The Toyark was able to sit in on a Google Hangout interview session with the Marvel Legends team at Hasbro today. Fans from several other sites were also there asking questions about Toy Fair 2020 Reveals, The Haslab teaser, working with Marvel Studios and more. Read on to check out a quick run down after the break!
Participants:
MU Review
Marvelicious Toys
Toyark
Ghrenassia.com
Marvel Team:
Dwight Stall – Senior Design Manager
Ryan Ting – Senior Brand Manger
Tony Colella – Master Model Artist
Dan Yun – Associate Brand Manager
All questions and answers below are PARAPHRASED and reduced to key points. Lots of casual discussion around each question omitted.
MU Review: What are additional future technology aspects you’d like to work into the line?
Getting the plastic / PVC to move like flesh.
Effects for powers.
Marvelicious: What % of Legends were revealed at Toy Fair for the year?
Roughly 60%, not exact.
Toyark: Any possibility of getting Spider Man and his amazing friends or 60s Marvel Cartoons?
Have access to the whole catalog for Marvel. Talked about it. Cell shading, Spider Man Me-Too 2 pack. They’ve talked about getting artist specific styles, and doing that for animated as well. Team is big fan of Spider Man and Amazing friends, more to come.
Ghrenassia: When do they start working on movie toys in relation to when they come out?
Depends on when they get assets to them. Movie times are set, so that gives them time to have them ready. At times movie studios will hold back information or characters so they get pushed to later waves to avoid spoilers. Example is last year’s Hulk, with gauntlet in wave 3. Same for Bro Thor, held back to wave 3. Sometimes they won’t know about key parts of movies until they see it in the theater.
MU Review: Is the Sugar Man wave the last of the Age of Apocalypse line?
Yes for 2020, after that – stay tuned. Well is not dry. If it was up to Dan, he’d do nothing but AoA.
Marvelicious: Old Man Hawkeye and new articulation, no pins etc – said it was an experiment. What is a downside to the new method?
When you create an upper/lower arm in this style – can’t swap parts. Same with thighs/shins. So limits reuse and swapping down the road for repaints. Limits tool usage going forward.
Toyark: Anything holding you back from doing a Bill Bixby, Lou Ferigno Hulk, older properties?
Nothing holding back, may require some extra work for character likenesses. Key is finding out how to fit it in, find right time, what Marvel wants to do during the year. Disney+ exposes new fans to old properties and may open things like this up.
Ghrenassia: How close do you work with the Studios in relation to the toys?
They will have video conferences, explain whats going to be key in upcoming movies and tv shows, try to keep Hasbro in loop of changes. In earlier Marvel Studios times, Hasbro would storyboard with them as movie was in production, worked with Marvel during Captain America to help make things work for toys.
MU Review: Who would you like to see as a Hyper Real Marvel character.
Wolverine, size and muscle mass, multiple costumes. Spider-Man, having seamless joints for the suit. Gambit so the Jacket can come off. Black Panther, same idea as Spider Man – seamless costume. Nightcrawler.
Marvelicious: At Toy Fair – Gamerverse 2 packs, what was up with that?
They were the 6 inch kid targeted line, based on looks from the Avengers game. Not traditional legends. Legends will be in spring.
Toyark: Fox properties – one shot or ongoing, how long until we get teams finished?
To build out teams – long time. Can’t speak beyond what was shown. Who knows what future holds, if it’s a hit and Marvel likes it they can do more. Don’t have it all mapped out yet. Tried for Cyclops in the black leather for this year but couldn’t get it in. If the demand from fans is there, they can shift things around.
Ghrenassia: Has there been a difference between toy design and movie design?
There has been, many times they get concept art and movie changes before they can react – Cull Obsidian changed drastically. Endgame – Quantum suits changed late. They will try to address it in future if they can. Getting skin tones right from concept art (Thanos as an example).
MU Review: Haslab Sentinel – How tall? What was on table but didn’t make it?
More announcements in a month or so. Can’t comment on size or what it is. Pretty impressive in scale. Vehicles, Playsets, big characters all discussed by fans and team.
Marvelicious: Modern Rogue – no white stripe at Toy Fair, sup?
Rushed prototypes to get ready for Toy Fair. Rogue’s hair, Storms gauntlets. Will be addressing before retail release.
Toyark: Haslab – already spoken about, but talk about it more now. :)
Multiple concepts before locking into this. Bigger and more crazy than what’s been done in Legends so far. Previous Haslabs were extremely successful. They want to smash the offering out the gate so they can do more later on.
Ghrenassia: Are tv and movies more tied to toys than before?
Yes, there is more of an expectation of toys as they come out now. Legends have grown over the years, lots more product coming out. Avengers Game, Maximum Venom, Disney+ are examples.
That’s about it! Again, all the questions and answers here are paraphrased, but we believe this was the gist of the chat. We would like to thank the Hasbro team and the PR team for getting this together and including us in the mix!
Interview with the Marvel Legends Team Post Toy Fair 2020
Nothing super secret epic revealed or anything, but was cool to sit down and chat. This is one of the best brand teams out there, they are responsive to fans and know their stuff.
Cool interview, but damn. If I had known you guys were interviewing the Hasbro Legends crew, I would have asked you to see if there's ever a change of getting a figure of the original Death's Head, currently my most-wanted figure by a whopping margin.

That's pretty cool. I didn't really follow Legends during Toy Fair so I didn't realize another Haslab thing was hinted at. A huge Sentinel?
Also would love 70's Hulk figures if they ever could make them.
Hey, whatever happened to the Marvel Legends Fan Vote 2020? Were those figures ever revealed, and was a winner announced?
My big question. Avengers:Endgame final battle Thor. He seems to be the only one really missing....and maybe captain marvel.
Anybody have news on him?
The other big question is the 3.75, when are they reviving that line? :P
I'd lose my shit if they ever made a Ferrigno Hulk or a Nicholas Hammond Spiderman.
What about a Japanese Spider-Man figure?
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Pretty cool what they are doing? What about 2099, did it die and no one wants to talk about it? Still wish I could see a Ghost Rider 2099 someday! one of my favorite characters. Also something I would love to see would be Goblin Knight or Phil Urich's Green Goblin. All not super popular I guess... Still a want, STILL HAPPY with what I am seeing.
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So three of our Qs were about older properties and if/when. Old cartoon, Old TV, Old Fox stuff. I think the general vibe is - we want to do it all, have ability/rights to do it all, but only have so many slots. And they are pumping stuff out so fast as is. I'd bet the same would be said for all the above themes. Everyone wants that specific thread touched.

I'm less hardcore than you guys, so I'm just along for the ride.
That comic style War Machine they revealed at Toy Fair was HUGE for me! Still hoping for a classic comic Dr Strange release in the retro line. And mb a re-release of some of the old Toybiz BAF as Haslab project like they are planning with the Sentinel. Mb Haslab classic comic Giant Man w/normal size Giant man/Ant man figure packaged with the Giant man figure?.... Galactus is another obvious Toybiz BAF that would translate well to Haslab.
*Edit* Need a Hasbro version of the classic comic Falcon too. Then we will pretty much have classic comic versions of all of the Avengers movie characters.
Would also love to see a continuation of the 80th Anniversary line with the Alex Ross box art with more classic characters. I had to buy an extra Iron Man, Capt America, and Thor to keep MOC bcs the box art was so attractive. Not sure how they would re-market the line though since the 80th anniversary is over now.
Could anyone clarify from the context of the original chat what was meant by "getting the plastic / PVC to move like flesh"? Did they mean stretchable parts ala Mr Fantastic, or some sort of Phicen skin over a metal body, or was it about articulation? I have no idea what they meant.
And Amen to a Death's Head. Why they produced an obscure character like DH2 I'll never understand
And Amen to a Death's Head. Why they produced an obscure character like DH2 I'll never understand
And yes, I think he was speaking on wanting a more moveable flesh like plastic. Whether that means a Phicen style over a frame, a Hyper Real style, or using similar construction as now but with fleshy plastic, not 100%. It was all just future what-if style speculation. Generally I think his intent was that he'd like to remove cuts and pegs and so on so they are more streamlined and realistic with movement and looks.
Anybody have news on him?
Wouldn't mind Legends for Ferrigno or Hammond either though...
At least they stopped making those Titan figures...
Wouldn't mind Legends for Ferrigno or Hammond either though...
Yeah before Mattel lost the DC license I was really hoping they'd do more movie/tv characters in their new Signature line. They gave us Devito Penguin, Carter Wonder Woman and Kilmer Batman, but I was really hoping for Pfeiffer Catwoman and Slater Supergirl too. I guess we may never get those in the 6" scale, let alone Hot Toys 1/6 scale.
I'm less hardcore than you guys, so I'm just along for the ride.
Those are still some of their best sellers when it comes to easy money, Hasbro will never stop making them or something just like them.
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