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Marvel Toys Upcoming Assortments Announced
— September 11, 2005 Leave a Comment
This is a few weeks old but here it is anyway. Toy Biz officially announced the line ups for waves 12 and 13 as well as upcoming boxsets and a new Fantastic Four Classics line. Here they are:
Marvel Legends Asst 12 - Apocalypse Series
Astonishing X-Men Wolverine
Unmasked Astonishing X-Men Wolverine - variant
“Maestro” Hulk
Bishop
X-23
Iron Fist
Sasquatch
Bishop - variant
Iron Fist unmasked - variant
Marvel Legends Asst 13 - Bring On The Bad Guys Series
Pyro
Abomination
Green Goblin
Loki
Blackheart
Lady Death Strike
Unmasked Green Goblin - variant
Crown of Lies Loki - variant
Melted Face Abomination - variant
BOX SETS
Marvel Legends Young Avengers Gift Pack
Marvel Legends Monster Gift Pack
Fantastic Four Classics 6″ Action Figure Asst 1
Thing
Human Torch
Mr. Fantastic
Super Skrull
First, I should point out that series 12 will continue the build-a-figure trend with pieces of a giant Apocalypse included with every figure. I don’t think 13 will have a build-a-figure. Okay, my thoughts on this… I think an X-23 figure is lame. The character is brand new and not established, and they have a lot more ground to cover before they get to making figures of such character. I question the Young Avengers boxset for the same reasons. I personally plan on dropping the Young Avengers comic for a number of reasons but the overall one being that it sucked.
Next, do we really need a Fantastic Four Classics line? I think the Super Skrull is cool, but Hulk Classics failed after 2 waves and X-men didn’t make it past one. We already have several variations of each character (except the one we need, Invisible Woman) and the first wave just has more of those characters. Which means, Super Skrull will be the most sought after and short packed and will be the hardest to find.
Lastly, I think the giant Apocalypse is lame because we already have an Apocalypse in the series. It does look good though, and my question is why couldn’t they make the regular release like that instead of reusing a body mold which is too bulky? They need to focus on figures that have not been done yet and preferably can be bought several times like the Sentinel. People will buy more of those figures they don’t need just to get multiple Sentinels. Toy Biz needs to pay more attention to their past mistakes.
