[StarWarsPaul]

Just diving into this thread now. I haven't read a single post. i'm offerin gup a summary for you all with regards to what we SHOULD be able to expect at retail through the end of this year.

I will also include a few announced items at the end that I have no idea what will be happening to them.

None of this is easy and or cut & dry to answer or decipher.

Through the remainder of this year, possibly carried over to the beginning of next year, we should fully expect to see ALL OF THIS RELEASED:

Marvel Universe Basic Figures
Wave 18 - (007-Hulk, 008-Ultimate Spider-Man, 008-Ultimate Spider-Man Variant, 009-Kraven, 010-Beta Ray Bill, 011-Astonishing Beast )
Wave 19 - (0012-She-Hulk, 013-FF Spider-Man, 013-FF Spider-Man Paper Bag Variant, 014-Punisher, 015-Kang, 016-Scarlet Witch)
Wave 20 - (017-BLUE Angel, 017-RED Angel Variant, 018-Nighthawk, 019-Nova, 020-Hercules, 021-Puck )
Wave 21 - (022-Professor X, 023-Jubilee, 024-Blastaar, 024-Blastaar
Energized Variant)

Marvel Universe Greatest Battles Comic 2-Packs
'12 Wave 1 - (Iron Man/Mandarin, Colossus/Juggernaut, Hulk/First Appearance Wolverine)
'12 Wave 2 - (Moon Knight/Ant-Man, Cap/70's Falcon, Dr. Strange/Silver Surfer)

Marve Universe Comic Team Packs
Wave 4 (Shipping now) - Heroic Age Avengers (Thor, Iron Man & Red Hulk), Fantastic Four (Blue/Translucent Invisible Woman)
Wave 5 - Inhumans (Black Bolt, Medusa & Karnak), X-Men (Longshot, Jim Lee Rogue, Wolverine & X-Baby Cyclops)

Obviously, the SDCC Sets (MoE & Helicarrier) as well as the TRU X-Factor set and possibly one or two other exclusive sets/items.

I have no idea the status of these items:
Goliath/Whizzer Gigantic battles set
Fin Fang Foom
Eric Masterson Thor w/frog
Death's Head
Black Knight
On-Line Sub Unmasked Doom

Also, according to a toy Ark poster, former Hasbro Employee David Vonner has mentioned to him that there will be some new MU reveals at SDCC, but my Hasbro sources have not shared any of that with me.

Other than this, all I know is that there is a shift in Hasbro away from MU and we will be lucky to see anything close to what we're used to seeing from the line. Maybe hiatus, like the brief ML pause? I honestly don't know.

Just trying to lay my cards on the table. I hope this helps.

Now to dive into the thread....

The rest of these items

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Originally Posted by wolverine2281

whatever! state your sources Dan!

Dust off the dick kicking boots....

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Originally Posted by bitman2

Trust Hasbro to turn what should have been a Golden Goose into an Ugly Ducking. The MU line should have been Mint to them. Getting rid of the creative talent (Vonner) Crappy distribution, totally messed up case assortments,screwing the major retailers by sending way too many repack cases of figures most already had. ( My local Walmart has 21 Guardians of the Galaxy packs (and not 1 other 3 pack) will finally kill the line. It will really be a shame too because the product had so much potential.

Better grab those GotG sets now! they'll be worth a MINT when the Movie comes out in a few years.

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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

Everything not listed, never got a toy line.
No X-Men First Class figures for example or ghost rider 2.

X-Men First Class had no figures because the move was made faster than they could get a figure line produced.

GR2 well, GR1 figure line was a money loser, so no reason to revisit that well.

I actually liked the IM2 approach to figures, although I think it led to s Glut of merchandise, but i like the idea of:
Movie Assortment
Comic Assortment
and to a lesser degree, but i see the need for it, Concept Assorment

I Got the Comic assortments, because of my MU collection, similar to how I went out to get the Spider-man lines villians.

I actually hope that they adopt a Comic series for every movie series as a way to supplement and extend the MU line.