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.