Some of the first items I've been seing from the New York Toy Fair (NYTF) is a board game, but not just any board game, its the Avengers Mighty Battle brought to us by Jakk's Pacific.
From the looks of the game it appears to be our typical marble shooting board game in which we get to choose one if the Avengers, either Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America (my choice), or Iron Man. Launch weapons! Blast enemies!
This is pretty much what I would assume a board game marketted for the summer blockbuster would be.
What is note worthy here folks is this is possibly the first time we will get to see who the villians of the Avengers are in the movie, allegedly. In the movie Loki brings his army to Earth in order to rule all of Midgard, or Earth, for those needing a refresher. Speculation has always been his army would be the skrulls; however rumors depict that Marvel did not have rights to use the Skrulls as the rights to the characters have already been swooped up by another film company. The alien race would be known as the Redacted, a variation of the Skrull race. 
Now if you ask me these guys look pretty skrull like. Thats what I say with my fan based, expert opinion. So are these the Skrulls? Are they the alien race known as the Redacted? Or are the skrulls used in the board game since merchandise would be available proir to the films release as a way to conceal the look of the Redacted? As of this point we can not know for sure. One thing I do know for sure is that Skrull and Redacted alike, know and fear two words, AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
-"Nurd" Pat!
Images borrowed from MT Geek.
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