While today is the day of the much-anticipated sale of the leftovers of the SDCC 2017 Marvel Legends Battle for Asgard set on Hasbro Toy Shop, there’s plenty of Thor Legends figures released this summer that aren’t in that set that I still need to review. And one of those figures is the subject of today’s review: Marvel Legends Thor Ragnarok Loki! Despite being the first Hasbro 6″ Loki Marvel Legends figure ever made for mass retail, Loki is readily available online now for MSRP or less–is he worth picking up?
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The day spoken of in many an ancient myth hath finally arrived: August the 1st, the official street date for mass market Thor Ragnarok (and Justice League) toys to be released! And while wily collectors have wiped out the Marvel Legends Thor Ragnarok 6″ series from many areas prior to the official release date, many stores put their remaining stock out today of the Marvel Legends 12″ Thor & Hulk figures and the 3.75″ Thor/Gladiator Hulk and Enchantress/Executioner packs…
Continue Reading →UPDATE 7/25/2017: Looks like the anticipated August 1st 2017 pre-order date has come early, because cases of the Marvel Legends Thor Ragnarok Series is now up for order online with free shipping!
Cases contain Gladiator Thor, Hela, Loki, Ares, Jane Foster Thor, Young Thor and the greatly-anticipated Gladiator Hulk Build-A-Figure!
Continue Reading →Hot Toys caught many collectors–including me–off guard when they debuted not just 1/6 Gladiator Thor at San Diego Comic Con 2017, but also an unexpected Roadworn Thor figure! When there were two versions of Thor for one movie for the second time ever, I had my suspicions the non-gladiator version would be an exclusive. Turns out I was right: the 2017 Toy Fair EXCLUSIVE Roadworn Thor with Surtur Skull is now up for order!
Continue Reading →Even though he was neither announced not even teased to debut at the show, the single most-anticipated Hot Toys figure going into San Diego Comic-Con 2017 was the new Gladiator Hulk Movie Masterpiece Series figure. And I have to say: Hot Toys did not disappoint with this massive, incredibly detailed Hulk action figure. Response to the figure was super-positive at SDCC, and now HT is ready to claim their just reward: the Hot Toys Gladiator Hulk sixth scale figure is now up for order!
Continue Reading →The drama and pangeantry of San Diego Comic Con 2017 Preview Night is over, and while the big Marvel Legends reveals won’t happen until Saturday night, now we can start taking a look at what has been released thus far–including a full half-dozen Hot Toys Thor Ragnarok sixth scale figures! We saw Loki and Hulk yesterday, but now it’s time for a lady’s touch with Hela and Valkyrie 12″ figures! (And oh yeah–Thor? He’s here too. Twice.)
Continue Reading →While Hasbro beat everyone out of the gate by revealing their own Marvel Legends Gladiator Hulk Build-A-Figure a few weeks back, other collectibles companies are finally ready to start pushing their own Thor Ragnarok merchandise as SDCC 2017 begins tonight! And not only will Diamond Select Toys be showing off their latest movie toys at the con–their Marvel Gallery Gladiator Hulk and Valkyrie statues have now gone up for order!
Continue Reading →We’ve got a few hours still until the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con Preview Night begins, but photos of various items that will be displayed tonight at the convention are already starting to leak out. We knew from teasers earlier this week that Hot Toys would have their Gladiator Thor sixth scale figure at the event, but early photos confirm two more figures that are going to be majorly in-demand: Hot Toys Gladiator Hulk and Thor Ragnarok Loki figures have now appeared!
Continue Reading →The most-anticipated day of the year for collecting news has finally arrived, and Mezco Toyz is kicking it off with a Hulk-sized, thunderous roar! While San Diego Comic Con 2017 preview night won’t begin for a few more hours, Mezco has already unleashed some major previews of what we’ll be seeing at the show–their first-ever MCU ONE:12 Collective Marvel movie figures of Thor Ragnarok Gladiator Hulk and Thor!
Continue Reading →‘Twas the week before San Diego Comic Con, and although news was quite slow, Diamond Select was stirring, with two waves of Marvel Minimates to show! *Achem* The excruciating wait for SDCC 2017 comes to an end in just a few days, but perhaps not wanting their latest 2″ figure reveals to get lost in the veritable avalanche of Marvel toy news we’ll be buried in next week, DST has given us a little treat with early reveals of Marvel Minimates Series 74 and Walgreens Minimates Series 6–including Black Bolt, Surtur, King Hulk, Medusa and more!
Continue Reading →UPDATE 7/10/2017: We’ve been hearing about an August 1st order date for the Marvel Legends Netflix Series since last month, but it looks like that’s no longer true! Cases of the Marvel Knights Legends Man-Thing Series are now up for order online, with the case assortment confirmed that I reported in this article over the weekend!
Continue Reading →Spider-Man Homecoming has finally officially arrived today, and by most accounts is a spectacular success! But as has come to be the case with parade of Marvel movies, now that one MCU movie has opened, it’s time to start checking out the merch for the next one! The King of Exclusives revealed their expansive line of Thor Ragnarok toys today, with an unexpected twist–the Funko Gladiator Hulk Dorbz figure is now up for order… with a surprise limited edition size of just 5000 pieces produced!
Continue Reading →When Hasbro sent out official photos and product descriptions for the kid-aimed Thor Ragnarok movie toys yesterday, we all knew it was only a precursor to the collector-focused Marvel Legends Thor Ragnarok toys being revealed later this week. Now, I wouldn’t have predicted that those figures would have been revealed at 10AM on Gizmondo, mind you, but hey–the important thing is that the long-awaited, beautiful movie toys have now been unveiled! And yes, contrary to the fishy rumors going around, this wave is in fact headlined by a Marvel Legends Gladiator Hulk Build-A-Figure!
Continue Reading →Although we’re still over four months away from the theatrical release of this fall’s Thor Ragnarok movie, it’s time for the hype train to start rolling now! Marvel collectors around the world are waiting patiently to see the 6″ Marvel Legends Thor Ragnarok movie figures unveiled (to fill out the Thor Legends series alongside the comic figures Hasbro revealed earlier this month)–but those are a story for another day. Today we’re going to take a look at the more kid-centric toys Hasbro has prepped for Thor Ragnarok–including a 13″ Gladiator Hulk Interactive figure!
Continue Reading →At this point, we can feel pretty confident that every new Marvel Cinematic Universe movie that comes out will be accompanied by at least one Marvel Select action figure, as every single MCU movie since Avengers–except the first Guardians of the Galaxy–has. As such, it was more a question of “when” than “if” we’d see Thor Ragnarok figures announced. But the inevitable has occurred, and we can all start getting pumped up now–the Marvel Select Ragnarok Thor & Gladiator Hulk figures are now up for order!
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