With the all-important Hasbro Marvel panel happening just a few hours from now, I would have totally understood if Hasbro has decided to just not add any new reveals at all to their San Diego Comic Con booth display up until they drop the mega-ton later today. And for the most part, there’s not a whole lot that’s all-new in the booth today–with one key exception! We can add one more to the list of confirmed characters in the Marvel Legends Vintage Series, as the 6″ Vintage Iron Man has now been revealed!

UPDATE: And now Tony Stark has some company in the display case–the Marvel Legends Lasher figure has been added!

Not only is Hasbro going retro with the Toybiz-styled packaging for the Vintage Marvel Legends series that they’ve been announcing bit by bit at San Diego Comic-Con 2017, but it looks like they’re also digging deep by pulling out some tooling that we haven’t seen in years!

When I first saw the Marvel Legends Vintage Iron Man figure, it took me a moment to recall exactly where I had seen it before, and then I remembered: this is a slightly modified version of the Marvel Legends Neo-Classic Iron Man figure that I wrote a scathing review of almost half a decade ago!

(Yes, believe it or not, there was a time before Marvel Toy News existed and I posted my reviews elsewhere. Craziness, right?)

The original Neo-Classic Iron Man figure was part of the Epic Heroes/Return of Marvel Legends Series III wave that also gave us modern Mystique and Punisher figures (and Dani Moonstar and Blade running changes that never materialized–alas).

If you read my old review, you know that I really didn’t like this undersized 6″ Iron Man action figure back in 2012. Hasbro has modified the figure to give him normal-sized boots (though the Mega Man-like thick boots have kinda grown on me over the years) and added boot thrusters effects pieces, but this figure is still nowhere near up to Hasbro’s modern level of excellence.

The nostalgia of the Toybiz-styled packaging for these figures definitely sells me on picking up a set to keep packaged, but at least I’ll be able to save some dollars by not picking up a second copy of this particular Vintage Series Iron Man figure to open.

The four figures confirmed in this series thus far are Iron Man, Spider-Man, Punisher and Captain America, with the other two characters the complete the series expected to be revealed tonight at the Hasbro Marvel SDCC 2017 panel. Stay tuned.

But that’s not all…! Just when we all thought Hasbro must be done until their panel, they went and added yet another new Spider-Man Marvel Legends 2018 figure to their booth: the symbiote Marvel Legends Lasher figure!

Lasher was one of my favorite symbiotes from the old days–and I love his out-of-scale Toybiz figure–so I’m glad to see him getting updated by Hasbro (although non-symbiote fans are probably gonna be a mite annoyed with this selection).

Big thanks to @kaijubloks on Instagram for sending in his photos of Iron Man and Lasher!

Thoughts on the Iron Man Vintage packaged figure, Marvel collectors? Other than the sweet packaging, is anyone really excited for another shot at this particular Iron Man action figure? And are you psyched or unimpressed with one of the more obscure symbiotes, Lasher, getting his own figure?