Iron Man 3 Marvel Select Iron Man Mark 42 Action Figure Released!

Posted on by June 27, 2013
Marvel Select Iron Man Mark XLII Figure Packaged

I did a little bit of a double take when I saw this week’s Diamond Comics Distribution shipping list, as it confirmed that a figure that’s been delayed a handful of times was finally on its way to collectors’ hands this Wednesday. Though the Iron Man 3 movie was released in theaters close to two months ago now, the Marvel Select Iron Man 3 figures have been lagging behind a bit.

But hungry Iron Man fans don’t have to wait any longer–the Marvel Select Iron Man Mark XLII figure was finally released in stores today!

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Bowen Astonishing Wolverine & Green Goblin Statues Up for Order!

Posted on by June 27, 2013
Bowen Designs October 2013 Marvel Statues

When you collect a line as long as I’ve collected Bowen Designs Marvel sculptures, you expect to see some familiar faces redone. Such is the case with the October 2013 Bowen statues that have just gone up for order, as both statues are of characters that we’ve seen multiple times before in the Bowen Marvel Statues line. One of the characters has appeared twice before from Bowen and the other a near uncountable number of times–it’s the Bowen Designs Green Goblin Museum Statue and Astonishing X-Men Wolverine Statues!

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Avengers Hot Toys Hulk Released Overseas & Photos!

Posted on by June 26, 2013
Hulk Hot Toys Figure Hairy Chest Photo

Even after the Avenger Hot Toys Hulk figure had been available for pre-order for months, many collectors laughed and said it couldn’t be done and the figure would be cancelled. People said that the design didn’t lend itself well to the work that Hot Toys does, or that the figure was just too big to be produced, or that the project was taking too long and would be cancelled. But today, Hot Toys has definitely proven all of those people wrong. The Hot Toys Avengers Hulk figure has now been released overseas, and it is one massive beauty of a figure!

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Inverse Deadpool Funko POP! Vinyl Variant Figure Review

Posted on by June 25, 2013
Inverse Deadpool Funko POP! Vinyl Exclusive Figure

If you read my blogs regularly, you know I’m majorly obsessive compulsive–especially when it comes to toys. It’s for that reason that I don’t buy a lot of Marvel Funko POP! Vinyls, even though I love vinyl figures and the designs that Funko comes up with. The paint apps quality control on Funko POP! Vinyls can be very hit or miss, so rather than make myself nuts, I’ll often stay away from characters I can pass on. This Inverse Deadpool Exclusive, however, was not a figure I could easily skip. Does the Funko Deadpool Inverse Variant POP! vinyl pass the QC test?

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Avengers Assemble Figures Series 1 Coming July 2013 & Photos

Posted on by June 24, 2013
Avengers Assemble Falcon Sky Attack Hasbro Figure Packaged

I was beginning to wonder if Hasbro was going to bother sending out high-res images of the upcoming 3.75″ Avengers Assemble Series 1 action figures, but it seems I started to doubt just a little bit too soon!

Today, Hasbro sent out press images of five of the six figures scheduled for the first series of figures based on the new Avengers Assemble cartoon: Red Skull, Captain America, Black Widow, Hulk and even The Falcon!

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SDCC 2013 Exclusive Funko POP! Iron Patriot Unmasked James Rhodes

Posted on by June 24, 2013
Funko SDCC 2013 Exclusives Marvel POP Vinyls Unmasked Iron Patriot James Rhodes

Earlier this month, I posted an article about the surprise reveal of a Marvel Funko POP! Tony Stark vinyl figure being released as an exclusive at the Philippine Toy Con 2013, as well as at SDCC 2013. At that time, I speculated that Tony’s longtime comrade James Rhodes would probably be joining Tony as a San Diego Comic Con 2013 exclusive. Well, Toy Con has come and gone, and now that in-hand photos of the Marvel POP! Vinyl Tony Stark’s box exist, I can confirm that a Funko Iron Patriot Unmasked James Rhodes Vinyl will in fact be flying in for SDCC 2013 next month…

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Marvel Select Iron Man 3 Iron Patriot and BD Mark 42 Announced!

Posted on by June 24, 2013
Marvel Select Iron Man 3 Iron Patriot Disney Store Exclusive Figure

We’ve known for months that there were going to be two limited release Marvel Select Iron Man 3 figures in addition to the Iron Man 3 Marvel Select War Machine and Iron Man Mark 42 mass release figures, and today Diamond Select Toys finally broke the news of the identities of this final duo of movie figures.

It’s not exactly a big surprise, but the pair now stand revealed as Iron Man 3 Marvel Select Iron Patriot and Battle-Damaged Iron Man Mark XLII!

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Wolverine Movie Action Figures Released by Hasbro!

Posted on by June 23, 2013
Wolverine Movie Figures Released Silver Samurai Ninja Logan

I promise that I didn’t purposely go out looking for them, but I did happen to stumble upon the Hasbro “The Wolverine” movie figures at Toys R Us this weekend. It’s pretty unusual for new Marvel action figures to be out in stores in New England before I’ve heard loads of people talking about having found and bought them online beforehand. Of course, in this case, that might be because while collectors have found the movie Wolverine figures in stores, they may not actually be buying them…

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Heroclix 2013 Convention Exclusive Shuma Gorath Figure!

Posted on by June 23, 2013
Heroclix Shuma-Gorath with Moveable Eye Figure

I don’t just like Shuma Gorath. I love Shuma Gorath. No, seriously. How much do I love Shuma Gorath? I mained Shuma Gorath in every Capcom video game he’s appeared in, including Marvel vs. Capcom 3. In fact, I am wearing a Shuma Gorath T-Shirt right now, even though I had no conception whatsoever that I’d be writing about Shuma Gorath today (as the opportunity to do so has literally never come up before). Anyway, my point is that I love Shuma-Gorath, and the relevance of that fact is that I just ordered my first Shuma Gorath figure ever this afternoon–the Heroclix Shuma Gorath 2013 Convention Exclusive figure!

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Marvel Legends Thunderbolts Punisher Variant Revealed?

Posted on by June 19, 2013
Marvel Legends Thunderbolts Punisher Variant Figure 2013

After the unexpected announcement of the SDCC 2013 Thunderbolts Marvel Legends box set exclusives, I sort of doubted I’d be hearing anything else about Marvel’s Thunderbolts any time soon. Turns out I was mistaken, though, as the very next Hasbro 6″ Marvel Legends 2013 figure to be revealed appears to be another Thunderbolts figure–but from a different iteration of the Thunderbolts entirely. To the surprise of absolutely everyone, it’s… a Marvel Legends Thunderbolts Punisher Variant…?!

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Kidrobot Marvel MUNNY Vinyl Figures Coming Summer 2013!

Posted on by June 23, 2013
Kidrobot Marvel MUNNY Venom Vinyl Figure

Last week I discussed the upcoming Disney Vinylmation Marvel Series #1 lineup of Avengers Marvel vinyl figures–but Disney isn’t the only toy company looking to cash in on Marvel vinyls in 2013! Coming up later this summer, Kidrobot will take their own crack at Marvel designer vinyls, when they release their first wave of Kidrobot Marvel MUNNY vinyl figures in various sizes and even keychains!

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Galactus Mini Bust Gentle Giant Marvel SDCC 2013 Exclusive!

Posted on by June 17, 2013
Gentle Giant Marvel Galactus Mini Bust SDCC 2013 Exclusive

Today we inched ever so closer to knowing every single one of the Marvel San Diego Comic Con 2013 exclusives, as we finally learned the well-kept secret identity of the Gentle Giant Ltd. exclusive for the convention! I hadn’t seen anyone previously guessing or talking about him, so I guess Gentle Giant really did their job keeping their exclusive a mystery.

But wonder no more, Marvel collectors–it’s the Gentle Giant SDCC 2013 Exclusive Galactus Mini Bust!

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X-Force Psylocke Bishoujo Statue Announced for December 2013!

Posted on by June 17, 2013
X-Force Psylocke Bishoujo Statue Kotobukiya Marvel Figure

Kotobukiya has a real treat lined up to close out the 2013 lineup of Marvel Bishoujo statues: an all-new X-Force Psylocke Bishoujo statue! While Kotobukiya has released Psylocke before, the original Psylocke statue is 1:8 scale and out of scale with the current Bishoujo figures being released (not to mention mega-expensive). But Kotobukiya has heard the demand for a new and properly scaled Marvel Bishoujo Psylocke loud and clear–and she’s coming our way in December 2013!

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Marvel Select Silver Surfer Figure Coming in December 2013!

Posted on by June 14, 2013
Marvel Select Silver Surfer Figure Diamond Select Toys

Though he’s had a very limited presence in recent years in the Marvel comics (and even less prominence in merchandise), the legendary herald of Galactus–the Silver Surfer–remains one of the more iconic and recognizable characters in Marvel history.

So it’s not exactly a shocker that for their last Marvel Select action figure of 2013, Diamond Select Toys has decided to immortalize the Silver Surfer with a 7″ Marvel Select Silver Surfer figure!

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Disney Vinylmation Marvel Series 1 Avengers Figures Announced

Posted on by June 23, 2013
Disney Vinylmation Marvel Series 1 Blind Box Figure Assortment

It’s been talked-about literally since the day that Disney purchased Marvel in 2009, but I genuinely never thought it was going to happen. After years of rumors and speculation that didn’t pan out, something Disney collectors have long pined for is going to come to fruition. Coming later in 2013–the first-ever series of Marvel Vinylmation vinyl figures–the Disney Vinylmation Marvel Series #1 featuring The Avengers!

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