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Originally Posted by Tarquinius

Again I agree with all of that. Its a shame to think that with a toyline sometimes you need to plan the end of the line to understand the rest....but that is business.

Hasbro under Vonner had a really good model I thought. They did a good job trying to release comic recent costumes and characters. I mean the BE Iron Man toy was released within the same year as it's comic debut (I believe). FF Spiderman and FF Doom as well have been fantastic in it's turn around.

That is a good strategy to allow the line to be fresh and relevant. Unfortunately, I don't think we will see much of that now.

On another rant, I'm really peeved about the use of extra-curriculars in this line. We went from fury files, to stands to comic shots. That is just POOR execution with no excuse. You won't hear me tearing down this line much, but that is my biggest complaint. It truly shows Hasbro's uncertainty and confusion with this line.

On one side I tend to agree. They do have a tendency to shift around MU a bit too much on package contents. On the other hand, there seems to be more to those changes because of the market and cost than we know for certain.

Hasbro has shown at times a strong aptitude for thinking ahead though in other ways. Take for example the limited articulation on the avengers line. Many of these costumes might be the same for Avengers 2, so the only way to push purchases on those is to up the articulation the figures didn't get before. Black Widow and Fury being the exception as they could get tweaked costumes. Cap and Hawkeye probably won't though, and Thor is anyone's guess really come Avengers 2. Ironman is another one that'll probably have new armors, but his own movies mean an ungodly amount of armors again anyway to draw from. Cap also has the problem of potentially his second movie having a toy line, which means more past and present Caps. So they'll have to figure out how to differentiate them. Hopefully this means a stronger comic subline within the movieline to pick up what's missing and fluff out the lines better. Stuff like Comic Red Skull, Sin, 90s Armored Cap, and whoever else that can fit. Including maybe a Howling Commandos Fury, or new 616 Fury.

That's one thing I do have to give Hasbro credit for with Marvel. They do seem to think ahead on how they are going to sell you the same figure/character you already bought a year or so before.