Marvel Collector Corps Subscription Service

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The rise of the Lootcrate-style service for nerdy merch has just gotten big with announcement that Marvel and Funko are teaming up on a Bi-monthly subscription service to deliver toys and merchandise to your doorstep. But if you're a regularly collector of Funko's Pop! Vinyls, you might not want to get too excited. The loot deal is called the Marvel 'Collector Corps', and each $25 box, themed around a particular upcoming Marvel movie or comic event, will feature a T-Shirt (one of 4 designs), 2 'premium accessories', and one Funko vinyl toy. The allure of Marvel's subscription is that, unlike other subscription services of this ilk, every item in the box is 100% exclusive to the service. Not a variant of a widely accessible product - in fact, Funko themselves have offered such 'exclusive variants' to other subscription services, like Lootcrate - but a product that is straight up exclusive. This is where it gets problematic. The first box, due to ship in April, is themed around Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the revealed exclusive Funko Pop toy is... that Hulkbuster Iron Man that was revealed on Monday. Wondered why you perhaps couldn't find preorder links for it when it was announced? Well, now you know why. The Collector Corps website advertises the Hulkbuster toy as a 'sneak peak', the implication being that subscribers merely get the toy ahead of it going on wider release: But on Twitter, Marvel's own Ryan 'Agent M' Penagos confirmed that no, the only place you can get the Hulkbuster is now in this Collector Corps package It's a cool idea if you're more in it for the Marvel paraphernalia and haven't really gotten into collecting Funko's toys, but if you've been collecting Funko's Marvel products for a while, it seems like this Collector Corps service might start to leave some annoying holes in your collection.

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Hell yeah! I'm all about this!