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Originally Posted by Scarecroodle

There really is a lot to look forward to: Jubilee, a new Fin Fang Foom, Arnim Zola, the new comic packs, and so on. It's really hard to say whether it's going to be a really strong year although there are a ton of individual items that I want. Legends wave 1 is kind of a mixed bag, wave 2 looks a lot nicer. Although I'm definitely excited I'm not nearly as floored as I thought I'd be (although, again, Arnim Zola is an awesome reveal). MU is still really leading the pack.

The one big thing I dislike is how little information we seem to get for lines like the 3.75" Spiderman. It gets really cool additions not covered by MU now and again but, at the same time, it looks destined to fail just given the number of variant Spiderman pegwarmers you see everywhere.

I agree with all that you said. I collect MU but the Zola BAF is very tempting. On the other hand, how awful is the SM line? It is much like IM2 - creating every different variation on Spidey to the point that no one cares, and then limiting the bad guys to just a pitiful few each year. And the REALLY sad thing is that MU often has better or missing characters that probably should have been in the Spider-Man line - such as Mary Jane and Elektro and the superior Hobgoblin and Green Goblin figures. It looks like two new villains will be introduced in the line (Lizard and new Scorpion) but, once again, the more creative Spidey figures are in MU - Bag-man and Scarlet Spider. (I will give credit to the Spier-Man line for one figure: Ben Reilly Spider-Man, who I had to search way too long to find, although his sculpt could almost be a stand in for Spider-Girl!) It seems they should just fold this line into MU and continue to release new villains and superior variations on SM instead of having this kind of lousy line with a few highlights.