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Originally Posted by Jmacq1

To be quite honest?

I will be very surprised if Thor: The Dark World gets its' own line, given how abysmal the sales of the modest-to-begin-with Thor line were.

In point of fact, I would not be surprised if the continuing Marvel Cinematic Universe just all gets folded into a continuing "Avengers" line, as that branding is likely far more recognizable and valuable than the individual characters at this point. Just release a wave or two or three of characters from each given movie as they debut.

That's why I lean that too.
Thor not selling well, cap lingering but doing so so, and then avengers and IM2 selling decently.

Marketing and analysis would suggest to solve all those issues they need to merge the Avengers Cinematic universe and film lines. Phase 2 of the Marvel movies would be the perfect time to reset how the figures are handled like that. Then Phase 3 movies can take what worked from both methods for the cinematic toys and do another new push as a rebranding.

It makes sense doing it this way too. All of the side heroes are going to eventually make their way into avengers anyway. Probably with tweaked costumes too. Which means more figure sales. The same could be said of other licenses and their expanded universes. Like Amazing Spider-man with the upcoming venom spin-off, or even Black Cat getting a movie concept figure, or some of the villians. I'm just kind of hoping during the "Fantastic Four Reborn" we get figures of them, and then some alt universe fan4's too like Doom 2099 and Fan4 2099, Fantastic Force teen Franklin, FF Adult Franklin and Valeria, kid franklin and valeria. The same could be said about daredevil, but I'm waiting until october 10th to see what happens with him.

Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and maybe even the Fantastic 4, are all the kinds of figures you almost want a side line for together though. While they have a wide array of comic character libraries, the movie figures don't need that many.

The same can be said of Cap and Thor though too. Mostly they just need the core costumed cast, a few SHIELD supporting, and the major villians and or troop builders when applicable. Most of anything that's comic related for them usually ends up in MU anyway. So may as well not touch the comic versions for them outside of a select few like Sin for cap, and many randoms in there for Thor. Though for Thor we've been pretty lucky so far it's an interesting mix of comic and movie aesthetic so some movie figures fit for both like Destroyer.

IM3 can skate since they still have many more comic and concept armors they can do. Like his 90s modular suit that needs to be made still, heroes reborn, heroes return, and some others, not to mention the sheer amount of badguys he has that can still be covered.

(On the flipside. I'm kind of loving Hasbro's lack of presence at this year's NYCC. Don't get me wrong, I love Hasbro dearly and can't wait to see the transformers reveals that can fit inside an hour... But overall, the lack of presence just makes me giggle like a kitten with catnip rolling on the ground dreaming about karma. Makes me just want to pat hasbro as a giant entity on the back and say thank you for this and every figure in my collection too. LOL!)