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Originally Posted by hasbroherofan

The SDCC figures are being revealed next week.

They also did some planning and illustration work on Galactus as the Haslab figure before going with the Sentinel instead. They discussed 80s Shadowcat and Wolverine's skeleton's as the pack-in.

Personally, I’d have preferred Galactus (with herald pack-ins like Nova and Air-Walker), although the Sentinel was definitely a much stronger choice, since it has the potential for army-building. I think people ordering multiples is why this campaign is doing gangbusters. Including Shadowcat with the Sentinel would be downright mean. Wolverine skeleton is a cool idea, that with a blast effect would make a neat accessory.

I find intriguing their mention of “smaller” Haslab projects. My head jumped to Devil Dinosaur, but what are some other figures people would like to see Haslab do?

Talk of a “furry” body excites me (phrasing). Namely, because Hepzibah was mentioned by name, showing that the Starjammers are on their radar! I would love figures of that team. Little disappointed to hear that Wolfsbane & Feral aren’t currently in development.

Not thrilled at their talk of wanting to do figures for “X-Tinction Agenda.” Mostly because... what the hell figures could they do based off that? I heard Dwight mention a Haslab Cameron Hodge, but I really don’t see the interest being there. “New X-Men” isn’t really my cup of tea either. I’d prefer to see more 70s-80s X-Men, which doesn’t seem like this team’s priority, since they’re more tied to the 90s-00s stuff.

What I’m hearing is that the figure choices are very much influenced by their personal taste, which I don’t know about always making sense for viable retail releases. For example, Ryan talked about the Gamerverse Spideys, which I haven’t seen selling very well. Same sorta goes for the AOA wave, since I do think a lot of people passed on that (I haven’t seen it move at all in my area, but I will grant that tales of peg-warmers are apocryphal and really arbitrary).

I really appreciate the extent to which the ML team communicates with the fans. If they’re reading this (as they did reiterate that they read the boards), I would like to thank them for the wonderful job they’re doing, as well as for doing their best to please the finnicky bunch that is toy collectors. I would also like to extend an invitation to MAKE BANSHEE ALREADY! ... please.