Universe, Legends, Earth's Tiniest Heroes, and a Hong Kong Mall, oh my! It's been a busy week for new toy reveals. See what will be draining your wallets in the coming months after the jump!
First up, news from Hong Kong, where a mall known as "The One" has an Avengers exhibition currently going on. Courtesy of Marvel HK Toys on Facebook, we have photos of the upcoming Walmart-exclusive (in the U.S.) 6-inch "The Avengers" Marvel Legends action figures. Included in this set are awesome new sculpts of Captain America, Hawkeye, Loki and Hulk, a repainted Iron Man Mark VI (battle damaged), and a repainted Thor (from the Thor movie) with a new head.
Check out the connecting stands. And man does that new Hulk kick all kinds of ass. It's everything the 3.75" figure should've been and more.
Speculation on various forums is that this may be just the first of two possible waves, since a different Thor figure shown at last year's New York Comic Con is absent, as well as the inevitable Iron Man Mark VII and a Black Widow that every fan boy is hoping for. Do you really think Hasbro would skip the chance to release another Iron Man? Come on. More pics of these figures can be found at Marvel HK Toys' Facebook page.
UPDATE: These figures have now been released in the US, and we have reviews posted for the following:
Hawkeye
Hulk
Loki
And the rest coming in the next few days, so stay tuned!
Speaking of Hasbro releasing lots of Iron Men...
UPDATE: These sets are out now. Check out our review of the Hulk set here.
And finally, not entirely toy related, but still dang cool, check out this new commercial from Target. It's like Super Hero Squad, only in real life.
Hey, those bases? They're re-purposed Heroscape tiles. So instead of expanding the Marvel Heroscape line, they handed it off to Wizards of the Coast (who cancelled it) and are now using them for butt-ugly bases for action figures far out of scale.
ReplyDeleteJust saying. There's gaming blood on dem tiles.
Interesting. I haven't seen anyone else point that out. Thanks for the background info.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lovely little rage thread about it here:
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I have those 4 packs mentioned and made a video on it found on my youtube channel
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I jsut need to hunt for nick fury . if any lie on shelves anywhere
Cool video review of the sets. How did you get these?
DeleteI got the sets from an asian gift shop I live b, I guess the guy ordered them from somewhere?
ReplyDeleteAnyone knows what is a good size zip locks for 7 inch action figures regardless of the width. Thanks.
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