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Originally Posted by Ash Talon

Except that they're kinda lying. There's a little Avengers symbol in the corner of the IM3 packaging. There has been no new Avengers toy product for the entire last quarter of 2012 and nothing scheduled 2013 except an animated line somewhere down the road (summer?).

Granted, we'll see their plans revealed at Toy Fair in a couple of weeks. I'm not sure how they can say they're the only ones with merchandise, cartoons, and movies coming out when WB has been doing that with Batman for decades.

Again, "We're great and only we do it" is what I got from the release. Not a knock on Marvel, a lot of companies try to seperate their brands from the competition. They know the Batman franchise does the same. Sadly, Hasbro left Mattel in the dust in regards to 4" figures. Now they're regressing and Mattel has a window to catch up. If only they would...

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Originally Posted by TheSymbiote

We stopped reading after
"The success of Avengers Assemble last year is being supplemented by fresh activity in 2013 and beyond to drive kids into toy stores".

I'm okay with that attitude, I just wish companies would stop treating kids like... children! Kids aren't stupid. They'll take figures with less articulation until they see the alternative. Once kids (and adult collectors) get the articulation bug, it becomes the standard.