New York Comic Con (NYCC) was this past weekend, and I was forewarned by Booster booster Pigeon that I should keep my eyes out for news from Mattel. That's how I discovered that Mattel announced three distinct lines of DC Comics figures coming in 2027.

According to Toy News International, the Premier Series will be figures with basic articulation, the Legacy Collection will be slightly more articulated with more accessories, and the Ultimate Edition will have all the bells and whistles. All will all be 6.5" scale, which is slightly smaller than the 7" McFarlane DC Multiverse line of the past six years (but larger than the 6" Mattel figures that came before).

Now, given that this is a Booster Gold website, what do you think I'm going to tell you next?

Pigeon points us to DC Collectors.com, which reports that early leaks of upcoming figures on online retailer listings included one "DC Legacy Collection Justice League Unlimited Booster Gold (Item No.: 107-JRH81)."

Before you get too excited by this rumor, know that I Googled this supposedly leaked information to see what else I could find out about it, and Google Gemini flatly confirmed it. Given how often Google Gemini is correct, that can only mean this is pure hallucination and no such toy is planned or will ever exist.

Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust?

Thanks for the warning, Pigeon. The figures that Mattel showed off at NYCC look great, and it can only be a matter of time before they make a Booster Gold figure (preferably with the high collar). I'm sure we'll all be keeping eyes out for it.

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The unexpected Booster Gold appearances just keep coming! Pigeon has alerted me to a Booster Gold shirt found on eBay that uses the final splash page of Dan Jurgens/Rick Burchett art from Justice League America #69 for a whole t-shirt.

Yeah, that's not a great picture, but I was trying to grab a snap from boostergoldirl via instagram.com that I could horizontally flip. (Why is everything backwards on social media these days? Cameras aren't mirrors.) There are better pics on the original eBay listing, so long as eBay keeps them up.

Sublimation t-shirts were all the rage in the early 90s, but I've seen no indication that DC Comics ever authorized such a thing as this. Googling and image searching the label reveal nothing, and no copyright info appears on the shirt itself, so I'm currently categorizing it as a bootleg. A very, very cool bootleg.

Congrats on the find, Pigeon.

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Over the weekend, pigeon writes

Hi! just wanted to let you know this thing about the booster gold show. david jenkins just deleted his post about writing the show, and unfollowed james gunn, so he might not be writing it. which sucks, because his writing is perfect for a booster show.

Quick refresher for those who haven't been paying attention to the slow-moving fiasco that is Booster Gold's journey to television stardom: Jenkins had been attached to the project since last July (personally confirming the news on Instagram in a post that has now been deleted), making him the latest in a string of many, many writers and producers gained and then lost since a Booster Gold television show was first teased in 2011. (It's almost old enough to drive!)

Like everyone else online, I can only speculate what this might mean for Booster boosters. Is Jenkins really off the project? Was it his decision? Gunn's? Is the pending Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros. already churning the waters? Does social media make everyone act like we're all still in middle school?

Although this sounds like bad news, it also sounds like merely the latest speed bump in Booster's very winding road to live-action adventures. Let's hope this isn't a dead end street.

Thanks, pigeon.

UPDATE: For those who want a reminder of how we got here, here's a link to the Boosterrific! Movie Development page: boosterrific.com/booster/movie.php.

FURTHER UPDATE: Someone on x.com had the good sense to directly ask "Any truth to the rumors that you have left the Booster Gold pilot for the DCU?" and Jenkins answered "As far as I know it's still in the pipeline". Which looks on the surface as a refutation of the rumor. But Jenkins is a writer of some renown, which means he chooses his words carefully, and the words he chose here are not an explicit confirmation of his involvement. So make of this whatever you want, Booster boosters.

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Booster boosters Rob Snow and Pigeon both wrote to tell me that Booster Gold and Skeets have been sighted in DC Go!'s Aquaman: Yo-Ho-Hold Onto Your Hook!. Rob even gave me a couple of images he found on X.

I, for various reasons, am not on X, but I believe, based on the other screenshot that Rob sent me of an X post by Josh Trujillo, that the Booster and Skeets seen above are in issue #19 released to Ultra members of dcuniverseinfinte.com on November 11.

X will not let me search its content without an account, but from what Rob and Pigeon have told me plus a little old fashioned Google sleuthing, I am under the impression that the above character turnaround was drawn by Bradley Clayton, who is one of several artists that the DC Universe Infinite credits on that issue.

However, for slightly different reasons, I also do not have a DC Universe Infinite Ultra account, which is required to actually read that issue. (I read free issue #1. Reminded me of One Piece. Is that the target audience: people who can't get enough One Piece?) So I'm just going to have to assume that reliable Rob and dependable Pigeon aren't pulling my leg with one of those elaborate AI ruses that seem to be everywhere these days.

If anyone reading this does have an Ultra account, can confirm that Booster Gold is in Aquaman: Yo-Ho-Hold Onto Your Hook! #19, and wants to send me a screenshot of the title and credits page of that issue, I'll add the issue (with credit to the treasure hunter who brings me this bounty) to the Boosterrific! Database.

Thanks to Rob and Pigeon for their eternal vigilance, especially in this age of pirates.

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Last week, the aptly named Pigeon sent me a link to a TikTok video (specifically tiktok.com/@stackthedeck/video/7563358218739535134) in reference to this screencap:

That, TikToker stackthedeck claims, is a leaked page from the upcoming Justice League / AEW crossover comics coming in 2026. As you can see, the narrative box in that final panel seems to belong to Booster Gold, who explicitly mentions Skeets. ("Let the hunt begin, folks! My buddy Skeets makes a hell of a monitor...")

Could it be that Booster and Skeets will finally be reunited ringside following DC K.O.? We can only hope.

No release date for the crossover comics has yet been announced, but it looks like sooner than later. For more information, you can read the original October 1 announcement they were coming on Variety.com.

Thanks, Pidgeon.

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