[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by jwyss234

I doubt that Black Panther will get more than one wave next year. Like GOTG, Hasbro doesn’t know how fans will react to the movie which can affect sales. And next year is an Avengers movie year so Hasbro will be putting out lots of merch.

quite a valid point. Hasbro (and Marvel by proxy) isn't going to put too much into movie sub-brand that has yet to prove itself (though of course, it will be amazing.) Dr Strange, GOTG Vol 1, Ant-Man all got 1 wave. Thor movies were less of a draw than Avengers/Iron Man/Captain America, so this Thor movie got one wave (I still think they could have given 2, but the SDCC set kind of covered that.)

Spider-Man traditionally gets 2 waves a year. The proven movie sub-brands (Avengers, GOTG now since I guess CA and IM are done) will get at least two if not three. X-Men COULD get two and definitely sell, and they kind of are with Deadpool, but then again X-Men could probably get its own line of 7-ish waves a year and sell just as strongly as Legends proper for a few years.

All that to basically say that I agree with what you said. LOL