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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

While I can appreciate where you stand on that particular wave, I won't apologize nor backtrack on what I said about it. That wave, at least IMO, was not my favorite wave to come out this year, and I thought was one of the weakest waves of Legends released yet. I honestly had no clue who Tiger Shark or Bulldozer were outside of being bosses on Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and I couldn't have told you anything about Grim Reaper other than he is Wonder Man's brother, and was an annoying boss character on the Avenger's arcade game back in the late 80's.

While I'm glad that many others who are avid comic book readers and fans finally got the characters that they wanted, we also must take into account that not everyone is well versed on every character in the Marvel Universe. I like to consider myself as someone who has a slightly better knowledge of characters and goings in the Marvel Universe than the average casual fan out there, but I know that I can't hold a candle to your knowledge Blue Marvel, and some of the characters that I see people better versed than me in comics here suggesting for figures leave even me scratching my head sometimes, because I have no clue who they are. And if I'm struggling with it, I can only imagine what goes through the mind of the average person as they are prowling the Marvel Legends aisle when they see the likes of Tiger Shark (which was actually a figure that surprised me, thanks to the awesome head sculpt) and Grim Reaper. Those figures are clogging shelves like crazy here, with only some of the recent and more obscure characters from the Hulkbuster wave (Blizzard, Thundra, and the oversaturated Iron Man) keeping pace.

That's not to say that I'm against getting obscure characters for a wave of figures. I actually like that. It was one of the things that I most appreciated about the DCU line when that was up and running strong, and the last thing that I want is yet another Wolverine or Iron Man. However, I also cannot deny the fact that the Ant Man wave was one of the only BAF waves that I resorted to actually buying loose parts off of Ebay to complete the figure as opposed to buying each individual character.

I think the Ultron wave was the weakest wave this year, but I'd also like to add that the overall execution of the wave played into that as well. The only figures that truly stood out as "good" to me were Wasp and Grim Reaper. Bulldozer is a good figure too, but he doesn't work that well as a standalone character I feel, so for some of us who don't have the rest of the Wrecking Crew, he's just "meh". The other figures either suffered from shoddy paint apps or from being completely inaccurate to the character they were trying to depict (Movie Ant-Man), which defeats the entire purpose of a movie-based figure.

Really though, the whole wave just felt like a throwaway wave, an excuse to give us figures that were announced years ago, using the hype surrounding the Ant-Man/Age of Ultron movie as a way to push the figures. It didn't really seem as carefully planned out as the other waves from this year, where we had a nice mix of obscure and popular characters. I don't mind getting a bunch of B-listers, even as somebody that hasn't followed the comics in years, because it exposes me to characters that I otherwise wouldn't know about. In fact, collecting all of the Legends this year has made me want to look back into reading the comics.