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Who’s Ready to Buy New Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black Series, and Transformers?

You may still be recovering from the holidays, but to Hasbro and the online retailers, it’s a new year. And that means new toys designed to part you from your hard earned cash!

Hasbro has given the green light for online retailers to list new product assortments for the first quarter of 2015, and so we’re seeing pre-order pages for new Marvel Legends, Star Wars Black Series, and Transformer Combiner Wars… My wallet’s about to take a beating. Who’s with me?

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Marvel Infinite Series Action Figures 25% Off (Today Only)

Today’s Entertainment Earth Daily Deal is for a handful of Marvel Infinite Series action figures. Since the rebranding from Marvel Universe, these 4-inch action figures have been creeping up in price (along with most other action figures). Today they’re 25% off, clocking in at $9 each. There’s five figures included in the sale, including Rocket (with baby Groot), Star-Lord, and Drax from the Guardians of the Galaxy.

The sale is for today (January 13) only, so get your orders in while you can. Some folks who subscribe to our email updates have pointed out that these emails have been coming out a day late, causing you to miss out on these one day only sales. So I’ve moved the delivery time to the afternoon. In addition, please know you can follow us on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter for instant updates. Happy shopping!

Soapbox Sunday: Did Hasbro Miss Their Best Chance to Release the Marvel Legends Bulldozer?

The Wrecking Crew

In just a couple of weeks, it will have been two years since Hasbro first showed us the Wrecker and Bulldozer, and gave Wrecking Crew fans the hope of completing that foursome in their Marvel Legends collections. We had gotten Thunderball and Piledriver as variant swaps in an earlier wave, and the plan was to do the same for the remaining pair by the middle of 2013.

But while the Wrecker made it to shelves, retailers threw Hasbro a curveball, necessitating a rebranding plan to tie Marvel Legends more closely to the Marvel movies. And we’ve been waiting for the fourth and final member of the Wrecking Crew ever since.

This begs the question – did Hasbro already miss their best chance to release the Marvel Legends Bulldozer?

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Border Patrol: Marvel Legends Nomad, Gamecock, Brother Voodoo, and Black Talon by Rabid_Ewok

If you’re a fan of Z-list Marvel heroes and villains, then this edition of Border Patrol is for you. Rabid_Ewok submitted these four Marvel Legends customs for CustomCon 38, in his Marvel Legends Infinite Face Off Twin Packs entry. Now you can add them to your own collection!

They’re some of the cleanest customs I’ve seen in a while, and you can bet that there’s no way Hasbro will ever get this far into the Marvel depth chart, even if one of them is a legitimate Captain America variant.

In AFP’s Border Patrol, we scour active eBay auctions for customized action figures that you won’t want to let slip by!

Weekend Toy Run: Hasbro Retailer Exclusives Still Available; Some on Clearance

Retailer exclusives can be frustrating for today’s collector. I know I’m spending less time hitting brick and mortar stores for traditional toy runs, so when a toy company announces them, I start worrying about whether I’ll actually be able to acquire them for my collection.

With these Hasbro exclusives for Marvel Legends and Star Wars, I guess I needn’t have worried.

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