The Avengers 60th Anniversary is in its home stretch—but before the milestone year draws to a close, Hasbro had one humongous card left to play. It didn’t come as an enormous surprise to anyone when it was revealed last week, but 2023’s beyond big new Marvel Legends Haslab has now begun: a towering 24” Giant-Man figure!
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Joe Fixit the Las Vegas Mob Enforcer is about as far down on my list of favorite Hulk iterations as you can get, so I wasn’t too chapped about missing the Joe Fixit BAF of the Marvel Legends GamerVerse series I absolutely didn’t want to buy the entire wave of back in 2020. But now that I could get him solo as a Marvel Legends 2023 Walmart Exclusive (without having to buy variants of Iron Man and Captain America I’d immediately bin), this Grey Hulk looked a whole lot more appealing. Now that I have him in-hand, am I glad I softened on the mobster (not monster) Hulk? Here’s my review…
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We’ve known for months now that Walmart had some choice Marvel Legends exclusives lined up for their pseudo-“con”, and today, the big day of “Walmart Collector Con” has finally arrived! Shipping this fall, pre-orders are now open for the exclusive 6” Marvel Legends Joe Fixit Grey Hulk, new Bucky Captain America and Morbius vs. 6-Armed Spider-Man!
Bucky Cap – http://bit.ly/MLBuckyCapWM
Joe Fixit Grey Hulk – http://bit.ly/MLJoeFixitHulk
Morbius vs. 6-Armed Spider-Man – http://bit.ly/MLMorbiusVs6ArmSpidey
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Speculation has run wild over the past weeks as fans made their guesses as to what this year’s San Diego Comic Con Marvel Legends exclusive would be—but when Hasbro finally dropped the curtain this week, it turned out that the item was something I hadn’t heard a single collector guess. Launching next week and available online after the show, it’s the SDCC 2023 Marvel legends Deadpool & Bob Agent of Hydra figures two-pack! Does this surprise pick get you psyched up, Marvel collectors?
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Funko has been the King of SDCC Exclusives for over a decade now—and it looks like they’ll be holding onto that title for another year, with dozens and dozens of exclusives lined up to be released alongside San Diego Comic Con 2023 next week! And though Marvel has lost a few degrees of mainstream popularity over the last couple years, it’s no surprise that Funko has a half-dozen Marvel Pop exclusives available at the event—including MCU MODOK, Gorr’s Daughter and more!
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SDCC 2023 is just a week away, and many fans have been waiting with bated breath for the announcement of the Hasbro SDCC 2023 Marvel Legends exclusive(s) that will be made available during the show. Hasbro threw fans a plot twist, though, by first announcing a not-exactly-new Walmart exclusive 2-pack coming our way as part of the Walmart 2023 Summer Collector Con: Marvel Legends Morbius & Six-Armed Spider-Man!
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San Diego Comic-Con is trying to return to form this summer—but while a lot of major exhibitors and movie panels aren’t ready to come back just yet, many toy and collectible companies’ exclusives are! And two of the coolest ones are themed to the X-Men ‘92 cartoon: the X-Men Animated 1/6 Logan and Magneto variant figures from Mondo have now been revealed and go up for sale at the con and online next week!
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Gladiator Hulk is unquestionably in the upper echelon of best Marvel Legends Build-A-Figures that Hasbro has ever done from a marketing perspective. As the highly hyped co-star of Thor Ragnarok, basically every MCU movie figure collector set their eyes on owning a Gladiator Hulk BAF from the film. But not every fan could or wanted to buy a whole $120 6-figure set for the armor-clad Jade Giant, and those collectors were left out in the cold—until now. With a new extra head and a few updated paints, the individually sold Amazon Exclusive Marvel Legends Gladiator Hulk is now up for pre-order!
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West Coast Avengers was a fresh and exciting concept in 1984 before there had been more Avengers off-shoot teams and comic book series than anyone can count. Fans still remember the original WCA comics fondly—which is why Hasbro is celebrating the team’s legacy by opening pre-orders for a new Amazon Exclusive Marvel Legends West Coast Avengers box set! who’s included, and how many of the figures in this 5-pack are ones fans are clamoring for…?
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Hasbro is taking the slow approach to building the classic Guardians of the Galaxy team in Marvel Legends 6” figure form. Six years after Vance Astro made the scene in the 2017 Titus Series, he’s finally getting some backup this year in the form of a Target Exclusive Yondu figure! Is the long-awaited classic archer worth adding to your ranks? Here’s my review of the newly released Yondu…
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Hasbro didn’t hit us with a complete blitzkrieg of new Marvel Legends 2023 waves during this first month of the year, limiting themselves to just a singular new Build-A-Figure Series solicited (the X-Men Legends Ch’od BAF Series). But that doesn’t mean Hasbro wasn’t busy, as they instead announced a bunch of one-off releases (and put a few up for order), including Franklin & Valeria Richards, a new Advanced Suit PS5 Spider-Man, classic comics Yondu and more!
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I can count on one hand the number of times a resin statue company has managed to covertly sneak an unannounced all-new sculpture from a popular line all the way through production and successfully announce it via actual in-stock ordering, but that’s just the feat Diamond Select Toys has pulled off with their newest entry in the X-Men Animated Series busts lineup. To the shock of fans everywhere, the DST X-Men Animated Beast statue has been released is now available for order exclusively from ShopDisney. Is this surprise drop worth getting hyped about? Here’s my review…
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Hasbro is slowly but surely chipping away at the ranks of old Marvel Legends Build-A-Figures that need an updated re-release, and that trend continues today with the latest solo addition to the lineup: the exclusive Marvel Legends Ronan is now up for order! But is this Amazon Exclusive worth his deluxe price-point?
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Marvel Legends 2023 pre-orders have slowed down a bit lately, but the respite ends today with an X-Men Villains 5-Pack revealed mostly during MCM London 2022 and the 2022 Hasbro Pulse Premium livestream. going up for order! Those events might be small, but the reveals were big—including the last 3 members of the upcoming X-Men 5-pack alongside Stryfe and Pretty Boy: Random, Zero and Vertigo!
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Although it’s only appeared a handful of times in Marvel comic books, Spider-Man’s temporary spare Fantastic Four costume disguise has gone on to be the stuff of legends, appearing regularly in video games and even occasionally in toy form. The 3.75” Marvel Universe Bag-Man figure was a hard-to-get and coveted figure for ages, but now Hasbro is taking Spidey’s oddest look to the next level with the Target exclusive 6” Marvel Legends Bombastic Bag-Man figure! Does this comedic Spidey toy delight? Here’s my review…
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