[StuartGreen2019]

One of the biggest drawbacks for Hasbro and their lack of Marvel Legends reveals is Marvel's movies, series and other media content get pushed back and they're not making "plan b" waves based on comic books, animated series, previous M.C.U. films or video games that are already right there for them to make instead. There are literally hundreds of characters you can make figures of, from Retro animated series waves and anniversaries for the debut of a character or storyline (like doing a 'Fantastic Four' movie wave next year for its 20th anniversary year, for example) to the way a character looked in a Marvel video game or movie to push up to fill that release date void that would've gone to a movie or series that was delayed or needed reshoots. If you're going to have an M.C.U. series or movie, or two, pushed back a few months when you're making figures for that project, that's going to affect your output of toys for the year. If you're hiding spoiler surprise characters, it's going to make things worse and the wait even longer. We're still waiting on figures of Lizard and Electro 'No Way Home', a film that's three years old, and we only got figures of the two main characters from 'Deadpool & Wolverine'. They could always go back to previous content and make long-requested figures for fans to add to their collections. Granted, that's unlikely to happen in the near future due to the actors' and writers' strikes being resolved, but things still come up that push back content all the time. Heck, we're going to have to wait one full year to see season two "X-Men '97" and there are plenty of characters and alternate costumes for existing characters they can make in-between and look how long it's taken for "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" to finally get footage shown.

I do agree to being massively underwhelmed by just the Sentinel at New York Comic Con, but I wasn't expecting much from them, given the Pulse Con reveals we already got. I might be in the minority here, but I miss all the toys being revealed at New York Toy Fair. I knew what was coming out, when it was likely coming out, tentatively knew how much it might cost, and could plan accordingly. Now, it's a monthly drag on of "wait and see" teases and it's usually the two big events worth of multiple reveals per year at SDCC and PulseCon and a bunch of "here's a fan channel exclusive single figure this week" or "here's an expensive multi-pack of your long requested figure with three or four other characters for $150 to $200 bucks next month" type of hype.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed we'll get some good, multiple reveals in November, possibly for the first three figures of the next Spider-Man wave, but I know better than to get my expectations too high.

I hope you all are having a marvelous weekend and stay safe, True Believers.