[Snowflakian]

Deadpool went to Japan to pick up a new robot helper and stumbled across some local hero wildlife to relax with.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ninjinister

I would definitely say that maybe they waited for the "reveal" to do stuff with Spidey (like with Rey in Star Wars), but considering the fact that I've read that Spidey merch sells better than all other Marvel merch I'm surprised there isn't more CW Spidey stuff out there by now.

With 2 movies of his coming up. I think that's exactly why. We got 2017 with Homecoming and 2018 with the animated feature.
No reason to bother now when the market is going to be flooded later anyway. Explains why his Civil War figures are in multi-packs too. For those that absolutely have to have him now, but otherwise there's going to be so many single carded later anyway with those movies there's no point in pulling too many sales away from those yet. Especially since it's not likely his costume will change at all. So may as well tease it, and then satisfy later. Until then, many of us already have the high articulation Amazing Spider-man one to fill that hole in our collections anyway. Which is kind of fitting since that almost was the start of the Sony deal with Oscorp allegedly originally going to make a cameo in Avengers 1.

This way they may get an even bigger massive sales spike, possibly larger than normal, and that sales data can be used to leverage retailers into larger support of Marvel product lines hopefully. Which could in theory give 4'' more peg space on shelves for more product because of the induced demand. Especially since so many still have a backlog of the Legends 6'' still to unload. So varying up the product lines to force room on the shelves and provide new sales data to support a switch back to 4'' for that dual appeal, makes sense. It'd work the market to go in their favor and have the sales numbers to back it up.

As a pre-cursor to a 4'' infinity war line, that's what I'd do. Tease with some 4'' Thor, a small line at least but with some character coverage from the movie, and maybe some old figures thrown in for hole filling and to keep costs down outside of those new molds. A full spider-man: Homecoming merchandising assault to flood the market, and then flood the market again with Avengers: Infinity War from the sales spike Spider-man:Homecoming caused, then tone it back down with some smaller high demand lines like Captain Marvel and Maybe Black Panther. Both of which they can do in higher articulation, possibly even bringing back neck tilt for flight poses and cat-like poses to get some to re-buy figures they already bought for the better version. For Captain Marvel, that'd mean a slight retool for her comic figure for the lower arms and neck, and for Black Panther, that'd mean the same, but on his cinematic version. Then a full new mold for the cinematic version of Carol Danvers.

Depends if Black Panther's film comes before Infinity War or after. If it's before, we'll be lucky to get anything more than a Legends 6'' wave. If it's after, they may have more room to move around for products again because of Spider-man and Infinity War's sales spike. Depends exactly how massive the Spider-man: Homecoming sales spike is. That alone may get us a smaller Black Panther 4'' line like Thor 2 was. With Captain Marvel after Infinity War though, it'll have hopefully more sales data to support talking retailers into wanting it, including how much wide appeal it has from the more diverse fanbase. (Though if sales of it flops, that could also set us back on 4'' market share, as well as product lines from women led titlce character properties at market. So it needs to be tighter more concise line to test the waters and see if demand is still strong to prove successful on the books. At that point though, we'd also already have some pretty big coverage already done from Infinity War though, and other films to bolster the market share back up again. And it is expected that the system is give or take. Massive sales spikes lead to lower sales later because of not reaching those same numbers, until a new spike happens from going above those lower numbers. And back and forth like that. Sales numbers don't have to go above their highest sales points, only the previous year and enough above threshold that retailers would want to keep supporting it. Though yes going above their highest numbers to date is always a plus.)