The Walking Dead Season 3 Blu – Ray

The Walking Dead Season Three limited edition Blu-Ray box set.

Mmmm . . . TVVVV

McFarlane Toys has designed The Walking Dead Season Three Limited Edition Blu-Ray Case, which takes the form of the fish tanks full of floating decapitated heads that we saw in The Governor’s private quarters. Played by David Morrissey on the AMC series, The Governor is a scheming and scary character who has risen to power in this post-apocalyptic world through his ruthless tactics. Although he isn’t all work, he does like to enjoy a drink and unwind after a hard day by staring into a fish tank full of his victims’ heads.

The design for the case was made before Season Three of The Walking Dead was shot – or Morrissey was even cast as The Governor. “AMC gave us the news that The Governor was going to be in Season Three and was in all the scripts, but they didn’t even know what he was going to look like yet!” says Todd McFarlane. “So we knew we wanted to do something that reflected that, and was cool and creepy and the same time.”

“McFarlane has a very intimate relationship with AMC, so I was approving concepts on this Blu-Ray case before Season Three even aired,” Kirkman says. “So while we were building things on set, Todd and the team at McFarlane Toys were coming in and scanning actors and scanning props. So having them come in and do the fish tank with the severed heads while we were still building it for the show is a pretty cool thing, and I think makes these products much more accurate and cooler for the fans.”

“We thought it would be fun for the consumer, after buying the case and taking it home, had to get a little interactive, because we’re not supplying the water!” McFarlane says with a laugh. “So you’re going to have to fill up the tanks yourself, and we’ve got little hooks on the heads, so you can arrange them any way you see fit. You can hang them in a certain order, or you can just let them go to the ground and flop around. No one person’s case has to be exactly like the other’s.”

The Walking Dead Season Three limited edition box set.

McFarlane adds that the case should have an electronic component, so the tank can light up. “It’s something where it should come across as an art piece, and then you can turn it to the side, and the wood paneling disguises where you can take out the discs.”

McFarlane Toys previously designed the limited edition box set for Season Two, which was a flip-top zombie head with a screwdriver through the eye. That case completely sold out and won some “Year’s Best” awards. “I’m sure every mom in America will not approve of this, nor will she run out and buy it!” offered McFarlane, “But once she gets out of the way, there’ll be tons of people that will enjoy it just for the good clean fun that it is.”

McFarlane also said that that he would enjoy a chance to enter the creative side of The Walking Dead. When asked about drawing something for the comic book he said that, “time permitting in my schedule, it’d be cool – I’ve studied the look of the run of that book, so it might work best if there was an annual or something where different artists could come in and bring their own look to the book. And on the TV end, it might be fun to come in and direct an episode or two.”

McFarlane also hopes to be able to create more toys for the popular TV series. “I was talking to the actor who plays Daryl (Norman Reedus), who is probably the most popular guy on the TV show, and he keeps bugging me for a thing of him on his motorcycle, which I think is a really cool idea. I think I could get away with that as a statue without having to put in a monster, because it would be a fairly uncommon-looking image of him.”

The final price and sale date for the Blu-Ray case aren’t set yet, but it’ll be available online and through most mass retail stores later this year . The Walking Dead returns Sunday, Feb.10 to AMC, and the Image comic continues every month.

Visit McFarlane.com and Amctv.com for updates on The Walking Dead TV show and it’s products.

Ouya Game Console Will Update Annually

Ouya game system

Game On

Julie Uhrman, CEO of the Android-based Ouya games console company, announced that the system will receive refreshed hardware on an annual basis.

Speaking at the DICE Summit, Uhrman says that the annual upgrade will take advantage of faster and more powerful processors as they are developed, and still maintain a $99 price point. However, you don’t have to worry about throwing out your games library and starting over every year. Uhrman assures us that the Android-based OS will allow each new console to preserve backwards compatibility with older games. Although older consoles may be unable to run more advanced 3D titles as time goes on. The consoles naming conventions will reflect the annual refreshes, such as Ouya 2, Ouya 3, and onward.

The idea of having hardware outdated on a regular annual schedule may be a turn-off for some, but the company seems confident that the system’s low price and unified OS is a selling point to encourage upgrade purchases and prevent fragmenting the audience. And in a time when smart-phones, tablets, and MP3 players seem to be updated regularly on a 2-year cycle, then maybe it isn’t so unusual for a game console to try this tactic. And 2-years of Ouyas will still be far less expensive then the latest phones and tablets.

Ouya is set to arrive on store shelves this June for $99.

Current Cobra Series Is Ending

Cobra’s Last Stand 

IDW has released a preview of Cobra #21, which will be the last issue of the comic book series before launching a new line of G.I. Joe comics.

Cobra #21

Mike Costa (w) • Antonio Fuso, Werther Dell’edera (a) • Fuso (c)
OKTOBER ends! The battle between the covert G.I. JOE team and the OKTOBER GUARD takes a turn for the worse as COBRA forces bear down on their location… and they may just manage to eliminate both sides of the conflict. The consequences will be dire and this G.I. Joe team will never be the same again!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Find out what’s next for G.I. Joe and Cobra with IDW Publishing’s April 2013 Solicitations!

Batmobile Sells For $ 4.6 Million

Holy Collectibles Batman!

One of the original Batmobiles from the Adam West Batman TV series sold on Saturday for $4.6 million dollars. The winning bidder is a car collector from Arizona who joked that he plans to tear down a wall in his home and display the car in his living room.

In 1965, 20th Century Fox Television and William Dozier’s Greenway Productions approached vehicle customizer George Barris to produce a Batmobile for the Tv series. Given only 15 days and $15,000 budget, Barris transformed a Lincoln Futura concept car in to one of the most iconic vehicles ever.

I don’t know what this auction Batmobile comes equipped with, but on the show the car featured a 390-in 1956 Lincoln V-8 engine and a B&M Hydro Automatic transmission. Gadgets include a nose-mounted aluminum Cable Cutter Blade, Bat Ray Projector, Anti-Theft Device, Detect-a-scope, Batscope, Bat Eye Switch, Antenna Activator, Police Band Cut-In Switch, Automatic Tire Inflation Device, Remote Batcomputer, the Batphone, Emergency Bat Turn Lever, Anti-Fire Activator, Bat Smoke, Bat Photoscope, and many other Bat gadgets. If needed, the Batmobile was capable of a quick 180° “bat-turn” thanks to two rear-mounted ten-foot Deist parachutes.

Arnim Zola Returns In Captain America : The Winter Soldier

Jonesin For The Winter Soldier 

Toby Jones, who played Arnim Zola in Captain America: The First Avenger, confirmed in an interview with HeyUGuys.co.uk that he would return for the upcoming sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Comic book fans know Arnim Zola as a genetic engineer for Hitler, who transferred his into a robot body. The comic book version of Zola has a small computer sensor for a head and a large screen in his chest which his face is projected on. First Avenger made reference to the comic book version of Zola when Jones briefly peers behind a large magnifying glass.