Mail-Away Marvel Universe Nick Fury Figure Details Come To Light

by Jay Cochran
May 28, 2009
Head over to Marvelousnews.com for details on the Hasbro 3 3/4" Marvel Universe figure.



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belmont13 - 2009-06-10 @ 2:40 pm

I call it being screwed, now I don't collect MU figures but I can see this was a very bad move. To the people who do collect this line I feel your pain.

IronMan1 - 2009-06-10 @ 5:29 am

I'll wait for when they release him single packed like in singapore.

JayC - 2009-06-08 @ 11:22 pm
its greed because they don't put it in with the normal toyline tell me how can 2 kids talk their parents into buying 2 subscriptions to marvel.com at $30 a pop cause there will be kids who read comics (real comics the kind you hold on printed paper) who are gonna want this so will their brother(s). basically this is to captialize on collectors and kids and boost sales on something i would rather pass on i read maybe 3 marvel comics a month (sorry i don't like wolverine then i would read every comic they put out). so great idea to boost sales for marvel.com by forcing people who want to complete a figure line. if you read every marvel comic they print then great a subscription is awesome you will save money but i don't read about them i read ultimate x-men/fantastic 4 but those are done uncanny x-men, capt america i read more dc. i also prefer a printed comic over an online version i pay for 3 months it ends i can't look back on those comics i have to buy the comic or another subscription.

It isn't greed. They are giving you a free figure if you subscribe to their digital comics. Do you just want them to give the figure away for free?

I wouldn't call it greed but it is a bad martketing strategy. Comic readers and action figure collectors don't go hand in hand nearly as much as one might think and forcing collectors to have to pay for a service they wouldn't normally want for a line that really is just getting going and already dealing with the venom from the 6" collectors who feel this line is responsible for killing their line is not a good way to build a positive buzz for it. If this was a well established line with a large following I could maybe see trying this but in the lines infine stages it just seems like a bad move on both Marvel and Hasbros part. I wouldn't be surprised though if they dont have some backup strategy for getting these figures into collectors hands if the subscription thing doesnt pan out.

EldestSon - 2009-06-08 @ 10:14 pm
its greed because they don't put it in with the normal toyline tell me how can 2 kids talk their parents into buying 2 subscriptions to marvel.com at $30 a pop cause there will be kids who read comics (real comics the kind you hold on printed paper) who are gonna want this so will their brother(s). basically this is to captialize on collectors and kids and boost sales on something i would rather pass on i read maybe 3 marvel comics a month (sorry i don't like wolverine then i would read every comic they put out). so great idea to boost sales for marvel.com by forcing people who want to complete a figure line. if you read every marvel comic they print then great a subscription is awesome you will save money but i don't read about them i read ultimate x-men/fantastic 4 but those are done uncanny x-men, capt america i read more dc. i also prefer a printed comic over an online version i pay for 3 months it ends i can't look back on those comics i have to buy the comic or another subscription.

It isn't greed. They are giving you a free figure if you subscribe to their digital comics. Do you just want them to give the figure away for free?

Nightwing4984 - 2009-06-08 @ 4:54 am

its greed because they don't put it in with the normal toyline tell me how can 2 kids talk their parents into buying 2 subscriptions to marvel.com at $30 a pop cause there will be kids who read comics (real comics the kind you hold on printed paper) who are gonna want this so will their brother(s). basically this is to captialize on collectors and kids and boost sales on something i would rather pass on i read maybe 3 marvel comics a month (sorry i don't like wolverine then i would read every comic they put out). so great idea to boost sales for marvel.com by forcing people who want to complete a figure line. if you read every marvel comic they print then great a subscription is awesome you will save money but i don't read about them i read ultimate x-men/fantastic 4 but those are done uncanny x-men, capt america i read more dc. i also prefer a printed comic over an online version i pay for 3 months it ends i can't look back on those comics i have to buy the comic or another subscription.

cjflan32 - 2009-06-06 @ 4:23 pm
my god this is stupid this is plain greed in the end, at least with dc infinite universe their exclusive is available at the comic-con and you just give them 50 points from your figs or $10 for an anti-monitor. i am gonna go to my comic-con and hope to find fury and if i don't find 1 i will spend $40 on e-bay if i have to cause i'm not gonna spend $30 on something i won't use EVER. i think it even said after you buy your subscription on marvel.com you still have to pay mf'n shipping & handling. i love the marvel universe figs but this is just "STEWPID" dc inf heros don't have the articulation but mattel and dc haven't screwed anyone with their exclusive.

Another fanboy who flunked out of business school. Has anyone ever gotten a figure they had to save cereal box POP for?

Explain to me how this is plain greed. Seriously. Print will be dead within two generations and if there's one thing you can learn from newspapers it's that you don't wait until your industry is on the verge of extinction to fix it. That's what Marvel's doing. It's called marketing. They give you a figure they don't make any money off of (and by the way genius they don't make any money off the shipping either) if you pay for their digital service for three months. It's for them to start pimping their service now and figure out what works and what doesn't because our hypothetical grandchildren will be laughing at us when we tell them we had to leave our house to get our comics rather them reading them online.

I haven't bought my figure yet but I have overlooked the subscription service. Is it perfect? No, so go through it and tell them what needs fixing. When the three months are over you still have your Nick Fury figure. But if you're going to waste more money to get less then by all means go ahead.

EldestSon - 2009-06-06 @ 6:54 am

They aren't selling a fig here guys. They are selling digital comics. The fig is just enticement.

Sorta like when you buy a Showtime Rotisserie grill and they throw in the heat resistant gloves and knives.

Nightwing4984 - 2009-06-06 @ 6:11 am

my god this is stupid this is plain greed in the end, at least with dc infinite universe their exclusive is available at the comic-con and you just give them 50 points from your figs or $10 for an anti-monitor. i am gonna go to my comic-con and hope to find fury and if i don't find 1 i will spend $40 on e-bay if i have to cause i'm not gonna spend $30 on something i won't use EVER. i think it even said after you buy your subscription on marvel.com you still have to pay mf'n shipping & handling. i love the marvel universe figs but this is just "STEWPID" dc inf heros don't have the articulation but mattel and dc haven't screwed anyone with their exclusive.

revSears - 2009-06-03 @ 9:51 am

Call me crazy but i kinda have to defend hasbro here. I'd say this was marvel's call. I don't blame them for trying this either, i think the idea is to get Kid's into comics. That doesn't sound bad at all. for me? marvel has lost me as a comic fan, and even if they were to get me back, i would want digital comics yes, but only for a few series, and would not like being forced to pay for all of them.

As for the fig himself, as much as i initially didn't like the "ultimate" concept, if i were to buy a Fury figure, that be the version i'd want.

Dragon66 - 2009-05-31 @ 3:53 am
Heh.. I found about eight of the Aoa sunfire at marshalls this morning along with marvel legends two packs of mr fantastic & thing, wolverine & forge, Ultimate nick fury * ultimate captain america and more plus eight Iron man marvel legends unleashed figures.

pricing:

two packs: 11.99 each

Aoa sunfire: 9.99

iron man marvel legends unleashed: 11.99

there were also movie hulk figures there and batman movie masters there with some old spider-man 3 figures.

And why are they showing up at discount stores? Because NO ONE wants them! @smilepunch@

It's not because no one wants them, no one wants them at the price they are trying to get when they release the figures. I found a case of AoA Sunfire's at Marshall's a couple of months ago and tried to recoup the cost of the one I bought from Hasbro by selling and trading with friends. I do not want to be the guy kicking myself in the a$$ when the Nemesis wave shows up at Marshall's or TJ Maxx like the ML Blob Series Variants.

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