After 25+ years of Marvel Legends figures, there aren’t too many high-profile X-Men villains left waiting for their first figure at this point. But there’s one major character whose toy fate has always seemed cloudy but is now finally getting her day in the plastic sun: the Amazon Exclusive Marvel Legends Destiny & Classic Rogue 2-pack is now up for order! Is this key member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and Krakoan Council prophesized to join *your* collection?
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Anyone who said they had predicted a Strange Tales series on their Marvel Legends 2024 bingo card is probably lying, but Hasbro has subverted expectations once again with a very diverse and eclectic wave of figures featuring a Build-A-Figure Marvel vs. Capcom fans have been dying for: the exclusive Strange Tales Marvel Legends Blackheart Series featuring Hellverine, Moon Knight and more is now up for order!
Individual Figure Links (EE):
Weapon of Vengeance (Hellverine) ►
Moon Knight ►
Dracula ►
Bloodstorm ►
Daimon Hellstrom ►
Lilith ►
Brother Voodoo ►
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Cable has had his fair share of Hasbro action figures, though still far less than the copious amount that Toybiz put out. Even so, it’s been over half a decade now since the last comics-based Cable Legends figure was released and demand for the popular character has grown quite high! And so, Nathan Christopher Charles Dayspring Askani’son Summers is finally returning to stores this summer as a headliner in the Marvel Legends Zabu Series. Is Hasbro’s latest Marvel Legends Cable figure their best? Here’s my review…
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“Slow and steady” wins the race, but I think it’s also an apt descriptor for how Hasbro has team built the Peter David 90s X-Factor team in 6” Marvel Legends form. It’s been 6 years since Marvel Legends Multiple Man kicked off this iteration of X-Factor in the Apocalypse Build-A-Figure Series, but Rahne Sinclair has at last arrived to complete the team. The just-released Marvel Legends Wolfsbane figure has just started shipping as part of the mixed characters Zabu BAF wave—should you snag this long-awaited Scottish werewolf to your collection? Here’s my review…
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Hasbro brought their A-game to this week’s new Hasbro Pulse Marvel Legends stream of figure reveals, but the most immediate ones were for figures semi-confirmed by leaked prototypes that surfaced over the last few weeks. There was quite a bit of buzz surrounding those leaks, but now fans can lock in their reservations and pine away for the actual products: Marvel Legends Superior Spider-Man and Astonishing X-Men Wolverine are now up for order!
Individual Figures Links —
Wolverine ► EE
Wolverine ► Amazon
Superior Spider-Man ► EE
Superior Spider-Man ►Amazon
X-Men ‘97 is a smash hit, and Hasbro’s excellent tie-in toy line is enjoying massive success as well. As such, I’m continuing along with my series of 6” Marvel legends X-Men 97 figures with a key member of the team. We’ve had several previous Hasbro action figures of her in 90s Jim Lee costume, but is the new X-Men 97 Legends Jean Grey figure the definitive version of the character?
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Way back in my 2017 review, I thought the X-Men Legends Cyclops figure in the Warlock Series was acceptable, despite its flaws, because we were in the middle of a Jim Lee Cyclops famine. In 2024, not so much. We’ve seen numerous representations of Cyke in this costume in the interim, but as far as Hasbro 6” figures go, the newly-released X-Men 97 Marvel Legends Cyclops easily takes the crown as the best Jim Lee Cyclops figure ever made…
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Last year, Hasbro kicked off the 2021 New Fantastic Four Marvel Legends team with the first ever fully-articulated Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards figures. And now, Hasbro is dipping back in to give us the other half of the team in their fun black and blue costumes! Continuing the line of Wolverine 50th Anniversary 6” figures, the Marvel Legends Fantastic Four Wolverine and Spider-Man 2-pack is now up for order! Are these quirky-costumed Spidey and Logan figures on your shopping list?
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In a world where we have Hasbro X-Men Legends figures of Pretty Boy, Vertigo and Skullbuster, it’s really quite astonishing that one the greatest female X-villains of all time has never had a toy… until now. After fans’ hopes were dashed by the failed Ghost Rider Haslab, Cyclops’ first wife is finally here: the X-Men 97 Wave 2 Marvel Legends Goblin Queen Madelyne Pryor figure is now starting to arrive!
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When you’re bringing a toy of a relativrly unknown character to retail stores, said toy needs to be really cool to earn buys and avoid rotting off the shelves (or worse, ending up at Ollie’s). Hasbro delivered such a figure with Crystar earlier this year, and (spoilers for the rest of this review) they do so again with this terrific X-Men 97 Marvel Legends X-Cutioner figure that’s shipping out this month as part of wave 2 of the line. Here’s my review…
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Marvel Legends 2024 has been unusually light on Build-A-Figure waves thus far this year, but Hasbro is remedying that in a surprising way with a wholly unexpected mixed wave of 6” figures announced via Hasbro Pulse livestream yesterday: the highly eclectic Marvel Legends Zabu Build-A-Figure series featuring 90s Cable, Wolfsbane, Ka-Zar, Ikaris and more is now up for order!
Individual Figure Pre-Order Links —
Superior Iron Man ► EE ► Amazon
Black Winter Thor ► EE ► Amazon
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I have highly limited space left in my displays for huge statues at this point, and even less space in my wallet for them. But I’m always watching for new characters I don’t have a statue of and bold takes on ones I do. So far this month, Sideshow has both! A new 1/4 Spider-Man Premium Format Figure and the first-ever 1/4 Dazzler Premium Format Figure are now up for order! Are they worth a look, lofty price tags and all?
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UPDATE (2/1/24): The wait for X-Men 97 is over–at last for the second wave of 6″ action figures! Marvel Legends X-Men ’97 Wave 2 is now up for order, including Nightcrawler, Jean Grey, Cyclops and more! Which figures from this series will you be snapping up?
Individual PO Links:
Cyclops ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Nightcrawler ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Jean Grey ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Goblin Queen Madelyne Pryor ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
X-Cutioner ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Magneto ► Entertainment Earth ► Amazon
Earlier this week I talked about the triad of new offerings from Diamond Select Toys’ latest solicitations, but I need to backtrack and discuss a trio of very popular collectibles being reissued as well: Marvel Select Advanced Suit Spider-Man, Marvel Gallery Emma Frost and the Animated Deadpool statue! Let’s take a look at these previously sold out pieces…
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X-Men collectibles look to be having a banner year in 2024 to coincide with the most major pieces of new Marvel media known for the year being X-related. Diamond Select Toys is ready to give X-fans more love as well, as 2 of their 3 new Marvel collectibles for the month are also X-centric: the Marvel Gallery 90s Wolverine PVC, X-Men Animated Morph bust and Spider-Man 2 Gallery Miles Morales statue are all up for order now!
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