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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I guess it's very easy to be optimistic when, as you mentioned earlier, every figure you've wanted to see made has been made. I don't mean for that to sound personal and I want to believe your reasoning I just can't (so please, no personal offense intended.) I guess we will have to agree to disagree I'm just saying it's easier to have a different viewpoint with less incentive or desire to see change.

If the number of First Class packs overstocked were a reason for retailers to be weary of buying into more X-Men product, what about the glut of Iron Man movie figures? Those things were falling off the shelves due to overstock for multiple years. And yet we still have additional Iron Man figures produced in the meantime.

We may not have seen Fox movie figures in the times before Marvel was aquired by Disney but we still got plenty of X-men figures in the lines. It wasn't until after the Disney aquistion that the X-men offerings started to dry up. So I can't put this all on Marvel, as I'm rather sure it's more likely coming straight from the House of Mouse.

Every figure in Legends has been made I wanted. MU/I is another matter entirely. I only collect certain things in the upper scale.

As for Iron Man, Iron Man 2 had strong sales that led to the extension of the line, but then it did shelf warm all the way to Iron Man 3. Which led to the Iron Man 3 figures going a different direction entirely with the assemblers instead of normal figures. Which then gave rise to the other line we see now on shelves. The mash ups or whatever they're called. And then how that expanded to almost every brand hasbro has because of how well they sold. Which now has Deadpool, Pyro, Wolverine, Iceman, and others too. So if there is an embargo on those characters, no one told the Mash ups team that. The only embargo over there seems to be no female characters. That entire line was also while Marvel was with Disney.

That line itself is all sales and marketing data at work.

We got the Sentinel, the 5 pack, and an X-Men 3 pack while Marvel was with Disney also. The sentinel had mixed sales(also marked the end of the masterpiece line entirely). The 5 pack was one of the few easy to find exclusives at TRU and didn't move the volume probably expected, and the longshot 3 pack moved slower than the inhumans pack after an initial sales surge. So much so that Rogue is getting repacked, but that wolverine and Longshot aren't. The favorite from the pack that has the most demand is getting repacked. Same with the inhumans pack though. Blackbolt is getting repacked but Karnak and Medusa aren't as yet.

We're still getting new figures, and they're trying to cover more characters, so X-Men are taking a mild backseat for now allowing other characters to pop up while retailers still want shelf presence of Spider-man(which explains the doubled up spidey comic pack coming) Captain America, and others. Hyperion is definitely the oddity in that though, but without knowing what All-New Marvel has planned for that, there might be an intended reason for it, or a push because of his constant exposure in the Avengers toon. He's been in 5 episodes already.

Another example is GOTG. They've grown in popularity to the point their figures are now showing up in MI too. Yondu and Gamora both have upcoming figures because of this increased exposure. Vance Astro too. The demand is there as even the fan poll showed.