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Originally Posted by ukmu

I wish they would pick that line back up as the cartoon is rolling now instead of fledgling. (I know it was only "filler" as it was in between lines and will never return, but still)

Beg retailers. They're the ones that axed it. If it sold strong, it would have brought us more villains to shelves faster. Some stores barely even stocked the SHIELD tech versions, favoring the less articulated line instead. And then blamed poor sales on the overall toon brand instead of the fact people were looking for the SHIELD tech versions not the dollar store versions, and then major retailers refused to carry it at all. Hence why you saw both versions at discount stores.

There's a whole retailer argument between the two lines, and their perception of toy line merchandise and cost of ordering etc. As well as flawed perceptions of why merchandise moves or not. Though I do agree, I absolutely loved the Falcon figure and widow figure from that line. Would have loved getting Fury and Hawkeye too, but they never showed up near me. And would absolutely love to get a figure of the new Faclon design in the show with the Gatchaman design influenced head/mask. It was our best chance at an Iron Skull too(literally a repaint and head swap of the ironman and red skull figures), and our earliest chance at a Dracula figure too and more.

We can hope that they'd like to carry it again, but our best bet is a rebranding of the toon lines in general to consolidate shelf space. Depends on how well the new GOTG line sells though too, and with Spider-man getting movies coming up, no way will retailers want to give up the ultimate spider-man line right now. So our best hope is potentially a toon toy line rebranding of something like "Spider-man and the Avengers" or along those lines to get retailers to bite on a new line that features articulated 3.75''/4'' figures of the toon properties. Something like this could get us a new Blade figure, Dracula, and more since the Ultimate Spider-man toon and Avengers toon both have a lot of characters between them. Including Loki as well besides spider-ham and even frog Thor. The cost on Hasbro's end is minimal too as many of the figures could be recolors/slight remolds of existing figures with some complete new ones thrown in too. I'd love to get the new Widow from the toon, as well as that Yelena version from that mold. And they could also toss in the previously scrapped Strucker too thanks to that episode. That's of course besides the upcoming character cameos too. And we could even get a Kamala Khan Ms. Marvel faster that way too or Ghost. Plus Captain America's mold is more or less his Civil War version that came with the bike, so it'd only need some vibrant toon coloring as a repaint.

Retailer toy marketing is a long thing to explain. How they like varied sizes for the shelves. Eye catching packaging. And all sorts of other various marketing gimmicks of what they think works and so much more. This is why the material we see now is the material we see now on shelves for Ultimate Spider-man. Including the "try me now!" packaging types, and other market words across various packaging. They also don't want to pay much for it either, and want easy profit turnovers, etc. and so much more. The economic and business side of major retailers is very very involved.