Marvel Legends - What We Know, Think We Know And Kinda Know As Of Now (10/8/2020)

Jay Cochran - October 08, 2020

After every major Hasbro reveal event, I like to do a recap of everything we know or have a pretty good idea is coming in the line Marvel Legends line. With the Pulsecon reveals the other weekend, I thought now was as good as time as any for a new recap segment of What We Know, Think We Know And Kinda Know.

We will start off with one of the reveals from Pulsecon that has already started hitting shelves. It's The Avengers Mr. Fixit Build-A-Figure wave.

This wave has the Stealth Captain American and Environmental Suit Iron Man figures from the new video game, as well as comic book based figures of Kang, Thunderstrike, Falcon and Jocasta. The Mr. Fixit Build-A-Figure is also based on the video game. This wave has been hitting Target store shelves, but you can also pre-order the figures at places like our sponsor BigBadToyStore.com. The official release date on these really isn't supposed to be until late October or early November.

Another item announced at Pulsecon was the new Marvel Legends role-play Stormbreaker Electronic Axe. This should be out by December, and is also available for pre-order at BigBadToyStore.com.

While we are on the subject of non-six-inch Marvel Legends items. We know Hasbro is launching a new line of minimal articulated 3.75" "Retro" figures. Available now exclusively on the HasbroPulse website are 2-pack featuring Captain America/Black Panther, Iron Man/Cyclops, Spider-Man/Electro. If you buy all three sets then you can also get the metallic Iron Man/Black Panther 2-pack. Hasbro says they will be launching next year an entire retail-wide line of these type of "Retro" figures on single cardbacks which will cost $10 each.

The Haslab Marvel Legends Sentinel was fully funded earlier this year and will be shipping out to folks in the fall of 2021.

Moving back to 6" figures, we will be seeing our first Vintage Collection Fantastic Four figure released this year. It will be a figure of Doctor Doom that will come on a cardback made to look like the old Toy Biz 5" Fantastic Four line. This will be released as a Fan-Channel exclusive. More Vintage Collection FF figures are heavily rumored to see release next year.

Hasbro also continues to release more X-Men Vintage Collection figures with Rogue and Gambit. These are coming as Target store exclusives. Hasbro said at Pulsecon that these will be out in 2020. While I can't say 100%, a Target employee recently told me that these two figures would start hitting physical stores as early as the 15th of this month. According to them they will be put on a special endcap display along with more of the Storm/Thunderbird 2-packs. (UPDATE) - Hasbro has said December is when the Retro Rogue and Gambit will see release, but I would guess we will see them before that. Probably not as soon as the 15th of this month though.

Just this past Monday, Hasbro officially announced their new Spider-Man Vintage Collection Black Cat figure. This is another Fan-Channel exclusive which will be out by the end of this year or early next. The figure is available for pre-order at our sponsor BigBadToyStore.com.

The first official wave of 2021 should be the Spider-Man themed Stilt-Man Build-A-Figure wave. Hasbro partially revealed this wave at PulseCon, showing us the new Into The Spider-Verse Miles Morales and Ghost-Spider with Spider-Ham figures.

Other figures for this wave they revealed included the army builder The Hand Red Ninja comic book based figure. This one will include the extender leg pieces for the Stilt-Man Build-A-Figure that they also showed.

The other figures that round out this wave will most likely include Peter B. Parker and Prowler from the Into The Spider-Verse movie as well as a comic book based Frog-Man. While this wave is technically listed for 2021, we will likely start to see it hitting shelves at the end of this year.

While we are on the subject of Spider-Man, we also know a new Firestar figure is in the works, which will see some kind of single release. Original reports indicated this figure would also include a pack-in of her dog Ms. Lion. Hasbro did not show that when they revealed the figure as Pulsecon, but that doesn't mean it won't be included.

There is also going to be a repainted Ms. Marvel figure which is made to look like she is cosplaying as Spider-Man. This is being released through the Marvel Comics Unlimited digital subscription service.

While not confirmed by Hasbro yet, we also have good indications that we will see the release of a Spider-Man Vintage Collection J. Jonah Jameson figure. This will likely be done as another Fan-Channel exclusive.

Other things we know coming in 2021 include a new X-Men wave. This wave will feature House Of X/Power Of X themed characters. The figures Hasbro revealed at Pulsecon include Professor X, Magneto (white outfit) and Moira MacTaggert. At Pulsecon Hasbro suggested this wave would see release around the same time that the Haslab Sentinel starts shipping out to people. No word yet on what the Build-A-Figure for this will be.

Hasbro also revealed they will be doing an All-Villains themed wave for 2021. The two figures they showed for this wave include Arcade and Dormammu.

As a Deluxe release, we will also see an all-new sculpted comic book based Thanos figure. No word on if this will be an exclusive or not, but most likely it will be done as general release.

Speaking of Thanos, we still don't know what to make of the charred looking arm Hasbro showed as a tease earlier this year.

UPDATE: No sooner did we post this than Hasbro solved the Thanos arm mystery. It's for a Thanos figure included in a new Amazon exclusive Children of Thanos Boxset which features Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, Corvus Glaive, and a more movie accurate looking Cull Obsidian. The set is slated for release on December 15 and you can PRE-ORDER it through our affiliate link now.

Coming to Walgreens and EBgames sometime in 2021 will be a new "Fallen" Silver Suffer figure, which will include Thor's Mjölnir hammer.

Other items we know are coming are figures based on the MCU The Eternals movie. We've already seen a Ajak (Salma Hayek) figure leak out, which looks like will be done as some kind of one-off figure. We also saw the Deluxe Kro figure leak out just the other day, which (UPDATE) will be a general release.

Besides those two, there will be a regular wave of figures released which should include movie versions of Ikaris, Sersi, Makkari, Sprite, Phastos, Kingo and Druig. No word on the Build-A-Figure for this wave, but I am still holding out hope it will be the Celestial Arishem the Judge.

Another movie wave we know is one based on Shang Chi. This will likely see a mixture of comic and movie based figures. As of right now Shang Chi: And The Legend Of The 10 Rings is slated to be released on July 9, 2021. The Eternals is slated for release on November 5, 2021. I expect the release of any movie based figures from these films to be timed with those dates, assuming they don't get delayed again.

So that is what we for now. More "official" reveals should be coming fairly soon from Hasbro. I also expect we will be seeing more "unofficial" reveals hitting the net very soon, so stay-tuned. As always we will do our best to keep you up-to-date with all the latest Marvel Legends happenings.

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Ironspider428 - 2020-10-22 @ 3:37 am

On 10/19/2020 at 6:21 AM, EUPHORICVIKING said:
Is it tho? Maybe depends on the point you are trying to make. The point I am making is that these figures at some point were "on sale" at many retail stores. Figures generally increase in value after they are no longer available at retail. Specially main characters.My biggest point is Hasbro will keep releasing figures until collectors have had their fill. I'm sure this isn't the last release of Thanos. Maybe we will see a battle armor Thanos and cull obsidian 2-pack.

Yeah, fair. I never saw it for that price, personally, but if some people were able to get it that cheap, then good for them. My main point was that neither the BAF nor the 3-pack versions were ever easily accessible, and this new one is no different. They'd have to release him as a deluxe figure to make him 30 or less. And at this point I feel like they could simply with no new parts, simply because they've already given that mold 4 head sculpts and 4 gauntlet hands. Personally, I'm still waiting on a proper Endgame Thanos with no gauntlet and ankle pivot. They seem to have forgotten about Endgame after that last wave.

Benn - 2020-10-19 @ 3:04 pm

Gamestop frequently puts unavailable figures on sale, so I don't think that particular example serves your point. They pretty routinely leave stuff in their catalog for years after it's unavailable and keep marking it down and including it in sales as though they still had it.

EUPHORICVIKING - 2020-10-19 @ 1:21 pm

On 10/15/2020 at 11:19 PM, Ironspider428 said:
Thats a misleading image. I dont remember ever seeing it for that price at GameStop, but its been up like that on their website for months now. 3-pack Thanos is about $50 on the aftermarket and theBAF went down to about $40 now. But yeah, no ones buying him, likely in large part due to the newset.

Is it tho? Maybe depends on the point you are trying to make. The point I am making is that these figures at some point were "on sale" at many retail stores. Figures generally increase in value after they are no longer available at retail. Specially main characters.My biggest point is Hasbro will keep releasing figures until collectors have had their fill. I'm sure this isn't the last release of Thanos. Maybe we will see a battle armor Thanos and cull obsidian 2-pack.

leokearon - 2020-10-19 @ 7:23 am

12 hours ago, Lord_Scareglow said:
yeah funny enough I have dreams where I walk into a store and find a brand new unannounced wave, and it's all amazing and crazy, I remember one of my dreams there was a crazy Iron Man Groot Mash-up figure which I kept finding broken in the boxes, and one of the figures in the wave was strangely enough Kangaroo (in his more modern look) and he was the only figure there was 1 of on the pegs, I had to fight some guy for it.
Hasbro should try that some time, just release a secret random wave into the wild, people would go berserk

Sadly there would be no way they could release a secret wave. Leaks are everywhere, so it would be revealed way before it reached the shelves

Lord_Scareglow - 2020-10-18 @ 7:47 pm

18 minutes ago, SpiderS said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets action figure dreams. My dreams are also kinda strange, in dreams my local stores have some sort of ultra elusive ML figures, they get sold out super fast and mostly I'm always late and other weird stuff like that. I guess this is what it means to be obsessed with action figure collecting.

haha I bet 90% of the people on this forum have those dreams, we are crazy collectors no? , I actually love wacky action figure dreams myself I'm all for it.

SpiderS - 2020-10-18 @ 7:33 pm

14 minutes ago, Lord_Scareglow said:
yeah funny enough I have dreams where I walk into a store and find a brand new unannounced wave, and it's all amazing and crazy, I remember one of my dreams there was a crazy Iron Man Groot Mash-up figure which I kept finding broken in the boxes, and one of the figures in the wave was strangely enough Kangaroo (in his more modern look) and he was the only figure there was 1 of on the pegs, I had to fight some guy for it.
Hasbro should try that some time, just release a secret random wave into the wild, people would go berserk

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets action figure dreams. My dreams are also kinda strange, in dreams my local stores have some sort of ultra elusive ML figures, they get sold out super fast and mostly I'm always late and other weird stuff like that. I guess this is what it means to be obsessed with action figure collecting.

Lord_Scareglow - 2020-10-18 @ 7:20 pm

12 hours ago, leokearon said:
Reminds me of the Sega Saturn launch which didn't go well.
Still I like the idea of someone going into a store and seeing stuff we never saw before

yeah funny enough I have dreams where I walk into a store and find a brand new unannounced wave, and it's all amazing and crazy, I remember one of my dreams there was a crazy Iron Man Groot Mash-up figure which I kept finding broken in the boxes, and one of the figures in the wave was strangely enough Kangaroo (in his more modern look) and he was the only figure there was 1 of on the pegs, I had to fight some guy for it.

Hasbro should try that some time, just release a secret random wave into the wild, people would go berserk

leokearon - 2020-10-18 @ 7:19 am

21 hours ago, Atlantis said:
I for one would be completely ok with a wave being released that we get no heads-up for at all. One day its just there, on Amazon, in stores, etc Totally out of the blue. What a nice surprise.

Reminds me of the Sega Saturn launch which didn't go well.

Still I like the idea of someone going into a store and seeing stuff we never saw before

Atlantis - 2020-10-17 @ 9:33 am

On 10/10/2020 at 5:26 AM, tarot said:
he was the one who founded those JJJ rumors and he has provided DCPI for the various new waves, but yeah most of the waves were obvious.

I for one would be completely ok with a wave being released that we get no heads-up for at all. One day its just there, on Amazon, in stores, etc Totally out of the blue. What a nice surprise.

Ironspider428 - 2020-10-16 @ 4:19 am

On 10/9/2020 at 12:41 PM, EUPHORICVIKING said:
I wouldn't put it past Hasbro to Release cull a second time as a deluxe figure. Either way this three pack would be really annoying to me if I collected MCU. Cause you like have collected one of the 2 options for Thanos. And no one is buying him from you on Ebay now, not unless it's dirt cheap.
And I mean dirt Cheap:

Thats a misleading image. I dont remember ever seeing it for that price at GameStop, but its been up like that on their website for months now. 3-pack Thanos is about $50 on the aftermarket and theBAF went down to about $40 now. But yeah, no ones buying him, likely in large part due to the newset.

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