Exclusive Marvel Legends Stealth Invincible Iron Man Figure PO!

Posted on by August 27, 2019

While the big Marvel Legends news last week was Hasbro giving fans what they’ve been asking for for years with that Alpha Flight Legends Box set of six figures, that wasn’t the only exclusive Hasbro announced! While it’s certainly not on the same level of “blockbuster” news as the Alpha Flight set, and I wouldn’t necessarily say anybody has been asking for it, an Exclusive Marvel Legends Stealth Invincible Iron Man Figure is also now up for order! Those waiting restlessly for a Tron-ish armor with an almost-lightsaber, your time has come!

Marvel Legends 80th Anniversary Stealth Invincible Iron Man Packaged

Okay, I’m gonna level with you. When I saw photos last Friday of the new Marvel Legends 80th Anniversary Stealth Iron Man figure, I legit thought that it was a custom repaint someone had just made and shared out over social media. Seriously—it took me like an hour to have the epiphany that it was a real thing.

So yeah—I was not instantaneously in love at first sight with this piece and racing over to place my order for it. But, well… has it grown on me now that I’ve had a few days to ponder it?

Comic Panel of Invincible Iron Man Stealth Armor vs Ninjas with Swords

To an extent, it really has. The first thing I had to confirm was that this was in fact a legitimate canonical armor and not just some crazy repaint made up solely to sell toys. And thankfully, it is actually comic-based, appearing in the Invincible Iron Man comic book series. In fact, in that comic book, Iron Man even appropriates one of those ninja energy swords that comes with this figure, so yes, even that is canon!

Marvel Legends Invincible Iron Man Black Panther Figure Packaged

If this figure looks familiar to you, it’s because we’ve seen the tooling here previously used for the 2018 Black Panther Legends Iron Man figure, as well as the recent Walgreens Exclusive Infamous Iron Man Doctor Doom figure. You gotta hand it to Hasbro–they’re not letting any existing tooling go to waste, that’s for sure!

Avengers Marvel Legends Doctor Doom Infamous Iron Man Figure Packaged

This Stealth variant comes with a slightly different loadout of accessories than the previous two releases, as this iteration comes with a charged sword, three pairs of interchangeable hands and two effects pieces. The sword is obviously the craziest and most unique inclusion for an Iron Man armor!

Hasbro Stealth Invincible Iron Man Marvel Legends Figure and Accessories

I have a fatal weakness for cool Iron Man armor permutations, so this All-New All-Different era Stealth armor definitely got my attention once I knew it was genuinely from the comic books (albeit not from a series I even read). So… I guess I’m in for this figure, even though I’m not overwhelmingly in love with it.

Marvel Legends 80th Anniversary Stealth Invincible Iron Man Packaged

What I am in love with is how Hasbro is making these niche exclusives a bit more limited, so they won’t end up flooding the shelves at Target and Walmart and what-not. You can order the shared Exclusive Stealth Invincible Iron Man figure from BBTS, EE, and Hasbro Pulse now. Amazon had it available briefly, but it astoundingly sold out already as pre-order (craziness!).

Do you think this is actually the last of the 80th Anniversary Marvel Legends, or do you think Hasbro may have yet more tricks left up their sleeve? And if this variant isn’t up your speed, are there any other easy repaints you would like to see Hasbro tackle in this line?

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Exclusive Marvel Legends Stealth Invincible Iron Man Figure PO! — 7 Comments

  1. As far as inclusion for the 80th anniversary goes, this figure makes little sense. That doesn’t mean I won’t buy it, just that it could been a Fan Channel release down the line that didn’t use the 80th line marketing.

    I would most like to see an Invaders era Jim Hammond android Human Torch figure. As in one of the characters that debuted in Marvel Comics #1 in 1939, you know, the 80th anniversary being celebrated.

    A version of Ka-Zar would also be cool to get for the class of 1939. While not necessarily the 1939 version, he has 80 years of half-naked aesthetics to draw from, and the tooling already exists.

    Less likely, but another founding member of the class of ’39 is Thomas Halloway, The Angel. Not the mutant with wings, the dude in a magical cape shooting Nazis. Any old body and cape would work.

  2. On the topic of flooding the shelves with figures – No major store in my area (just about 10 miles from a major city) that carries Marvel Legends figures EVER has full pegs of anything. Target is pretty much always empty. I usually find something like….a Dazzler figure hanging out alone on one peg while the five other pegs stand empty. I mean, you’d think that would show that there’s a demand they can fill – maybe try to make some more money by selling more of what people want to buy. Or something… capitalism and all that… ?

    Walgreens has a shelf filled with their exclusive Daredevil and Sub-mariner figures gathering dust, and a few Captain Marvel wave figures no one wants, but that’s it. Around here, you pretty much have to order everything online or you get nothing. I have never heard of this Iron Man figure, but I’d like to see him on some shelves just to have something to look at.

    • Man you hit the nail on the head. I live in central NJ and I can never find anything new at brick and mortar. It’s ridiculous. We get waves sparingly on a 6 month delay.

      Walmart exclusives are the worst. I don’t know if I’ll ever find the 80th Anniversary Cap. Which, for a popular character, you’d expect to see in droves.

      • @beatsme, I haven’t seen 80th Cap in stores in central NJ either but my backordered online and in-store orders all just went through yesterday. Word is that they will hit the state en-masse in September.

        • Thanks for the info! I am really hoping to see some soon. I’ve seen Iron Man and Thor in the wild, as well as a couple of straggling X-Men vintage wave figs (Dazzler, Iceman). But Cap is always absent. What sucks most is the Walmart inventory system is always wrong.

    • I have this discussion with my friends all the time. I’m in NYC and He’s in NE PA, He travels all around looking for stuff and we can’t figure out if its short supply or if the scalpers are just THAT good.