Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Mattel: LSH action figures!

I cringe whenever I see an ad for one of these things. Because they're always aimed towards adult collectors. They're one more sign that the comics industry is in the middle of a long, incredibly drawn out, collapse.

Keep an eye out for the next Toyfare magazine...it will talk extensively about these legion action figures. I saw the preview and got nerdgasm.

I ordered the JLU type figures from them and had to pay almost the same amount again for postage costs as I did for the figures! I don't know why but the post office put some sort of import charge on them when they arrived in the UK.

So be careful when ordering these things!!

It didn't offer much new information.

The 12-pack was done in response to DC wanting something special for hardcore collectors.

The wanted to do Bouncing Boy, but it would require a new sculpt and was cost-prohibitive at this point. They wanted to do Duo Damsel, but couldn't make it work for the 12-pack. Other characters they would have liked to included -- Sun Boy, Phantom Girl (empahsized), Invisible Kid, Dawnstar, Blok, Ferro Lad.

More Legionnaires will probably show up in the C&C's.

Could be variants of the figures in the 12-pack down the road. Brainiac 5 was mentioned.

They want to finish the remaining four characters of the Fatal Five.

Has there been any further update on when this comes out? I know we had a few threads on action figures in general and the DC Universe Classics line but I can't seem to find them.

i am still waiting for that one!!! grrrrrrr.....

Accoring to Toy Fare magazine #158, the Legion 12-pack will be available in May 2011.

*runs to deposit the $$$ to the savings account for that 12-pack* whooo hoooo!!! *rub hands*

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Pov:
<strong> A neat idea would be to release Lu as a three-pack... The orange and the purple-clad Lu's splitting off from Lu "prime"... kinda fulfilling Duo Damsel *and* Triplicate girl in one fell swoop.

I am definately looking forward to this multi pack coming out next May (even if all the guys faces look exactly alike).

I wish Mattycollector would put out more Legionnaires like the Cos/Brainy/Saturn Girl/LL 4-pack they did last year though. It's good for them to continue something they started, plus based on the fact that you cannot get that 4-pack anymore since they've become sell-outs, I don't think they would have a problem selling out again and again...
It would be so great if they did, say, 6 more 4-pack so we could round out the entire Legion that way! LOL

So what wave(s) are around for most people in stores? We just barely got the Validus wave here, & before that we had just recently gotten the Darkseid one.

Wave 17 of DC Universe Classics has just been revealed & it's Blackest Night themed. The figures are:

White Lantern Hal Jordan
Black Lantern Hal Jordan
Blue Lantern the Flash
Violet Lantern Wonder Woman
Orange Lantern Lex Luthor
Sinestro Corps Scarecrow
Indigo Lantern the Atom
BAF Anti-Monitor

Most of them look cool but I'd rather we go some more characters fitting the "classic/universe" idea, there seems to be way too much DC Direct overlap these days. Even with the sub-lines considering they have the GL Classics now too.

Doesn't anyone else feel a bit ripped off that DC doesn't bat an eyelash endorsing and arranging for action figures of new GL themed supporting characters (Orange Lantern Lex Luther for cryin' out loud!??) but the Legion has been around for decades and we've barely seen a figure here and there? And even for that we have to scream/plead/beg and write in hoping it will happen?
So they finally do it, sort of, just to shut us up LOL

Just an FYI to any Legion fans who were interested, Mattel recently announced in one of their Q&As on The Fwoosh web site that the Legion 12-pack has now been pushed back to late summer 2011.

Oddly enough, they also admitted the original intent was to have it out by the holidays of this year.

We have to wait until Summer now? I have a bad feeling that with all the delays most if not all of these LOSH figures will end up getting unreleased.

The delay on the 12 pack is that supposedly the Four Horsemen needed more time to craft all of the figures (only 3 or 4 figures were in prototype stage when this was announced at Comicon.)

Also rumors are that the reason wave 17 is the deputy lantern wave (called the rainbow wave on the mattycollector boards and a wave made up primarily of repaints and tweaks) is because again the Four Horsemen have a growing backlog and apparently need more time to turn out the figures.

It's a 12-pack, so either they're all released or not.

Yeah, like Colossal Boy said, with the addition of the Green Lantern Classics line and whatever else they sculpt for Mattel, the Four Horsemen have been getting backlogged. So the Legion 12-pack especially, as an online exclusive, is probably less of a priority than all the stuff that will make it to retail.

Considering the gamble on releasing the 12-pack anyway, I'd rather they take their time and get everything just right.

I'm keenly aware it's a 12-pack but it's not as if toys 1st announced to be in a multi-pack have ever been later rescheduled to another wave, had been downsized, cancelled altogether or a mix of those options.

I'm not trying to be a "Mr Grayson" I'm just being realistic.

Toy Fair is going on this weekend,and Mattel has some of the Legion action figures on display :

http://i.toynewsi.com/g/index.php?mode=album&album=2011_Toy_Fair%2FMattel%2FDC_Universe_Classics&start=0

http://toyfair2011.figures.com/showgallery.php?cat=553&page=2

hooray!! when will they on sale? love T Wolf, Cos, B 5 and Wildfire...but thought there were gonna be 12 of them, right? Star Boy was supposed to be there and Ultra Boy too.?

Hey, those look better than I thought they would!
Can't wait for these to come out this year.
And yes, I believe Star Boy and Ultra Boy are supposed to be a part of the set so I'm not sure why they weren't included?

These, do indeed look, awesome and I cannot wait for them to be announced

I do hope that Jo and Thoms absence is due to them not quite being ready as opposed to the pack being reduced in numbers.

The only. exceedingly minor, criticism I have is Brainy looks strangely bulky in comparison to the others.

NOOOOOOO... Why isn't Cham in his classic Cockrum outfit? Still gonna get them, though.