[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Jmacq1

Purely speculation on my part, but I'm guessing it's something like this:

Officially, there's no ban.

Unofficially, Disney has made it clear that they don't want their licensees making FF and X-Men based products. Generally speaking, the licensees will do what Disney wants so that they don't lose the license the next time it comes up for bid.

Unofficially, Disney has also likely made it clear that the licensees are not to mention any of this to the public, so that Disney isn't "officially" painted as the bad guys.

Like I said, dirty business. It's worth asking, I'm just saying that the elephant in the room will at best be answered with corporate doublespeak: "Oh don't be silly, there's no ban on X-Men and FF. **Nervous laughter** No, we've just purely coincidentally decided that for now our focus should be on other characters to take advantage of the great synergistic marketing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and maximize the profit structure for the outside-the-box thinking necessary to propel our enterprise management forward into the 21st century."

(Probably not that bad, but you get the picture. They'll never SAY there's a ban. Because technically there isn't. Except there totally is.)

For the record, I didn't believe in the ban until quite recently, when it became painfully apparent that it was happening across pretty much all Marvel licensees.

pretty much all of this, and as you say it's not worth asking. Though Hasbro may put out one X-Man related person a year (marketing with something else ala Magik this year) to show there's "no ban" and technically they'd be correct. It wouldn't be a ban it would be a severe encouragement to not producing anything but a "not a ban!" figure.*

* Deadpool and Wolverine may be exceptions though. Hard to tell on those.