[TheBlueMarvel]

This isn't the worst year of Marvel Legends IMO, but I know people are prone to hyperbole and often suffer from recency-bias. The Return of Marvel Legends 2012 and 2013 featured some pretty weak waves. This sort of grousing seems to always happen when there's divergence from the most popular wells, or waves don't contain enough conventionally coveted characters. When there's not enough X-men, or Avengers, or not enough of a selection of widely known characters that roll off the tongue, I start reading things like 'worst wave ever', or 'terrible year'. 2022's selection isn't horrible, the figs just happen to be B-side dial-ups, which works for me because I'm a b-side type of guy.

It was just a few months ago on this thread that people were praising Hammerhead, Shocker, and Symbiote Spider Man. The Spider Man from the Spidey/Spinneret 2pk is being heralded as possibly the best Spidey fig to date, Iron Spider has also been lauded along with the 60th Spidey, and Knull is cool. Additionally, fans are waiting anxiously for their googly eyed Lizard, with even myself planning a pick up. Retro Havok was also well received here and an improved US Agent, Madame Hydra/Viper, Speedball (to fill out the New Warriors) and Quake were talked up as welcome additions. I have a Blue Marvel coming along with (and more importantly) GALACTUS, a new Silver Surfer (slightly unnecessary IMO; I had zero problems with the head of the previous iterations), Nova, and MORG. As far as the MCU wares are concerned, the movies haven't been performing that well and the purchase of those figs is largely contingent on the popularity of the films. I could go on, but I'll summate with the notion that fans need to pump the brakes when trashing this year. It ain't that bad and most of this grousing represents hyperbolic and reactionary sentiment.

What's 'bad' this year are these prices (which is also playing a role in the complaints), not the selections because there's still a little bit for everybody....just a little bit more for me! HAHAHA!