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Snowflakian · 11-03-2014, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by uberlad

While I don't fault your logic, I lack your confidence. Maybe MI needs to disappear for a year or two entirely before a big resurgence.

There's no doubting the potential over the next few years from both Hasbro and Mattel. As a consumer, I just hope they don't squander it.

Well, with the holidays coming up. It should cause the slowed cases to hit shelves pretty fast, and then next year should start hopefully a bigger push as shelf space opens up. So next year's SDCC and toy fair will hopefully show a lot.

Toys R Us having a massive marvel section now with moving product means retail support is there for the large part. It's just a matter of them reaching the shelf now. I don't want MI going on any kind of major hiatus though. If it does, the likelihood of it coming back is lower. I'd rather they find a way to keep it on shelves in way or another if even through multipack exclusives for a bit. I'm hoping with all the movies coming up and with how much product Hasbro already has that can be reused because it was barely on shelves to begin with means we'll see some 3 packs or other re-uses. It'd be nice to have another chance at the warriors 3, Sif, Heimdal, Odin, Hydra, Destroyer, and more. I'm really hoping we'll see some kind of 3.75'' combined line because there are a lot of figures that need coverage and a lot that could be re-released to get more out of the previous molds. Even Winter Soldier could have his figure re-released with a new head. It's not like they haven't shown they can't do this. Avengers Assemble did really well with that in making the newer costumed Clint Barton from the movie figure. Same to Widow which replaced my old Black Widow in my comic Avengers display.

With the Assemble toon and Ultimate spider-man toon being so comic and movie influenced, if we're really lucky, maybe Hasbro will consider doing more like that. It plays to their favor on recognition and still gives us the figures we want in the style we want. In some cases it's made for some great figures too! Plus Destroyer is comic and movie accurate plus regularly featured in the toons too. So all around it works out for best mold usage while still marketing to the shows and the comics together with a dash of movie stuff. (Movie Loki is toon Loki too.)

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Snowflakian Illyria's New Qwa'ha Xahn Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: In the clouds. Posts: 4,120	Quote: Originally Posted by uberlad While I don't fault your logic, I lack your confidence. Maybe MI needs to disappear for a year or two entirely before a big resurgence. There's no doubting the potential over the next few years from both Hasbro and Mattel. As a consumer, I just hope they don't squander it. Well, with the holidays coming up. It should cause the slowed cases to hit shelves pretty fast, and then next year should start hopefully a bigger push as shelf space opens up. So next year's SDCC and toy fair will hopefully show a lot. Toys R Us having a massive marvel section now with moving product means retail support is there for the large part. It's just a matter of them reaching the shelf now. I don't want MI going on any kind of major hiatus though. If it does, the likelihood of it coming back is lower. I'd rather they find a way to keep it on shelves in way or another if even through multipack exclusives for a bit. I'm hoping with all the movies coming up and with how much product Hasbro already has that can be reused because it was barely on shelves to begin with means we'll see some 3 packs or other re-uses. It'd be nice to have another chance at the warriors 3, Sif, Heimdal, Odin, Hydra, Destroyer, and more. I'm really hoping we'll see some kind of 3.75'' combined line because there are a lot of figures that need coverage and a lot that could be re-released to get more out of the previous molds. Even Winter Soldier could have his figure re-released with a new head. It's not like they haven't shown they can't do this. Avengers Assemble did really well with that in making the newer costumed Clint Barton from the movie figure. Same to Widow which replaced my old Black Widow in my comic Avengers display. With the Assemble toon and Ultimate spider-man toon being so comic and movie influenced, if we're really lucky, maybe Hasbro will consider doing more like that. It plays to their favor on recognition and still gives us the figures we want in the style we want. In some cases it's made for some great figures too! Plus Destroyer is comic and movie accurate plus regularly featured in the toons too. So all around it works out for best mold usage while still marketing to the shows and the comics together with a dash of movie stuff. (Movie Loki is toon Loki too.) __________________ Last edited by Snowflakian; 11-03-2014 at 04:10 PM..