At SDCC this year Hasbro will be holding a fan-led vote to decide the next Marvel Legends action figure! What I always find interesting about these votes is that you can kind of get a clue as to what direction they plan on taking the line in the future. Each day at SDCC the votes will be tallied and at the end of the show each day’s winner will be put up on Marvel.com for a final vote. So who do we have to choose from? The list is as follows:
Angela
Black Nova
Symbiote Spider-Man
Borr
Cosmo
Darkhawk
Disir
Executioner
Sif
Lyra
Malekith
Mysterio
Nebula
Quasar
The Hood
Ulik
A few things to note. My personal opinion is that Symbiote Spider-Man is a bit of a wasted slot. It seems silly to put an A-list character in a fan vote, because somehow they find weird ways to end up winning said votes. I’ll also add Mysterio as another figure that will probably be made again soon, especially with how quickly they are pumping out Spider-Man Marvel Legends waves.
Lyra actually has been tooled, just not the costume in that picture. She was supposed to be the running change for Red She-Hulk in the Hit Monkey wave. I’m going to guess that they may update her if she does win the vote.
Finally, Ulik is a very easy retool of Blastaar.
If I had to pick one, give me Cosmo. As for a top four: Cosmo, Malekith, Darkhawk, and Angella.
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I feel the same way about Spider-Man: He’s Spider-Man! Hasbro can make him whenever they want. Heck, some waves of figures have two-4 Spider-Man figures in them!
Why not just create a fan’s choice wave where Hasbro adds 2 A-listers they want to sell and fans pick the rest?
That is the one thing that is sad about these polls, they put out all these names that now I want. But only a few actually get made!