As we hoped and expected, Hasbro kicked off the relaunch of the 6-inch Marvel Legends brand with the SDCC exclusive Heroic Age Thor (previously referred to as Marvel Legends #0) and the first wave of the line.
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Marvel Legends returns in 2012! More pictures tonight.
Hasbro unveiled the San Diego Comic-Con Marvel Legends Heroic Age Thor exclusive on Attack of the Show last night, and it looks awesome. Verily! The Mjolnir packaging is clever, but I don’t think it will survive the trip back home. I wonder if the $24.99 price tag will deter folks from jumping back on the Marvel Legends bandwagon.
They also showed off the GI JOE / Transformers crossover exclusive with Cobra Commander and Skystriker, priced at $49.99. And then there’s the lost Indiana Jones exclusives, packaging up the last wave of figures (plus a few more) that never made it to retail. Hasbro has a lot more exclusives, but that AOTS airtime isn’t easy to get. We’ll have to cover those in person at SDCC.
There was a small amount of concern that the recent press pics released by Hasbro for their San Diego Comic-Con exclusives did not include the Marvel Legends Heroic Age Thor they had revealed during their Marvel presentation at the Hasbro collector event at Toy Fair earlier this year. Apparently, the marketing folks at Hasbro held back Thor for an exclusive reveal on G4TV’s Attack of the Show – the episode will air tonight and we’ll have the video shortly thereafter.
One additional tidbit, that the AOTS folks probably won’t cover – Thor was sculpted by Paul Harding, who offers up a little background on the Paul Harding Studios blog. Click through to check out his work. Great stuff!
I think I sculpted this bad boy about 3 years ago. Finally it is seeing the light of day. Actually, I’m very happy to have this one released because it was extremely fun to make and it was during Coipel’s beautiful first run on Thor. Those of you going to San Diego this week check it out!
Hasbro devoured our worlds off with last year’s Marvel Universe Galactus exclusive, and they’re ready to destroy all mutants with their follow-on, the Sentinel. Joe Quesada again provides the artwork on the suitcase packaging. HasbroToyShop will have this (and all the SDCC exclusives) in limited quantities after the show, but I imagine these will be hard to come by. The Sentinel will also be available in a retail version with a variant deco, and it will come with a bonus Marvel Universe Wolverine. I prefer the SDCC deco.
The past two years we also got Mighty Muggs exclusives for Marvel, but Hasbro’s gone Mini on Muggs, with an Avengers set (including a Mighty-sized Giant Man) and Spider-Man with removable cloth mask.
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