[Snowflakian]

I'm wondering where the choice may have come down.

It's no secret hasbro wants to focus on inhouse properties, but retailer support is their bread and butter. So it makes me wonder if Hasbro is doing this to appease retailers to find a new fresh hit, or if retailers want to order less MU in favor of movie-lines.

I still expect MU to stick around in one form or another though. If retailers are the issue, it just needs a massive package refreshing. If costs are the issue though, that's another matter as it'd equally drive collectors away as much as it'd bring new ones in for their favorite characters. As it is, I have a hard time spending 20 bucks on a comic pack(which is kind of funny since I'll go as high as 15 on certain single carded figures >.>).

Hopefully with the movies still to come though, we'll get a lot that still needs to be made. Dedicated lines could help prolong movie lines at shelves and give them more variety. That's assuming at least they get their distribution better on track for case assortments.

Take for example the upcoming X-Men universe flicks.
We've got the X-Men: Days of Future Past (tentative) that could be a great place to toss in some comic characters from both classic to modern, as well as movie versions. Then wolverine that's more or less a short line based on the movie-lineup that only needs maybe 5 real movie figure alongside a re-release of the XMO: Jacketed wolverine. All of this would be better suited to keep in one global X-Men line. Inbetween dead times they could do comic-series or movie figures that haven't been made yet. Then there's avengers which can contain the main marvel cinematic universe since it's all interconnected and then gives them a permanent outlet for comic-series avengers and movie-series as well as any other Marvel Studios flick.
That leaves Spidey's line for his movie universe, comic figures, and spin-offs.

All that's missing is an outlet for the more obscure characters.
All I really have to say though. We better get Nova, Jubilee, and beast! With Emma frost down the line, as well as modern Quasar to help finish out the annihilators (besides Ronan, and Ikon). With X-Men movies coming, and a guardians of the galaxy movie coming though. I'm not too worried about getting those. Hopefully characters like Mockingbird will still see the light of day via Avengers too.

If anything, they better at least give us the Ultimate Universe Nimrods or Second coming Nimrods in Legends form.

I'm hopeful for MU, but yes it does have its issues that need to be addressed. The case assortment numbers being high on that list. Distribution I can't really blame on them since that falls on the retail outlets with how they order, but that's all the more reason to tweak the case assortments to be better capable of handling demand.

Here's hoping they do a couple 'part reuse' waves to help fill out some later waves and recoup costs. Heck, even using a GI Joe ROC figure for Fantomex or Domino(Avengers BW body, agent helix head? Or just straight up agent helix?) wouldn't be bad. There's a lot that can be made that'll fly off shelves from the parts they currently have to use.