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The Thor line is a little bit shorter than the MU line, but it looks to be in scale with Iron Man and Captain America's movie figures, so that doesn't bother me too much. I expect the average MU figure might actually start to get a little shorter (as Star Wars figures have in the last year or so) as a cost-saving measure by Hasbro (to use less plastic), though maybe the MU figures save costs by being "skinnier" than other figures.

Hasbro said a comic series for Thor is possible if the first waves do well. It's always hard to tell what qualifies as "well" for Hasbro because they talk about Iron Man 2 like it was a big success despite all the pegwarmers. I can understand why they didn't have one right out of the gate, though, as I'm betting retailers weren't going for it. Thor's more obscure than Iron Man or Captain America, and a lot of the comic-Thor figures might look kind of silly compared to other figures (being big and colorful in ways that other Marvel characters often aren't). We may have to settle for "Movie Warriors Three" to be our only representation in this scale...at least until Thor 2.

All in all neither line has blown me away this year.