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DC Does More Watchmen Toys, Seven Years Later


I started working at ToyFare magazine during the infamous Watchmen issue (well, infamous around the office, at least). See, ToyFare was set to debut DC Direct’s Watchmen figures back in 2001, but the Alan Moore-DC legal scrapdown led DC to cancel the line days before the magazine went to press. While this would be a disaster for any magazine, by pure coincidence that ToyFare issue had a feature about Lost Toys, i.e. toys that had been shown but never made, which the Watchmen characters fit just as well. We were saved. And I could get back to freaking out about the price of NY gas, whichthen cost an astounding $1.75.
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That’s a very long, useless segue to telling you that DC Direct is now making Watchmen movie toys, and, although four of them will debut at this weekend’s New York Comic Con, Entertainment Weekly has a pic of two of ’em, Nite Owl and Rorschach. They’re $15 each, and should be available with the movie in January ’09.