While I’m waiting for my video of the Hasbro Marvel panel from today’s Comic-Con sessions to process, I thought you might like to see some pictures of the upcoming Build-a-Figure from wave 2 of the Marvel Legends relaunch planned for 2012. I took one look at Arnim Zola here and the first thing that came to mind was: What?! No bicep swivels?!?!
I kid. I KID!
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Hasbro is going to continue to have 6-inch figures for their Marvel brands, and as we suspected, some of them will be retailer exclusives for the current Marvel movies, much like Walmart and Kmart had exclusive 6-inchers for the Iron Man movies.
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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.