[Tarquinius]

I tend to agree with everything you said Snowflakian. It seems sensical from both a consumer and producer stand point.

The biggest point being is that MU should stick around. However, I'm a bit concerned with ML competition now or basically the 3.75 6 inch debate.

Historically, Hasbro has always seemed to favor 3.75 figures which are both highly articulated and detailed. I think its major consensus to say that Hasbro produces arguably the best 3.75 figure out there (GI Joe, Star Wars, MU etc).

However, as we all know two recent things have been developing
1) the increasing production costs
2) the advent of more Hasbro 6 inch figures

By no means am I blaming 6 inch figures (infact I love what Hasbro has been doing) however arguably I think it creates some inner brand competition which is never good (inmo).

A kid who has 20 bucks can either buy 2 3.75 toys or one 6 inch toy. I won't pretend to fanthom which the kid will pick, but ultimately the kid has to make a choice and this creates one of many steps towards pegwarming and bad distribution etc etc.

Same scenario with a collector, except on a bigger scale. We have more money, but we also have more interests and more diverse loyalities towards lines and brands. Speaking from experience, I love Marvel and I started with MU. However financial obligations permit me from buying ML figures in mass.

In my opinion, if Hasbro's production costs are going up and they are trying to balance all of these lines that means they can only produce so much for every line. And consequently, from a consumer stand point we can only buy so much.

Consumeristic Natural Selection.