[Iceman]

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Originally Posted by bitman2

RIP Marvel Universe 3.75. This line is done put a fork in it. The writing was on the wall way back, when Vonner was let go. Hasbro (HASBLO) made the decision then. They had many things in the works under Vonner and when the fugures that were really far into developement were made that was going to be it. I think now that we will not even see many of the shown figures produced. They probably cleared their warehouse with the wave 21 figures that showed up all in Asia and Mexico. We may see the next scheduled waves but I have serious doubts. How HASBLO has managed to muck up a good thing is beyond me. This line had so much potential.

You are basing this on what proof? I know it may end up being true but we have nothing to go on other than wave 21 showing up in weird places and that can mean anything. Don't you think Vonner would have heard from people left behind if the line was going to be dead? I think we would have heard something from the employees in some way.

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Originally Posted by bitman2

HASBRO rep at SDCC. "We left our cases home," will have plenty too show at NYCC.

At SDCC they said they weren't going to be at NYCC and likely wouldn't show much so I guess we all heard different things from different people.

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Originally Posted by Shin Densetsu

Heh, Toy Fair better blow everyone away or else Hasbro will never hear the end of it from scathing fanboys. Out of all Hasbro's 4" lines, Marvel Universe had the highest potential and highest demand going in imo. Sure, G.I. Joe is their best 4" figure, but for Marvel, ideas that didn't work well for other lines, like battle packs, multi-packs COMIC PACKS; those WORK for Marvel Universe. Plus it's not like there's a shortage of anyone to choose from, even different versions of Spiderman/Captain America/Wolverine/Iron Man.

Exactly. Most of the stuff seems to sell in ways other lines don't (other than some movie line stuff). One has to think it makes money. I think the big issue was stuff like Thor bombing. Maybe the suits that run the place put all the Marvel 3.75" stuff in the same bucket for sales/profits.

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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

China is the least green industralized country when it comes to manufacture- cheaper to just import or use oil from there than to recycle, I'd think.

Cost concerns need to factor in articulation and scale- making something MU sized, which is likely completely hand assembled and finished has to be more difficult in complexity and quality control.
We see all sorts of ebay stuff that walked away from the factory, for example, but really no ML figs go that way.
It's also possible that different scales are made in different factories (or different buildings in the same industrial park)- Hasbro cramks out a lot of 3.75" figures after all.

I never thought about that. It could be that the larger figures are too hard to sneak out or maybe they get less rejected figures at the 6" size.