The X-Men Space Riders set is, for lack of a more technical term, completely bonkers. X-MEN SPACE RIDERS SET WITH MASTER BATTLE CRUISER
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As a bonus, the figure came with a portable Cerebro attachment, and it can all be yours for just $250.ġ1. So how awesome is this figure from ToyBiz’s 1991 line? You get Cyclops in his X-Factor costume with laser light-up eyes, and a trading card with the biggest, baddest mutant the X-Men had ever faced inside? That’s a steal at twice the price. Since then, the X-Factor team has gone through several further line-up changes, but its most enduring contribution to the Marvel Universe still remains Apocalypse. X-Factor was Marvel’s soft relaunch of the idea of the original five X-Men (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman and Angel) having their own book again since there were so many other X-Men by this point, the original five split off and rebranded. In the wake of Deadpool’s hit movie, you can snag an unopened Deadpool action figure for a mere $500 on eBay - might be better to wait and see if Deadpool 2 affects the price at all. That’s a recipe for a lost plastic sword getting sucked up into the vacuum cleaner. As part of the Uncanny X-Men/X-Force set of Evil Mutants in 1992, Deadpool’s first action figure was released, and he came with two ninja swords and a “spring-out dagger.” Unlike other spring-out bladed Marvel characters, Deadpool’s dagger didn’t make his forearm look misshapen however, he comes with two swords and appears to only be able to hold one of them at a time. The list of editions of his figures go on and on, with minute changes every time: they change the color of his pants, or he doesn’t have stripes on his spandex anymore, or he’s not wearing a mask, or he is wearing a mask but it’s torn - and so on.Īs part of the Marvel Dynam-X line released generally concurrently with Chris Claremont and Jim Lee’s X-Men #1, they released a Wolverine figure with “spring-out slashing claws!” The claws are flimsy addenda to the figure itself, but they add just enough excitement to the figure, along with the included Official Marvel Universe Trading Card that you may be interested in dropping $1,062 to snag it on eBay.Īfter the introduction of Marvel’s hottest new mutant assassin, they rushed an action figure into production. It may come as no surprise to the average comic book fan that one of, if not the most popular action figure character produced for Marvel is Wolverine. Something is amiss here, but you’ll have to find out for yourself.ġ4. If you want one fresh out of the box, there’s one on eBay for $600 - oddly, there’s also one selling on Amazon for $55. The concept of a change of costume is a cool selling point, and if Rogue came with a stealth uniform, that could be a fun concept instead, she comes with a sensible duster, and a purple top/skirt combo that look like wrapping paper. The box loudly boasts, “Rogue transforms from superhero to civilian in a flash!” The face on the doll features a vacantly benign expression, arms cooly cocked to her side, and instead of a piece of scenery or a weapon to play with, Rogue came with a change of clothes. This figure seems like less of an action figure and more of a naked cash grab at the Barbie market. We tracked down 15 of the rarest and/or most expensive toys in the X-Men line from the gilded age of the ’90s - if you’ve got one of these in your basement, you may be looking at some serious cash. So, with such a satiated market for X-Men figures, what makes for a valuable toy? In some cases, it’s scarcity, as with any surprisingly valuable item - if they had only known it would be so popular, they would have made six times as many! Other cases lead to toys with egregious misprints of their facial features, or packaging errors, which makes them valuable for their singular flaws. RELATED: The 15 Most Valuable Marvel Secret Wars Action Figures With multiple waves of toys every year, multiple editions for the most popular ones, and easy color switches in the figures’ paint, they created a true glut that only a few of the most valuable toys have risen above.
ToyBiz, at the time a partially-owned subsidiary of Marvel, was cranking out X-Men toys almost faster than they could be bought up. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, riding a wave that was equal parts Chris Claremont and John Byrne Rob Liefeld and Jim Lee and the speculator market, the X-Men toy market was booming.
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