Heroes theme Loot Crate, July 2015

July 2015 Loot Crate Unboxing

If you’re not familiar with Loot Crate, it’s a monthly subscription where you receive a box containing geeky items. Each month has a different theme, such as Covert Spy theme back in March and Fantasy theme back in April. A few of the items I’ve received are, an Optimus Prime T-shirt from the Cyber Loot crate, Game of Thrones Flash drive from the Fantasy crate, and special edition Field Notes notepad from the Covert Spy themed box. Every Loot Crate I’ve gotten up to this point has included a nerdy T-shirt, a Loot Crate Magazine detailing what’s in the box and a Loot Crate Button. Surprisingly, this month did not include a shirt but did include other fun stuff. Let’s see what’s in the box!

• Loot Crate Magazine & Heroes 2 Loot Crate Button
• Star Trek Air Freshener
• TV Series Batman Figure
• Legend of Zelda Sweatband
• Batman Multi-Tool Keychain
• Regrettable Superheroes book
• Wonder Woman Poster

Loot Crate Magazine and Heroes 2 Loot Crate Button

This month’s magazine and button kept with the Heroes theme as you can see from the images. One of the articles really surprised me with a racy picture of Wonder Woman & Batman! Each magazine also features the contents of the current month’s crate and a Mega Crate that one fortunate soul won. How awesome would it have been had I won that special edition Tomb Raider Xbox One or the Star Trek pool float?!

Star Trek Air Freshener

An otherwise unexciting vanilla air freshener, this one is shaped like a Vulcan hand. Really hoping it smells good, but I probably won’t open it any time soon.

TV Series Batman Figure

To my surprise, this was a decent quality figure. It came with a dry erase pen and blank speech bubble so you could make up your own superhero scene. I’ll be using this figure as a paperweight at work. I could definitely see myself writing something new in the speech bubble every day.

Legend of Zelda Sweatband

Not much to say here, just a sweet sweatband to wear everywhere you go. The insignia is not too familiar to me since I haven't played a Legend of Zelda game since Ocarina of Time. Coming soon to an office near you.

Batman Multi-Tool Keychain

This thing has two types of screwdrivers on it and a nice bottle opener. In practice though, the bottle opener was a bit awkward and hurt my hand when trying to take this bottle cap off this Coke. Pretty good idea but not very practical, I’d say just keep it wrapped up and hope it goes up in value.

Regrettable Superheroes book

This is my favorite item in the box. It’s a nicely made book about some of the crappiest superheroes throughout comic book history. The book chronicles heroes from the Golden Age, Silver Age and the Modern Age. Some of these superheroes are outright useless. Take for example, the Eye, which is just a floating eye that talks and apparently solves crimes. Other heroes were just really weird, such as Speed Centaur, a crime-fighting Centaur or how about Jigsaw, man of a thousand pieces. It’s so interesting to see the lengths comic book creators took to make successful comics. They would go so far as to make super awful characters. I guess not all superheroes can be popular.

Wonder Woman Poster 

This is a classic pinup style poster of Wonder Woman. I like pinup art so I’m really digging this poster. Not super big at 9.5 in by 10.5 in but makes sense because there’s only so much room in the Loot Crate box. See the whole set here: DC Bombshell Collection

In Conclusion

This was one of my favorite Loot Crates to date. I’m usually excited to see what clever T-shirt has been packed in the box and was slightly disappointed when I didn’t see one this month. Luckily, the rest of the items made up for the lack of a shirt especially the book and the Batman figure.

I started receiving Loot Crate back in March; a subscription was set up for me as a birthday gift. Ever since then, I’ve enjoyed many of the T-shirts and trinkets sent my way. Loot Crate gives me a bit of Comic Con every month which keeps my Comic Con withdrawals at bay!

Please comment if you have had the same experiences with Loot Crate and let me know which items have been your favorites. 

About the Author

Jorge Knapp is a native of San Diego, CA and a novice blogger. He has been playing video games since he could wrap his fingers around an Atari 2600 joystick. Was brought up playing RPG, action and fighting games. Currently playing Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm. His main nerdy interests are video games, anime movies and series, action figures and all things post-apocalyptic.