Hasbro this past Friday loaded us up with a ton of info to end out 2024 giving us a look at the first two Marvel Legends waves to be released in 2025 along with 3 store exclusives coming in the new year. But besides that they seemingly dropped a number of hints for upcoming products along with 3 different accessory teasers. So lets break it all down.
At one point in the stream
Hasbro told us they would be doing more
Savage Land based characters in 2025 and even casually mentioned a four-armed character who I believe was a reference to the character named
Barbarus. At this time I have no additional info for any Savage Land characters so we will just have to wait and see on this one.
The next clue
Hasbro dropped was that they told us we would be seeing more
Spider-Man: No Way Home figures coming in 2025. If you want more details on what that likely will be then
GO HERE!
Hasbro's
Ryan Ting when talking about the newly announced
Uncanny X-Force Nightcrawler made sure to note that
Uncanny X-Force is an interesting team, possibly hinting more members from that team will be getting the figure treatment. I have no additional information to share on this so this is another one we will just have to wait and see.
Ryan also noted he really liked
X-Treme characters such as
Rogue and
Storm when they were talking about the newly announced
X-Treme X-Men Wolverine. Now honestly I think this was more something Ryan would like to see than actually suggesting something that was coming, but again we will have to see.
Finally Ryan when talking about the newly announced
X-Men Marrow figure along with the recent
Cable figure in yellow and blue they did suggested that maybe they were teasing a greater theme. Both those characters appear in the
Marvel vs. Capcom video games which is a new subline that has been rumored to be coming by
Displaying Model Behaviour. According to him the first wave would include the following single and 2-Packs:
-Shuma-Gorath
-Juggernaut
-Captain America & Venom
-War Machine & Omega Red
-Wolverine & Silver Samurai
-Psylocke & Thanos
This is a line I have not seen any additional details on so we only have the one source for this particular rumor at this time. But again it did seem like maybe Ryan was making a hint for that in Friday's live-stream. Again I guess time will tell.
At the end of the live-stream the Hasbro guys confirmed they already were working on a few more
Made-To-Pre-Order Marvel Legends items for 2025 like we saw with
Dragon Man and the
X-Men 97 Sentinel. No specifics but definitely more of those to come.
And finally
Hasbro showed off three different accessories for upcoming Marvel Legends figures. Now while we will treat this as
RUMOR until Hasbro officially confirms then, I can tell you with
99.9% certainty what two of the teasers are for. The third one I can only guess about.
The
first accessory they showed was a staff. This should be for a new
Marvel Legends Adam Warlock figure that will be part of a new
Marvel Legends sub-line of figures that include
mini-comics. The first wave of 6 figures should include the following:
- Rom The Space Knight with ROM Mini-Comic #1
- Banshee (Green and Yellow Classic Costume) with Giant Sized X-Men #1 Mini-Comic
- Adam Warlock with Infinity Gauntlet #1 Mini-Comic
- Miles Morales Spider-Man with Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man #1 Mini-Comic
- Dark Avengers Wolverine with Dark Avengers #1 Mini-Comic
- Ultimate Iron Man with unkown Ultimate Iron Man Mini-Comic
The Rom figure was previewed back in July at SDCC. These are supposed to be out around April time frame and cost $24.99 each.
The
second accessory was of a web effect. This will go to a new
Spider-Man figure that is part of another new Marvel Legends sub-line called
"Ultimate" which will see release through Fan-Channel retailers.
The term Ultimate refers to the fact these figures will be jam-packed with accessories. The first two figures slated for this line should be a new
Spider-Man (Traditional Red And Blue Costume) and
Green Hulk. Spider-Man will have an unmasked, regular masked head and spider-sense masked tingling head. he also comes with multiple hands, webbing effects (one of which Hasbro just teased), backpack, a set of lower arm/hands that have no costume but have webblasters on the hands, and some kind of stand. Hulk will have three heads, multiple hands, some kind of firing missile, wind clapping effect and punch effect. Hulk will stand 8.5" tall.
I don't have any kind of pricing or release date info for these but these should be the "Ultimate" versions of both characters to date Hasbro has given us.
Now I have seen some suggest the webbing effect also looks similar to something seen used in the Marvel Vs Capcom games. As I mentioned before I have no info on that rumored sub-line, but I certainly wouldn't be shocked if Hasbro used an accessory with more than one figure.
The third teaser which Hasbro said was not yet finished I really couldn't say. It definitely looks like the blades used on Archangel's wings. There is a rumor again from
Displaying Model Behaviour that suggests we will see a X-Force version of Archangel released in 2025. This is another rumor I have no further details on. Being the accessory Hasbro showed us is black is odd but again Hasbro said it was unfinished, which might suggest its not yet been painted silver. The image I am showing below is from the Dark X-Men storyline but again I can only guess on this one.
Not made during the Fan-Stream, but afterwards on X, Hasbro's Dan Yun posted this:
I don't know if this was meant to tease anything additional coming in 2025 that wasn't revealed in the live-stream, but I sure hope that
Excalibur Omnibus is suggesting that we will finally see a
Rachel Grey figure this year to round out that team.
So there you have it, a breakdown of everything Hasbro seemed to tease in this weeks fan-stream along with some additional details to shed more light on things. Let us know in the
COMMENT SECTION what your most excited for when it comes to Marvel Legends in the coming year.
AndyL -
2025-03-11 @ 7:48 pm
On 3/9/2025 at 4:19 PM, Reno said:The only figures that I don't have in hand yet for the Nemesis BAF wave are Marrow and Nightcrawler. Husk is easily my favorite of those that I have in hand and Cyclops is easily my least favorite so far.
Yes I really enjoyed Husk a lot more than I thought I would. What's funny is how this Husk figure is so good yet the Monet figure is so terrible. And I know they aren't identical. I think some of the reviewers have pointed out that the M figure is actually a bit more busty. As she should be. But essentially the design and size of the figure is the same. I think the major issue with the M figure is that the head is so teeny tiny. If we could have gotten an M head sculpt in the scale of this one it would have been fine. No matter. I'm holding out that they will be doing Monet in her white and black X-Factor Investigations gear. Maybe with the rumor of a new Strong Guy on the way would it be too much to hope that we might get a M & Guido 2 XFI 2 pack?
Reno -
2025-03-09 @ 9:19 pm
The only figures that I don't have in hand yet for the Nemesis BAF wave are Marrow and Nightcrawler. Husk is easily my favorite of those that I have in hand and Cyclops is easily my least favorite so far.
On 2/21/2025 at 4:49 PM, Emnems80 said:I'm surprised how difficult it has been to find comic art of Archangel's wings that exactly match that tease. The only thing I could find that looks anything close to that is this variant comic cover of Uncanny X-Force #15. The only other image I could find looks similar too but I think that's fan art.
I almost forgot about this, made me remember that I hope they redo Deathlok with some better articulation.
I actually saw Chameleon at a Target, along with Spiderboy, and Spidey Unlimited. Which is weird cause the SU was sold out on most sites. You'd think the scalpers woulda gotten him. But I digress, Chameleon looked good. Mine had just shipped, so I didn't grab him, but i doubt Ill keep him in package as I originally planned. I did grab the Spiderboy, and he is really cool. I wasn't gonna get him, but now he's been in a few things I'm reading, so hes "real" and I like the character. He's really a cool figure!
AndyL -
2025-02-17 @ 8:37 pm
Re: AoA Gambit
Surprisingly this thing looks pretty darn good. The new lower legs actually gave this Sunfire body model just enough height to make it look properly in scale with not only other Gambit figures but other figures in general. Wait........! Are you telling me creating arms and legs of varying shapes, sizes and lengths could theoretically be designed to be interchangeable with standard body models in order to create body models accurate to a character that might not otherwise be achievable by the previous standard model? Wow! Who knew it was that easy? I mean certainly not just anyone with any amount of common sense. Right? It's not like any other companies like perhaps Mattel have been using that strategy within lines like WWE, MOTU and Monster High for like almost 15 years now or anything. Right? The possibilities are absolutely mind blowing are they not? Somebody should clue the entire industry in on this ASAP.
But seriously. This is an awesome looking figure that uses parts of a terrible model yet manages to look fresh and new with way less effort. How is this not a thing with these guys? Oh my mistake. They do it with the G.I. Joe Classified line all the time. Oh my mistake again. Hasbro owns the rights to GIJC so they can do things like that more cost effectively. Oh my mistake again. That's just a cheap cop out cookie cutter excuse that everyone uses and makes no sense because the biggest reason Hasbro even retains the Marvel license is for the movie rights which technically should make the ML line more profitable and thus should already be under consideration when purchasing those rights and thus the extra expenditures should be justified. Oh my mistake again. Let's just forget about all that. The Marvel license is expensive so lets keep doing stuff like ugly hip joints on the new Miles Morales figure and ill advised silly single ball waist joints on the much awaited and anticipated Classic Power Man figure and ruin what were otherwise good efforts in order to keep a few extra coins to rub together. What are they gonna do? The ML license is expensive. They'll keep coming back. And we do. My mistake again. Hail Hasbro!
On 2/16/2025 at 2:53 PM, Faust said:One day, Hasbro might give us a Gambit (and cyclops) billed closer to their actual height instead of these damn shorties they keep giving us
wait, how are any of the Cyclopses we've gotten on the Vulcan body "shorties"? the majority of the uses of that body have been 6'2" - 6'3" guys (including the several Cyclopses who've used it); there are a couple 6'1" and 6'-even outliers, but also a couple up to 6'5". seems perfectly fine height for 6'3" Scott to me, even accounting for the slight scale creep the past couple years that body's been a part of
Faust -
2025-02-16 @ 10:53 pm
One day, Hasbro might give us a Gambit (and cyclops) billed closer to their actual height instead of these damn shorties they keep giving us
On 2/12/2025 at 2:49 AM, leokearon said:They said it is compatible with early blast effects
Dream big, Burn bright. It'll fit.
On 2/11/2025 at 11:49 PM, leokearon said:They said it is compatible with early blast effects
I sure hope so. I watched MCU Collector's review and it seems like he had a difficult time with swapping the effects. Hopefully it was just his copy of the figure.