You would think that with several Marvel Cinematic Universe movies coming out almost every year for the past half decade that it wouldn’t be too hard to put together a set of the core Avengers team members in the Hasbro Marvel Legends 6″ figures scale. But surprisingly, with the way that the MCU figures have been spread out over the course of different series, sets and years, it’s actually a challenging endeavor. That’s why Hasbro has devised what I think is one of the more appealing waves of totally-not-new figures I’ve ever seen: the Best of Marvel Legends 6″ series (with Hulkbuster Iron Man)! But if you’re in the U.S. and want this, you’re out of luck…

As difficult as it often is to track down the Hasbro 6″ Marvel Legends that are popular in the United States, it’s often far, far harder and more expensive to obtain these characters in other countries (with many characters never being released overseas at all).

With that in mind, Hasbro is looking to make life easier for international collectors with a new “Best of Marvel Legends” six inch figures series that brings back nine of the most integral characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This includes figures like the Walmart Exclusive Avengers Loki Marvel Legends figure that’s extremely difficult to find and rare these days.

Of course, the catch is that collectors in the United States are out of luck for once. That’s right–as rumored, it looks like this case is going to be available only internationally. It was initially speculated that this wave would be exclusive to Europe, but it’s supposedly being solicited to Asian countries such as China now as well.

The Marvel Legends Avengers Best of Series Case Ratios are as follows:

(1) Captain America
(1) Iron Man Mark 43
(1) War Machine Mark II
(1) Age of Ultron Thor
(1) Black Widow
(1) Age of Ultron Hulk (1) Avengers Loki
(1) Avengers Hawkeye

Of course, you may have noticed something a little “extra” next to each of the figures (besides Thor) in the official photos: the Marvel Legends Hulkbuster Iron Man Build-A-Figure is coming back for a second day in the sun as well with this series!

Hulkbuster has been split into eight parts that will come with seven figures (just like in his first release), with each figure besides Thor including one part–with the exception of Marvel Legends Black Widow, who will contain both the front and back of Hulkbuster’s torso. (I’m also very pleased that it’s the standard black-costumed Black Widow here and not the one with the crazy Tron lighting stripes which made no sense.)

I’ve heard some folks say that they think that the Hulkbuster BAF has been repainted, but I don’t think that’s actually the case–I think it’s more likely an issue with the lighting in the photos than Hasbro releasing an international-exclusive Hulkbuster Build-A-Figure paint variant.

I do think it’s a little peculiar that the enormous Age of Ultron Hulk action figure gets a Build-A-Figure piece and the far smaller and less bulky Thor figure does not, but as we all know, Hasbro works in mysterious ways.

As of now, the only store that I’ve seen pre-selling cases of this Best of Marvel Legends figures series is Chinese retailer Robot Kingdom. You can import the cases to the United States if you really want, but shipping is (obviously) going to be a bit (or more than a bit) expensive since the cases are shipping from outside of the country.

As of now, there are no known plans for Hasbro to release this series of repacks in the United States, and I honestly don’t expect to see this wave ever brought out over here. I’ll update the Marvel Toy News Twitter and Facebook Pages if I should hear anything about this wave being released domestically.

Thoughts on this international exclusive series of “Best Of” Marvel Legends movie figures, collectors? Are you happy to see some rare gems like Marvel Legends Loki and Hawkeye brought back into production–at least in limited quantities, or do you think it’s a cheat for long-lost (and expensive on the aftermarket) figures like these to be returning for another (albeit limited) engagement?