iF Magazine spoke with recently resigned Marvel Entertainment head Avi Arad about upcoming film projects he’s working on for Marvel. In additon to breaking news that the next Hulk movie will be a complete “do-over” of the first one, he also says new cartoons for Spider-Man, Wolverine And The X-Men, Fantastic Four, and even Iron Man after that movie is done.
And he clarifies some of this ToyBiz confusion as well:

iF: Switching to toys how do the new HASBRO toy lines look in comparison to the previous TOY BIZ lines?
ARAD: TOY BIZ is very involved in the design of the toys, but the distribution will be through HASBRO. The scale isn’t going to change.

Maybe Marvel Legends isn’t in as much danger as I thought, because Hasbro seems to have no trouble getting mountains of Star Wars, GI Joe and Transformers to market…

Fwooshnet.com had an opportunity to ask Jesse Falcon of Toy Biz 10 questions mostly dealing with the Marvel Legends Wal-Mart Exclusive Giant-Man wave. Some of the questions are very good and a couple have nothing to do with anything. I’m not sure if the scarcity has been as much of an issue as it has been here for us at powet.tv, but it would have been nice to see a question about why the wave has been in such poor supply.

Action-Figure.com is reporting that the Onslaught Series of Marvel Legends figures (Wave 13) has hit store shelves and sightings have been reported. One of their readers has also submitted the case breakdown for the figures.

• Abomination x3
• Loki x3
• Deathstrike x3
• Blackheart x2
• Green Goblin x2
• Pyro x1

It appears as though Pyro will be foolishly shortpacked, while Abomination, Loki, and Deathstrike will become shelf-warmers.

On a side note, I noticed that Onslaught is only about 8 inches tall. So don’t be shocked when you put him together and he is half the size of the Sentinel. On the bright side, with this wave we return to the 6 piece build a figure, instead of the 10 piece that is nigh impossible to find a single piece of.

Good Hunting, Collectors!

A press release went out a couple weeks ago, ‘announcing’ pretty much what we already know about this exclusive wave that will be hitting Wal-mart in the first days of the upcoming month. However, an update was sent out to make a clarification about just how many figures are needed to get a full Giant-man. For those unaware, recent waves of Marvel Legends have had individual figures packaged with a piece to a much larger figure. This exclusive wave’s build-a-figure is Giant-man.

I wanted to clarify an oversight on the press release that was sent last week. Please note that you must collect 10 figures to build Giant Man (one of these figures is a variant). The variants in this assortment will not be as hard to come by as other Marvel Legends assortments.

As a reminder, the variants will be Sentry with a full beard (regular is clean shaven) and Age Of Apocalypse Wolverine with a disfigured head. I do not know of any other variants for this wave.

[Source: Superhero Times]