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Originally Posted by Jay West

While I would have never said this a year ago, I think Marvel/Hasbro could actually sell a bunch of figures if they did toon based figures and offered several characters not unlike the offerings of TMNT, but just added knees and elbows to the current 5 POA model. A 9 POA figure would give the kids more playability and probably get more adult fans. Just thoughts. Of course I'd love 4 inch figures with 21 POA, but that's not happening right now.

They tried that a little bit.
The Avengers Assemble Shield Tech line for example. And they've filtered some toon nods into Marvel Infinite occasionally like Hyperion. They should capitalize on it a bit more though with stuff like White Tiger and Agent Venom. Possibly even a wrecking crew re-release scattered across MI for those that didn't get them with the secret wars comic packs. They could re-release Iron Spider too. The dedicated toon lines don't seem to last for some reason with retailers. At least the kind of villain figures we want. I would have thought the shield tech line would have kept going. The widow figure was badass, Falcon was loads better than his MU release, and I'm still trying to get my hands on the Hawkeye & Nick Fury from that line.

Repacks could solve a lot of that, and now that characters are more known from their toon appearances, they could still make their way into MI releases. A Batroc release because of his multiple toon appearances might be funny, but some obscure villains even with toon backing still tend to shelf-warm. Hyperion is one of the easiest figures to find in my local stores still. Though Hydra figures during Cap 1's release sold extremely well. Might have helped they were a troop builder. Wrecker himself back during MU didn't seem to sell that well though and shelf-warmed for a little bit before moving.

So it's kind of a trade off. Even villains need to be more headlining to move at faster paces. Leader for example might sell really well if he had made it to major retailer shelves because of his over arcing presence in Hulk agents of SMASH. Maestro is possible from his appearance over there. Doom would have been a good choice since he's a strong comic presence, iconic, and had some toon appearances.

It's a balancing act. Definitely on the hero figures though like White Tiger, Agent Venom, and Ka-zar now that Shanna is available. The Udon Taskmaster that was also featured in ultimate spider-man would sell like hot cakes too.

Another issue to toon lines though, in some cases the designs don't match up. Take the new Falcon in Season 2 for example with the Gatchaman cues. Granted all he really needs is a new head from his previous Shield Tech release, but it doesn't match anything at all in the comics as yet(or foreseeable future unless someone else takes up the Falcon mantle while Sam Wilson is Captain America). If it gets more figures out there though and especially of characters that wouldn't see release otherwise, it'd be awesome.

Another problem has been retailer attention. They seem to like the more diverse and eye catching disparity between figures and the 5 poa cheaper figure orders to fill shelves. Maybe if they dedicated a line for solely toon marvel to pair up with MI, they could filter out more figures that way. Like SHIELD TECH, they could do it as mostly repacks with some minor retools where possible. Like Red Hulk with new hands so he could hold his toon guns. Or She-Hulk with new glove gear like she uses on her show. Agent Venom, White Tiger, Sam Alexander Nova might be an issue because his toon colors and comic colors are different, but that makes for an easy repaint for MI later. Power man could be done this way too. He's a young Luke Cage in ultimate spider-man but that exact costume, and hair cut style is the current Power Man in the comics. Amadeus Cho is the same across both minus the mace.

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Originally Posted by kylactus

I wish they did the movie 3.75" figures in the same MU/MI lines all along like Legends is doing.

We might start seeing that later. Some of the ANAD Marvel stuff is the same as the cinematic stuff. The new Star Lord for example as well as Ant-man. Their ANAD attires are the same as their MCU ones. I do agree we need some kind of dedicated MCU line though overall. It'd be nice to have another shot at getting some figures from before like the Warriors 3, Heimdal, Sif, Odin, and Destroyer. I'm not sure what the actor likeness costs are though to doing something like that. Some cases like Destroyer though are the same as their comic counterparts and it is a bit surprising they haven't been repacked for MI. Crossbones you'd think would be near time for a repack too with his upcoming appearance in Cap 3.

Personally. I'm really hoping for some ANAD Marvel figures to be coming up. I'd love to get a female Thor figure, Sam Wilson Cap, among many others. It's the classic marvel stuff I tend to skip because I'm trying to keep my figure collection closer to their modern representations. And I still want a Songbird figure gosh darn it! (Which if they were feeling nice to classic figure consumers, they could do a variant of as Screaming Mimi.)