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Originally Posted by xjuza

youre forgeting about the BAF almost all males in different bucks(cept for jubilee), and the wrecking crew buck , and the ultron buck (comic version), ghost rider , cable, and ghost buck, and now the new sunfire buck. and ofc the ones your forgot equal to the ones you listed.

The Wrecking Crew body will certainly be shelved now, given that the only reason they were released on that body in the first place was their creation in 2013 but delayed release (same with Odin wave Iron Fist). Ghost Rider, Ghost, and ASM2 Electro bodies aren't exactly templates, due to Hasbro's limitations to what they can do with them, having only been used for two (?) characters each (A.I.M. mook and Ghost Rider, Ghost and Jack O' Lantern, and Electro and Scourge, respectively).

Edit: I forgot to mention the Ultron body, which resides in the same category as those mentioned above (it's only been used on comic Ultron and Ultimate Beetle - I can't see it being used anywhere else at the moment)..

When I say template, I mean the bases that Hasbro utilise for many characters, but in that regard I agree that the Coulson/suited body is now a template. So, even though Mockingbird has some unique tooling, she's still on the slender female template, whereas someone like Taskmaster is on a completely unique body, and there's no evidence that it's a new template as of yet. However the new "slim-muscular" mold as seen with Sunfire and Kris Anka's Spider-Man 2099, and the "medium-muscular" mold as seen on Spider UK will most definitely be templates for many more figures to come.

This does not mean that Hasbro will have to redo all their previous figures (I've not seen any evidence to show that these new bodies will be taller than the current ones), merely that characters will have more variety in the future. It's really as simple as that.