{"id":7047,"date":"2012-09-18T21:53:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T01:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2012-09-18T21:53:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T01:53:22","slug":"equipment-in-stores-this-week-ultron-silver-surfer-and-the-battle-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=7047","title":{"rendered":"Equipment: In Stores This Week: Ultron, Silver Surfer and the Battle Beasts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s Wednesday, it must be New Toy Day! Diamond Select Toys h<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SSBottleOpenerBox1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7053\" title=\"SSBottleOpenerBox1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/SSBottleOpenerBox1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a>as a couple of new products shipping to comic shops this week &#8212; both of them Marvel Comics-based &#8212; and there&#8217;s also an actual comic book they want you to check out! It&#8217;s not Marvel, but it&#8217;s quite possibly the awesomest comic you will read this week. Let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s coming out!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Silver Surfer Metal Bottle Opener<br \/>\nGalactus may hunger, but he&#8217;ll need a tall beverage to wash down that planet he just ate! Luckily, there&#8217;s this handy-dandy Silver Surfer bottle opener to pop open the top of his grape Nehi! Standing nearly 6 inches tall, this metal opener depicting Norrin Radd, surfer of the spaceways, has the same chrome finish as Galactus&#8217; most famous herald. Simply holding it in your hand makes you feel like a devourer of worlds!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marvel Select Ultron<br \/>\nWatch out, Avengers &#8212; Ultron has arrived! Designed and sculpted by Gentle Giant this 7-inch figure depicts the classic\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7054\" title=\"UltronFig1\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/UltronFig1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"361\" \/>Avengers villain in all his robotic glory. Ultron was built with 16 points of articulation, so he can strike menacing and\/or victorious poses over the fallen forms of Ant-Man and the Wasp on his display base. He comes packaged in our deluxe Select packaging, suitable for in-package display and with keen side art for shelf storage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Battle Beasts #3 (IDW Publishing)<\/p>\n<p>Based on the upcoming toy line from DST, it&#8217;s Battle Beasts<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cover3ALogoSm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7057\" title=\"Cover3ALogoSm\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cover3ALogoSm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a> #3 from IDW! The epic invasion of Earth by the Beasts has turned San Francisco into a war zone, and the army has been called in to deal with the situation. Vorin, Merk and Gruntos take their human charges underground, and we catch a glimpse of how their band of brothers was formed. The last chapter before the whisker-rattling finale! Regular cover by Valerio Schiti; 1 in 10 cover (part two of a triptych) by Jeff Zornow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To find your local comic shop, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicshoplocator.com\" target=\"_blank\">comicshoplocator.com<\/a>, and get regular DST updates on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/diamondselecttoys\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CollectDST\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s Wednesday, it must be New Toy Day! Diamond Select Toys has a couple of new products shipping to comic shops this week &#8212; both of them Marvel Comics-based &#8212; and there&#8217;s also an actual comic book they want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=7047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[21,1298,88,206,332,164,14,24,2229,941,159,1012],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-hard-copy","tag-action-figure","tag-battle-beasts","tag-comic-book","tag-diamond-select-toys","tag-dst","tag-idw","tag-james","tag-marvel-comics","tag-silver-surfer","tag-super-hero","tag-toys","tag-ultron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7083,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}