Just when we thought we were safe from any more Hasbro Marvel Legends pre-orders in 2019, we got a shock mid-December surprise from Hasbro this morning: the Marvel Legends Black Widow Movie series of figures is now up for order in both full cases and as individuals of every character!
Thought the Marvel Legends 2020 figure reveals were over until after the holidays…? Think again! Hasbro continued their world tour this weekend at the Germany Dortmund Comic-Con, where they revealed two new exclusives that cover somewhere between 2 and 6 characters depending on how you count! Not only is a Retro Storm in Black Costume 6″ figure now up for order, but Hasbro also revealed the widely-rumored Walgreens Exclusive Marvel Legends Stepford Cuckoos figure! The only question for Cuckoos fans is: how many will you need to be satisfied? One, 3 for the Three-In-One… or going all out with 5 for the Five-In-One?
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The bad news this week for much of the United States was that we got blasted with the most major winter storm so far this year and had to dig ourselves out. The good news is that I finally got snow for the first time this year in my neck of the woods (16” of it, to be exact!), which meant that at long last I could take a certain X-Men Legends 6” figure for outdoor review photos! The Marvel Legends Iceman Vintage series figure is already down to 13 bucks shipped just a few months after being released, but is this Bobby Drake figure really all that bad…?
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Peter David’s X-Factor run in the 90s is one of the touchstone comic book series of my childhood, but also featured a team roster I never dared dream we’d see released in full as action figures. But we found out that Hasbro’s current golden age of Marvel Legends would continue to deliver dreams in a huge way this fall, and the shared exclusive Marvel Legends Havok & Polaris two-pack is now (free) shipping! Were these 6” figures of 90s X-Factor’s power couple worth waiting two decades for?
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Amazon caught everyone off-guard when they began charging for and shipping out their exclusive Marvel Legends Alpha Flight figures box set ahead of the original December release date. I posted my unboxing photos and first impressions of the team last week, and now I’ve had some time to play around with them and really absorb what this ML Alpha Flight set has to offer (and also what it fails to offer). For those still on the fence, is this $100+ set worth scooping up? Here’s my review…
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I’ll be filling in as many blanks as possible in my 2019 Marvel Legends reviews over the course of the next month and a half, and but today I paused that track to do an unboxing that will eventually lead to six reviews in one later this week! It was a spectacular surprise when Hasbro solicited the exclusive Marvel Legends Alpha Flight figures set in late summer, and they have now actually shipped and arrived on doorsteps a few weeks earlier than planned! How’d the set turn out? Here’s my impressions…
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Tick. Tick. Boom! The clock is ticking down on 2019 and time is running out for me to review as many Marvel Legends 2019 figures as I can, which makes this the ideal moment to turn to the mutant master of the time bomb herself: Boom Boom! Despite having been around for over three decades now and having been a member of the New Mutants, X-Force and more, we’ve never gotten a mass release Tabitha Smith figure—until now! Thanks to Hasbro’s commitment to giving us the classic X-Force roster, Marvel Legends Boom Boom has finally arrived—and is already discounted! Should you add this 90s styled babe to your collection…?
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If anyone had asked me to make a list of the top 500 characters I thought we were likely to see a Marvel Legends action figure of in 2019, Skullbuster of the Reavers would not have been on that list. He probably wouldn’t have even been in my top 1000. But he came anyway, and as expected, X-Men Marvel Legends Skullbuster is already discounted online. But being a slow seller doesn’t necessarily correlate to being a bad action figure! Is the first of the Hasbro Marvel Legends Reavers worth snagging while he’s cheap? Here’s my review…
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Hasbro is going all-in with the Age of Apocalypse Marvel Legends X-Men 2020 series, which will be composed entirely of AoA versions of characters from the all-time classic comic book storyline. But those planning to dive in and be completists may (or may not) need to pick up one of this year’s already-released figures, who happens to be a key AoA character discounted to 11 bucks today only: Marvel Legends Blink! But is this really the Blink Age of Apocalypse fans have been waiting for…?
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UPDATE 11/10/2019: Those who were patient an extra five months have been rewared: the EXCLUSIVE X-Men Marvel Legends Family Matters 3-Pack with Magneto, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch is the Deal of the Day today! At $39.99 shipped for this trio, I would say that this set is an absolute steal! Those of you who already have this set–can you recommend it to your fellow collectors at the discounted sale price? And you can check out the full list of today-only sales right here!
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UPDATE 10/24/2019: After being briefly available on Amazon and selling out in an hour yesterday, collectors who weren’t quick enough to secure the former convention exclusive have got another chance–the Marvel Legends Grey Hulk 80th Anniversary figure is back up for order online now! And this time, he’s not the only new exclusive on the block–for the first time ever in the US after being revealed during NYCC, the Marvel Legends Vintage Deadpool figure is up for order as well!
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Another week, another pair of international conventions with major Hasbro Marvel Legends news! This weekend at the 2019 Lucca Convention and Manga Barcelona events, Hasbro made their presence felt with a whopping five more figures being revealed for the 2020 Marvel Legends X-Men Age of Apocalypse wave and an as-yet untitled (Black Widow) wave going up for order next year: Crossbones and AOA Sunfire, Jean Grey, Dark Beast and Wild Child!
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The first two Marvel Legends Build-A-Figures of next year (Super Skrull and Demogoblin) may have only been revealed exactly zero business days ago, but Hasbro is already ready to move in for the kill and lock in collectors’ 2020 dollars! That’s right–although they’re still months away from shipping, the Marvel Legends Fantastic Four and Spider-Man series are up for order now!
Here’s the direct links to the individuals for those who prefer Amazon:
Vulture ►
Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu! ►
She-Hulk ►
I haven’t spotted the Spider-Armor Mark III PS4 Spider-Man GamerVerse variant on Amazon just yet, but he is available for PO now on BBTS.
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One weekend! Two conventions! Two European countries! Four all-new Marvel Legends 2020 reveals! Hasbro brought the big guns to MCM London and Paris Comic Con this weekend, where they not only announced that the first two 2020 Marvel Legends figures series would go on sale on Monday, but they also revealed four never-before-seen action figures: Spymaster! Winter Soldier! And the Demogoblin and Super Skrull Build-A-Figures!
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We’re only one week removed from New York Comic Con 2019, but Hasbro is already back at it again with another Marvel Legends 2020 figure reveal! Given the popularity of the PS4 Spider-Man Gamerverse figure from last year, this shouldn’t have caught me off-guard—but it did! 2020 Marvel Legends Avengers Square Enix video game figures are on the way—starting with GamerVerse Iron Man!
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