Last week fans were treated to the first trailer for
Sony's upcoming
Morbius: The Living Vampire solo movie which is due out this coming July.
Sony isn't the only one looking to go in a bit darker direction with their Marvel movies.
Marvel Studios themselves have announced a new
Blade movie featuring the #1 Vampire Hunter himself as well as a new
Moon Knight series for Disney+
So could these new darker films that often dabble in the world of horror and monsters usher in a new era of 6" Marvel Legends figures based on those characters?
Hasbro already in recent years has given us comic book versions of
Moribus, Blade and others such as
Brother Voodo,
Man-Thing and various
Ghost Rider figures.
We are even getting a
Cosmic Ghost Rider which is starting to hit shelves now.
But will we see more characters like those get the action figure treatment?
While you might not immediately associate characters such as
Dracula, The Wolfman, Frakienstein and the
Living Mummy with the likes of Marvel Comics, they are actually characters that have appeared in the Marvel Universe and even at one point or another have had their own comic book titles.
Now I don't know exactly what kind of licensing issues come into play when you are talking about these characters, and perhaps making Marvel Legends action figures of them isn't possible? Marvel certainly didn't create these classic characters, but it's not unprecedented to see them in Marvel Legends form.
Toy Biz back in 2006 released a
6" Marvel Legends boxset featuring
Dracula, Frankenstein, Werewolf By Night and a
Zombie. This of course was back around the time when the original
Wesley Snipes Blade movies were super popular and had helped push the horror genre back in the spotlight.
So now with the new upcoming movies coming from both
Sony and
Marvel Studios, could we see something similar from
Hasbro and would you as a collector be interested in seeing it? What characters would you like to see Hasbro do for this genre, let us know in the
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