Have you heard about Hasbro action figures? If you are a toy collector, you should be familiar with the company that is only second to Mattel. While Mattel brought the world Barbie, Hasbro is known for the popular strategic board game, Monopoly. Of course, Hasbro also has produced action figures for both children and collectors. There are actually a good variety of them offered by the high-ranking toy, and board game, company. Some of these action figures are pretty popular among older children. Younger children have their Play-Doh, Cabbage Patch Kids, Pokemon and other educational and cute toys.

Examples of Hasbro Action Figures

Do you have a Transformers toy? If you have one, you probably associate it more to either the live action movie combined with 3D visual effects or the 2D cartoon series. What you may not know is that these are Hasbro action figures. Other action figures popularized by movies but brought to you by Hasbro are the GI Joe action figures and the Star Wars action figures. You could say that Hasbro has a taste for the blockbuster characters and movies. Do you know that when GI Joe action figures were first introduced to the toy industry, the toys are market as action figures rather than dolls to attract the target market? The target market, after all, is composed of boys.

A New Breed of Action Figures from Hasbro

Hasbro’s action figures have been around for a long time. They have instilled themselves into popular culture. For example, it has been widely accepted that while girls play with Mattel’s Barbie dolls or with Hasbro’s Cabbage Patch Kids, boys will play with the more manly action figures, especially the GI Joe action figures. Today, there are some offerings from Hasbro that are taken from the more popular contemporary favorites. Though Wolverine and the rest of the X-Men have been around for a long time but their appearances in the Hasbro collection is made fresh through the new movies featuring them.

If you want a good collection of action figures, you can depend on Hasbro for some really great items. Hasbro has covered some of the popular movie characters. Some of the items may even become worth much more than their current cost. At the same time, kids will love playing with their favorite characters, the ones that they have also seen in movies. Hasbro has proven itself to be one of the top toy manufacturers out there.