One More Reason to Wanna Be a Superhero: Your Very Own Action Figure
Toy Company Expanding Line with Feedback, Fat Momma, and Major Victory Designs
Look out, toy stores across America—Feedback, Fat Momma, and Major Victory are catapulting your way. The Sci Fi Channel announced Monday that it has struck a nice deal indeed with Buffalo, New York-based toy manufacturer Shocker Toys. As a result, the company will add to its line of action figures versions based on the last three contestants standing during the debut season of Sci Fi’s hit reality series Who Wants to Be a Superhero?. Winner Feedback, first runner-up Fat Momma, and second-place finisher Major Victory will each see their likeness in miniaturized format when the special set is released as a part of Shocker Toys’ successful Spotlight Series One line sometime in the future. Even better, season two’s winner will also join the special set after he or she knocks out all of the competition in the weeks following the July 26 second-season premiere.
While Shocker Toys isn’t exactly a Mattel- or Hasbros-sized force in the toy industry, this news is a welcome development that should give average Janes and Joes even more incentive to try out for what is essentially a really fun and relatively wholesome reality show. The series’ success last summer was a surprise for many, especially the naysayers who underestimated how much fans would appreciate the uncomplicated humor and sometimes almost touching warmth in certain competitors’ hokey and hammy behavior. The show was a true cure for the summertime blahs.
For the uninitiated, Who Wants To Be a Superhero? is a Sci Fi original series that spotlights comic-book giant Stan Lee as he selects an ultimate victor among a field of superhero wannabes after putting them through assorted challenges, many with multiple dimensions that test such qualities as bravery and selflessness. The very first task last season required the competitors to change into their superhero costume in public without anyone else noticing and then reach a predetermined finish line as fast as possible, apparently a test of adaptability and speed. Along the route, however, there was a very obvious distressed little girl yelling “Help me” and “I’m lost.” She was basically a decoy placed to see how many participants would alter their priorities and stop to help her. Only four did (three of them notably—and unsurprisingly, I might add—women), including the two eventual runner-ups, Fat Momma and Major Victory.
Who Wants to Be a Superhero? returns to the tube at 9pm EST on Thursday, July 26, with a new gaggle of contestants brave enough to bare their all and reveal their extraordinary “powers” on national TV. Before that date, interested parties can surf over to the series Web site, where lots of videos—mostly audition and interview footage, hosted by a typically jazzed-up Major Victory—are available to whet the appetite of fans and keep them satiated until the premiere.
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