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Originally Posted by Penguino

If BAFs go to the wayside they same characters will likely be available at an extra cost. They won't stop producing larger figures and characters, no way.

Some could even budget some smaller BAFs into the regular line.

That I the route where we get more stuff in the long run. I don't see them dropping BAFs though. They sell so many figures many of us would skip just for that BAF part. The amount of King Cobra, Songbird, and Taskmasters I saw sold for little to nothing when that wave was popular was insane.

That's the key part of this. Even for low selling characters like that, you have to imagine a lot of the meager sales they got anyway were BAF-related.

There's also the retail element as well. Without that it's gonna be harder to get stores to take a chance on waves stocked with lesser known characters, especially if they stop tying them to movies (I don't think that's what Hasbro is doing but I've seen some speculation that the 10th anniversary stuff could be them testing the waters to see about just going an all movie/TV line).