped as god–in this case, both–has been long-feared by conspiracy theorists, its mostly charming to see a swarm of deadly flying robots used to promote a comic book convention instead of pretty much anything else they’re used for. Let’s hope this inspires a new trend.
DC Studios might not be at San Diego Comic-Con, but that’s not stopping James Gunn from dropping some bombshells: the writer-director and co-head of Warner Bros’ plans for the DC media universe has beamed into Comic-Con with our first look at the new DCU era in Creature Commandos.
Revealed as part of a surprise appearance during Jim Lee’s panel at Comic-Con, Gunn unveiled our first proper look at the first big DCU project in action: the animated series Creature Commandos.
The seven-episode series sees Rick Flag (Senior this time, not his son, played by Frank Grillo, who will also play him in live action for Peacemaker season 2) and Amanda Waller (returning DC evergreen at this point, Viola Davis) team up to recruit a tag team of renegade weirdos: but this time, they can’t use Taskforce X. So… enter Taskforce M. For Monster: a team of incarcerated prisoners at Belle Reve that Waller keeps prepared for missions so brutal it’s not even worth sending humans on.
Including the voice talents of Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel, David Harbour as Frankenstein, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, Indira Varma as The Bride, the series will also star Steve Agee as Economos, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana, and Anya Chalotra as Circe. Creature Commandos is set to begin streaming on Max this December, kicking off the new era of the DCU as we know it.
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