Captain Canuck Museum Early Bird

[Brown Bear]

I received my Captain Canuck figure today (Thanks Brian!) and he is AWESOME!!

My kids couldn't wait to open him and tonight he's gonna kick Captain America's arse, eh?

In all seriousness, he's a great figure. Well done all around. Love it!

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[palitoy]

Hey Man, so glad you're happy! Thanks for the being the first Canadian Mego head to order one!

[palitoy]

Is that the picture that got Brian "in trouble" at the park? :P

Ha! No but it's the same park. I brought my (very impatient) wife this time to act as a look out.

[Brown Bear]

Hey Man, so glad you're happy! Thanks for the being the first Canadian Mego head to order one!

It's an honor. I told my son that we were the first Canadian to get one and he asked if he could open it and hold it first. He ran to tell his brother "Hey! I'm the first Canadian to hold the new Captain Canuck little man!"

Pretty neat moment for me and him.

[samurainoir]

I received my Captain Canuck figure today (Thanks Brian!) and he is AWESOME!!

My kids couldn't wait to open him and tonight he's gonna kick Captain America's arse, eh?

In all seriousness, he's a great figure. Well done all around. Love it!

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THIS!!!! This is what makes this all worthwhile for us. The next generation of Captain Canuck fan right there. Playing with the action figure that I always wanted. Thanks you so much for sharing that pic. It means the world to see that.

If you do happen to go to the launch party in your neck of the woods, please feel free to take pictures and share them with us!

That goes for anyone else nearby one of the launches. We've got Cjefferys covering Niagara Falls, anyone else outside of the GTA?

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I will be ordering once funds recover from the holidays. The figure looks great. Congrats to all involved.

[samurainoir]

I believe Brian and I are in agreement that our favourite part of the Canuck figure is the way the head turned out.

Check out the original head sculpt for Canuck by Andy Covalt (MM's Crimson Ghost).

When Brian, Paul and I first sat down at Mego Meet to begin this project, we were all in instant agreement that Andy was our guy. He was just coming off of an AMAZING run of sculpts for the Mattel DC Retro line... creating heads for characters like Flash and Green Lantern, making their debut in Mego format and looking like they fit right into the original Mego line-up of the seventies. That's what we were hoping for with Canuck, and that's exactly what we got from Andy, under the guidance and expertise of Paul. Finding that right balance between the original comic book art (that jawline!), and the classic "Mego" feel. For me, the project really came alive when I opened up my email and saw these pics... suddenly this was REAL, this was Happening.

The one thing Brian has always been adamant about throughout the process is making sure we didn't suffer the "Noggin' Problem" that seems to crop up in so many ReMegos. We give Paul full props for delivering on this... a perfect sized head when you place it on the shelf next to the World's Greatest Superheroes. Captain Canuck truly looks like he belongs in the line-up of vintage Superheroes, just like I always imagined as a kid.

Andy and Paul did a killer job on this head, and we're really proud of it and the amazing work they put into it to ensure it was done right. Big round of applause from me fellas!

[ubermanx]

The head sculpt is quite simply ... perfect. Perfectly sized, perfectly Mego-esque, perfectly Canuck.

As I mentioned in private, this is an amazing figure for me. My inner 8 year old still can't grasp the awesomeness of being able to buy a Captain Canuck Mego style figure. The Captain Canuck fanatic in me is on cloud 9.

Amazing props all around to all involved. Drinks on me gents! You have made this guy very happy. He will easily be one of the most personally significant figures in my collection.

- Marty

[samurainoir]

Folks in Eastern Canada! Dartmouth, Fredericton and Halifax. Strange Adventures will be giving away FREE Captain Canuck Comic Books with the purchase of a Canuck figure at their launch parties!

http://www.strangeadventures.com

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[Brown Bear]

My whole family welcomed Captain Canuck to Halifax this morning. Here's a few pics.

I ended up picking up a second one as a gift for my brother's birthday next month. When he saw the pics of him he said, and I quote, "He's made better than 90% of the mego's sold today, I want one!"

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[cjefferys]

Nice pics! I visited Big B Comics' Niagara Falls store today and took some pics (my party pooper kids didn't want to come with me). So far I've been to this one and their Hamilton location, and these are really great stores, spacious, clean, organized and a friendly staff. I ended up buying some comic/magazine bags, boards and boxes there, in preparation for setting up at the GTA Comic-con in April.

[samurainoir]

Thanks so much for posting pics guys. They are terrific.
Really dig seeing Canuck in there with Taylor, Rocketeer, Snake Plissken, and Back to the Future figures. We truly live in an age where all our dream figures are a reality now.

Tower of Canucks in Niagara is super cool as well.

I arrived at the Silver Snail Toronto early to snap some quick pics of the Canuck launch table before heading uptown for my signing at Paradise Comics (just my luck to be competing with my own event!) I believe Brian should be along tomorrow with pics during the event (and the flagship launch in Hamilton's Big B with creator Richard Comely.

Richard and Walter, the owner of Big B Comics have been AMAZING. They believed in our crazy idea, backed our play and stuck by us. For that we are extremely grateful and couldn't have asked for better partners. It's obvious that this was a shared dream. Big Shout Outs to all the other Captain Canuck players as well, including CCI honcho Fadi, and George, owner of the Silver Snail. In chatting with George today about his childhood Megos, he really is ONE OF US.

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[MIB41]

Those pics are just amazing. I can't even fathom the feeling of pride and accomplishment that everyone involved in this project must be experiencing right now. That has to be the dream of dreams. Congrats to everyone! Can't wait to hold mine.

[MysteryWho]

I was at the Snail in Toronto today and I literally walked into the big table with all the Captains!
Luckily, no one was there to witness my jibes and gambols.
The table was breathtaking but I had already spent too much.

[samurainoir]

Another Dimension in Calgary gives the good Captain's figure a Shout Out in their new release video. Calgarians, go buy it here:

and I only just noticed that Brian chats with Earth2Chris and his wife Cindy about Canuck on the Supermates Podcast.

http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/8/d/2/8d27abf00c1948f8/SuperMates_E23_Colorforms_PrestoMagix_BrianHeiler.mp3?c_id=8234094&expiration=1422273061&hwt=d1c14f06239d110747f0507b6c7676b2