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Originally Posted by hasbroherofan

That makes sense from a business perspective, but as others mentioned, it's a far broader reaching pattern than that. Even for the really popular X-Men movies there's pretty much nothing from any company, and even the characters with very "toyetic" costumes like Deadpool got virtually nothing. I think the only movie merchandise for that was the Hot Toys figure. Of course I wouldn't really expect Hasbro to make toys for an R-rated movie but still, it seems to be bigger than just worrying that the X-Men's designs might not make for good Legends. Plus having a boring costume didn't stop them from making Mordo recently.

Decisions about movie toys don't happen in a bubble. Companies look at the performance and the general attitude of fans towards to previous movies when making decisions about toy lines for upcoming movies. The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine are generally disliked by a lot of fans. And while I enjoyed First Class and most of The Wolverine, the overall reception for both of those movies was "meh". By the time Days of Future Past came along, most people weren't expecting a movie that would wow people. And X-Men: Apocalypse continued the trend of X-Men movies that didn't live up to expectations. Why would a company want to produce toys for a new movie when fans have disliked most of the previous movies? Why would a company want to produce toys for a new movie when fans have disliked the toy lines for the previous movies? DST did Minimates for most of these X-Men movies. And I guarantee that someone from Hasbro, at some point, walked into a Toys R Us and saw pegs full of X-Men movie Minimates that weren't selling and thought "Man we dodged a bullet by not producing figures for that movie."

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Originally Posted by Jeddostotle7

Yeah, at the VERY end of the movie. For the rest of it (what they would have made merch of), it was very generic, boring armor, just a new iteration of the same "all wearing the same black leather outfit" problem.

The same could be said of the future X-Men costumes from DOFP. And the 70s X-Men didn't even have costumes.