Finishing the Infinity Gauntlet virtual challenge on the Conqueror App earned participants a gold Marvel Avengers medal, and about 476 of those medals are now recalled because the magnets inside them can detach. The company has received three reports of exactly that. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission posted the medal recall, number 27-022, on Oct. 8, 2026.
The medal is a collectible and a keepsake for adult athletes, which is why its presence on a recall list surprises people. A medal that costs about $50 and arrives in the mail is a long way from a kitchen-drawer hazard, yet a loose magnet is a loose magnet once it reaches a child’s hands, and a finisher’s medal tends to end up on a shelf, a bedpost or a bedroom wall within reach of younger siblings.
The Infinity Gauntlet medal and how it reached owners
Per the CPSC notice, the gold medal has colorful gems on the front and comes in a black package marked “Marvel Avengers” with Marvel Avengers artwork. It belongs to the Avengers virtual challenge series, and customers had to complete the Infinity Gauntlet challenge on the Conqueror App to receive it.
Conqueror describes itself on its website as a fitness platform built around virtual challenges: participants walk, run or cycle toward a set distance, log progress with a tracker or by hand, and claim a physical medal in the app when they finish. The medals were sold through the Conqueror website and app from March 2026 through May 2026 for about $50. The retailer is Actionary Limited, doing business as The Conqueror, of New Zealand, and the medals were made in China.
The company’s own recall page narrows the window further. It covers medals redeemed between March 26, 2026 and May 6, 2026, and says the company found, during the early stages of dispatching the medal, that one of its magnets could fall off.
Federal magnet rule 16 CFR part 1262
The CPSC says the medals violate the mandatory standard for magnets, which is codified at 16 CFR part 1262. The rule covers “subject magnet products,” meaning consumer products designed, marketed or intended for entertainment, jewelry, mental stimulation or stress relief that contain loose or separable magnets. Any such magnet small enough to fit the regulation’s test cylinder must have a flux index below 50 kG2 mm2. Flux index is measured using sections 8.25.1 through 8.25.3 of the ASTM F963-17 toy standard, and the rule applies to products manufactured after October 21, 2022, which includes a medal struck for a spring 2026 challenge. Toys that already fall under the separate toy rule at 16 CFR part 1250 are exempt, and so are products sold solely to educators, researchers or industrial users.
The recall notice states the failure plainly: “the high-powered magnets may detach, posing a deadly ingestion hazard to children.” A magnet that stays glued inside the medal is a decoration. One that comes off becomes the very kind of small, strong, separable magnet the rule was written to keep away from children, and the firm’s three reports show that it happened more than once.
Intestinal injury from swallowed magnets
The CPSC’s description of the harm is specific: swallowed magnets can attract each other or metal objects inside the body, causing intestinal perforation, twisting or blockage, blood poisoning and death. The agency’s 2007 warning on small magnets explains why parents and doctors are caught off guard: two magnets swallowed separately can pull together through the intestinal walls, and the agency noted that the pieces often do not simply pass.
That release recorded at least 33 children who needed emergency surgery after swallowing loose magnets, with hospital stays of 3 to 19 days, and the death of a 20-month-old boy from Seattle. Those numbers come from 2007 and predate the current rule, but the mechanism the CPSC described then is the same one it cites in this recall.
Under the remedy, owners get a refund or a replacement. They are asked to cut the ribbon off the medal, write “RECALLED” on the medal and ribbon in permanent marker, throw the product away and email a photo of the disposed medal and ribbon to [email protected]. Questions go to 833-799-0368, toll-free, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday. A magnet that has already come off can be reported at SaferProducts.gov.
The CPSC notice does not say how many of the 476 medals reached households with young children, and it does not describe the three detachments beyond the count. The Conqueror’s own page adds that customers who no longer hold the original payment method can supply bank details or wait for support to contact them, and that a replacement medal or a full refund is available once disposal is confirmed. The CPSC page lists the October 8, 2026 recall date and the three detachment reports, and states no injury count.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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