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Marvel Introduces New MarvelKids.com Headlined By Expansive, Dedicated Spider-Man Destination

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Headlined By Expansive, Dedicated Spider-Man Destination

 

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New York, NY – November 3rd, 2014 – Marvel is expanding the ways its young fans can interact with the Marvel Universe in fun-filled new ways as it launches the enhanced MarvelKids.com.  The refreshed site, designed to captivate the next generation of Marvel fans with digital products and destinations that younger fans will love, will be headlined by an all-new Spider-Man kids destination featuring games and immersive activities starring Marvel’s legendary webslinger.

At spiderman.marvelkids.com, younger Marvel fans can take on the role of Spider-Man in a variety of interactive and amazing games including:

·         Spider-Man Web Shooter – Take on the role of Spider-Man and use your Web Shooters to help defeat some of his all-time greatest rivals – Rhino, Lizard, The Green Goblin and more!

·         Spider-Man Wall Crawler  – Help Spider-Man race to the top of the Manhattan skyline to defeat Vulture, Electro and Doc Ock and save the day!

·         Spider-Man Web-Slinger  – Use your spider-skills to web-swing, slide and jump to avoid danger and collect coins to try to get the highest score you can!

Fans will also find an exciting web of activitiesincluding Spider-Man downloadable coloring pages, mazes, word searches and Sudoku.

In addition to the exciting games that MarvelKids.com offers, fans will also be able to watch “Marvel’s Ultimate-Spider-Man” video clips – including sneak peeks at upcoming episodes of the hit series “Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors,” airing inside the Marvel Universe on Disney XD. 

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As a thank you to our loyal young Spidey fans and in honor of the relaunch of MarvelKids.com, Marvel has created a brand new Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man: Web-Warriors Friends and Foes Character Guide filled with over 20 pages of content – character bios, power grids and backstories – everything kids who love Spider-Man and the Marvel’s Ultimate Spider Mananimated series would ever want to know about their favorite Web Warrior’s friends and foes.  This downloadable guide is available exclusively on MarvelKids.com. 

 

“Kids and digital go hand in hand, so we created a new online experience exclusively for kids that allows them to engage with the Marvel heroes they love and even be a hero themselves through the games,” said Kristin Vincent, Marvel’s VP of Digital Products. “We’ll keep rolling out new games, videos and other content so kids can have fun online with Spider-Man and soon with the Avengers while in a kid-safe digital environment.”

 

Over the next several months MarvelKids.com will be expanding even more with a marvelous Avengers kids destination with new Avengers and Spider-Man games, a digital comics section, and more digital features featuring everyone’s favorite Marvel Super Heroes – Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, and more!

 

Be sure to check out the site here:

 

http://www.marvelkids.com/

http://spiderman.marvelkids.com/

http://avengers.marvelkids.com/

 

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Universal Monsters Action Figures Star in New Animated Short Film

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Every year, the spirit of Halloween takes over the world for 31 glorious days, and Diamond Select Toys unleashes a new batch of Monsters! Based on Universal Studios’ iconic horror films of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, DST’s 7-inch scale Universal Monsters action figures have become an annual tradition, and now they’re starring in their first-ever stop-motion animated short film!

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Starring some of the toy line’s most famous characters, “Trick or Treat” was animated by Alex Kropinak, the animator behind Marvel.com’s “What The…?!” Using a combination of stop-motion photography and computer graphics, Kropinak brought to life the actual action figures, sculpted by Gabriel Marquez, Rudy Garcia and Jean St. Jean. The film’s cast includes the Mummy, the Wolfman, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Metaluna Mutant.

Kropinak even included a cameo appearance by Diamond Select’s first-ever  original concept action figure, Van Helsing. Designed by DST President Chuck Terceira and sculptor Jean St. Jean, the famous monster hunter received his own 7-inch scale figure this year, which was released at the same time as the newest Universal Monsters assortment. The film was co-written by Kropinak and DST Marketing Supervisor Zach Oat, who previously collaborated on ToyFare magazine’s Twisted ToyFare Theatre.

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The newest series of Universal Monsters (and Van Helsing) are available, or available to order, from your local comic shop. Find your nearest comic shop at http//bit.ly/findcomicshop!

Today (10/24) only: get 30% off of previous years’ Universal Monsters figures at DiamondSelectToys.com:
http://www.diamondselecttoys.com/universal-monsters–action-figures

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