Hasbro’s 6-inch Marvel figures have steadily improved during their tenure – and since the relaunch of Marvel Legends last year, Hasbro has consistently had a great showing during San Diego Comic-Con. Preview Night featured a new series of Marvel Legends, a surprise set of three new figures for the 6-inch Iron Man line, and a look at some packaged figures from the Wolverine Legends line.
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Every year, Hasbro shows off its products and some pretty amazing customs within a huge diorama. Here’s some pictures of this year’s display. Don’t miss a Marvel Legends Ultron custom, built off of the one we got in the Iron Man line, that I think would have silenced many of the folks who complained about the figure we got (due to some budgetary constraints for the line.)
Singapore’s Play Imaginative is poised to compete in the United States on a number of fronts with its high-end diecast collectibles. To fit into the crowded Marvel and DC licensed product markets, they’ve had to pick out niche scales that were available. For Marvel, they’ve got Iron Man in the 1/4 and 1/12 scale, while for DC, it’s 1/6. All look great, but for those of us hoping for one company to have Marvel and DC under one roof in compatible scales, we’ll keep waiting.
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Coincidentally, as if we already didn’t have enough reasons to visit the Sideshow booth at SDCC, Hot Toys had to give us two more. The Marvel movie franchises will continue to be a license to print money, with the Chitauri soldier from the Avengers movie and the Mark 38 Igor heavy lifter from Iron Man 3.
And speaking of Marvel movies, aren’t we due for an updated Wolverine figure from the movie coming in just over a week? Snikt.
We’ve had two teasers of the Heartbreaker armor. The second one asked us to go see the figure at the Sideshow booth at SDCC – but Hot Toys must not have thought that was soon enough (later today!) and still released images of this figure from Iron Man 3.
Still no word on the Silver Centurion, but I’m so sure it’s coming that I’ll drop my Hot Toys Iron Monger on my foot if they don’t.
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