2020 has just begun, and the year is already shaping up to be another big year for
Hasbro’s Marvel Legends line of 6” action figures.
Toy Fair is less than a month away
(2/22), and we thought we would attempt to break down everything we know, what we think we know and what we kinda know is coming out this year.
What we know:
The first
Fantastic Four and
Spider-Man waves of the year are already out on shelves. They actually started hitting shelves at the end of last year, but I think technically they are considered 2020 releases.
The first
Walgreens exclusive of the year, the
Stepford Cuckoos Sisters has also started hitting shelves now.
The first
Ultimate Marvel Legends Rider Wave with
Squirrel Girl and
Cosmic Ghost Rider has also started hitting shelves now.
The
X-Men: Vintage Collection Storm in black outfit has also started hitting stores now.
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The next wave of regular figures which is based on the
Black Widow movie and comics, is slated for release in late February/March. This wave includes movie versions of
Taskmaster, Black Widow (black costume), Red Guardian and
Yelena Belova, as well as comic versions of
Winter Soldier, Spymaster and
Crossbones. The Build-A-Figure is
Crimson Dynamo.
In February/March we will be getting a
Target exclusive comic based
Black Widow in white outfit and a
Walmart exclusive version of the character in Grey.
In March/April we will see a
Deluxe Black Widow movie figure released featuring Natasha in her white outfit.
Also in March/April, we will see the release of the new
Marvel Legends Stan Lee figure.
What we think we know:
This next segment goes over things we know some about or have a pretty good idea is coming, but NOT necessarily 100% confirmed by Hasbro.
Starting things off we have a wave of
X-Force themed figures coming. We know for fact this wave will include figures of
Warpath, Sunspot, Deadpool (Blue-X-Men Outfit) and a
Strong Guy Build-A-Figure. There should be at least 3 more regular figures, possibly four that Hasbro has yet to reveal. The release date on this wave is not totally known either, but likely a April/May time frame.
We also know Hasbro has an
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse wave in the works for this year, which should be out in May. We don’t yet know what the Build-A-Figure for this wave will be, but we know the regular figures that are coming. The wave will consist of
Dark Beast, Weapon X, Jean Grey, Morph, Nathan Summers, Wild Child and
Sunfire.
We are pretty sure there is at least 1 (maybe 2)
Avengers themed waves coming this year, which will contain figures based on the upcoming
Square Enix Avengers video game.
We know for fact that Hasbro is doing an
Iron Man figure for the game, which they officially announced last October. Other figures rumored for this wave include video game versions of
Captain America and
Kamala (Ms. Marvel), as well as comic versions of
Mach-1, Rage, Leader and
Captain Mar-vell. If this wave includes a Build-A-Figure, we have no word on what it might be at this time. It should be reiterated that other than Iron Man, none of these figures have been confirmed by Hasbro.
A listing for a
Gamestop exclusive Hulk figure recently showed up in the Gamestop computers. Most suspect this figure will also be based on the Square Enix video game, but again that is not confirmed.
What we kinda know:
For this final segment, we bring you this generalized list of stuff that has been discovered in various distributor listings or retail computers.
None of these are confirmed by Hasbro. These listings also tend to be so generalized or use codenames that we really don’t have much in the way of specific details about what is actually being released. This really is more to just give you an idea of how much stuff is likely in the pipeline. Thanks to JTPrime for a heads up on many of these.
- E8710 Avengers Legends Exclusive “Mechanic” (Mechanic is a codeword, not the actual figure name, and indications are this will be released very soon.)
- 4 new Fan Channel exclusives
- E74555L01 "Marvel Legends" (Vehicle assortment 2)
- E73475L01 ( Avengers game Assortment 2) "Marvel Legends"
- Venom 2020 Wave
- Eternals 2020 Wave
We have also gotten word of an Iron Man variant which could possibly be the Silver Centurion Armor. This may be a store exclusive but details at this time remain very much in flux.
So there you have it, what we know, think we know and kinda know for 2020 so far. If last year was any indication, this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Be sure to check out MarvelousNews on
Saturday, February 22 for our complete coverage of the Hasbro Marvel reveals at the
New York Toy Fair.