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Marvel Legends

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The Marvel Legends action figure series started in the year 2002. It was started by Toy Biz.

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History

The Marvel Legends line was originally intended to be a spinoff line from Spider-Man Classics. But it became huge. There are 16 series made by Toy Biz. In 2007 Hasbro got the Marvel license. They are currently running Marvel Legends, Marvel Legends Icons, and will soon be producing Hulk Classics, Fantastic Four Classics and Spider-Man movie lines.

Build-A-Figures

When Toy Biz was doing the figures, they had a comic or mini-poster included in each figure, as well as a display stand. In series 8 they also included a Marvel Origins trading card with each figure. They did it again in series 11 and 13. In series 9, the Galactus series, they included a Build-A-Figure (or BAF) piece with each figure, so if you got the entire series, you could build an 18-inch Galactus figure. That continued to series 10 (the Sentinel series). But stopped in series 11, in which a type of vehicle relevant to the character was included. But, in series 12 they brought back the BAF with a 16-inch Apocalypse. Others were Giant Man (Wal*Mart series),Onslaught, Mojo, and MODOK.

When Hasbro recieved the license, they started right away with Build-A-Figures. Series 1 has Annihilus, 2 has Blob, 3 has Brood Queen, and 4 has Nemesis (Holocaust).

Variants

It started in series two. A variant of series one's Hulk was released. It included a torn up shirt. But another variant didnt really come aroun until series 6. Variants of Cable, Phoenix, and series three's Wolverine were spotted. After that every series has had at least one variant or chase figure (ex: Series 5 Red Skull is not on the back of the series 5 packaging). Some figures have completely different character as variants. For example, Series 15 Thorbuster Iron Man's variant is Destroyer, from the Thor comics, and Captain Marvel's variant is his son, Genis.

Toy Biz

Toy Biz was the first company to house the Marvel Legends license. They had it until 2007.

Spider-Man Classics

This was the line that started it all. Series one featured a Classic Spider-Man, Symbiote Spider-Man, Man-Spider, and Venom. Series 2 featured a First Appearance Spider-Man, Daredevil, a First Appearance Daredevil variant, Battle Ravaged Spider- Man, and Rhino. There were also 2099 and Scarlet Spider exclusives.

Marvel Legends

Marvel Legends ran for sixteen series, featuring such famous characters as Captain AMerica and Iron Man, to characters like Deathlok and Vision.

Series 1

Series 2

  • Dr Doom
  • Human Torch
  • Thing
  • Namor
  • Doombot (variant)
  • Thing (with tranchcoat)
  • Human Torch (with 4)
  • Hulk (with ripped shirt variant of series 1)
    • NOTE: The Human Torch originally had the "4" on his chest but fans were unhappy so they took it off. As time went on the "4" became more rare.

Series 3

  • Wolverine
  • Thor
  • Ghost Rider
  • Magneto
  • Movie Daredevil
  • Wolverine (unmasked variant re-released in series 6)
  • Daredevil (with 5'o clock shadow)
  • Daredevil (with beard)

Series 4

Series 5

Series 6

Variants

  • Cable (brown pants)
  • Unmasked Wolverine (series 3 re-release)
  • Dark Phoenix

Series 7

  • Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)
  • Apocalypse
  • Hawkeye
  • Silver Centurion Iron Man
  • Vision
  • Wolverine Weapon X
  • Goliath re-release

Variants

  • Ghost Rider (during transformation)
  • Phasing Vision

Series 8

Variants

  • Storm (with mohawk)
  • Black Widow (Yelena Belova)
  • Captain America (regular)
    • NOTE: Ultimate Captain America was supposed to have gray pants but the variant and it were switched. The problem was later corrected.

Series 9: The Galactus series

Variants

  • Green Hulk variant
  • Bullseye (gray costume, gritting teeth)
    • NOTE: This is the first series in the Build-A-Figure line, or BAF to the fans. Each action figure contains a piece of the giant figure.

Series 10: The Sentinel series

Variants

  • Cyclops X-Factor
  • Angel X-Factor

Series 11: The Legendary Riders series

Variants

  • Wolverine (young with cowboy hat)
  • Wonder Man (Ionic)
    • NOTE: Originally ToyBiz cancelled Scarlet Witch although she was on the back of the series 11 package but later, she was released in limited numbers.

Series 12: The Apocalypse series

Variants

  • Wolverine (unmasked)
  • X-23 (black costume)
  • bald Bishop
  • Sasquatch (white fur)
  • Iron Fist (red costume, opened mouth, cut on head)
    • NOTE: the purple X-23 was announced as the variant, but was shipped to stores in larger numbers and in non-variant cases.

Series 13: The Onslaught series

Variants

  • Unmasked Green Goblin
  • Crown of lies Loki
  • Melted face Abomination

Series 14: The Mojo Series

Variants

  • Iron Man gold
  • Unmasked Baron Zemo
  • Silver shirt Luke Cage (unreleased)
  • Modern Falcon
  • Xtreme Psylocke (unreleased)
    • NOTE: the two variants for Luke Cage and Psylocke were not released before the series stopped shipping to stores, but a few rare carded samples have shown up on online auction sites

Series 15: The MODOK series

Variants

  • Wasp (red)
  • Wasp (blue) (unreleased)
  • Genis Vell (Captain Marvel variant)
  • Silver Moon Knight
  • Arachne (Spider Woman variant)
  • Destroyer (Iron Man variant)

Exclusives

These figures/boxed sets were only available at one certain store, like Wal*Mart or Toys"R"Us.

Toy Biz 2005 Fantastic Four Boxed Set

  • Heroes Reborn Mr. Fantastic
  • Heroes Reborn Invisible Woman
  • Human Torch (partially flamed)
  • Trenchcoat Thing

Toy Biz 2006 Giant Man Wal*Mart exclusive series

Variants

  • Wolverine variant
  • Bearded Sentry
    • NOTE: The Weapon X variant is needed to complete the BAF. A variant of Havok in his modern costume was planned, but never produced.

Boxed Sets

The boxed sets were a boxed group of figures that pertained to each other, like the Fantastic Four or the Young Avengers.

Urban Legends

  • Daredevil
  • Elektra (White costume)
  • Spider-Man
  • The Punisher

X-Men Legends

  • Unmasked Wolverine
  • Beast in labcoat
  • Gambit
  • Magneto
  • Rogue

Fantastic Four

  • Mr Fantastic
  • Invisible Woman
  • Human Torch (partially flamed)
  • Thing
  • Franklin Richards
  • HERBIE
  • Dr Doom

Variants

  • Translucent Human Torch
  • Translucent Invisible Woman
  • Mr Fantastic in lab coat

Spider-Man vs the Sinister Six

  • Spider-Man
  • Black Cat
  • Doctor Octopus
  • Kraven
  • Electro
  • Venom

Spider-Man: Fearsome Foes

  • Spider-Man
  • Rhino
  • Vulture
  • Carnage
  • Lizard

Young Avengers

  • Patriot
  • Asgardian
  • Iron Lad
  • Hulkling

Marvel Monsters

  • Dracula
  • Frankenstein's Monster
  • Werewolf by Night
  • Zombie

House of M

  • Inhuman Torch
  • The It
  • Hulk
  • Iron Man

Toy Biz Icons

The Icons were lines of two or three 12-inch figures that were iconic in Marvel Comics.

Series 1

  • Wolverine
  • Captain America
  • Iron Man

Variants

  • Unmasked Wolverine
  • Unmasked Captain America
  • Gold Iron Man

Series 2

  • Hulk
  • Venom

Variants

  • Gray Hulk
  • Unmasked Venom

Series 3

  • Beast (Gray Fur)
  • Spider-Man

Variants

  • Blue Beast with labcoat and glasses

Unmasked Spider-Man

Face-offs

The Face-offs were a hero and one of his or her worst enemies in a two-pack.

Series 1

  • Captain America vs Red Skull
  • Hulk vs Leader
  • Daredevil vs Kingpin

Variants

  • Unmasked Captain America vs Baron Von Strucker
  • Screaming Hulk vs Classic Leader
  • Unmasked Daredevil vs Black Suit angry Kingpin

Series 2

  • 1st Appearance Wolverine vs 1st Appearance Sabretooth
  • Classic Punisher vs Jigsaw
  • Modular Armor Iron Man vs Mandarin

Variants

  • Screaming Wolverine vs Screaming Sabretooth
  • Modern Punisher vs Tuxedo Jigsaw
  • Modular armor War Machine vs Unmasked red robe Mandarin

Fantastic Four, Hulk and X-Men Classics

These series were pretty short running. Fantastic Four only ran for two series, X-Men ran for four, and Hulk ran for two.

Fantastic Four

Series 1

  • Thunder Launch Thing
  • Human Torch with the Impossible Man
  • Mr Fantastic
  • Transforming Super Skrull

Series 2

  • Twist N Slam Thing
  • Transforming Johnny Storm
  • Invisible Woman
  • Kang
  • Dragon Man

Hulk

Series 1

  • Superposable Savage Hulk
  • Smart Hulk
  • Abomination
  • Joe Fixit

Series 2

  • Gamma Hulk with Bruce Banner
  • Absorbing Man
  • War Hulk
  • Mecha Hulk with Gremlin

X-Men

The X-Men figures sort of ran in two lines.

Line1 Series 1

  • Tiger Stripe Wolverine
  • Cyclops
  • Gambit
  • Archangel
  • New Wolverine with Sentinel

Line2 Series 1

  • Stealth Wolverine
  • Ninja Wolverine
  • Armor Cyclops
  • Stealth Beast
  • Magneto
  • Archangel
  • Gambit
  • Storm

Series 2

  • House of M Wolverine
  • Angel
  • Stealth Cyclops
  • Tech Gear Beast
  • Juggernaut
  • Phoenix

Series 3

  • Cyclops
  • Ultimate Nightcrawler
  • Iceman
  • X Treme X-Men Rogue
  • Avalanche
  • Ultimate Sabretooth

Hasbro

Hasbro received the Marvel license in January 2007, but they released a few things early.

The new Hasbro logo

Series 1: Annihilus series

  • Banshee
  • Emma Frost
  • Hercules
  • X3 Beast
  • Planet Hulk
  • Ultimate Iron Man
  • Annihilus
    • NOTE: Planet Hulk was originally released with two green arms. A running change to paint the left arm silver brought the figure more in line with the appearance in the comics.

Series 2: Blob series

Variants

  • Yellowjacket variant
  • X3 Dark Phoenix
  • Original Green Quicksilver

Series 3: The Brood Queen series

Variants

  • Black Marvel Girl with tattoo on back
  • "Backwards" black Marvel Girl (packaged backwards and limited to 500)
  • Yelling (open mouth) HYDRA Agent

Spider-Man movie

  • Red Spider-Man
  • Black Spider-Man
  • Mary Jane
  • New Goblin
  • Sandman
  • Venom
  • Green Goblin
  • Doc Ock
  • BAF: Big Sandman

Fantastic Four

  • Mr Fantastic
  • Invisible Woman
  • Human Torch
  • Thing
  • Silver Surfer
  • Namor
  • Dr Doom
  • Mole Man
  • BAF: Ronan the Accuser

Hulk

The Hulk line will have 2 series with one BAF: An enormous Fin Fang Foom!

Series 1

  • Absorbing Man
  • Doc Samson
  • King Hulk
  • The End Hulk

Series 2

  • Gray Hulk
  • Son of Hulk
  • Savage She-Hulk
  • Wendigo

Series 4: The Nemesis series

  • Black Bolt
  • Astonishing X-Men Beast
  • Tigra
  • Daredevil (First Appearance)
  • Tim Bradstreet's Punisher
  • Nova
  • BAF:Nemesis (Holocaust)

Variants

  • Black Bolt Blue variant
  • Daredevil Red Variant
  • "Crossbones" Punisher

Exclusives

Hasbro 2007

  • Diamond Emma Frost Toys"R"Us exclusive
  • Silver 25th Ainniversary Wolverine Toys"R"Us exclusive
  • "Black Queen" Jean Grey Toys "R" Us exclusive
  • Limited Edition Silver Surfer Wal*Mart exclusive
  • Cannonball and Domino 2-pack Wal*Mart exclusive
  • Cable and Marvel Girl 2-pack Wal*Mart exclusive
  • Movie Silver Surfer Target exclusive
  • Blue Ultimate Wolverine Diamond exclusive
  • Stan Lee/Spider-Man San Diego Comic-Con exclusive
  • Fantastic Four/Lawyer She Hulk San Diego Comic-Con exclusive 
 *Both figures are being sold at hasbrotoyshop.com.

Hasbro Icons

Series 1

  • Origins Wolverine (Modern style brown/yellow)
  • Thor

Series 2

  • Dr Doom
  • Punisher

Series 3

  • Human Torch
  • Silver Surfer

Variants

  • Partially flamed Human Torch

Series 4

  • Magneto
  • Astonishing X-Men Cyclops

Series?

  • Phoenix (Dark Phoenix variant)
  • Colossus
  • Nightcrawler
  • Daredevil (Yellow/Red variant)
    • NOTE: They were revealed at Comic-Con but which series is which is unconfirmed.


Refrences

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