Marvel Universe Super Hero Team Packs - wave 1

Top: Classic Avengers with Iron Man, Thor & Hulk w/mini Ant-Man & Wasp accessories.
Bottom: X-Force with Wolverine, Deadpool & Warpath.

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 14

Top Row (from left): Skarr, Falcon & Apocalypse

Bottom Row (from left): Doctor Strange, Gladiator, Scarlet Spider-Man & Dr. Doom

These will be the latest Marvel Universe action figures we expect to see in the coming 2 months.  Are you still collecting this toy series?  I gave up long ago because there are too many to collect and I couldn’t keep up.  Furthermore they cost SGD 18.90 each at retail here in Singapore!  

Nevertheless if you are still keen on collecting them, happy waiting for them to appear in our local departmental stores and collectors’ toy shops!

Marvel Universe Comic Packs - wave 8

Top row: Deadpool & Taskmaster; Wolverine & Silver Samurai
Bottom row: Captain America & Wolverine; Thor & Iron Man; Sentry & Spider-Man

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 13

Top Row (from left): Cyclops (Jim Lee), Gladiator, Apocalypse, Cable & Spider-Woman.

Bottom Row (from left): Wolverine (1st Appearance), Iron Man, Spider-Man 2099 & World War Hulk

For this wave, I’m most excited about Cyclops (Jim Lee costume) and Apocalypse, but I doubt I’ll have a chance to get them.  The popular figures of this toy series tend to fly off the local pegs and shelves very quickly upon being released at mass retail.  Oh well, at least I know that they will likely be here from April 2011, better than not coming at all.  Happy toys collecting! 

ASMzine.com did a coverage of Toy Fair 2011 (held at New York City this month) and posted the photos online.  The Hasbro photos section is available for viewing and some of the popular Hasbro Toylines featured there are:

G.I.Joe

Littlest Pet Shop

Marvel

My Little Pony

Star Wars

Strawberry Shortcake

Transformers

Enjoy viewing all the photos at http://toyfair11.asmzine.com/gallery/hasbro/

(Note: Just refresh the ASM links if the pages do not load).

P.S. I haven’t viewed all the toy photos yet though.  There are so many of them to cover! 

While I normally do not post photos for revision waves of Marvel Universe and other action figures toylines, the following revisions of wave 12 for the Marvel Universe toyline contain lots of reissued figures that are worth highlighting to fans and collectors.

As many past popular figures from this toyline are quite hard to find in the departmental stores here, a lot of local collectors are unable to complete their sets or acquire the figures they want at retail price.  Hence it’s good to know that nearly all the past figures will be re-released during the coming months at mass retail once more, provided that Hasbro Singapore still continues to bring in these toys!

The revised assortments for wave 12 are shown below.  Happy waiting for them to come to the stores and when they do, get them while limited stocks for the popular pieces last!

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 12 revision 1

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 12 revision 2

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 12 revision 3

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 12 revision 4

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 12 revision 5

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 12 revision 6

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 12 revision 7

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 11

This Wave 11 case includes 12 action figures (subject to change) and they are:

Top row (from left) - Colossus, Constrictor, Ghost Rider & Hawkeye (Dark Avengers)

Middle row (from left) - Iron Spider-Man,  Juggernaut, Iron Man 2020 & Yellow Jacket with Mini Antman 

Bottom row (from left) - Team X Wolverine,  Iron Man, Spider-Man (Red/Blue) & Thanos

Seeing the above Marvel action figures makes me want to collect them again!  If you love Marvel Comics characters and like to collect their toys, this toyline has to be one of the best ones to collect!  Despite the fact that many of these 3.75-inch Hasbro action figures tend to have poorer paint jobs than acceptable by collectors’ standards, this toyline is still very popular among fans and collectors here and worldwide.

There is also the tendency among collectors who do collect this toyline, to adopt the ‘collecting completist’ strategy, that is to collect each and all the figures ever made, including the variants and exclusives!  Each of these figures cost SGD 18.90 here, hence this is quite a costly toyline to collect.  If you have been collecting from no. 01 Iron Man figure of the “Fury Files” series till now, your investment is quite substantial by now.  Hasbro is now at the later part of the “Hammer Files” series already!

The new characters of wave 11 are Constrictor, Hawkeye (Dark Avengers),  Iron Man 2020, Yellow Jacket with Mini Antman & Thanos.  Oh gosh, these little figures may small as individuals, but more than 20 of them displayed together can look quite a lot.  It would look fantastic if you have a proper display space for your collection so as to bring out the best in them as your well loved Marvel Superheroes and Supervillains!  This wave is expected to be scheduled for mass retail release by this year end or latest in early next year.  Happy toys collecting! 

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 12

The photos for wave 11 aren’t available yet so here’s a preview of wave 12 first.  This time, the new figures are: World War Hulk, Captain Marvel & Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Woman, Doc Sampson (Isn’t this character also known as Wonder Man?) & Iron Man.  Spider-Man 2099 reminds me of Archangel without wings while the new Iron Man looks great!  But my favourite of this wave has to Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)!  I fondly remember watching her Spider-Woman cartoons on TV when I was a kid!

The full wave 12 including the repeated figures (Original Captain America, Modern Thor & Iron Man) from previous waves is shown above.  Wave 12 is expected to be available in mass retail stores in January 2011, though I think it may come in earlier by a month.  By then, I hope to be able to get hold of Spider-Woman for my collection!

Marvel Universe Comic Packs action figures - wave 7

Top row: Wolverine & Captain America; Thor & Iron Man
Bottom row: Sentry & Spider-Man; Cyclops & Phoenix

It looks like the Marvel Universe Comic Packs series are still going strong, with another wave 7 on the way to mass retail in Q4 of 2010.  I don’t see any spectacular characters in this wave to specially mention.  All I can say is that Cyclops and Phoenix look to be the hot favourites for collectors here.  If you wish to collect these, keep a look out in local departmental stores and collectors’ toy shops for them!

Marvel Universe action figures - wave 10

Top row (from left): Captain Britain, Team X Wolverine, Multiple Man & Mystique

Middle row (from left): Ghost Rider, Green Hulk & Spider-Man (Red/Blue)

Bottom row (from left): Colossus, Iron Patriot & Wrecker

Although I have not seen wave 9 of this Marvel Universe toyline in Singapore departmental stores yet, the catalog photos of wave 10 are already available online.  The new characters this time are Captain Britain, Team X Wolverine, Multiple Man, Mystique & Ghost Rider!  As usual when they finally arrive in the local stores, there will be a mad rush by fans and collectors for the new and popular figures of the wave. 

I also wonder is there such a limited release of this toyline at mass retail here, while Iron Man 2 movie figures and Star Wars toys flood the shelves for prolonged periods of time, with regular restocks?  The Marvel Universe Comic Packs on the other hand are not really flying off the shelves that quickly anymore.  There seems to be a glut of them warming the retail pegs and shelves now. 

Anyway if you are collecting this toyline, you do realise by now that there are still many more characters in the Marvel Universe that have yet to be made into toys.  As long as this toyline doesn’t get cancelled anytime soon, be prepared to not just save up for future new and variant releases, but also make more room in your home to store them all.  Happy Marvel toys collecting!