If you happened to watch the second episode of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe on HBO Max last week (as Shawn and Tony did), you might have seen this at about the 6 minute mark:

If you're very familiar with McFarlane Toys (as Shawn and Tony are), you'll recognize those out-of-focus yellow and blue blurs at the upper left are the 2022 McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Booster Gold & Blue Beetle 2-pack action figures. Mint in box, Stuart probably has them priced at $100 or more.

Stuart could certainly learn a thing or two about saving multiverses from those guys.

Give the set decorators credit: those Blue and Gold figures are just two of many DC Multiverse background references which hint at the thematically similar parallel universe-setting of this television series, which could just as easily have been called Crisis of Infinite Stuarts.

Thanks to Shawn and Tony for catching this.

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Spotted on Reddit: this custom Booster Gold action figure with flat top!

I love the hair style. It's got a comic book precedent, too; Booster did indeed have a flat top-adjacent crew cut in the original Booster Gold #13 (perhaps not so coincidentally while the original Top Gun was in theaters).

You can see a few more pictures at r/customactionfigures

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Do you have a 3D printer? Are you interested in printing your own Justice League International miniatures? Well, now you can!

Booster booster Steven Palchinski draws our attention to myminifactory.com, which is currently offering a limited-time opportunity to get your hands on the STL files (and PDF character cards) that Knight Models uses in their DC Multiverse Miniature Game. These appear to be the same models they use to create their unpainted retail miniatures, such as the the Blue Beetle and Booster Gold miniatures they released in 2018.

In addition to Blue and Gold, the sale at myminifactory.com also includes 3D printer-ready files for 107 other figures, including Batman, Martian Manhunter, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, and Guy Gardner. Print them at home then recreate your favorite early Justice League issues!

Thanks for the heads up, Steven.

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I mentioned that this was coming back in April, and now it's here.

Popularly known as the New 52 Booster Gold, this variant is called "Booster Gold (Futures End)" by McFarlane Toys. But neither of those names is quite accurate.

For one thing, there are actually two Booster Golds in Booster Gold: Futures End, and the one who should be considered the primary protagonist of the issue wore an Advanced Research Group Uniting Super-Humans costume instead. It's never explained why he was wearing it. Maybe it was just so readers could to tell the two Boosters apart?

The other Booster Gold in that issue doesn't really wear this costume either. That character is wearing the Jim Lee design that first appeared on and in the New 52's Justice League International #1. (Here at Boosterrific.com, I call that the Mark XIII Booster Gold powersuit because it was the 13th costume Booster wore.) It has square goggles and a tight-fighting cowl that covered the cheeks with gold piping but left the forehead mostly exposed. As you can see, this figure's head is wearing something more similar to Booster's traditional Mark I costume.

(Since we're on the topic of McFarlane and inaccurately costumed action figures, the A.R.G.U.S. suited Booster Gold from Booster Gold: Futures End is the same character who became Waverider in Convergence. So if you want a complete collection of Future's End Booster Golds, you'll need this one and that one.)

If you're so interested, you can find links to purchase this action figure on mcfarlane.com.

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Rob Snow wrote to let me know that the McFarlane Super Powers Wave 8 Booster Gold action figure is now available for pre-orders at select retailers!

You can find more images as well as links to a few approved retailers at McFarlane.com.

Thanks, Rob.

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