With the recent releases of the Target 3-Pack and Walgreens First Appearance Daredevil exclusives, all of the 2015 Marvel Legends 6″ figures that had been scheduled have now been released. But don’t get too comfortable, Marvel collectors! While we’ve still likely got 6-8 weeks before they begin to arrive in the United States (less if Hasbro wants to rush them for Christmas), photos have leaked out of the factories in China giving us our first look at next year’s packaging and the final finished figures composing the 2016 Marvel Legends Captain America Civil War and Spider-Man series!

Given past experience, I was reasonably certain that we’d be seeing Hong Kong scrappers posting next year’s Marvel Legends 6″ figures online well ahead of the actual action figures reaching American shores. But this year, the factory workers have done us one better–they’ve leaked out actual packaged photos of the Spider-Man and Captain America Civil War Marvel Legends figures!

Now, I don’t condone these kinds of actions in any way, but the photos are out there on the internet now and there’s no forcing the genie back into the lamp, so we might as well talk about what we’ve now seen!

As we learned between San Diego Comic-Con 2015 and New York Comic-Con 2015, there are two waves of new 6″ Marvel Legends action figures due out in January 2016–

Captain America Marvel Legends Civil War Figures Wave 1:

Captain America

Sharon Carter

Mockingbird

Cottonmouth

Scourge

Taskmaster (UDON)

Whirlwind

Red Onslaught Build-A-Figure

2016 Marvel Legends Spider-Man Figures Wave 1:

Spider-Gwen

Speed-Demon

Sensational Spider-Man (Ben Reilly)

Venom (Classic)

Jack O’ Lantern

[Female] Beetle (Superior Foes of Spider-Man)

Morbius

Absorbing Man Build-A-Figure

Marvel Legends Spider-Gwen is likely the most-anticipated action figure in either wave, and she looks stellar. The unmasked Gwen Stacy head turned out well, and she includes a switch-out “pulled-down” hood accessory as well. This is likely to be the hot Marvel toy of the winter, in my opinion.

Unfortunately, it looks like the super-lame practice of some figures in each wave having to share a “title” instead of having their name on the package will continue into 2016. The Marvel Legends Sharon Carter and Mockingbird figures are going to share the title of “Agents of SHIELD”, while the Marvel Legends Spider-Gwen and Ben Reilly Spider-Man (Sensational Spider-Man” will share the “Edge of Spider-Verse” title. Yuck.

“Mercenaries of Mayhem”? Really…? *eyeroll*

Based off the size of the Absorbing Man Build-A-Figure legs and arms that we can see in these photos, it looks likely that the Marvel Legends Absorbing Man BAF will be comparably-sized to the Rhino figure released this summer.

These are obviously terrible photos, but they’re likely to be the best images available until Hasbro sends out official photos (likely not for at least a month from now). And hey, low-res photos is better than no photos at all, right…?

While initial images of all seven ML Civil War 6″ figures have popped up now, packaged images of the Spider-Man Marvel Legends Speed-Demon and Ben Reilly haven’t surfaced yet (not to mention Silvermane’s severed head on RC car), but I imagine we’ll be seeing them soon enough.

The Nuke figure revealed at SDCC 2015 is also MIA, and I’m wondering if he’s been pushed to Wave 2 with movie Civil War figures. We should find out for sure once Hasbro releases their own official images of these series.

The 2016 Marvel Legends Civil War and Spider-Man figures should be available for order later this winter, with an expected release date in the United States by (but likely slightly before) January 2016. I’ll post an update and send out an alert via the Marvel Toy News Facebook and Twitter pages once pre-orders for the new waves of figures open up.

Based off these first images, what do you think of the first two Marvel Legends 2016 figures waves, Marvel collectors? Are you planning to pick up all of the figures in both these waves, pick-and-choose your favorites, or skip these series entirely?