It took a wee bit longer than the other two early Marvel Legends 2019 series (Black Panther and Captain Marvel) to arrive, but the case of 2019 Spider-Man Legends Kingpin Series Figures I ordered online is here at last! I’ll go through and review each and every figure from the wave in-depth with lots of hi-res photos in the coming weeks, but to help tide readers over, here’s some initial impressions and unboxing photographs of the Marvel Legends Kingpin Build-A-Figure and more…

While I had ordered singles of the whole Kingpin series from Amazon at the start of the year, they ended up delaying my orders until March, so the case I had reserved from Entertainment Earth actually ended up being fulfilled first.

I’m not exactly wild about owning an extra Six-Armed Spider-Man figure from the case, but it sure beats waiting an extra month to get these figures—or paying the extortionate $120 the Kingpin BAF is selling for all by his lonesome on eBay right now!

Here’s some quick early thoughts on each of the eight figures in this wave…

As expected, Six Arm Spider-Man is clearly the dud of this assortment. Hasbro has a great idea with this figure, and it’s certainly a variant of Spidey that I think deserved an update, but the execution here is really poor.

There’s absolutely zero paint wash on this figure, with virtually all his color details coming solely from straight up molded plastic. Paired with the disappointing lack of any kind of upper torso an crunch or waist swivel, and you’ve got one of the more underwhelming Hasbro Legends figures in years.

I’m a big Black Cat fan, so I’m always game for a new Black Cat action figure—even one in a now-defunct modern costume.

That said, the portrait on this figure looks a bit too “happy-go-lucky school girl” for me, and it’s tough to get her to grasp her whip at all. I’m going to have to spend more time with this figure to really decide how I feel about it.

Marvel Legends Silver Sable looks terrific in the package, but is another figure that I’ll need to warm up to out-of-the-package. The way her legs have been forced into the plastic seems to have warped them a bit, and I’m concerned about the quality of the plastic used on the legs.

Silver Sable’s belt is semi-loose, and her holsters kept falling down her legs while I was trying to take just one photo of her for this post. The silver paint deco has some weird defects on her glutes, and her ankle articulation wasn’t working well for me to stand her up easily.

The “Go Down Swinging” Symbiote Spider-Man that pairs with Red Goblin hasn’t gotten much love prior to release, but I think it looks excellent in-hand. Hasbro (thank God) gave us alternate hands for this Symbiote Spidey so we can mix things up pose-wise.

I’m a bit concerned about some rubbery feel to the black plastic on this figure—and the eyes popping off the head will take some getting used to—but my preliminary thoughts on this figure are more positive than I expected. [My apologies for the photo quality on this–I’ll take better photos of the new Symbiote Spider-Man when I write the full review of him.]

Although he’s gotten a bit of a lukewarm amount of hype thus far, I genuinely think Marvel Legends Night Thrasher may be a big hit once people get a chance to see him in person.

The shiny, smooth gloss black of Night Thrasher’s armor looks tremendous in person, and instantly propels him to one of my favorite figures in this series. I can already tell that posing him with that skateboard is going to be a blast.

Marvel Legends Red Goblin—the Carnage/Green Goblin mashup—is another figure I have mixed feelings about. The yellow mouth and eyes on this design just look really weird to me, and I’m frustrated that there’s no Goblin Glider, making this figure feel incomplete.

For some reason, I really thought that Red Goblin had an articulated or removable tail, but that is not the case. You’d think I’d know better since I literally had this figure in my hands at New York Comic Con 2019 a few months ago, but apparently not!

Puma is about as far from a household name as you can get (no, the notoriety of Puma Shoes absolutely does not count), but Hasbro has put together a highly impressive figure here that may win over some on-the-fence collectors.

The fierce head sculpt on the Marvel Legends Puma figure is sensational, and I love the sculpting on the various furry portions of the body and the feathers. That loose necklace flopping around endlessly is gonna drive me nuts, though.

Finally, we’ve got the main attraction of this wave for virtually everyone: the Kingpin Build-A-Figure! You’ll need to buy every figure in the series except Six Armed Spider-Man to get the pieces to complete Wilson Fisk. There’s not a lot of paint deco on this figure, but what is there has been masterfully painted. The joints are all tight and both heads look fantastic.

Kingpin’s cane has a slight rubbery plastic bend to it and his knee articulation makes his pants look a bit bizarre when the knees are bent, but otherwise I’m extremely pleased with the new ML Kingpin figure at a glance.

The Marvel Legends Spider-Man Kingpin Series is now starting to ship out via EE, which is where I got mine from. They’re fulfilling orders as they receive more cases from Hasbro, so it may take a few days for new orders to ship. BBTS and other online retailers should be receiving their orders around now as well, although Amazon pushed my pre-orders back to March and hasn’t said they’re moving them forward to this month (yet).

Now that I’ve got them in-hand and unboxed, I’ll begin photographing and writing up comprehensive reviews for each figure in this wave. What six inch action figures are you most interested in seeing discussed in-depth first, and which figures (if any) are you not hearing about at all, Marvel collectors?