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After The Trailer: Avengers Action Figures Suggest New Details About The Movie

The question most often asked about élite funnybook nerds such as Jerry Seinfeld and Jonathan Ross is "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"

Well, from very expensive comic book action figure manufacturers, of course.

For the rest of us, there are always the mass-produced 6" figures that accrete like some sort of geek coral around the computers of IT guys and graphic designers.

With Marvel's The Avengers movie now looming over the horizon and dominating the thoughts of every right-minded superhero enthusiast it's only logical that there is a new set of Avengers toys too. Action figures. Don't call them toys. Ever.

A few questions are given answers here that weren't evident in the trailer.

Where are Hawkeye's cool shades? Present and correct.

Does The Hulk wear his traditional expanding purple strides? Not as long as Gap are making their new range of expanding chinos.

Does Black Widow look like my old Maths teacher as played by a particularly angry Nicole Kidman? Yes, quite a bit.

Notably, Captain America's 'hoodie' style uniform in the trailer seems to have been replaced / enhanced by a more practical-looking helmet here.

And there seems to be a second Iron Man armour in a couple of the pictures – black, with a Mark 5 triangular arc reactor instead of the Iron Man 2 version seen elsewhere.

Also, that Asgardian Cosmic Cube lance we glimpsed in the trailer definitely belongs to Loki.

Interestingly, while for copyright reasons the cinematic Avengers universe can't feature your friendly neighbourhood Spider-man those  legal strictures don't exist the world of action figures and so an Amazing Spider-man tie-in Spidey has been included in Hasbro's new season too.

Does the world need another set of superhero action figures? Not much. Will they sell like hot cakes? You betcha.

Thanks to MarvelousNews for the pictures.

Michael Moran writes for Bleeding Cool.

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