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Originally Posted by AFU

I still have interest, I still have my 3.75 inch collection, and they are not going anywhere soon. I just miss the day when Hasbro was, I guess, more creative. At one time we had box sets for Ironman, Avengers, FF, and Capt. We even got Galactus, Sentinel, Giantman, Goliath and others. These days, we don't got that, and I don't understand why? I know the cost have role to play in what companies produce, but I really think it was the quality that is hurting the line...For example, Abomination and A-bomb are some fantastic figures in my opinion, but the Phoenix and Psylocke are just awful, they could of payed better attention to detail and those figures could have been better than end result...but, like I said before, I buy way less of 3.75 inch figures these days, but I still pick up some every now and then because I'm a fan...

It also has to do with major retailer orders. If major retailers don't want to order them, or don't put them on shelves, or feel they don't sell, then hasbro cuts back.

Some of those packs you mentioned were Walmart items. Walmarts are currently cutting heavily back on 4'' figures. So no shelf space for them or stores willing to order them. (Giant battle packs were walmart, though the masterpiece line was all-retailer, and target was getting non-comic 2 packs while Toys R Us was getting 3 packs. Now TRU is the only one getting exclusives with the non-comic two packs.) The team packs ended up on clearance by the end, so retailers probably are tired of carrying them if they clearanced them out.

The masterpiece line that had galactus and the sentinel also got cut back. Th next one was supposed to be fin fang foom, but that got dropped for now.

If merchandise doesn't move, retailers don't order more, stock backs up, then the line needs to get rebranded to get the new figures on shelves. This is why MU has gone through several renamings.

It all comes back to sales and cost of production.

This isn't on hasbro, it's on middle man syndrome. If walmart starts carrying them again and target's sales increase of the comic packs they do have, stuff will start getting back on pace again. But we're also in a very light summer currently with no movie pushes anymore after the spring push, and only the home media release left. This is typically the sales lull until about September-October.

It's not that hasbro is lacking creativity, it's that retailer interest isn't there right now because sales on their end are dipping on this product line.