When you’ve been collecting Marvel toys for over two decades, you’re bound to have some regrets of pieces you’ve missed. One of mine is the comic-based Bowen Designs Hela statue, which is the only large scale statue of the character ever made… until now! Diamond Select Toys is diving deep again, and their Marvel Premier Collection Hela Statue is now up for order! And that’s not all—a Marvel Select PS4 Spider-Man figure, new Animated Thanos statue, Gallery Morbius figure and more are in this month’s solicitations!
Continue Reading →Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse was a rare surprise hit for the modern superhero movie genre, as ordinarily these days it’s expected that most superhero movies have blockbuster potential. But Into the Spider-Verse came and conquered, and now collectibles companies are racing to catch up and claim their cut! Kotobukiya is next up at bat with the first in a series of 1:10 Scale statues from the film: the Kotobukiya Into the Spider-Verse Miles Morales ARTFX PVC figure is now up for order!
Continue Reading →Spider-Man is indeed the new Iron Man as far as Hot Toys is seemingly concerned. Hot Toys quickly created every suit from the first two MCU Spider-Man movies in sixth scale form, and now they’ve got something… bigger… on their minds! For the first time ever, Hot Toys is creating a non-Iron Man 1/4 character from the MCU: the Hot Toys Quarter-Scale Spider-Man figure is now up for order in deluxe and regular versions! He’s bigger than ever—with a bigger than ever price as well…
Continue Reading →Avengers Endgame is now the top-grossing movie of all-time, which means that virtually no scene from that movie is likely to be safe from being merchandised in one form or another (and most already have). But Iron Studios has gone to the well now for the first time to capture a moment with their BDS (Battle Diorama Series) I’m not sure any other company is going to tackle—Iron Studios Red Skull & Black Widow statues representing Black Widow running to her death are now available! Yowza!
Continue Reading →While the vast majority of headlines in the Marvel toy news world over the past week have appropriately been centered on the happenings from San Diego Comic Con 2019, that doesn’t mean there weren’t some exciting goings-on occurring elsewhere–including at the Medicom Toy Expo in Japan over the weekend! Fans dreaming of a definitive 6″ Miles Morales from the recent animated movie are getting their wish: a MAFEX Into the Spider-Verse Miles Morales figure is now up for order! And for the Spidery comic book fans, Medicom has a zany comic version of their popular MAFEX Spider-Man as well…
Continue Reading →Hot Toys fulfilled the expectations of most collectors at SDCC 2019 last week by premiering more figures from Avengers Infinity War and Endgame, filling a few gaps in the Guardians of the Galaxy lineup and even giving us a few new Spider-Man PS4 costumes. But they also debuted something off-the-walls crazy at the show no one saw coming: the Hot Toys VENOMPOOL figure is now up for pre-order! (And yes, this is a Venom/Deadpool mash-up. Seriously!)
Continue Reading →Arguably the single most exciting week of the year in the collecting sphere has come and gone: San Diego Comic Con 2019! But now that it’s all over, Hot Toys is kicking off pre-orders of their SDCC 2019 week reveals with a decisive bang! Legitimately potentiallytheir best-seller ever, the Avengers Endgame Battle Damaged Iron Man with Nano Gauntlet and RDJ Head is now up for order! Is this final battle Iron Man a must-have for *your *collection?
Continue Reading →Hasbro broke Marvel Legends collectors’ wallets with dozens of new figures going up for pre-order during San Diego Comic Con this week—but now that that little matter of business is done with, it’s time to look ahead to next year! And in 2020, Marvel Legends is taking no prisoners with high-profile new releases in the pipeline including Squirrel Girl, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Vulture, Strong Guy—and even a Marvel Legends X-Men Age of Apocalypse series!
Continue Reading →The rumors are true, and Hasbro brought the goods to premiere at SDCC 2019! The Jim Lee Jean Grey/Cyclops/Wolverine 3-Pack, X-Factor Polaris/Havok, X-Force Deathlok and more are all up for order now! There’s even an X-Men Animated Series Ponytail head for Jean Grey! THANK YOU HASBRO!!! Is this upgraded Jean Grey everything you hoped and dreamed of?
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Continue Reading →Hasbro won’t hold their annual San Diego Comic Con Marvel Legends panel until this weekend, but they’ve come out on swinging on the first day of SDCC nonetheless! In advance of the inevitable slew of announcements coming up in a few days, Marvel Legends Endgame Wave 3 has now been revealed and is up for order—including Valkyrie, Heimdall, Iron Patriot, Vision and even a Bro (Fat) Thor Build-A-Figure!
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When we made it all the way to the week of SDCC 2019 with every single Marvel Legends figure shown at Toy Fair up for PO except for the non-Fan Channel 80th Anniversary Series, it didn’t take a psychic to prophesy that they were being held onto for a grand Comic Con launch. And so it has come to pass: the Marvel Legends 80 Years series is now up for order online—including the Colossus vs. Juggeraut pack, the Amazon Exclusive Peggy Carter and Captain America set, and more!
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Kotobukiya surprised the collecting sphere at New York Toy Fair 2019 in February when they launched their new line of high-quality, high-priced Marvel ARTFX+ Premier statues with four characters right out of the gate. They’ve been going strong with the line since, with no signs of slowing down. And at SDCC 2019, they debuted their next four entries: ARTFX Premier Loki, Black Panther, Black Widow and… Cosmic Ghost Rider!?
Continue Reading →It’s the night before San Diego Comic Con 2019 Preview Night, but Sideshow Collectibles isn’t waiting until SDCC officially begins to unleash their big guns! Following in the footsteps of the hot-selling Iron Man Mark III Statue from 2017, their next movie armor is (literally) flying onto the scene: the 21″ Sideshow Iron Man Mark VII Maquette is now up for order! And while the pose may not be everyone’s jam, those light-up features are out of this world…
Continue Reading →Batted down the hatches, because San Diego Comic Con 2019–and the onslaught of new Marvel toys revealed there each year—are now just days away! But aside from a plethora of new action figures being announced, Hasbro also has three exclusive Marvel figures for the show. The SDCC 2019 Exclusive Marvel Legends Vintage Hulk figure is already pre-selling for $70-$80 on the aftermarket, but is he worth that inflation? Well, Hasbro sent over an early sample for me to review, so let’s bust this monster open and find out…
Continue Reading →UPDATE 7/14/2019: …And gone! Randomly in the middle of Sunday afternoon seemed like a bizarre time for it to happen, but the SDCC Exclusive Funko POP Man-Thing figure was briefly up for order online! It’s been pulled now until noon EST on July 19th, so be sure to set your alarms if you missed him and fear the Man-Thing’s touch being absent from your collection!
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