July 26, 2025

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Hasbro had a packed slate of reveals spanning its iconic portfolio of brands, including BEYBLADE, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Marvel, and Star Wars. Earlier, Hasbro announced their new Beyblade offerings. You can find the full scoop on that here. Marvel Legends Unleashes New Icons—Including a Devilish favorite!Hasbro’s Marvel team pulled back the curtain on a wide array of Marvel Legends Series items, including new roleplay gear like the Spider-Man Electronic Expressive Mask and Wolverine Premium Roleplay Mask. Among figure reveals were classic fan-favorites such as Storm, Mephisto with Infernal Throne, Gambit and Marvel’s Rogue, Cyclops and Jean Grey, and Morph. Also making headlines was the debut of Marvel x Magic: The Gathering crossover figures, including Mary Jane Watson (Iron Spider) and Man-Wolf. Mephisto with Throne. Premium Roleplay: X-men Marvel x Magic: The Gathering MCU Figures Transformers Expands the MultiverseThe Transformers team showcased a robust lineup of new figures, including the Studio Series Deluxe Class Barricade from Transformers: The Last Knight, Deluxe Class Airachnid from Transformers One, and Voyager Class Thundercracker from The Transformers: The Movie. Fans were also treated to the reveal of Age of the Primes Leader Class Maximal Big Convoy, signaling deeper dives into Transformers lore. G.I. Joe Classified Series Marches OnA new wave of G.I. Joe Classified Series figures stormed the stage with first looks at characters such as Pythona, Grim Viper, Cobra Desert Scorpion, Seymour “Sci-Fi” Fine, and Wet-Suit, thrilling longtime fans of the brand with deep-cut and modernized character designs. The Force is Strong with Star Wars RevealsHasbro’s Star Wars team impressed with fresh additions to The Black Series and The Vintage Collection, drawing from Attack of the Clones, The Clone Wars, The Acolyte, and more. Highlights included Jango Fett, Asajj Ventress (Bounty Hunter), The Stranger (Qimir), and a two-pack featuring Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. A standout Fall Convention exclusive—Mace Windu & Darth Sidious—and the Vintage Collection Jedi Spirits 3-Pack were also revealed. Fans were treated to a detailed look at the Vintage Collection LAAT/i Gunship HasLab project, as well as new figures of Han Solo, Chewbacca, and others. Source link

Sometimes these legacy lines can get a little stale and predictable, but G.I. Joe Classified keeps it pretty fresh with interesting updates and curveballs like the Ghost Viper revealed today. Revealed yesterday at the Hasbro press breakfast, Pythona is pretty purple perfection. I love all the crazy organic weapons from her opening sequence in the movie and the sinewy texture of the “clothing”. It’s a bit of a departure from the cartoon design of sort of interlocking ovals, I like it. The faces are perfection and while not pictured here, the cape has the hood shaped like the cartoon’s unique look. The only downside for me is that it’s a convention exclusive to shows I won’t be attending. Wish me luck when it goes up on Pulse. The Target Exclusive two pack of Steeler and Short-Fuze are right up my alley and gets me a long way toward that complete original 13. I do like that they have leaned more into the comic look for Short-Fuze with the glasses and the alice frame for the mortar looks good. Steeler looks great, but does feel a little like an admission that we are not doing a MOBAT, especially since the Haslab ended up being the Snowcat instead of that iconic tank. The Steel Corps sentry and defense post is, not surprisingly, a repaint of the Cobra armored fortification. I was expecting green walls, but I’m not mad at the gray. I’m not sure green sandbags makes logical sense, but it does make me think of when the green army men sets would come with green fortifications, so I like it. The weaponry looks deadlier than what Cobra got and seeing two of them together does help fight the porta-potty allegations. The official photography on this set makes it look fan-fucking-tastic. I was initially concerned with the Desert Scorpion being a higher priced figure and pet set because I only wanted to army build the soldier, not the animal, but seeing them in action in some of the photos for the Joe Defense Post makes me want an army of these guys too. I think it was Shooting the Galaxy who took those photos and they gave me a real Starship Troopers vibe. The trooper himself has some nice looking soft goods that go with the desert them, so this is looking like a real highlight. I never really thought I needed to see this particular soldier’s face, but the inclusion of the face plate adds a lot of character. The main retail wave of four figures were looking nice. I’m intrigued by the statement at the panel that Mainframe’s laptop fits in the pack, because it’s not immediately obvious to me how that works in practice. I may have misheard that, because I could see that little pad he has sliding into the laptop. I really like the hat and com on the alternate head because it feels more like he’s back at the base manning the controls in the dark command center. Sci-Fi and Wet-Suit are solid updates and hit all the right notes for me and I can’t think of anything I’d want more from them. Well maybe another gun for Wet Suit. I really like Sci-Fi’s swappable face plates, I just hope they stay on solidly. I kinda forgot to take a picture of the Grim Viper because he kept falling over in the case. Overall, I’m super pleased with the offerings from G.I. Joe Classified this year. I am a little disappointed we still haven’t heard about a Thunder Machine, but the line still seems healthy, so I’m feeling good that we’ll get one. I feel like if Marvel can produce these made to order sets, we ought to be able to get a Thunder Machine made to order. It’s a little small for a Haslab unless they decide to redesign it into a monster truck. Hmm… Like this: Like Loading… Related Continue Reading Source link

There wasn’t a lot of new Star Wars Black Series figures announced at SDCC, the focus was more on the HasLabs past and present, but everything showed looked really good. They did have a lot of the existing pre-orders on hand and they all looked nice. They actually sold me on the SDCC set of Anakin and Obi-Wan. The Haslab itself looks beautiful. I’m really impressed at the scale and detail. I don’t collect that line and it’s not quite pulling me off my seat to hop on, but I think it looks great. Did I say everything looked great? Well, I forgot about this uninspired repack set. Not for me, but that’s fine. The Palpatine and Mace set is a lot more impressive, mostly because I love the Palpatine portrait. I’m a little unsure of his soft goods, but this is coming home with me. I’m very grateful that they are making the most needed Acolyte figure with The Stranger. It’s another great portrait and I think the soft goods and plastic work well together. Jango is one of the older figures that could use an update, so I’m glad they are making a ground-up re-do. The Bounty Hunter look for Asajj is one of my favorite looks for her and they achieved this one well too. Easy buys. I think my favorite reveal was the centerpiece of Vader VS Luke on Cloud City. I love the dio piece and the look sculpting is on point. It’s nice to see them try newer things. Like this: Like Loading… Related Continue Reading Source link

Hasbro ticked a lot of boxes for me with their panel Friday at SDCC, finishing off Excalibur with Rachel Summers, X-Force with Feral, continuing Crystar with Warbow, and finally doing Mephisto. Unfortunately for me, my favorite reveals (Warbow and Rachel) were not in the booth, but there was plenty of cool stuff to look at. I was so charmed by X-Men ’97 that I am all-in for whatever they do with the line. They also are producing some of the most aesthetically pleasing figures Legends has ever done, so that’s part of it too. The Cyke and Jean set hits that perfect Phoenix Must Die issue look that I would get it anyway. I also really like that Jubilee is finally getting a new blast effect that better represents her sparkle power. Now I usually prefer the functionality of an ab crunch to ball and socket joints, but that ab crunch on Gambit is not doing him any favors and really does not help my argument at all. Still, it’s kind of a charming way to re-do these two. I don’t know from Magic The Gathering, but these figures look pretty slick. Hopefully the price doesn’t get too jacked up by a card game I’m never going to learn, but I think that stuff is currently more popular than toys, so it might help get more people into our hobby which cannot hurt. The Man-Wolf I’m familiar with is the yellow suit, but this one looks really slick and quite an upgrade from the old Legend. That’s the kind of bronze-age weirdo shit that I love, so he’s my priority here. The other two I could take or leave. Mephisto looks dope. I’m getting him. That’s all I have to say about that! Like this: Like Loading… Related Continue Reading Source link

It was really cool seeing both versions of the Ecto-1 on display. The newer portraits on the Ghostbusters were a mixed bag for my taste, so I don’t think I’ll be re-buying the first movie figures this time around. Like this: Like Loading… Related Continue Reading Source link

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