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BIG NEWS! My week with the Incredible Hulk/ Abomination/ Batpod

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Hey, just got back from a big retailers event in Toronto Ontario.... can't say which.... that I am currently working for.   Every year they usaully have some big movie related stuff.  This year I was extremely pleased to get a first hand look at the designs for the Incredible Hulk, the Abomination,a vague trailer for the Hulk (mostely made up of shots we have seen and interviews with the people involved,  and they had the actual Batpod on site (very well guarded I might add) for us to take pics of.  My assistant was in charge of taking pics to bring back, and I even got a shot of me standing with a 9 foot PVC cast of the green goliath, and I tell you this, he looks awesome.  I have to check the legality of posting the pics with my boss, but if all is on the up and up, I will post them in the next few days.  In the mean time, here is some info....

The hulk cast was huge.  He is as massive and awesome as you would expect.  This depiction had a lesss bulky very ripped look, and sported a messy long banged hairdo, very simular to the pics shown briefly at comic con.  His skin is an olive green color (although this may only be used for this statue). Next to him was a large Army jeep with a weapon of some kind attached to its roof, that looked sort of like a big sub woofer. 

He was surrounded by toy displays available soon at major retailers, that was when I spotted thge Abomination toys.  They have gone with a very unique design for Bomby, faithful in some ways and different in others.  First off he is much bigger than Hulk, his skin is a sick puke green color, and has a scaly hide.  His feet are two toed like in the comic but the second toe on each foot looks like several toes fused together.  They then gave his chest an armoured look, by having what appeared to be his massive rib cage protruding through.  The biggest changes were to his head, whick is completely bald, and missing the signatore scales and finned ears we normally associate with the abomination (in fact he didn't appear to have any ears at all).  It kind of reminded me of the head of the Ultimate abomination, but fear not, he looks as nasty and monsterous as you would expect, and while different I liked it.  Now here is some other cool news, the toy had a brief bio on the back, and this is a bit of a plot spoiler.  The basics was this, Blonsky is apparently obsessed with the Hulk and his power, so he uses Bruces techknowledgy to give himself the power he needs to bring him down.  As a result he gets superhuman strength and agility becoming a supersoldier of sorts, not realizing that it will soon mutate him into the monsterous Abomination.  Once Blonsky mutates he blames it all on Banner and takes the whole city of New York hostage to force Banner and the Hulk out of hiding (cool huh)..... 

Once I was done taking in all the Hulk I could gawk at, I headed to the next display that was Hanna Montanna (Puke)... but behind it was the awesome Batman begins display complete with Batpod parked right in the middle, roped off and heavily guarded.  I'm sure you have all seen pics, so I won't go into any detail, just gotta say, it was so cool to see up close.

Later once inside the meeting area we were shown a convention exclusive trailer of the Incredible Hulk made up mostely of pics we have all seen of Norton, shots of comic pages, and interviews with Leterrier and some producers.  The only thing that really stood out for me was Leterrier saying that in the first fifteen minutes of his film, he guaranteed more Hulk action than any Hulk fan has ever seen (a pretty bold statement, and one that has me completely jacked to see this opening action sequence).

One thing that really stood out to me over the week was the absolute lack of Ironman hype.  Their was one small display with a few Tshirts and the Hasbro Ironman toys, which are crappy as hell by the way (Marvel should have stuck with Toybiz).

Anywho, as I said, if I get the ok I will share some of my pics with all of you, hope the info is enough until then...

laters.... mad...