The San Diego Comic-Con 2018 Marvel Legends panel has come and gone, and while I’ve actually seen some collectors complaining there weren’t enough reveals, I think there’s plenty of new things to pine away for. Over the next few days, I’ll break down all of the new 6” figures announced at the show, starting with the X-Men Marvel Legends 2019 series, which contains new figures of Blink, Gambit, Magik, Professor X in Hoverchair and more…
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While Hasbro may not have brought quite as many new Marvel Legends reveals with them to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con 2018, they still had a real treasure trove to share with–including quite a few store exclusives! Whether you’re an X-Men fan, an army-builder or an MCU movie-only fan, your time is now: the Marvel Legends Archangel, AIM Troopers Two-Pack and 10th Anniversary Ultron are all up for order now!
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The Marvel Legends “main event” of San Diego Comic-Con 2018 won’t be until the Hasbro panel tomorrow night, but Hasbro has been giving us fresh nibbles each day to whet our appetites. And following up on their announcement of the first half of the Black Panther Marvel Legends Wave 2 Figures Thursday morning, they’ve now announced the remainder of the wave! Those who guessed a M’Baku Build-A-Figure—you guessed right! And hey—how about Deadpool on Scooter, Tactical Killmonger, Dogpool and more?!
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When Hot Toys made a T’Chaka Black Panther sixth scale figure one of their summer convention exclusives, it seemed like a pretty audacious and out-of-left-field pick. I mean, c’mon: half of collectors didn’t even remember T’Chaka wearing that costume in the movie, right…? Well, turns out maybe that pick wasn’t as crazy as it seemed–because Hasbro is following suit! As part of their SDCC 2018 festivities, Hasbro has announced Marvel Legends Black Panther Wave 2–including Ulysses Klaue, King T’Chaka and more!
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San Diego Comic Con 2018 is just a day away, but Kotobukiya must have figured “Hey, why not get a head start on the competition?”, because they decided to reveal two never-before-seen ARTFX+ statues today! And hey, it’s not just “another Iron Man” and “another Captain America” either. Instead, it’s two characters Koto has never captured in this scale before: the Kotobukiya ARTFX+ Gamora and Phoenix statues are now up for order!
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SDCC 2018 is unbelievably just three days away, and that doesn’t just means loads of new Marvel figures and statues being revealed—it also means many Comic Con Exclusive Marvel toys will be hitting the marketplace. And to my surprise, I’ll be reviewing a few of those SDCC Exclusives in advance! An unexpected package from Hasbro showed up on my doorstep this weekend, giving me the opportunity to review the SDCC Marvel Legends Red Skull & Electronic Tesseract set that folks are pre-selling for $100+ on ebay…
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Some Marvel collectibles lines are so good that collectors are willing to wait however long it takes to get the next release in the series. One such series is the Kotobukiya X-Men Danger Room Sessions series of Fine Arts statues, featuring renditions of iconic X-Men characters sculpted by Erick Sosa. It’s been over three since the Kotobukiya Rogue Danger Room Sessions Statue was solicited, but finally the next piece is on the way: the Kotobukiya Storm Fine Arts Statue is now up for order!
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While it didn’t exactly shatter all-time box office records in the manner that other recent Marvel Studios movies have, “Ant Man and the Wasp” had a pretty solid opening week (at least, as far as the potential of the titular characters goes). And so, while Scott Lang may never be an ‘A’-List character like Iron Man, this is still the ideal time for marketing his merch—and Kotobukiya is ready to do just that! The Marvel ARTFX+ Ant-Man is now up for order—and hey, you even get mini Ant-Man and Wasp figures with it! Is it worth modern Koto prices…?
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With the huge announcement yesterday of Sideshow Collectibles becoming the official online and global distributor for Pop Culture Shock Collectible, Sideshow is slowly taking over the high-end statue world. And in the wake of that major acquisition, what better time for Sideshow to solicit the very first piece in a new ongoing series of Marvel statues? The Sideshow Exclusive Iron Man Extremis Mark II Statue is now up for order–the first piece in the all-new Adi Granov Series!
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It’s taken almost a full year since the wave started to be unveiled at San Diego Comic Con 2017, but the long-anticipated 2018 Marvel Legends X-Men Apocalypse Series is finally starting to ship out to online retailers and some brick and mortar stores. I wanted to kick off my figure reviews for this wave with something big—and what’s bigger than the Build-A-Figure, right? The Marvel Legends Apocalypse BAF is selling for north of 100 bucks right now all by himself—is he fit to survive for that kind of money?
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Alongside the annual SDCC Exclusive Marvel Legends 6″ figures box set, Hasbro usually has one more exclusive goodie for Marvel collectors. Sometimes it’s a 3.75″ Marvel Universe-scaled exclusive (like that awesome The Collector’s Vault set with Lockjaw!), and sometimes it’s a 12″ figure (like Daredevil). But this year, it’s something we haven’t gotten before as a Comic-Con Exclusive. The first-ever SDCC Exclusive Marvel Legends life-size replica: the electronic Tesseract–plus a 6″ Red Skull from Captain America: The First Avenger!
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Although everyone on Earth figured there would be a Toy Fairs Exclusive Hot Toys Iron Man figure this summer—and the Concept Art Captain America figure actually was rumored as well—Hot Toys did manage to keep one of their newest batch of limited exclusives a legit surprise! If you’ve only seen the Black Panther movie once (or didn’t pay close attention), you might have missed this one, but Hot Toys sure didn’t—the Toy Fair EXCLUSIVE Hot Toys T’Chaka Black Panther figure is now up for order!
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When rumors started circulating that one of this year’s Hot Toys 2018 Toy Fair Exclusives was going to be a Black and White Captain America, a lot of folks (including me!) thought it sounded like hogwash. But looks like we underestimated Hot Toys’ resourcefulness when it comes to variants, because they actually came up with a B&W Cap that makes sense and is pretty desirable: the limited EXCLUSIVE Hot Toys Concept Art Captain America is now up for order!
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For the first time in almost five months, there was no Marvel Studios movie in the Top 10 films at the box office over the weekend. The streak… is over. But not to fear—! Marvel Studios is set to retake their crown with Ant-Man and the Wasp hits theaters this week! And to celebrate the arrival of a sequel many folks would’ve probably bet against ever happening, Hot Toys has got the goods for sixth scale collectors: brand-new Hot Toys Wasp and Ant-Man figures are now up for order!
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June 2018 was one of the more expensive months ever for Marvel Legends collectors, with three full wave of Marvel Legends going up for sale including X-Men, Spider-Man and Venom series. But don’t take a deep breath and think you’re getting a break just yet, because Hasbro has more goodness lined up: the Deadpool Marvel Legends Sauron Series including Bishop, X-23 Wolverine, Omega Red and more is now up for order!
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