Who said vac-metal?

I have to disagree with you on the whole "so much care was put into it" (Odin). Its very detailed and well done; they still effed up by using that weak paint for gold instead of something brighter. Other than that its fantastic. EXCEPT for the HEIGHT. Odin has never been this freakishly tall before. It's bizarre that they scaled him up so much out of the correct range. Probably to justify the outrageous price they've got planned for him.

If they alter the plug-ins on the wings, the Knull two pack wings on the new Angel body with a new head would be an easy The Fallen to do.

SKRULL👑

I was hoping that they would reveal the Secret Wars 40th Anniversary wave.. That being said..im lust picking up Odin..Dark Phoenix.. Damien Hellstrom .. possibly Dracula & : Destiny Rogue 2 Pack As far as Asgardians.. the Marvel Legends team counted that Bor Multipack from awhile back..plus the ones you mentioned

Hey Jeff, First of all, the "...new Blade movie coming 2035" comment cracked me up! That movie does seem like it's in development hell. Man, I wished they had given us the classic Brother Voodoo look! I understand that this new one is a "Dr. Voodoo", but its so close to the previous release that I'm a bit like, ...whatever. That Deluxe Phoenix is probably my favorite of the bunch; awesome figure and wonderful Phoenix flame-bird effect/stand. I also dig Odin, WCA Moon Knight, Rogue, and Blackheart. The rest I'll get just to expand my Marvel Legends roster, but I'm not too excited about them. One last note...I think Hasbro might be underestimating how passionate some of us fans are. They probably thought that the "Strange Tales" moniker was good enough to describe a wave of Supernatural themed figures, and technically speaking, it is. However, they probably should've known that our expectations for figures from such a wave should have included more characters from that series and time period, than we're actually getting.

I didn't expect to care about an Odin figure, but this looks really good.

Late to the party. Love the Odin and Jean grey reveals. The hellverine looks awesome but won't get him

-I think the Strange Takes wave was a makeshift wave to replace an MCU wave in hiatus because of film delays. -Dwight wanted modern Dracula, so that’s who we got. -I think Lilith and Blackheart were initially created for an EOV wave, we’re cancelled, and here they are. -Bloodstorm was probably made for another wave and moved here. -Hellvarine looks quickly kit bashed. -Maybe 3rd times the charm for modern Dr. Voodoo? -Hasbro didn’t listen to us that asked for a removable cape to go with the original Hellstrom EOV offering.

With the vehicle issues. Didn’t Hasbro make that boat for Fortnite Victory Royal Series. I think it was about $76. McFarlane has made a few Batmobiles and a couple of planes. The Dark knight Tumbler was only $69.99 for 7 inch figures. Why can’t Hasbro pump these out. Even Ramen is making Vehicles. Why can’t they do two or three a year, through fan channel. I seen a custom made from that Turtle van into the punisher van. It looked really good and that Turtle Van is $40.

Rogue's hairdo looks like something from a 1950s housewife or school teacher.

I’m actually a huge fan of these reveals. A new Phoenix has been number one on my wishlist since I started collecting since I missed out on her, and my supernatural/magic shelf is so empty compared to my other shelves, especially since I love all the monsters and demons of Marvel. Personally, I was eating good with this stream

The moment I saw that Odin, I couldn't help but think, "It's Viking King Santa!"

Im a fan of the look of modern Dracula. I’m excited for that figure.

Great livestream. Odin looks amazing with all of that detail and color and accessories! Love Phoenix with flame base. Armored Dracula is just the costume I wanted for him, and the figure looks great. Very cool to get Hellstrom. I have mixed feelings about the wave,but Blackheart looks like a significant upgrade over the Toy Biz version. Probably a must-have.

That Black heart baf could be a cool MCU lizard with a little tooling .

Ive been waiting on this Dracula, id rather this look instead of another 1/12 classic Dracula when we already have so many from multiple lines

With the Strange Tales wave rumoured, I was convinced we'd finally get a comic book accurate Baron Mordo, Nightmare and Wizard. Boy I got that wrong. I agree with you that classic Brother Voodoo would have been so cool I didn't need this re-do right now. This modern Dracula I actually really like, certainly more then the Bela Lugosi/Vincent Price version. Lilith was a pleasant surprise and well executed. Don't get why Moon Knight is in this wave at all (but happy to have him anyway). I am stoked about Odin, Blackheart, the Rogue/Destiny 2 pack and the deluxe Phoenix. I am certain we will see a classic Son of Satan in time, if they're releasing this guy now but it wold have been nice to get a different version than the failed Haslab one. I have never heard of Hellverine; the skull is cool but all that old tech doesn't make him an attractive figure to pick up at all. Glad there's no BAF part so I can skip him TBH. Great video mate.

Brother Voodoo, Blood-Storm, Hellverine, Son of Satan and Moon Knight are the 5 cheapest repaints of the year all in one wave! 🤦🏾‍♂️ I like the theme of the wave. Dracula and Black Heart are the only new pieces in the wave. Even Lilith is a repainted Shriek body. Hasbro delivered an entire wave of horror/supernatural characters that 3 years ago they said could never be put out at retail because of public relations and negative impact on brand. What changed that allows it now?🤦🏾‍♂️

To break them down by how desirable they are to me. Great: Odin, Phoenix, Dracula, Black Heart (my toybiz one had to have to tail repaired) Good: Xavier, Destiny, Rogue. Hellstrom, Moon Knight Ok: Venom (Have enough of this venom body), Bloodstorm, lilith No thanks: Wolverine (Tired of this old body), Voodoo (I have him, don't feel the need to upgrade) Overall happy with the releases. Voodoo is the only character in the BAF that I feel like is sunk cost, since I already have one that is good enough.

Jeff, is that the Dracula from 90s Spiderman cartoon?

This makes it difficult for me to decide should I stick with my MAFEX pre order Phoenix who doesn’t even come with the Phoenix or cancel for this one. Another rough part is I don’t need majority of the wave, however the build a figure Blackheart is essential for the collection.

This makes it difficult for me to decide should I stick with my MAFEX pre order Phoenix who doesn’t even come with the Phoenix or cancel for this one. Another rough part is I don’t need majority of the wave, however the build a figure Blackheart is essential for the collection.

At San Diego Comic Con: 1) Cockrum/Byrne Cyclops 2) Ariel green and yellow Kitty 3) Punker Rogue 4) Rachel Grey (any, just give me a new Rachel!) 5) Fraction Era Kate Bishop 6) Fraction Era Clint Barton 7) Archangel 8) X-Factor Iceman w/ Power Belt thingy (best Iceman design) 9) Classic Goblin Queen 10) Cassandra Nova 11) FF She-Hulk 12) Green and yellow Banshee 13) Classic New Mutants 14) Holocaust/Nemesis 15) Xavier in classic normal wheelchair 16) Hepzibah 17) Raz'ah 18) Deathbird 19) Gladiator 20) Hope Summers 21) Exodus 22) Armored Outback Psylocke 23) Outback Colossus 24) X-Factor 2nd Costume Jean 25) Hairless Beast 26) Astonishing Beast 27) The Morrison Era New X-Men all of them. 28) Morrison Era Fantomex 29) Updated Laura Wolverine w/ better articulation 30) Classic green and yellow Marvel Girl w/ not crappy traffic cone skirt 31) Marrow 32) Dr. Cecilia Reyes 34) The Remaining Maruaders 35) Captain Britian Betsy 36) Updated comic Carol Capt. Marvel 37) Classic Four Horsemen from Simonson era 38) Commando 39) Silver Sabre 40) Stonewall 41) X-Force (Krakoa) Sage 42) Harry Leland 43) Hellfire Club Tessa 44) Generation X Emma Frost 45) Generation X Banshee 46) Headmaster Magneto (80s) 47) Shanna the She-Devil 48) Update Cockrum Storm 49) Update Punker Storm 50) Pilot Madelyn Pryor 51) Eternals Green Sersi 52) Comic Jessica Jones 53) Updated Classic MJ 54) School Boy Punk Quentin Quire 55) Armor 56) Karolina Dean 57) Runaways Nico Minoru 58) Henry Peter Gyrich 59) Senator Robert Kelley 60) Yellow and magenta costume Moira MacTaggart 61) Late 90s Kitty Pryde 62) Yukio 63) Ogun 64) Updated Red costume comic Elektra on Warbird body 65) Foggy Nelson 66) Jack the King Kirby 67) Dr. Bong (to fight She-Hulk) 68) Baldur the Brave 69) The Warriors 3 70) Heimdal 71) Werewolf by Night 72) Articulated Howard the Duck 73) Abnet/Lanning Era Rocket 74) Abnet/Lanning Era Groot 75) Abnet/Lanning Era Star Lord 76) Abnet/Lanning Era Gamora 77) Abnet/Lanning Mantis 78) Abnet/Lanning Bug 79) Abnet/Lanning Drax 80) Annihilus 81) Kid Franklin and Valeria Richards 82) Updated Richard Ryder Nova 83) X-Factor Investigations Madrox 84) X-Factor Kid and Adult Layla Miller

To clarify: That's an update of Dr. Voodoo, from his brief stint in the comics as sorcerer supreme. When he's in that black costume with the cloak of levitation and eye of Agamotto, he's Dr. Voodoo. Hasbro released that version as part of the SDCC exclusive Books of Vishanti box set in 2015. They released a modern " Brother Voodoo shortly after for commercial release as part of the Dormammu BAF wave. On that one, his cape is tattered and there's no eye of Agamatto. Why either of these got an update before we got a classic Brother Voodoo is beyond me 😂😭

I love X-men but i would have preferred Rachel Summers Phoenix to complete my Excalibur team. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Odin looks amazing. Could he be as big as the Destroyer though? Hopefully not. Or what about Ulik? I think he might be 40 bucks

I am stoked for Odín, Phoenix, Destiny and Rogue. Dracula and Moon Knight too. Classic Bro Voodoo would be welcomed.

Besides the #StrangeTales dissapointment A Massive WtF (No all blue baggy Dr. STRANGE, No Warlock, No modern Voodoo, Neither of the Baron's, No Golum or Endless BaF) SMH. > But, they Finally nailed Destiny! And they did her right. By giving her the proper female comic book- torso bust! Same w/ Storm & Rogue. After A Year of complaining about the 2.0 _Moonstone "Power House"_ torso (uni-boob) dilemma. Unlike Mattel's PATHETIC WWE team- Hasbro's Ryan, Dwight & them actually do listen too the fan base. Cause these New Female upper torso's are again more comicbook accurate. E.g. recently scene on the new retro IRON MAN card She-Hulk _Legends_ (torso mod is up on IG via Red Ice's account). And ODIN looks pretty good as well! A _"Kirby repaint"_ chase like _Toybiz_ used to do w/ variants would of been A smart move. But Regardless,, that Odin deluxe w/ A new sword, and them official looking gauntlets, plus multiple head-dresses is an imposing figure.

Thanks for the re-cap Jeffrey. Obviously I have the wrong idea of Marvel comics Strange Tales. Odin is a must-have for sure and it will be a wonderful product to display. I am more of a frustrated Marvel Legends collector. I would love to be a fly on the wall at Hasbro for those product meetings selecting the characters. Something tells me ML uses google a lot.

I've never had luck with Walmart exclusives, or just finding anything at Walmart in general. The toy section is mostly just merchandise for toddlers where I live now, which is fair. But almost everything DC/Marvel gets locked up behind glass.

Great video recap, as always! As you know, I've been asking for a Brotherhood-era Rogue for years. She's actually been my most-wanted X-Men character. And I can happily breathe in relief; I think they nailed this version almost perfectly. The severe faceprint doesn't bother me; it would be nice if we had the option of a different head sculpt, but we won't. Dwight said both figures in the two-pack would come with alternate hands, and I think that's their sole accessories. So I hope your heart doesn't break about that. And speaking of the two-pack, I am so happy with how this turned out. Like you, I was expecting Destiny and Mystique after Rektangular's leak. I already have a solid Mystique, I don't need another one--and I wasn't going to buy a two-pack just for Destiny. But packing her with my beloved Rogue is excellent. I can't wait for this set. My favorite reveal of the stream. Phoenix took me by surprise, and I'm thrilled. The buck, the paint, the flame effects and bird... it's all so glorious. Is the hair perfect? No. Honestly, though, they've made like seven Jean Grey figures now and I don't think they've gotten her head right yet. I don't think I've ever been this excited about X-Men reveals in a stream before. When Rektangular leaked a Professor X was coming, I foolishly hoped it would be a Bronze Age version with a normal wheelchair, not that Jim Lee-designed contraption. Alas, it's this weird version from an era of X-Men comics that I don't care about or collect. Well, I hope the fans are happy with this one. Odin. Wow... Big boy. I have a feeling he'll be really expensive, and as awesome as he looks, I don't know if I'll bite right now. If there were more Asgardians like Balder the Brave and the Warriors Three, then yeah, Odin would be a no-brainer. But at this point, I've only got one Thor on my shelf and he's posed with the Avengers. Odin doesn't have a place. As for the Strange Tales wave... Ugh. I've been wanting a Marvel Horror wave, but not like this. Not. Like. This. Look, all of these figures look great. Even the weird inclusions look fantastic. But I have no interest in these figures, or rather these incarnations. I LOVE Brother Voodoo, but I want the original look! I LOVE Tomb of Dracula, but I want the Gene Colan look! I lo--well, like Damon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan, but I want the original version! At least his inclusion gives me hope that Mephisto will be released on his own. I might *might* get Lilith, as I do have a fond memory of reading the Spirits of Vengeance crossover, and I got the Ketch Ghost Rider coming, so, might as well. But yeah, sign me up for Rogue, Destiny, and Phoenix. And maybe Lilith. Women only this round. For real, now the only X-Men characters I need are classic Banshee, Kitty in her training outfit, and Perez-style Beast.

The Hellstrom is a Darker color.

I’m not buying any updated figures

You know what’s crazy a week or two ago was doing research on Brother Voodoo looking for pictures for my data base and this picture came up of that very same picture and I thought it was a custom and they really dropped the ball they could have put in astral form of his brother

Also...we got two Tigras in her bikini, so, what makes that different than Goblin Queen, Emma Frost, Shanna....? Is it the fur?

I think the success of X-Men 97 and the popularity of the Goblin Queen figure specifically, may increase the likelihood of getting a classic Goblin Queen. Though, for all I know, with their habit of doing the wrong costumes, they'll probably do the Goblin Queen as the ruler of Limbo from the Dark Web and Dark X-Men comics from 2022-2023. I'd still buy it, but the original Goblin Queen costume looks better.

I was surprised by Hellverine and I’m like if you can do this figure so quick why can’t we get a Menace from Spider-Man , they’ve done Hallow-eve, and Chasm

They may be hesitant to do a classic Tomb of Dracula, well, Dracula, due to the fact that NECA and Jada Toys have been doing the Universal Studios style Dracula, dude in a suit Drac. So, the armored Vlad the Impaler style Dracula makes sense to sort of stand out from the rest. Bloodstorm has crossed over into the 616, she was a member of the secondary team in X-Men Blue during the period when the O5 teen X-Men were in the present. Also, Havok was in a serious relationship with Maddie again last time I checked.

I rather get the Rachel Summers Phoenix, then the Phoenix we got but hey that Phoenix looks good. Hope you’re doing good Jeffrey and peace.

I gotta say Odin is really nice looking I thought they could have made is Sword look more like it dose in the comic, Phoenix is also great, Venom is a pass and it’s a Target exclusive easy pass, Strange Tales was misleading and a disappointment all in one breath, even though most of the figures are wanted just not here, only one I don’t need is the Moonknight and I already have Blackheart I just wish they had done a Baron Mordo, and Deathbird is on that cover too, Destiny and evil Rouge are a get I hope she comes with a hood and a ungloved hand, now we need Classic Mastermind ,Unus , Green suit Quicksilver , let’s get Stonewall,Crimson Commander and Saber yeah I’m greedy I’m supporting this line and company I wants what I want.😅

I think they released that Brother Voodoo figure during the Dormammu BAF wave.

I want everything shown lol.

Disappointing reveals. Odin is only a maybe as the MCU Version Anthony Hopkins Version is actually pretty good and I can get them cheap. Of course, this is a possible still. Venom is a pass. Phoenix is a definite. Destiny and Rogue only for the Destiny. Don't need the Warlord Xavier. The Wave, only the Hellstorm and maybe Brother Voodoo. Don't need any more Wolverine, Storm, or Moon Knight. Wrong Lilith. Instead of Dracula's Daughter we get the Fugly Demoness. And that's NOT the Dracula I remember! I remember the Tomb of Dracula and the younger bearded, also dark haired Dracula. I never liked the White Haired interpretations. So, another pass.

Hopefully Hasbro ends the BAF waves program. Make a wave of five figures and a deluxe figure offering and no one will feel forced to buy a wave that they don’t want. The five figure wave will have to be figures that can stand on their own without the BAF piece to make it a must buy just to complete the BAF. Dracula is the only figure in this wave that I’m getting or for me is a must have. It’s the same for marvel legend haslabs they should be every other year or end marvel legends HasLabs for a few years. Marvel legends fans don’t support haslab projects anyway, so why invest in them?

Basically I want everybody you listed, plus Titania, Volcana, and an updated Wrecking Crew to round out my Secret Wars collection.

Mirrored thoughts on all this. I love the Rogue and Destiny... But we need an alternate head. Why no classic Brother Voodoo? And yes, calling it Strange Tales was misleading. Only Strange in the loosest sense of being magic/demon orientated. But it could have been a lot better. Only pick up from that wave for me is probably Lillith. I LOVE the Phoenix. Total shoe in for a classic X-Men display.

Yeah, I’m not gonna complain about how I get my Moon Knight either. Lol. Because just like you, West Coast Avengers as well as Marvel Handbook, was my introduction to the character, too.

I think the blaster is going to come with a new Secret Wars two pack with Kang. Maybe even with the (as yet not ever made) version of Deadpool from "Deadpool's Secret Wars". We are due for a new Wade comic figure, maybe with his "handsome mustached" head and "secret message shield". Ok, its a stretch, but I hope. Also Marvel may have made the best Lex Luthor head sculpt ever made with the Prof X/ Warlord figure.

A version of Bloodstorm was eventually brought into the 616 and even dated the young time displaced Cyclops for second.