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Originally Posted by Kernel

As for the brand manager... all he had to do was ride Vonner's coat tails and repaint the old bucks but he botched it pretty bad. He's like one of those clowns that tries to reinvent the wheel at an office/workplace but just makes everything worse. I've seen it happen a ton of times.

I think insulting Hasbro when con season is right around the corner may not be best thing to do. Especially when we don't have the sales data or know what they have planned coming up later.

Though I concur on Legends seeming to shelf-warm. Many stores here still have Winter Soldier legends figures on shelves. Legends I think would fair a lot better if they aligned it to work with the 3.75 some with the size shifters or larger characters, but we'll see how that works out when Ant-Man's waves start hitting.

It kind of looks like Hasbro was trying to appease fans though when you look at what's been offered so far. Legends fans were very vocal and so Hasbro brought Legends back. Fans were very vocal about wanting the sinister 6 and Lucas Bishop, Hasbro gave us all new molds of them.

With as many figures as they can still repack and haven't released, they still have an announced wave to go, and at least two waves of highly sought after repacks they could do.

Carnage has yet to be re-released, Scorpion, and many more.

And I really hope they do release the ANAD Iron Man. His ability to turn into any previous armor he's had could really bolster the aftermarket of those Iron man armors and even allow repacks of a few of the classic ones like silver centurion. Personally, I'm entirely fine with Iron Man figures so long as they are different armors. Many of us all have preferred versions of the armor. Personally I'm really excited that the ANAD comic is taking a cue from the Iron Man 90s cartoon season 2 armor's ability to switch armors on the fly. Kinda surprised they hadn't done something like that sooner. It was one of the cool things that toon introduced and is making me excited for Iron Man again.

The rule for Iron Man, Cap, and Spider-man figures should be that if retailers want them as named characters, they could at least cover the diverse history of their various appearances. So far, much of that's been covered. We're down to only Superior Spider-man, Ben Reilly spider-man and spider-carnage on spider-man's side now. They even did bag head already. On cap's side we're really only missing his armored suit from when his powers were fading in the 90s. For Ironman all that's left is his 90s modular suit that was predominately used in his 90s toon besides the GOTG suit and newest.

With everything we've gotten so far, and the next slate of movies announced, give Hasbro some breathing room. We've got 5 years of movies coming up and a ton of possibilities for them to do now that demand is starting to kick back up. Not to mention we don't know how much they did bank on the lower articulation figures that still sold pretty well. Apparently well enough that they've got a 3rd wave with Vision and Falcon coming. Civil War itself is going to have a ton of side characters too and the newest cinematic costumes. Some of which sounds like can be done as a simple retool of previous molds. Like the minor changes on Hawkeye's suit, and even a re-release of MCU Ant-man on a single card.

We are getting Ant-man too for his movie, and his movie didn't really warrant a full on line. MCU-wise, it looks like Yellow Jacket and Ant-man were the only two costumed identities, and I don't think doing comic versions of his villains would have really sold. I don't think egghead is a figure that really anyone wants and Ant-man's MI figure already shelf warms pretty bad.