X-Men Animated Professor X Bust & Marvel Gallery Green Goblin PVC Statue!

Posted on by December 31, 2021
DST X-Men Animated Professor X Mini Bust and Marvel Gallery Green Goblin Statue

One thing about Marvel collecting we can count on reliably as we head into 2022 is that Diamond Select Toys will keep consistently churning out all-new Marvel collectibles basically every single month, just as they’ve been doing for just about two decades now. And while their latest round of solicits included just one pair of Marvel-themed items, both are good sculptures that will appeal highly to value-priced collectors: the X-Men Animated Professor X and deluxe Marvel Gallery Green Goblin statue are now available for order!

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REVIEW: 2022 Marvel Legends Spider-Man Armadillo Build-A-Figure BAF

Posted on by December 29, 2021
Marvel Legends Armadillo Build-A-Figure Review

If anyIf anyone had told me a year ago that my last review of 2021 would be me reviewing a Marvel Legends Armadillo Build-A-Figure semi-blind, I’d have thought they were crazy on all fronts. But here we are, so let’s begin. Collectors will need to buy almost the entire Marvel Legends Spider-Man No Way Home figures series of 6″ figures to get all the pieces for the ML Armadillo BAF. Is it worth the expense to build this relatively obscure pro wrestling supervillain?

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REVIEW: X-Men Animated Gambit Bust (Diamond Select Toys)

Posted on by December 21, 2021
Review X-Men Animated Gambit Bust Diamond Select Toys 2021

X-Men 92 has a long-standing legacy with fans as being among the greatest superhero cartoons of all-time. It’s also how mutants permeated my 10-year-old brain, beginning my life-long love of the X-Men. So when I was given a chance to have a review sample of the Diamond Select Toys X-Men Animated Series Gambit mini bust by Entertainment Earth, I jumped at the opportunity. Now that I’ve spent some time with the first resin Gambit animated statue ever, does the Rajun Cajun spark as much love from me as he did almost 30 years ago?

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Marvel Legends 20th Anniversary Hulk Figure & X-Men Legends 2022 Series Revealed!

Posted on by December 18, 2021
Marvel Legends 2022 Figures X-Men Series & 20th Anniversary Hulk Figures

brought their A-game for the final Hasbro Pulse Marvel stream of the year, debuting far more than just the Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness wave during the event. Not only did Hasbro reveal and open pre-orders for the exclusive Marvel Legends 20th Anniversary Hulk figure (no Toad just yet, sadly), but they also surprise-debuted all eight figures in the X-Men Legends 2022 series as well—including Siryn, First Appearance Sabretooth, the Bonebreaker Build-A-Figure and more!

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2022 Marvel Legends Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness Figures Photos & Pre-Orders!

Posted on by December 17, 2021
2022 Marvel Legends Multiverse of Madness Dr Strange Movie Figures Set

Spider-Man: No Way Home has officially swung into theaters and appears to be a smash hit with fans, so it’s time for makers of toys and collectibles to start looking ahead to the next big theatrical entry to the MCU: spring 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness movie! And as such, this week Hasbro revealed and opened pre-orders for the 2022 Marvel Legends Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness figures series, featuring the first-ever ML Wong!

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REVIEW: Funko Gingerbread Spider-Man POP Vinyls Figure

Posted on by December 15, 2021
REVIEW: Funko Gingerbread Spider-Man POP Vinyls Figure

Just when it looked like Funko had managed to squeeze out every possible penny from countless canonical variants of the most iconic Marvel characters, they had a devilishly ingenious idea for this year’s Holiday Marvel POP Vinyls figures series. I instantly fell in love with the Funko POP Gingerbread Spider-Man figure, and had my pre-order locked in as soon as listings for the series went up in August. And now that Gingerbread Spidey has arrived…? I am not at all disappointed. In fact, I want more POPs in this stylized form…

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REVIEW: Marvel Legends 2022 X-Men Age of Apocalypse Colossus Build-A-Figure

Posted on by December 10, 2021
Age of ApocalypseMarvel Legends Kitty Pryde Shadowcat & Colossus BAF

Some readers were upset by the drubbing I gave poor Age of Apocalypse Cyclops in his review, so I figured I’d jump from reviewing the worst figure in Marvel Legends AOA wave 2 to the best. You’ll have to purchase almost this whole X-Men Legends series to put him together, but the Marvel Legends Age of Apocalypse Colossus figure actually ends up being more than worth the trouble and expense of getting all the pieces from a fairly star-studded wave…

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Sideshow Nightcrawler Exclusive Premium Format Figure Statue Revealed & Up for Order!

Posted on by December 4, 2021
Sideshow Collectibles Nightcrawler Premium Format Figure Statue

Sideshow Collectibles must have heard me complaining last week about the dearth of new additions to their 1/4 scale X-Men statue series, because shortly thereafter, an all-new Sideshow Exclusive Nightcrawler Premium Format Figure statue went up for pre-order! It’s the first new Nightcrawler statue to go up for sale in many years—does it look like it will be worth quarter-scale big bucks?

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Disney+ Hawkeye Marvel Legends 2022 Figures Announced! Kate Bishop & Clint Barton!

Posted on by December 3, 2021
2022 Marvel Legends Hawkeye Figures Clint Barton Kate Bishop

From nearly the moment that the Disney+ Hawkeye series was announced, fnas have been anticipating tie-in xollectibles and speculating upon WHat kinds of toys and merch we’d be receiving to coincide with the live-action series. And now, fresh off the series premiere last week and the first-ever Funko Kate Bishop Hawkeye & Pizza Dog POP Vinyls figures going up for order last week, we’re getting our first look at digital renders of upcoming Disney+ Marvel Legends 6″ figures of Clint Barton and Kate Biahop figures from Hasbro!

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Marvel Legends 2022 X-Men Age of Apocalypse Cyclops Figure REVIEW (AOA Colossus BAF Series)

Posted on by December 3, 2021
Marvel Legends 2022 Cyclops and Jean Grey Age of Apocalypse 5" Figures

Cyclops is a character that has oftentimes been accused of being boring over the years (perhaps because of his straight-laced boy scout personality). But in the Age of Apocalypse, Cyclops was a badass rebel with stubbly facial hair and only one eye remaining after a brutal battle where he blasted off Wolverine’s left hand. Scott Summers was a lock for the recently released Age of Apocalypse Legends Wave 2, but ironically, Cyclops’ alternate reality 6” figure ends up as boring as his 616 character is accused of being…

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x-Men Iron studios Magneto Statue REVIEW & Photos (BDS Battle Diorama Series)

Posted on by December 29, 2021
Magneto Head with helmet Iron SSentinel Head Base from Resin Iron Studios Magneto Statuetudios

Sideshow Collectibles’ once rapidly-expanding lineup of 1/4 Premium Format X-Men statues has slowed to a glacial pace over the last two years, but Iron Studios is picking up the slack and popping out 1/10 X-Men statues at an unprecedented rate—including never-before-done-as-statues characters like Spiral and even Elsie-Dee/Albert! It seems with their smaller, more affordable Battle Diorama Series, Iron Studios has hit a sweet spot with modern collectors with limited space and disposable funds! As they captured my full attention long, long ago, I figured it was high time I review something from the X-Men line: focusing on the Deluxe Magneto Iron Studios BDS statue!

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REVIEW: X-Men Marvel Legends Age of Apocalypse Rogue Figure (AOA Colossus Series)

Posted on by November 23, 2021
Age of Apocalypse Marvel Legends Rogue and Magneto Hasbro Figures 2021

gtime readers know that before I drank the “the Jonathan Hickman X-Men era is the best ever” Kool-Aid, X-Men Age Of Apocalypse was my jam for about a decade and a half. And so, I’ve been waiting about that long for a proper 6” (or even 5”) Age of Apocalypse Rogue figure. I worried such a thing might never occur when anecdotes indicated poor sales for the first series of X-Men Marvel Legends Age of Apocalypse figures. But the AX-Men Marvel Legends OA Wave 2 Colossus Series is now available, including the “Bride of Magneto” version of Rogue! Is the 6” Marvel Legends AOA Rogue figure all I could have dreamed?

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Marvel Legends Ultron REVIEW & Photos (2021 Iron Man Ursa Major Figure Series)

Posted on by November 17, 2021
Hasbro Ultron Marvel Legensa Mouth Energy Effects Piece Close-Up

If there’s one villain that was wronged by the first 19 years of Marvel Legends, it’s Ultron. Toybiz’s long-eared attempt was universally hated, and Hasbro’s first efforts weren’t quite on the ball either. But for this year’s series of Iron Man Marvel Legends, Hasbro finally hit a home run. Ultron quickly sold out through most online retailers, and has been difficult to locate at retail stores. But finally, I had the opportunity to sit down and review my own classic Ultron Marvel Legends Figure!

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REVIEW: Marvel Legends Ironheart Figure (Iron Man Ursa Major Series)

Posted on by November 11, 2021
ML Ironheart Unmasked Riri Williams toy figure

Note: I began writing this Iron Man Marvel Legends Ironheart figure review in September 2021, but completing and posting it got delayed because, well…
Somewhere during my NYCC 2021 preparations, my brain got it in mind that it would be a swell time to have a series of four consecutive strokes. Ten weeks, two hospitals, 50% of my vision lost, a couple tubes down my throat and one missed New York Comic Con later, I’m finally coherent enough to patch together my thoughts and complete this long overdue review (but please forgive any minor mistakes or typos in my articles for the near future)…

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marvel Legends 2022 Shriek Figure REVIEW and Photos (Armadillo BAF series)

Posted on by November 9, 2021
2022 Marvel Legends Shriek Acfion Fiure Review with Carnage Girlfriend

ven the hundreds and hundreds of 6” Marvel Legends figures Hasbro has cranked out over the last decade, you might think there are few significant characters left needing an update from Toybiz or even needing their first ML action figure. But as it turns out, there’s still some fan-favorites waiting for the limelight—and Hasbro is kicking off the first Spider-Man Marvel Legends 2022 Build-A-Figure wave with one such character! One of the last remaining key characters necessary to complete the Maximum Carnage 90s crossover lineup is the sound-manipulating psychopath herself: the 2022 Marvel Legends Shriek figure is in the house!

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