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About the sources - the funny thing is that it could be the same primary source that three different people are hearing from. Maybe Hasbro is needy and wants to feel the love? Who knows?

The thing is this: if Hasbro drops MU, don't doubt that Disney will quickly move their license to a different company. Disney clearly has good relationships with a number of toy manufacturers, and Hasbro is not the limit of their sales.

I don't see this only because the toys seem to be selling. Now, if they keep doing revision waves, sure, figures will peg warm. It would make SO much more sense ending the movie licenses and moving them into a subset of Marvel Universe. That way they don't have to produce 12 Spideys and 6 Thor figures to fill the wave. It would be a far simpler thing to have a Captain America wave just as Legends just to have character waves (with BAFs). The movie figures tend to fair poorly against MU (notable exception: Winter Soldier) so just make them play together, so to speak.

After following GI Joe for years, there are a few certainties: 1) Rumors of "the end of the line" crop up often. With Joes and TFs, it usually just means that a change is happening but not a real end. 2) Once Hasbro invests a lot of money into figure molds, they will make it into production in some way. The Joes had a figure called the "Data Viper" that Hasbro decided not to make due to costs. Already, most of the figure has appeared in movie figures to come out soon. Rumor was that there were these animated looking figures that were produced for the recent Joe cartoon. A few of them came out recently in an Amazon exclusive 4 pack. Thus, it is likely a Rogue and Ant-Man figure will be released in time because of the investment Hasbro has already put into those figures. 3) Don't trust Hasbro any more than internet rumors. Some of that is that their PR doesn't know everything, and some is that Hasbro doesn't like to show their cards early. Thus, SDCC will likely not reveal anything.