2025 SDCC Marvel Coverage

[MarvelousFan87]

On 7/29/2025 at 4:33 PM, LoneWolfSones said:

Yeah I could see it standing out a bit too much trying to pose it with legends. But we both agree that if someone wants that one definitive Hulk? This may be the one. 

I was a bit bummed out by my Indiana Jones. Toht too. The sculpts and soft goods were generally pretty good. Lots of accessories, the light up ark, etc. But Toht's jacket is kind of useless. And Indy's holster has no fastening. I can probably do something with a tiny magnet. 

Strange, usually mezco hits the mark with the face sculpts. And yes a tiny magnet might work. This Hulk could be the definitive for this line or if you just want a hulk in general and aren't finicky about lines or company product mixing (like I am lol), this could be it. All depends on what one looks for in a figure. 

[stormcloud]

Have they given a timeframe on preorders for Rachel Summers and Feral?

[LoneWolfSones]

On 7/29/2025 at 9:44 PM, Atlantis said:

It really is disgusting and sad to see this still going on. The community should be using our voice and buying power to insist that hasbo either stop this "exclusive" thing, when clearly its not benefitting collectors,  or offer alternative buying venues. And YES I KNOW that negates the whole exclusive thing but they did it to themselves. 

The community should not be catering to scalpers. Scalpers only exist because people keep feeding them. Thats not on hasbo, Target, Walgreens, Amazon, etc.

I'd love to see a concentrated effort to get these figures to collectors in Canada and overseas at REASONABLE prices. No more than $5.00 more than what we pay in the US. 

The whole retailer exclusive thing sucks. My understanding is that the retailers pay for that, and it's the retailers that request the figure? 

Anyway, I saw a video from Reploid Bill discussing Mephisto. You can watch his video below. But he did say one thing that stood out to me. I'd be interested to know what people here think of the idea that Hasbro should transition more to MTO items. 

The retail space is kind of not what it was and most stuff is online anyway. MTO sidesteps any concern with certain figures that would otherwise be unable to be put in stores. (And the marketing headaches) for such figures. (I guess there were some karens up in arms about Mephisto but that's another topic entirely). 

Bill pointed out that MTO also cuts out the scalpers. I think I'd be on board with this. Maybe it means there are fewer figures. But it might also mean fewer two packs and buying figures you don't want to get one you do. It is also beneficial to the manufacturer, as they avoid overproducing or underproducing a figure, as was the case with McFarlane's Wonder Woman. 

 

[LoneWolfSones]

On 7/30/2025 at 12:45 AM, MarvelousFan87 said:

Strange, usually mezco hits the mark with the face sculpts. And yes a tiny magnet might work. This Hulk could be the definitive for this line or if you just want a hulk in general and aren't finicky about lines or company product mixing (like I am lol), this could be it. All depends on what one looks for in a figure. 

Every line will have it's ups and downs, it's hits and misses. The upcoming Mafex Wolverine from DP&Wolverine? I would say Hasbro's likeness/headsculpt is the better but the mafex nails the suit details, etc. Im not opposed to mixing and matching if the figures look ok together. Many of the Spider-Man 2 gamerverse figures for example I think can pair well with the MCU No Way home figures. The Gamerverse Felicia for example pairs well with Molina Ock and Dafoe Goblin. 

I'll probably pass on Mezco Hulk. I was tempted by the Mezco classic spidey. Apparently mezco has a Raimi Spider-man in the works. That might be a bit harder to pass up...but I already have the Legends and Mafex. I do regret missing out on that Mezco Doom which looked amazing. Same with the Reeve Superman they did. Hope that Mezco Hulk is incredible though!

[tarot]

People. can we please go back to talking about the reveals and figures? the whole exclusive thing has been talked about to death. Please stop derailing this subject about that.

[leokearon]

If they do, do Maximum Magneto, I hope he comes with a full Magnetic Bubble.

[Lord_Scareglow]

Hmmm, if they did do a Maximum Magneto that could be really cool, I probably wouldn't bite myself, but I know a lot of people would really enjoy getting a classic Magneto again, seeing as how the last one was many a moons ago and came locked away in a TRU 3 pack, It's about overdue for a new Magneto. He could really benefit from the Maximum treatment, would be really cool to see an accessory of a bunch of dismantled guns, you know what I'm talking about, a flight stand also super necessary.

Much like what you might give Mags, Dr. Strange would be a really good Maximum figure, Wanda as well. 

 

[MarvelousFan87]

On 7/30/2025 at 10:06 AM, LoneWolfSones said:

Every line will have it's ups and downs, it's hits and misses. The upcoming Mafex Wolverine from DP&Wolverine? I would say Hasbro's likeness/headsculpt is the better but the mafex nails the suit details, etc. Im not opposed to mixing and matching if the figures look ok together. Many of the Spider-Man 2 gamerverse figures for example I think can pair well with the MCU No Way home figures. The Gamerverse Felicia for example pairs well with Molina Ock and Dafoe Goblin. 

I'll probably pass on Mezco Hulk. I was tempted by the Mezco classic spidey. Apparently mezco has a Raimi Spider-man in the works. That might be a bit harder to pass up...but I already have the Legends and Mafex. I do regret missing out on that Mezco Doom which looked amazing. Same with the Reeve Superman they did. Hope that Mezco Hulk is incredible though!

Yes the Mezco Doom is really hard to get he sold out everywhere fast! And I do luckily have the Reeve Superman and it came out great with the likeness and he looks great with Keaton Batman.

[Falconetti]

I preordered Made To Order Mephisto first day it went up on Hasbro Pulse... same as I did last year with Made To Order Dragon Man... speaking of which..I got notification from Hasbro that Dragon Man will be shipping in a couple days.. knowing Hasbro ..we should have Dragon Man in a week .as far as Hasbro making some things more "EXCLUSIVE".. after seeing multiple videos over the last couple years about how so many Marvel Legends were showing up at Ollie's..or other discount stores..I don't blame Hasbro for cutting back on production of certain figures..& making less of everything in general ...it's not a good look for ANY business having it's products showing up at discount stores for less than half MSRP .. I wouldn't doubt that many of the ML collectors complaining about "EXCLUSIVITY" are the same ones posting videos laughing about how so many MLs are ending up at Ollie's.. I'm a lifelong NYC resident..& the only Target near me doesn't sell Marvel Legends...& nearest Walmart is in Jersey.. the only place to pick up MLs are comic book stores... but usually at twice the price...so I've bought every ML online,..& never missed a preorder... including Gamerverse Psyloke Thanos 2 Pack... only one.. but as far as scalpers go...it's all part of the game..& I'll never criticize someone for trying to make $$$... especially nowadays 

[JayC]

The newest wave of Marvel Legends X-Men 97 figures from Hasbro just went up for pre-order last week at places like our sponsors BigBadToyStore.com and Entertainment Earth.

Amazon Links: Cable, Sunspot, Emma Frost, Jubilee, Morph, Logan

But from a new interview with Marvel's Jesse Falcon, its sounds like even more exciting things are planned for X-Men 97 figures in 2026. Check out the entire interview below with Jesse Falcon that took place last week during SDCC from the folks at A Toy Kind Of Mood.
 

[tarot]

that may be for the second series. According to the rumors there are a few repeats in the next wave so I'm assuming that the second series will have new designs. Maybe a feral design for Wolverine or something.

[Ironspider428]

God, I'm so sick of them only caring about X-Men 97. Can we please get literally any other D+ show figures? Hell I'd even take FNSM at this point.

[tarot]

On 7/31/2025 at 5:04 PM, Ironspider428 said:

God, I'm so sick of them only caring about X-Men 97. Can we please get literally any other D+ show figures? Hell I'd even take FNSM at this point.

let's see, it is the best thing to come out of the Disney+ thing for a while, it made NEW fans of hundreds and hundreds of people. It has constantly been wished listed on social media and more. It is an x-men property...... Dude.... Hasbro is just going where the money is.

[shaw]

Not to mention most of these figures double as comic figures aswell. Figures that often got back seated for MCU figures when MCU was at its hype. Be happy you atleast got daredevil born again figures.

[Satam]

On 7/30/2025 at 12:49 PM, Lord_Scareglow said:

I probably wouldn't bite myself

Don't bite yourself. It might hurt.

 

On 7/31/2025 at 12:04 PM, Ironspider428 said:

God, I'm so sick of them only caring about X-Men 97. Can we please get literally any other D+ show figures? Hell I'd even take FNSM at this point.

There was at least one wave of What If? figures. I have Howard, and Ant-Man's head is in a box somewhere. I think I have Nebula with hair in a box somewhere, too.  I assume they didn't sell all that well or we'd see more of them. Like my colleague said above, Hasbro is going where the money is.

[stormcloud]

On 7/31/2025 at 12:32 PM, shaw said:

Not to mention most of these figures double as comic figures aswell. Figures that often got back seated for MCU figures when MCU was at its hype.

Yes, some of the X-Men 97 figures are the best versions of these suits so far.

97 Nightcrawler is the closest we’ve ever gotten to Dave Cockrum’s original design for the character and his face shadows.

Jean Grey is the best figure of the Jim Lee suit.

Cyclops is the only Jim Lee version with an optic blast. 

I even prefer 97 Rogue over the Retro version. (though I still want a Rogue based on the original animated series in neon green)

97 Sunspot is the first figure in the classic New Mutants outfit. 

Magneto and Wolverine are pretty good too. 

[Emnems80]

I was really focused on Magneto and his force field at the SDCC display. I didn't really pay attention until now of those Nightcrawler "bamf" effects. Have those ever been released before?

[MvCfan]

Why are these MTG figures $40? Am I missing something?

[leokearon]

They are packaged like Deluxes so they are priced as Deluxes. Same way NWH Electro was done

[Lord_Scareglow]

On 8/1/2025 at 4:19 PM, MvCfan said:

Why are these MTG figures $40? Am I missing something?

Yeah Uhhhh, it's the Magical Magic card inclusion fee, these were 55 in Canada, I'm like wha wha wha??? a piece of cardboard is that much extra? Fine....I hate myself but I must have Man-Wolf. 

[since83]

I just know that because I insta bought Manwolf, off EE cause I couldn't access my Pulse account, that I will see it on ebay without the card for 20 bucks. The day after it releases.

[SpiderS]

For 40 bucks MJ could at least have reverse ab Crunch and butterflies like Phoenix and Psylocke, I get that ab crunch wouldn't be easy due to Spider Logo stretching all over the torso and butterflies engineering creating issues for Spider Legs but still I would have appreciate the effort team put into figure and could justify these 40 usd much easily.

I fully understandable when basic priced figure doesn't have the most articulation or new sculpting, but we are paying almost maximum price for this so asking more in this case makes sense. 

You could also argue that MJ doesn't need such articulation but it's MJ as a Spider character and without proper crunch figure will feel disappointing posing wise.

[Inspection12e]

Sauron is up go go go. https://www.hasbropulse.com/product/marvel-legends-series-gamerverse-marvel-snap-savage-land-3pack/G06515L00?cgid=convention-exclusives

Got imine!

[since83]

How long did that last? Sheesh, just outta the blue Sunday Mornin?

[Inspection12e]

At least 45 minutes.