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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

I agree that E. Weekly and the Panther trailer raised expectations significantly, but I would stop short of presupposing exactly what people were feeling at the BP con reveal without asking them first to at least develop some background perspective. That's not an implication that you're off base with your suggestion, it makes sense in the way of trying to remotely understand things. Rather, I'm postulating that we don't really know unless we ask or someone tells us. That was my reasoning for posting the comment to which you responded. I was reading misinterpretations of perfectly reasonable rationales for being underwhelmed by the BP wave. Misinterpretations that were categorizing well articulated viewpoints as some race-based conspiracy clap-trap. No one whose comments I read ever played a race-card scenario. Instead, that was being projected onto people that simply expressed that they'd hoped for more from the reveal.

For what it's worth...Black Panther, Black Bolt, and Namor is a pretty exciting line-up IMO. That said, I'm not the biggest MCU guy and if I were, I'd totally be crestfallen at that reveal. It's not that hard to empathize with others, you just have to be willing to put yourself in their shoes.

Perhaps. My interpretation remains that it was a "hot crowd" on a Saturday night at SDCC, and they were ready to pop at the reveal of that awesome third figure for the wave, but it never came. And I say that because it's also how I felt watching the stream Live, but obviously I don't have polling or interviews to back up my impression and I can't say for sure that's what everyone was thinking (it's not like this was the State of the Union address and CNN was there conducting on-site surveys). I just think the pins were set up here but Hasbro threw a gutter ball. It's ok, though, stuff like Lizard and Apocalypse picked up the spare.

But it wasn't just that, I don't think stuff like the Deadpool Monopoly set went over with the crowd, either. And that might be our fault for expecting nothing but "figures, figures, figures!", but I also think Hasbro used that stuff to fill out time on the panel because they really didn't have much to show for Marvel Legends, and most of the new reveals already showed up in the cases over the weekend. I really think if they worked on not tipping their hand so much, people might have looked at this panel a lot more favorably.