A couple weeks back, we got our first packaged look at the latest addition to the series of Walmart Exclusive Marvel Legends: Thanos with Infinity Gauntlet! With the big launch date for the Avengers Infinity War toys coming up on March 3, many surmised we’d be seeing this comics-based Thanos figure in stores on or around that date. And those collectors were right! The Walmart Thanos Legends figure is being found in stores (and is also readily available being scalped on eBay) right now!

When a modern Thanos Build-A-Figure based off of the “Infinity” story arc came out as part of the Avengers Legends series in 2015, pretty much everyone knew that we’d see that figure repainted in classic colors and given an Infinity Gauntlet accessory down the road.

Well, it’s taken three years—perhaps longer than many would have guessed—but that certainty has finally become a reality, as the classic Thanos Marvel Legends figure is finally hitting Walmart store shelves in the United States!

Believe it or not, this is the first time that a single-packaged Marvel Legends Thanos figure has ever been sold (by Toybiz or Hasbro), so there’s a lot of excitement surrounding this release.

If you want to try to look up to see if Thanos has hit your area, you can use the item SKU 294971588 on BrickSeek. Alternatively, you can have an employee at your local Walmart plug in the UPC Code 630509656110 (shown above).

The first reported sightings of this Thanos figure that I’m aware of were reported on Friday, and it appears that Thanos is quickly spreading throughout the country and arriving in more and more areas. With the big Infinity War push less than a week away, I suspect we’ll be seeing Thanos just about everywhere by 3/3 at the latest.

James Gorham picked up Thanos at his local Walmart in California yesterday, and posted a comparison photo that clearly shows the huge difference that repainting an action figure can make.

The paintwork on Thanos’ teeth has been vastly improved, and the classic metallic blue and vibrant gold paint look far more “Thanos” to me than the modern colors that we got on the 2015 Build-A-Figure.

eBay sellers are getting $35-$45 for this figure right now, but hopefully the straight cases of this $20 figure Walmart is receiving will be enough to satiate demand soon. Please don’t pay high prices for this figure just yet–it will very likely be readily available within a week from now!

Big thanks to James Gorham for giving me permission to run his photos of the new Walmart Exclusive Marvel Legends Thanos Figure! Hopefully I’ll spot him locally soon, so I can get my own review up lickety-split (no, I have no idea why that term popped into my mind).

There is an online listing for this Thanos figure on the Walmart website, but it’s still a placeholder and the figure has never been actively bailable for purchase online. I’ll send out an alert via our social media as soon as this Thanos figure is available online (provided that he actually does become available at some point).

Are you on the hunt for this ML Thanos figure, Marvel collectors? If you’ve gone out looking and you’ve seen him (or the seen the absence of him!), leave a reply to help your fellow collectors know where to look (or not look!) for their own Mad Titan!

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