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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

Yeah...but none of those figs looked particularly good.
That alternate BW is pretty crappy- a Lady Jaye head with blonde hair would be waaay better.

I'm really suprised Hasbro does not reuse the occasional Joe head for MU.
Maybe a liscensing thing

I imagine that is EXACTLY why. Marvel probably owns the property rights to the figure faces and in general the bodies. I guess Nick Fury was so generic a body that it wasn't an issue. There seems to occasionally be some egos at play between the lines too - TF doesn't like crossing over with Joes at all. They even created a smaller less articulated figure to put in their TF movie vehicles, which makes no sense as they would have been quite popular if they had been scaled such that 4" figures would fit in. SW design guys resist changing their articulation to fit in with the other figures - this might be due to fans not wanting change. Even MU figures aren't the same in construction as GI Joe - similar but not the same. So, if Hasbro can't even get all the lines to use the same construction, to encourage crossing over for the sake of sales much less fan desires, I doubt the lines are asking to borrow heads either. I can almost hear the sculptors telling them to make their own sculpt!

For a company that is raising the prices due to production costs, better management seems like it would encourage more cooperation between the lines. I'm all for new body parts and new head sculpts, but how much MU might have benefitted from a different female legs from time to time, and how much the Joe line might benefit from a SW head.