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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

I think people need to calm down a bit. 3.75'' will come back. Sales are still moderately strong.

Even Marvel Legends took a step back for a bit before coming back.
I expect that when it comes back though, there might be a heavier emphasis on ANAD, and classic figures will start to be more sparse.

It honestly seems like Hasbro might have some surprises in store later. Especially with some of the rumors floating around like reduction of X-Men figures in Marvel Infinite. The last time they did a reduction like that was right before XMO:Wolverine figures hit.

We need to take a deep breath and step back for a second. Think of this from a business perspective for long term monetary investments.

Like AoU for example. Yes the figures were heavily reduced articulation, but they also still had compatible heads and other accessories. One of the key factors to selling multiple figures of the same character is increased articulation to replace the previous. So with Marvel's slate announced, Hasbro has 5 years worth of lines to plan out on how best to monetize repeat sales on same characters. In this instance they even potentially saved money by up scaling and down scaling those figures across two sales points.

Marvel Infinite for example, may have had some cost cutting to balance out more original parts usage, but they did attempt to give fans figures they'd been demanding. Bishop and Black cat were both made. They completed the sinister 6. They have a lot of molds that can still be repacked like Shocker, venom/anti-venom, and Carnage. Marvel themselves have a strong market presence currently with the ANAD initiative going to create demand for those characters even among kids.

I think we should wait for SDCC/NYCC and see what Hasbro may have in the works coming up. They might surprise us with what's coming for the rest of the year, and have even bigger surprises for next year.

Well written text. I wholeheartedly agree.