Sideshow Premium Format Thor Modern Statue Up for Order!

Sideshow Thor Modern Age Premium Format Figure

With Marvel hype reaching a fervor pitch with this week’s release of the Captain America: The Winter Soldier movie in theaters, Sideshow Collectibles is aiming to capitalize from a totally different angle–that of Cap’s Avengers comrade, Thor! Not only is the very cool Thor Frog going up this week, but the Sideshow exclusive edition of their all-new Premium Format Thor Modern Age statue is now available for order! Ever wanted a statue of Thor wielding a sword…? Well, now you can have one…

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Sideshow Thor Frog of Thunder Diorama Statue Up for Order!

Frog of Thunder Sideshow Diorama Thor Frog 2014 Statue

As tomorrow is April Fool’s Day, I figured I better get this product preview out of the way today, lest everyone believe that it’s a joke (it’s not–I hate April Fool’s Day with a fiery passion). Announced last week and now fully revealed, Sideshow Collectibles is bringing one of Walt Simonson’s greatest creations to life in diorama form!

No, it’s not a new Thor, Loki or even Beta Ray Bill–as unlikely as it may be, the Sideshow Thor Frog Diorama Statue is now available for order!

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Hot Toys Falcon & Steve Rogers Figures Revealed & Photos

Hot Toys Falcon Sixth Scale Figure Captain America The Winter Soldier

While Americans tend to be really spoiled as far as being able to see most companies’ new reveals first at events like the NY Toy Fair and San Diego Comic Con, sometimes it pays for fans to live in Hong Kong. Such is the case this month for Hot Toys figure collectors, as the “Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Join Forces at Hysan Place, Powered by Hot Toys Exhibition” is going on overseas! Two never-before-seen figures debuted this week at the exhibition: the Hot Toys Falcon and Steve Rogers Movie Masterpiece Series figures!

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Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel Legends Case Ratios Analysis

Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel Legends Case Ratios

Yesterday the much talked-about Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel Legends 6″ action figures went up for pre-order, and today the case assortment for the series has been revealed! To my chagrin, the Marvel Legends Guardians of the Galaxy figures case ratios are not quite what I was expecting. Though he won’t even be appearing in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, it appears that there will be plenty of Marvel Legends Iron Man figures to keep shelves warm this summer…

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Marvel Legends Guardians of the Galaxy Up for Pre-Order!

Marvel Legends Nova Figure Packaged Guardians of the Galaxy

Considering what a complete and utter pain it’s been in 2014 to track down any Marvel Legends figures that aren’t characters named “Captain America” or “Spider-Man”, I’ve been half-dreading the eventual release of the Marvel Legends Guardians of the Galaxy figures. But no longer!

Not only has the “official” street date for them been revealed, but all six Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel Legends figures (including Nova and Gamora) are now available individually for pre-order!

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Marvel Legends All-New X-Men In-Hand Photos & Impressions

Marvel Legends All-New X-Men Set Toys R Us Exclusive

One of the advantages of living north of Boston is that it’s a short jaunt up to sales tax-free New Hampshire. This pays off for me pretty frequently (shocker: I buy a lot of stuff), and it had the potential to pay off once again today, as I made a quick trip up to a NH Toys R Us with this week’s 20% Off coupon. I had designs on picking up a Marvel Legends All-New X-Men Box Set for a reasonable price, and I had the opportunity to pick from three sets at the store. In the end, though, I decided to pass and save my $71.99. Here’s why…

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Bowen Designs Spiral Statue Revealed & Images!

Spiral Bowen Designs Statue Revealed 2014 Jason Smith

Just because Bowen Designs hasn’t put a single new statue up for order in 2014 (and may never put another new Marvel statue up for order period if a new licensing contract isn’t signed) doesn’t mean that the sneak peeks of what could be have to cease! Today, Randy Bowen gave sculptor Jason Smith permission to share photos of another spec piece the release of which is contingent upon a new Marvel contract being signed–and it’s a good one! Coming from Bowen Designs in 2014 (maybe)–the Bowen Spiral Statue!

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Hot Toys The Winter Soldier MMS241 Up for Order & Photos!

Hot Toys Winter Soldier Sixth Scale Figure Revealed

We’re just one week away from the premiere of the new Captain America: The Winter Soldier movie, and as far as locking up our merchandise dollars goes, Hot Toys means serious business. Last week the new Black Widow Hot Toys went up for order. Yesterday the ultra-limited Golden Age Captain America went up for order and sold out in 12 hours. And today? The titular character of the movie arrives–the Hot Toys Winter Soldier MMS241 is now available for order!

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Sideshow Red Hulk Premium Format Statue Photos & Order Info!

Sideshow Red Hulk Premium Format Figure Statue Front

This will be tough to believe, but we haven’t seen a single new Marvel comics-based Sideshow Premium Format Figure put up for sale since the end of 2013! Sideshow has been quiet, but now we can see the reason why: they’ve been working on something big. And by “big”, I mean “jaw droppingly-huge”! Sideshow Collectibles has not one, not two, but three Hulk Premium Format statues lined up for 2014, and the Red Hulk Premium Format Figure Exclusive Edition Statue is now up for order on the Sideshow website!

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Funko Metallic Electro POP Vinyls Exclusive Figure Released!

Metallic Electro Funko POP Vinyls Exclusive Hot Topic Boxed

It’s been over three weeks since the last unannounced Funko Marvel POP! Vinyls exclusive turned up in stores. There was a real possibility that we might end up going a full month without a new Marvel POP! Vinyl variant turning up (oh, the humanity), but that peril has been avoided! Out of the blue (no pun intended), a Hot Topic Exclusive Funko Metallic Electro POP! Vinyls figure from Amazing Spider-Man 2 has shockingly appeared! (Okay, that last pun was intentional…)

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X-Men Marvel Legends Phoenix Five Cyclops Figure For Sale!

Phoenix Five Cyclops Marvel Legends Prototype Figure

Hasbro has really dropped the ball over the past few years as far as getting Marvel Legends variant figures that they’ve shown off publicly into stores. While there’s still hope for some of these figures (like Bulldozer and Classic Hawkeye) to make it to retail, some of them are lost to us forever. One such figure is the Marvel Legends Phoenix Five Cyclops figure. But although Hasbro has confirmed they’ll never mass-produce this action figure, you still have a chance to own one, as a Wolverine Legends Phoenix Five Cyclops figure prototype has now surfaced for auction this week!

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Hot Toys Captain America Golden Age Movie Promo SOLD OUT!

Golden Age Captain America The Winter Soldier Hot Toys MMS 240 Sixth Scale Figure

When we saw the first teaser photo of the Hot Toys Captain America The Winter Soldier 1/6 figures, we found out that Hot Toys had an extra special treat for Captain America collectors who have to have every costume Captain America wears in the Marvel movies: the limited Captain America The Winter Soldier Hot Toys Golden Age Captain America is now up for order! He’s fundamentally similar to the original Hot Toys Captain America The First Avenger MMS, but this time Cap’s got an extra red stripe on his torso–and the first-ever Hot Toys die-cast Captain America shield as an accessory!

UPDATE: The Hot Toys Captain America Golden Age Movie Promo figure sold out in just 12 hours! If you want him, get on the Wait List now.

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X-Men #12 Review & Spoilers (Marvel Comic Book – 2014)

X-Men #12 Cover March 2014 Issue Brian Wood

When Brian Wood’s all-female X-Men comic book series launched last year, I was quick to applaud the book as being fresh, fun and on it’s way to being the best X-Men title published by Marvel Comics. To my disappointment, things quickly went astray and a once-promising comic book fizzled into mediocrity. X-Men #12 continues the downward spiral and is unfortunately the worst issue of the series to date…

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Funko Marvel Black Widow POP Vinyls Figure Review

Funko Captain America The Winter Soldier Black Widow Vinyl Figure Review

Ordinarily I don’t like ordering Marvel Funko POP Vinyls online, as I’m pretty OCD about paint applications. But, well, I was having trouble finding the Captain America The Winter Soldier POP Vinyls in my area, Amazon had the Funko Black Widow POP Vinyl for $9 shipped, and now she’s sitting on my desk.

Is this Black Widow Funko POP Vinyl a little $9 masterpiece? Read on…

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Marvel Infinite Series 1 Revision: 2 Wasps Per Case!

Avengers Infinite Series Wasp Figure Packaged Marvel Universe 2014 Hasbro

Even though the first wave of the Hasbro Marvel Infinite Series 4″ figures is just starting to hit stores in the last week, the long-wanted Wasp figure is already burning up the aftermarket and selling for $30+.

But fear not, Marvel Universe-scale fans! Help is on the way in the form of a case assortment that at least I think is pretty decent, which brings us two Janet Van Dyne Wasp figures–as well as two of everybody else–per case…

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