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With the Marvel movie line up posted through 2019, I'm not too concerned about 3.75'' figures for now.

With all these movies coming up, I expect we'll see some of this scale coming back in again later. Right now it looks like cost cutting to save up for those bigger ventures later with self-created demand on them because of the drought.

The only downside I see to that, is the lack of movie Ultron himself, but maybe we'll get lucky with that later or in some form of exclusives or something to tide us over until later. Even so, as long as his movie figure gets a legends version, I'll be content with that for now. Cap 3 looks like we might see a lot though and there's still the possibility of 3.75'' multi-packs for AOU like they did the one for IM3. Preferably major retail chain. The new 3 marvel movies a year plan might mean hasbro is working out a way to better cover them later without having to do 3 lines a year for movie toys. Right now, it looks like they've scaled back to normal blockbuster movie patterns which is generally a temporary action, but maybe GOTG sold better that way than expected. With Marvel dominating the market though, we may see a turn for it to progressively become 3 lines of different scales. One for vehicles, one for GI Joe cross play, and one for Legends. Even GI Joe and star wars seems to be dabbling into this 2 scale line method some(3.75'' and 5-6'').

With a couple of the movies coming out probably not being heavy on wide character usage, this may prove beneficial. The main question currently for me was how was Ant-man supposed to carry a line when there's maybe 3 costumed characters in his film at most. Black Panther kind of has the same question, but a lot of his at least is alleviated by Wakanda and his family alongside the badguys. Captain Marvel may have something too due to the diverse nature of her history and the space themes associated. Cap 3: civil war I expect will have a diverse lineup considering who all is involved in it.

AOU with Pietro and Wanda not having real costumes yet(or at least ones that'll change over time, so you'd think they'd be perfect figure fodder for now), and other little aspects did create some questions, but with Infinity War around the corner, and more that's going to feature a large roster, I could see a lot being saved for that. Though I would really like a cinematic vision figure already too.

So I'm hopeful for now. It's a balancing act after all. They have to figure out what to produce now, that won't hinder sales later. I'm also still wondering how they're going to eventually get a Mockingbird figure out, and then there's also the netflix series too that may have some interesting designs.

Patience is a virtue though. So keep your fingers crossed! It's not like most of the bucks aren't already there. They'd only need some minor tweaking mostly and new heads. Ultron, Wanda, Quicksilver, Vision, and Ant-man are the only direct absolutely new sculpts needed figures for now until the next phase.

And with Phase 3 starting, I could see there being a massive push among the lines. Like a 3 pack warriors 3 movie thor pack alongside a 3 pack of him, Loki, and Sif. With Cap 3, there's any number of Widows they could do that really only needs her new hairstyle on the already made figure. Falcon maybe could use an update with a hinged neck. Panther was set to appear in it, so maybe we'll get a tease for his figure. And caps new costume tweaks may appear there too.

So we might have a lot to look forward to, it's just a matter of when.