Some readers were upset by the drubbing I gave poor Age of Apocalypse Cyclops in his review, so I figured I’d jump from reviewing the worst figure in Marvel Legends AOA wave 2 to the best. You’ll have to purchase almost this whole X-Men Legends series to put him together, but the Marvel Legends Age of Apocalypse Colossus figure actually ends up being more than worth the trouble and expense of getting all the pieces from a fairly star-studded wave…
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From nearly the moment that the Disney+ Hawkeye series was announced, fnas have been anticipating tie-in xollectibles and speculating upon WHat kinds of toys and merch we’d be receiving to coincide with the live-action series. And now, fresh off the series premiere last week and the first-ever Funko Kate Bishop Hawkeye & Pizza Dog POP Vinyls figures going up for order last week, we’re getting our first look at digital renders of upcoming Disney+ Marvel Legends 6″ figures of Clint Barton and Kate Biahop figures from Hasbro!
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Cyclops is a character that has oftentimes been accused of being boring over the years (perhaps because of his straight-laced boy scout personality). But in the Age of Apocalypse, Cyclops was a badass rebel with stubbly facial hair and only one eye remaining after a brutal battle where he blasted off Wolverine’s left hand. Scott Summers was a lock for the recently released Age of Apocalypse Legends Wave 2, but ironically, Cyclops’ alternate reality 6” figure ends up as boring as his 616 character is accused of being…
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gtime readers know that before I drank the “the Jonathan Hickman X-Men era is the best ever” Kool-Aid, X-Men Age Of Apocalypse was my jam for about a decade and a half. And so, I’ve been waiting about that long for a proper 6” (or even 5”) Age of Apocalypse Rogue figure. I worried such a thing might never occur when anecdotes indicated poor sales for the first series of X-Men Marvel Legends Age of Apocalypse figures. But the AX-Men Marvel Legends OA Wave 2 Colossus Series is now available, including the “Bride of Magneto” version of Rogue! Is the 6” Marvel Legends AOA Rogue figure all I could have dreamed?
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If there’s one villain that was wronged by the first 19 years of Marvel Legends, it’s Ultron. Toybiz’s long-eared attempt was universally hated, and Hasbro’s first efforts weren’t quite on the ball either. But for this year’s series of Iron Man Marvel Legends, Hasbro finally hit a home run. Ultron quickly sold out through most online retailers, and has been difficult to locate at retail stores. But finally, I had the opportunity to sit down and review my own classic Ultron Marvel Legends Figure!
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Note: I began writing this Iron Man Marvel Legends Ironheart figure review in September 2021, but completing and posting it got delayed because, well…
Somewhere during my NYCC 2021 preparations, my brain got it in mind that it would be a swell time to have a series of four consecutive strokes. Ten weeks, two hospitals, 50% of my vision lost, a couple tubes down my throat and one missed New York Comic Con later, I’m finally coherent enough to patch together my thoughts and complete this long overdue review (but please forgive any minor mistakes or typos in my articles for the near future)…
ven the hundreds and hundreds of 6” Marvel Legends figures Hasbro has cranked out over the last decade, you might think there are few significant characters left needing an update from Toybiz or even needing their first ML action figure. But as it turns out, there’s still some fan-favorites waiting for the limelight—and Hasbro is kicking off the first Spider-Man Marvel Legends 2022 Build-A-Figure wave with one such character! One of the last remaining key characters necessary to complete the Maximum Carnage 90s crossover lineup is the sound-manipulating psychopath herself: the 2022 Marvel Legends Shriek figure is in the house!
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There are few things in collecting life as sobering as realizing you don’t have the strength to force together all the pieces of a Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure while recovering from a [series of four] stroke[s]. But that’s precisely what happened over the weekend, when my wife had to construct the Iron Man Legends Ursa Major figure for me. However, once the deed was done, I got to enjoy the delight of yet another Marvel character I cannot believe Hasbro made a super-articulated action figure of. Is buying almost the entire Marvel Legends Iron Man series to build this Ursa Major BAF worhwhile or just too much to bear? Here’s my review…
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It’s a little bit tough to believe (and makes me feel about as old as old as the four strokes I had last month did)–but next year we’ll be celebrating two decades since Toybiz revolutionized Marvel action figures with the first-ever series of Toybiz Marvel Legends figures! Hasbro will be commemorating this milestone with new versions of all four figures from that series as a part of the Marvel Legends 2022 lineup, and the first pair is now available for reservations–Marvel Legends 20Th Anniversary Captain America and Iron Man are now up for order!
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It had been a long time since Hasbro unveiled a whole upcoming series of Marvel Legends action figures that hadn’t been fully leaked or at least heavily rumored all over the internet, but the Hasbro Marvel Team accomplished that very feat at this week’s Hasbro Pulse Marvel Fan First Monday stream! The 2022 Marvel Legends Spider-Man Retro Series 2 figures are now up for order—including the first-ever Spider-Armor Mark I and Hammerhead, new versions of Shocker, Ben Reilly Spider-Man and Hobgoblin, and more!
Individual Figure Links:
Symbiote Spider-Man ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Hobgoblin ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Ben Reilly Spider-Man ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Hammerhead ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Spider Armor Mark 1 ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Shocker ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Hasbro Pulse Con and New York Comic Con 2021 may not be until October, but Hasbro isn’t waiting to drop some more big news and has another Marvel Fan First Monday livestream scheduled for tomorrow! And while we don’t know exactly what might be shown (especially now that the Eternals Marvel Legends series has finally, finally been officially solicited), Hasbro revealed a teaser in advance of Monday’s stream: a 2022 Marvel Legends Symbiote Spider-Man Retro Series figure!
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Hasbro has spoiled collectors with a plethora of Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure series, exclusives, box sets, Retro series figures and more throughout 2021–but there’s one wave that’s been waiting to leap into fans’ hands longer than any other. After slipping out overseas toward the end of 2020, the Marvel Legends Eternals Gilgamesh Series is now up for order! Eternals is of the most obscure franchises to ever join the MCU—will its cast of characters be joining your collection of 6” action figures?
Individual Figure Links:
Ikaris ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Sprite ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Sersi ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Kro (Deluxe) ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Makkari ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Druig ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Phastos ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Kingo ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
We’re coming down to the wire in the Marvel Legends Galactus HasLab campaign–and defying the mid-month trends, the project has now been fully-funded with time to spare! But it’s not just Galactus who’s been funded–all three stretch-goal figures are also now confirmed, with thresholds reached for the Marvel Legends Frankie Raye Nova, Silver Surfer and even the newly-revealed Morg the Executioner! And with just over a day to go, only the Tier 4 stretch goal remains: a… giant hooded Doctor Doom head for Galactus??
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Fans have known for well over a year that the new Spider-Man: No Way Out movie would be arriving at the end of 2021, and that made it a given that a tie-in series of Spider-Man Marvel Legends No Way Out figures would be hitting stores around that time as well. Collectors had sky-high hopes for things like new Alfred Molina Doc Ock and Tobey Maguire Spider-Man Legends figures, but, well—what actually came to fruition is a little different: the Marvel Legends Spider-Man No Way Out Armadillo Series is now up for order!
Individual figure pre-order links:
J. Jonah Jameson (Movie) ►Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Morlun (Comics) ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Shriek (Comics) ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Miles Morales (GamerVerse) ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Doctor Strange (MCU) ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Integrated Suit Spider-Man (MCU) ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Black-and-Gold Suit Spider-Man (MCU) ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
2021 has been a weird year for the Marvel Legends Prop Replicas (or life-size “premium role-play items”, as Hasbro calls them officially) lineup. We got the excellent Marvel Legends Eye of Agamotto, but also the wildly-colored and totally bizarre bright cyan Captain America Stealth Shield. I wasn’t sure if we’d see any more entries this year, but looks like Hasbro had one more in the works, and it’s a good one: the Avengers Endgame Marvel Legends Iron Spider helmet is now up for order! Most of these ML life-size helmets have been pure win, and this looks like no exception…
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