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Originally Posted by kylactus

I don't know if the TRU first classic comic packs are a fair judgment of how 3.75 x-men movie figures would preform on the market, they didn't even give us a comic version of a character that actually appeared in the movie! (unless you count Jackman's cameo) If they put out comic version two packs of say... Havoc/ mystique, and Magneto/ beast. I think they would have done much better. Even the Wolverine/sabertooth pack sold out pretty quick. I just think everyone felt they had bought the Scott/Jean pack in different colors too many times. plus the brown XMO wolverine mold has been beat to death, no one who opens bought that thing for any reason other than sabertooth.

Yup. Which is why I'm hoping that's not the case they keep skipping the X-Franchise, but it and the wolverine movie lines are the only recent market data major retailers have on X-Men movie figures. So it'd make sense if it is.

It does mean though that once Avengers reach that similar over-saturation point that the Jean/Cyclops two packs have, that there's a wide array of X-Men movie figures to do to fill that gap until the MCU builds up more that needs coverage. That's the only reason I can see on some of the missing MCU characters right now too. Saving them up for later lines.

It's kind of a balancing act really when you think about it. A customer only has so much money to spend at a time, so if you flood it with too much at once across the board(particularly since Hasbro has their own properties to fend for in some toy seasons), something isn't going to get bought.

Like right now for example, we're seeing the tail end of Cap 2's line, starting up of Transformers AoE, Amazing Spider-man 2's line which is mostly filler, Marvel Infinite is still trying to get out on shelves, and GOTG is coming up fast. That's just on the Hasbro side. Granted GOTG seems to be catering more towards kids, so good figures there for the 3.75'' crowd won't happen until GOTG 2 or Avengers 3 if they crossover. The current ones look like water testing anyway overall. It's being done as a more "average summer blockbuster movie line" as opposed to the normal way the MCU lines were done. Hasbro seems to be taking some cues from Mattel's green lantern line on that, which doesn't bode well for the line overall.

Hopefully starting with whatever next movie lines are coming up, they'll revert back to the previous MCU/XMO/MU/IM2/Thor/CA/MI standard. They still have many holes to fill across those. I'm not sure if Ant-man will get his own line at all either. There doesn't seem like there'll be much in the way of colorful figures for his line outside of Ant-man himself and if he's set to appear in avengers 3 anyway, they could hold off and do his first movie suit and avengers suit(if it changes) for that line. With Avengers 2 probably having a toy line coming up, that's even more for Hasbro to push their better teams towards to build up. I guess we'll see with the convention season coming up and into next year.