Fin Fang Foom

An alien shapeshifter from the planet Maklu IV, Fin Fang Foom was the navigator of a crew seeking to infiltrate ancient Earth. While the rest of his crew attempted to use their powers to take over the human race, Foom volunteered to seal himself away as a backup plan. In the 8th Century, Foom was briefly awakened in the 8th Century, resulting in an attack that devastated the Tianjin Prefecture before he was lured back to sleep in his tomb - entering him into Chinese legend as the mythical "He Whose Limbs Shatter Mountains and Whose Back Scrapes the Sun", and the region of the tomb became known as The Valley of the Sleeping Dragon.

Centuries later, ten powerful rings are taken from the hidden Makluan ship by a warlord known as The Mandarin, who gained great power from their use, before awakening Foom and collaborating with the alien dragon to attempt to conquer China. The two would frequently clash with the American superhero Iron Man over the years.

Iron Man: Dragons - Fin Fang Foom
Fin Fang Foom made his action figure debut in the 1994 Toybiz toyline created to tie-in into the Iron Man animated series, where he was released as a deluxe figure under a separate price point and in a large, deluxe boxset instead of the traditional cardback in order to accommodate the figure's significantly larger than normal size- with the figure standing 8 inches tall. While released alongside two other similarly sized Dragons in the same size class, Foom features a completely originally sculpt with no part reuse with Argent or Aureus.

While Foom doesn't include any accessories, the figure does include an action feature- the wings are connected to his back with hinged flaps connected to a button on the back. When you press the button, it creates the illusion of Fin Fang Foom flapping his wings back and forth.

Fin Fang Foom (Fin Fang Foom Series)
Released in 2008 as the Build-A-Figure for Hasbro's continuation of the Marvel Legends toyline in a series of Hulk focused figures; which was split into two individual series of four figures instead of the traditional single wave of eight. Foom is an entirely original sculpt and a return to form to the classic size of Toybiz's large Build-A-Figures - standing 16" tall to the crest of his horns and making him the largest BAF ever produced by Hasbro.

Foom was released across 11 pieces included with each of the eight figures in the two Hulk series. The head and neck were included with She-Hulk, the chest included with Skaar, the torso with Doc Samson, the tail with King Hulk, the left arm and wing was included with The End Hulk while the right pair came packaged with Wendigo. The right leg came packaged with Absorbing Man, and the left came with both the Savage Grey Hulk and that figure's variant, Classic Hulk.

Additionally, a box set was released exclusively at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, limited to 2008 copies total, featuring all eight figures from the Hulk Series and their respective Fin Fang Foom pieces, priced at the same cost of the retail price of the wave, boxed in a commemorative black and white art sleeve featuring the Dragon battling with Hulk.

Marvel Masterworks - Fin Fang Foom
This figure was cancelled and never released into wide circulation. Originally planned as the third release in the Marvel Masterworks series of large sized characters for the 3 3/4" scaled Marvel Universe toyline, Fin Fang Foom was intended to be a retool of the 2008 Marvel Legends Build-A-Figure, sporting a new head sculpt, pants and a modified torso in order to accommodate lights and sounds similar to the previous releases in the Masterworks line. Additionally, the figure would have had an entirely orange color scheme, allowing it to pull double duty both as the alternate coloration of Foom in some classic books as well as representing the classic Thor villain, the Midgard Serpent, who once infamously disguised itself as Foom but utilized the orange coloring during the ruse.

The figure was ultimately cancelled due in part to the poor reception and sales of the second release in the expensive subline, The Sentinel, as well as the decline of the Marvel Universe toyline in general as Hasbro was beginning to gear up for the Marvel Legends brand's return.

In 2013, David Vonner, then-former Hasbro Senior Product Designer and creative head of the Marvel Universe line, gave an interview in which he revealed that the original pack-in figure that was set to be included with this set was Howard the Duck.