NYCC 2017 Exclusive 3A Snow Strike Black Widow Figure!

Posted on by October 3, 2017
NYCC 2017 Exclusive Snow Strike Black Widow Figure

With New York Comic Con 2017 just two days away (I’m leaving for NYC tomorrow so that I can start coverage bright and early Thursday morning, by the way), you might have thought that we were done seeing major companies announce exclusives for the show (I sure did). But it looks like there was one company left with a rabbit (or spider) in its hat: ThreeA Toys! For the first time ever, 3A Toys will have a NYCC Exclusive Marvel figure: the just-revealed 3A Snow Strike Black Widow figure!

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Marvel Gallery Black Panther Netflix Daredevil & Punisher Statues!

Posted on by October 2, 2017
DST Black Panther Gallery Statue

Diamond Select Toys has slowly but surely been building one of the largest presences in the modern Marvel statue collecting world, with multiple new resin and PVC statues being released practically every month of 2017. DST is becoming a major player on the statue scene with their low-priced, high-quality releases–and this fall, they made an impact with three more major statues! The Marvel Gallery Civil War Black Panther, Netflix Daredevil and Punisher statues have now all been released! Let’s take a look at the finished products…

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Marvel Legends Vintage Series 6” Figures Up for Order & Case Ratios!

Posted on by October 2, 2017
Marvel Legends Vintage Wolverine 6 Inch Figure Packaged

Happy October, Marvel (Legends) collectors! October 1st may be a Sunday this year, but no weekend can keep the next wave of Marvel Legends 6” Figures from going up for order now that stores are allowed to begin taking orders! And so, the final Hasbro 6” series of 2017 can now be locked in to our collections at long last— the Marvel Legends Vintage Series is now up for order with free shipping!

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SH Figuarts Iron Man Mark 4 & Samurai War Machine Up for Order! 

Posted on by September 30, 2017
SH Figuarts Iron Man Mark 4 Figure Eating Donuts with Sunglasses

From the company who brought you Iron Man Mark II, Mark III, Mark V, Mark VI, Mark VII… and many many more Marks… here comes the numbering sequence gap-filling Iron Man Mark IV! To the shock of no one anywhere, Bandai Tamashii is releasing an S.H. Figuarts Iron Man Mark IV, which is now up for order in the US! But he won’t be arriving alone next year—Samurai War Machine (you read that right) is on the way as well!

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Hot Toys Gladiator Thor Deluxe 1/6 Figure Up for Order!

Posted on by September 30, 2017
Thor Ragnarok Hot Toys Mace and Shield

Hot Toys has been unusually quiet the past few months, although I think that’s more just them gearing up for a crazy taters number of Infinity Wars figures than a showing of mercy on our wallets. But after over a month without a single new Hot Toys Marvel sixth scale figure, the wait for the next pre-order is at an end! Joining the enormous Gladiator Hulk MMS that went up for sale in July, the Hot Toys Gladiator Thor is now up for order in regular and deluxe versions!

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Kotobukiya Punisher Fine Arts Statue Up for Order & Photos!

Posted on by September 29, 2017
The Punisher Fine Arts Statue Kotobukiya 2018

It’s taken a few years for the Marvel statue collecting world to recover from Bowen Designs’ exit from the market, but we definitely appear to be living in a golden age of Marvel statues once again, with more statues from more companies coming out than ever before. And the latest 1/6 statue from Kotobukiya brings us a fan-favorite vigilante who’s more popular than ever thanks to Netflix—the Kotobukiya Punisher Fine Arts statue is now up for order! But this Fine Arts statues has a feature previous releases have not: a price-point of over $300…

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NYCC 2017 Toys R Us Exclusives: Groot POP & Fan Girls Dolls!

Posted on by September 27, 2017
NYCC 2017 Toys R Us Exclusives Marvel

I’ve been to New York Comic Con every year since, well… ever… and I can’t recall Toys R Us ever having a booth at the show—much less exclusives. But I suppose there’s a first time for everything, and that time is now! With just one week to go to NYCC 2017, Toys R Us has announced an exclusive line of Marvel Fan Girls dolls to accompany their Funko Baby Groot with Button POP Vinyl, Armored Black Panther Tsum Tsum and 12″ Lockjaw Plush to the show!

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Disney Parks Exclusive Funko Gold Collector POP Vinyl Released!

Posted on by September 24, 2017
Funko Golden Collector POP Vinyl Figure Disney Parks Exclusive

When you’re the King of Exclusives like Funko is, you don’t settle for having merely store exclusives, subscription box exclusives and convention exclusives–sometimes you need to have Disney Park Exclusives as well! The Disney Parks have had the Yeti, Orange Bird, Haunted Mansion Ghost and more in recent history, but now they’ve got their first Marvel exclusive: the Gold Collector POP Vinyl was released this weekend (and appeared on eBay shortly thereafter)!

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Marvel Minimates Toys R Us Series 24 Released & Photos! Gwenpool!

Posted on by September 24, 2017
Marvel Minimates Scarlet Spider & Carrion Figures

It’s extremely rare that I can experience the pure joy that is finding Marvel figures in a store that I didn’t even know existed, but that’s just what happened this weekend, when I stumbled across the newest wave of exclusive Minimates! The Toys R Us Marvel Minimates Series 24 figures are now in stores, including Gwenpool, classic Scarlet Spider, the Collector and more!

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REVIEW: Marvel vs Capcom Infinite Statues & Infinity Gems 

Posted on by September 23, 2017

Comic books and fighting games are two of the seven great loves of my life, so when Capcom started making arcade games featuring the X-Men and various Marvel Superheroes a few decades back, I was hooked for life. And when a $200 Marvel vs Capcom Infinite Collector’s Edition went up for sale earlier this year with four statues and a set of Infinity Gems included, well… cue that “Take my Money” meme. The big day came this week and the box set arrived… but not everything is quite as advertised…

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Marvel Select Netflix Daredevil Figure Packaged Photos!

Posted on by September 22, 2017
Marvel Select Daredevil Netflix Figure Packaged

While the recently-revealed Planet Hulk figure is drawing most of the Marvel Select headlines, that’s not the only figure in that line heading for a release next month! The long-awaited Marvel Select Netflix Daredevil figure that went up for sale over the summer (the first Netflix-based Marvel Select action figure ever) will finally be hitting stores in October, and Diamond Select Toys shared photos online of the production Daredevil figure and packaging this week!

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Marvel Premier Collection Deadpool Statue Up for Order!

Posted on by September 20, 2017
DST Marvel Premier Deadpool Statue

Diamond Select Toys has been spoiling us rotten opening up pre-orders for a multitude of new Marvel statues each month during the summer, but we’re going to have to make do with just a singular new statue in the latest round of solicitations. Luckily, this is one that I think is going to be on a lot of collector’s wish lists, even if it’s not exactly an under-merchandised character: the resin 12″ DST Marvel Premier Collection Deadpool statue is now up for order!

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NYCC 2017 Exclusive Funko POP Vinyls! Old Man Logan!

Posted on by September 18, 2017

As the weeks on the calendar tick down toward the last major convention of the year, more and more New York Comic Con 2017 exclusives have been revealed. And today, the King of Exclusives themselves staked their claim to the top spot at the con by announcing their own half-dozen Marvel exclusives: the NYCC 2017 Exclusive Funko POP Old Man Logan, Grandmaster, James Gunn (?!!) and more have now been revealed!

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2018 Marvel Legends X-Men Apocalypse Series Lineup Revealed!

Posted on by September 16, 2017
Marvel Legends X-Men 2018 Series Lineup

In the week leading up to last wee: inaugural HasCon convention, a rumor list for the X-Men Marvel Legends 2018 series began making the rounds–a list that looked a whole lot more plausible when new Storm, Psylocke and Wolverine figures were revealed at HasCon. nd now, it looks like the rest of this series has been all but confirmed as well, as Amazon listings for a new Marvel Legends Magneto and more have now been posed online!

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