Guides
Guides for action figure collectors
Answers to the questions that keep coming up in collector groups, with numbers from a checklist of 154 lines and 32,408 figures where they help.
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Marvel Legends
How many Marvel Legends figures are there?
The live count of every Marvel Legends release, year by year, from the 2002 Toy Biz waves to the figures Hasbro has announced but not shipped yet.
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Marvel Legends
Every Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure, wave by wave
Every Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure with its year, its wave and its number of pieces, plus how BAFs work and what to do about a missing piece.
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Buying safely
How to spot fake Marvel Legends
Eight checks that catch most fake Marvel Legends: price, seller, box print, UPC, paint, joints, accessories, and variants that never existed.
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Storage
Should you keep action figure boxes?
When an action figure box is worth keeping, when you can recycle it, and how to store the boxes you keep flat, dry and away from light.
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Protecting a collection
Does homeowners insurance cover action figures?
What a standard home policy pays for a figure collection, the four gaps that catch collectors, and how to build the inventory a claim needs.
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Marvel Legends
How much have Marvel Legends prices gone up?
The standard retail price of a Marvel Legends figure for every year since the 2012 relaunch, read live from the checklist, and when each jump happened.
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On the most shelves right now
The Marvel Legends figures that show up in the most collections on Legendsverse.
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