[Boy Blunder]

As a longtime X-Men fan, I see absolutely no problem with this wave. Is it a lot of figures that have seen releases before? Sure, absolutely. Does that make it a bad wave? Not really.

The past few ML waves have been nothing short of fantastic from an engineering standpoint (even though there have been a few missteps), and seeing a bunch of well-loved characters getting figures with this new engineering is plenty satisfying, especially for people like me who, as TBM identified, don't have an extensive ML collection spanning back to the Toy Biz years.

Furthermore, quite a few of these characters have a variety of costumes that Hasbro could go with. Clan Yashida colors Wolverine would be a lock in my book (favorite costume), or it could even end up being Laura in the mask (likely sold under the name All-New Wolverine). Havok? I'd love a Classic 'goofy headpiece' version, or heck, how about Mutant X? Minimal new tooling for either of those, but still stiking. Kitty could have any number of versions (poofy sleeves, anyone?) and could come with Lockheed. Cable... my ideal hope would be a Joe Casey/José Ladrönn-era Cable, with psimitar.

And Deadpool is no surprise. The amount of profit that Marvel makes on Deadpool merch counterbalances any money they'd have to give to Fox due to the whole rights issue. I mean, when a product makes money hand over fist, you can overlook things like that.

At the end of the day, this is a rumored list of characters, but goddamn if I'm not excited for it.