[Tony_Bacala]

Full recap and our screen captures:

Hasbro Pulse – Marvel Legends Fan First Thursday May 27th, 2021 Recap

[OriginalFire]

I thought this was supposed to be on Friday. I'm down for the AOA and Spiderman stuff.

[DetectiveFork]

Is Tigra a store exclusive, and coming later? Is she part of the 1 p.m. pre-orders?

[Harbinger]

Love the aoa wave and tygra. Hate the pinless atuff though. Wish hasbro would stop it,

[Joe Moore]

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Originally Posted by DetectiveFork

Is Tigra a store exclusive, and coming later? Is she part of the 1 p.m. pre-orders?

As noted, it was an end of stream teaser only. No release date announced.

[Exodus]

All in for the AOA!!!

[Dolemite]

Still no Death's Head. *sigh*

[CelticMutt]

End teaser was obviously Meggan's hair, plus Lockheed. Looks like the rumors of an Excalibur wave or set are true.

[IzzyTipsy]

Great for AoA fans, but definitely not my cup of tea.

Still waiting for a classic Shadowcat.

[juggernaut209]

Glad to see Tigra confirmed finally, feels like she's been rumored for 5 years.

[mangkanorxxv]

some of the links are wrong

[Cyclopswc]

I just want to take a moment to thank Tony and others on this board for being so on top of things, with screen-capture and posting so quickly after these events. My work blocks YouTube and HasbroPulse (I know! The humanity!), so you guys are the ones keeping me in the know.

Thank you!

[firmpulse]

Magneto looks to use a new buck. Hopefully we'll see it replace the Bucky Cap body (looks at AOA Cyclops) or maybe not.

[jedicrippler]

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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

Great for AoA fans, but definitely not my cup of tea.

Still waiting for a classic Shadowcat.

Judging by the end of stream teaser, we'll be getting her soon enough since that's definitely an Excalibur teaser.

[Sean C]

3 3/4" Storm looks pretty good.

I've ever seen that line once in person, Target scalper must've overslept that day.

[redfox]

No interest in AOA, but I'll be picking up Legion and the X-ladies as a matter of principle. Kinda wish Kitty had the more aggressive smirk that's illustrated on the packaging.

Damn, Tigra looks fantastic! Hope she comes with an alternate classic head.

[MeLikeJinx]

I really wish I was interested in AoA... their designs are just so unabashedly mid 90's looking... but I was already out of comics by then. Those Excalibur teases were neat too.

[DtLS]

Why do Spider-man 2099's claw hands look so out of scale?

[Nerdtainment]

Damn these are cool! Only one I don't want is Legion... but I'll just have him customized into a Wayne Static haha

[Harbinger]

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Originally Posted by Nerdtainment

Damn these are cool! Only one I don't want is Legion... but I'll just have him customized into a Wayne Static haha

Dude! Thats an outSTANDING idea.

[GizmoTron]

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Originally Posted by DtLS

Why do Spider-man 2099's claw hands look so out of scale?

Likely because they're a repainted reuse from a previous figure and not originally intended for Spider-Man so they're a little off (but not enough that it's easily noticed).

[webz]

Funny that AoA has a new life to it 20+ years later. I remember during the event it was quite polarizing, majority leaning negative. Hasbro would have had a riot on its hands if they asked fans to pony up $25 a piece for toys of that event.

[GizmoTron]

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Originally Posted by webz

Funny that AoA has a new life to it 20+ years later. I remember during the event it was quite polarizing, majority leaning negative. Hasbro would have had a riot on its hands if they asked fans to pony up $25 a piece for toys of that event.

Well fans likely moaned and groaned as they always have back then as they do now, but AOA was a massive success for Marvel and a huge fan favorite, which they've literally returned to that well many times for like every anniversary and various copycat events over the years trying to recapture that 90s level ambition. Hell, the current Heroes Reborn is practically right out of the AOA playbook just for the Avengers.

[Mogwai]

Man. I’ve been wanting Sabretooth in a three-piece suit for a while. The “not feral“ head would be perfect for a kit bash of one.

[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

Well fans likely moaned and groaned as they always have back then as they do now, but AOA was a massive success for Marvel and a huge fan favorite, which they've literally returned to that well many times for like every anniversary and various copycat events over the years trying to recapture that 90s level ambition. Hell, the current Heroes Reborn is practically right out of the AOA playbook just for the Avengers.

My recollection is similar to that of Webz. Outside of X-men fans, who are admittedly a huge fanbase capable of propelling popularity/sales on their lonesome, I recall the comic book shop assessment being not so glowing of AoA. AoA by no means started nor typified cross over events. It wasn't even the first for the X-men, as I stopped regular reading of main tier X-books following Inferno. The 90s represented a great deal of hype and, sometimes, empty and gaudy numbers given the many non-readers collecting in a get-rich-quick fashion. Once the Zeitgeist glommed onto Supes and Spidey #1s selling for tens of thousands of dollars, everybody from coked out investment bankers to polydent peddling octogenarians were buying up tinfoil variants of Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider left and right. They did the same with everything from Beanie Babies to Tickle-Me Elmo. Remember the foil cover madness, or every title being rebooted to #1 to cash in on the uninitiated that didn't know better? Well, I do. I had friends working in and running shops at the time and while they certainly don't represent a large and diverse pool of evidentiary research, their "meh"ness about AoA wasn't exactly an isolated occurrence - as anecdotal a statement as that may be. AoA is definitely celebrated among the many, many X-men fans, but I'm not sure of the event's cachet far beyond.

Alllllll that said, I can't say I'm entirely unbiased as, imo, there have only been 3.5 cross over events that I've continued to like in the years following: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinity Gauntlet, Annihilation, and half of Annihilation:Conquest.