MAFEX Marvel Comics Figures

[MollyMillions]

Caught a Marketplace listing for a guy dumping all his Mafex and Figuarts at... I hate to say ignorant... Really good non exploitive pricing?

Picked up two Psylockes, Gambit, brown Wolverine, and Cyclops for slightly over MSRP.

I closed that deal so fast.

[Stark Resilient]

It still blows my mind that the Mafex Gambit is going for $300ish on ebay. Gambit always been my personal favorite character since I was a kid, but I didn't know he was THAT popular... he's going for almost as much as the og Mafex Spiderman... You can get Gambit "used" for like $250, but "brand new" you aren't getting him for less than $300. Also surprised the tigerstripe Wolverine has shot up to $250 as well. I remember the Wolverine and Cyclops sitting in stock everywhere for a LONG time. In fact, Im pretty sure I remember BBTS actually clearanced (!) the Cyclops at one point, and they were selling him for like $60. I'm kind of shocked the Ben Reiley Spiderman hasn't gone up more on the secondary market. I figured a lot of people that missed out on the OG Spiderman would of picked up the Ben Reilly Spidey as a placeholder. But I guess it is just Ben Reilly...he's no Peter Parker lol

I think it's a commentary on how good that figure is. It's might be the best figure i own.. Top 3 no question.

[AddictBraids]

It still blows my mind that the Mafex Gambit is going for $300ish on ebay. Gambit always been my personal favorite character since I was a kid, but I didn't know he was THAT popular... he's going for almost as much as the og Mafex Spiderman... You can get Gambit "used" for like $250, but "brand new" you aren't getting him for less than $300. Also surprised the tigerstripe Wolverine has shot up to $250 as well. I remember the Wolverine and Cyclops sitting in stock everywhere for a LONG time. In fact, Im pretty sure I remember BBTS actually clearanced (!) the Cyclops at one point, and they were selling him for like $60. I'm kind of shocked the Ben Reiley Spiderman hasn't gone up more on the secondary market. I figured a lot of people that missed out on the OG Spiderman would of picked up the Ben Reilly Spidey as a placeholder. But I guess it is just Ben Reilly...he's no Peter Parker lol

I think it's a commentary on how good that figure is. It's might be the best figure i own.. Top 3 no question.

Yea, the Mafex Gambit is probably my personal favorite figure I own, but my opinion on how great he is might be a little biased since he is probably my favorite character in all of media. But even taking my bias away, I don't think its too far fetched to call him arguably the best Mafex figure in the last few years. The fact that they even detailed his costume under the coat perfectly is the chefs kiss. I honestly don't know what they could have done to make a better Gambit figure... If my house was burning down, I'd at least think about grabbing my Gambit figure before my dog lol...only kidding...kind of lol

[AddictBraids]

Caught a Marketplace listing for a guy dumping all his Mafex and Figuarts at... I hate to say ignorant... Really good non exploitive pricing?

Picked up two Psylockes, Gambit, brown Wolverine, and Cyclops for slightly over MSRP.

I closed that deal so fast.

Yea it's kind of crazy how all the Mafex X Men figures kinda just super shot up in value so fast. Normally it's expected for figures to jump in value when there's popular new media involving these properties, but there isn't really any "new" major media for the X Men, so I'm kinda shocked with just how high the X Men figures have climbed in value. Even Cyclops is like knocking on the $200 door...the only Mafex X Men figure that I believe is still going for close to retail is the AoA Magneto...

Good for you though getting all this figures for the cheap, because it appears at least for now you'd be hard pressed to find any of the X Men (except AoA Mags) for less than $175.

[Xavion2004]

It wasn’t that long ago that MAFEX figures were so easy to come by. Online retailers had them in stock for months and sometimes even years. I even remember BBTS offering Cyclops for something like $62 as part of their Black Friday Sale one year.

Most of that was because MAFEX had a lousy reputation for QC and big drop offs aesthetically between the promo pics and the production figures. Then they started releasing better and better figures, and they quickly went from being the butt of jokes to one of the hottest toy companies in this scale.

I was supposed to get Ben for Christmas last year from my kids when he was in stock at BBTS, but they waited too long to place the order, and he sold out. So. I got Cyclops as a consolation prize. That turned out to be a pretty good consolation prize!

Fortunately, I preordered Gambit and Psylocke because they’re two of my favorite characters and I wasn’t crazy about the ML versions, but I didn’t preorder the brown costume Wolverine and got burned. Since then, I’ve preordered everything.

[AgentLionel]

Part of it is MAFEXs speed. They are slow to produce and distribute, but their preorders stay up for a relatively long time. I'm assuming they use them to determine their production sizes, where Figuarts figures sell preorders super fast but then deliver a few months later. Their comic figures have been insanely popular, mainly because they are creating iconic characters in definitive versions that are getting this treatment for the first time ever. I personally don't like a lot of Legends, though I have several and think they are good bang for buck. But Legends Gambit vs MAFEX? One is a doll and the other is a piece of art that jumps into all those poses you saw Gambit in on trading cards or comic books or posters. There might not ever be a better Gambit figure and there aren't many to compare him with as is.

[TheSameIdiot]

MAFEX Gambit is genuinely one of the best figures I own. I hope he gets a re-release for those that missed out.

[TheCollector1999]

Yeah he is the only Mafex figure I have missed out on that I wasn’t able to sneak a order in on. I’m really hopeful for a rerelease

[MarvelLegendsMan]

I'll join the chorus - Mafex Gambit is a top 5 figure in my collection (although the hip joints are a little loose, which is the case with all of my Mafex figures).

I hope all Mafex figures going forward match the Gambit standard. Psylocke, unfortunately, did not.

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[EnigmaticClarity]

I hope all Mafex figures going forward match the Gambit standard. Psylocke, unfortunately, did not.

Gambit is definitely one of their best. Psylocke isn't, but as usual Mafex still created the best version of that character anyone ever has. Not sure any Mafex figures I own aren't best-ever versions of any given character...I'd have to mull that over. Certainly they're the best ever for the vast majority of the figures they've done.

I'm unsure about tiger stripe Wolverine. Love Triangle Wolverine is one of Hasbro's best figures ever, and that may be better than the current Mafex tiger stripe Wolverine. Brown suit Wolverine from Mafex kills any Hasbro release though. Some people don't like Mafex Cyclops, but I still think that's a vast improvement over any other version of the character, and most of the aesthetic issues people complain about on that figure are straight from the source material they used which was the Capcom art for Cyclops from their Marvel vs Capcom games.

[Handsome]

Wolverine's almost there. I think the heads are damn near perfect, and the body proportions are good. My biggest issues are the claws, which for a character like Wolverine, are an essential part of the design. And they look goofy. They improved them with the brown-suit costume, but as far as I know, there's no way to replace them on the tiger-stripe figure. And the tiger-stripes are blue instead of black, but that doesn't bother me as much as the claws.

And yeah, Gambit is super popular. He may not be that important of a character in the overall history of the X-Men going back to the '60s. But he was EXTREMELY popular in the '90s, people forget he was rivaling Wolverine in popularity for a while. And the '90s were the most popular period the X-Men ever had. That may change if the MCU X-Men are breaking box-office records like the MCU Avengers did. But for now, that was the peak of X-Men popularity, and Gambit was right there at the top.

[MarvelLegendsMan]

I hope all Mafex figures going forward match the Gambit standard. Psylocke, unfortunately, did not.

Gambit is definitely one of their best. Psylocke isn't, but as usual Mafex still created the best version of that character anyone ever has. Not sure any Mafex figures I own aren't best-ever versions of any given character...I'd have to mull that over. Certainly they're the best ever for the vast majority of the figures they've done.

I'm unsure about tiger stripe Wolverine. Love Triangle Wolverine is one of Hasbro's best figures ever, and that may be better than the current Mafex tiger stripe Wolverine. Brown suit Wolverine from Mafex kills any Hasbro release though. Some people don't like Mafex Cyclops, but I still think that's a vast improvement over any other version of the character, and most of the aesthetic issues people complain about on that figure are straight from the source material they used which was the Capcom art for Cyclops from their Marvel vs Capcom games.

I don't disagree with you about Psylocke, Cyclops or other Mafex releases. Most of them ARE the best versions, even if they aren't perfect. I suspect the same will be true of Jean Grey.

I can't speak to the Mafex Wolverine figures because I passed on those. I'm actually happy enough with my Legends versions of the character, which is not something I can say about too many other X-Men. The character also doesn't rank all that high on my own list of favorite X-Men, so that factored into it.

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[killphil]

Caught a Marketplace listing for a guy dumping all his Mafex and Figuarts at... I hate to say ignorant... Really good non exploitive pricing?

Picked up two Psylockes, Gambit, brown Wolverine, and Cyclops for slightly over MSRP.

I closed that deal so fast.

Yea it's kind of crazy how all the Mafex X Men figures kinda just super shot up in value so fast. Normally it's expected for figures to jump in value when there's popular new media involving these properties, but there isn't really any "new" major media for the X Men, so I'm kinda shocked with just how high the X Men figures have climbed in value. Even Cyclops is like knocking on the $200 door...the only Mafex X Men figure that I believe is still going for close to retail is the AoA Magneto...

Good for you though getting all this figures for the cheap, because it appears at least for now you'd be hard pressed to find any of the X Men (except AoA Mags) for less than $175.

I noticed the value of the other X-men shoot up as soon as Gambit was released and word started spreading on how he may be one of the best action figures released to date. Maybe collectors who were on the fence with Mafex got a case of FOMO and bought up all the previous figures to go "all in" with their Mafex X-Men collection.

Probably helped by Hasbro's Gambit being so subpar and phoned in, that this Gambit was a must have for most of us. That wasn't the case with the Mafex Wolverine or Cyclops at the time of their releases. I think the Hasbro versions were good enough for most people at that time.

[panther10]

Caught a Marketplace listing for a guy dumping all his Mafex and Figuarts at... I hate to say ignorant... Really good non exploitive pricing?

Picked up two Psylockes, Gambit, brown Wolverine, and Cyclops for slightly over MSRP.

I closed that deal so fast.

Yea it's kind of crazy how all the Mafex X Men figures kinda just super shot up in value so fast. Normally it's expected for figures to jump in value when there's popular new media involving these properties, but there isn't really any "new" major media for the X Men, so I'm kinda shocked with just how high the X Men figures have climbed in value. Even Cyclops is like knocking on the $200 door...the only Mafex X Men figure that I believe is still going for close to retail is the AoA Magneto...

Good for you though getting all this figures for the cheap, because it appears at least for now you'd be hard pressed to find any of the X Men (except AoA Mags) for less than $175.

I noticed the value of the other X-men shoot up as soon as Gambit was released and word started spreading on how he may be one of the best action figures released to date. Maybe collectors who were on the fence with Mafex got a case of FOMO and bought up all the previous figures to go "all in" with their Mafex X-Men collection.

Probably helped by Hasbro's Gambit being so subpar and phoned in, that this Gambit was a must have for most of us. That wasn't the case with the Mafex Wolverine or Cyclops at the time of their releases. I think the Hasbro versions were good enough for most people at that time.

He was also the first X-Man figure in awhile. Cyclops came out nearly 18 months before Gambit no thanks in part to Covid and the delays at the ports so there was quite the gap and it allowed enough breathing room for people for casual fans and collectors to really let their guards down. And then Psylocke and brown Wolverine hit all within a few months of each other literally between Halloween and New Year’s Eve if you imported everything.


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[Littlemidget312]

I think Psylocke was great. I fudged her into my ML display. If her head was slightly larger she’d be perfect. Her body is so much better than the sloppy ML version.