[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Nearly every wave contests that argument though.

Honestly, the Imperial Guard, integral to the X-Mythos as they are, count as obscure. Sure, there's people who will definitely buy them (myself included), and people who might buy them once they see them, but they're the kind of characters that need to be sprinkled through occasionally, rather than dropped in on the regular. I mean, sure, there's lots of people on the ML team who want to give us all the random characters they (and we) want, but even they recognize that this is a business concerned with profits, and I guarantee characters like Warstar or Oracle are not going to move the units that more recognizable characters will (either through recent comics exposure, appearances in adaptations, or by being high-profile enough across the years), so they aren't gonna be a priority.

Agree, I would definitely buy most IG figures (classic IG that is, not the newer ones that showed up in Claremont's 3rd mid-00's run), but I also understand if none get made beyond Gladiator and maaaaaybe (it's a stretch) Oracle. Just because they are central in a few limited series does not make them high profile to Marvel as a whole. I mean, getting Thunderbolts figures is like getting water from a stone, and Thunderbolts had a nearly 200 issue run, not just supporting characters in some stories and central characters in a handful of stories/limited series. Other than Gladiator none of them have been on my wishlist radar at all, and I like a good number of them. Come to think of it I really should put Manta on my wishlist, to me she has been the most visually interesting of all the guard.