[Captain Nash]

Decided to take a look at the next 365 days and put some thoughts out on things we will (almost surely) see in 2021. This is not exactly a wish list, more a logic based list, though certainly some of my wishlist may make it on here.

New Warrior Figure - Firestar may count to this and so may Nova, but they're not in their New Warrior looks. I doubt we'd get a New Warrior look of either of these this year in addition to what they're offering. I'd say a good chance we will see Speedball, Justice, Namorita or Silhouette. (a box set would be great but we're about halfway there, not sure how likely it'll be at this point)

Thunderbolt Figure - Like New Warriors Thunderbolts is a team they seemedetermined to complete, while not doing a boxset for a (mostly) one and done release like Alpha Flight. Atlas, Meteorite, Jolt and Techno would be the candidates, Atlas a BAF of course. I could take or leave Jolt personally but she had a presence not long after the series started and was on the team for nearly 3 years.

BOEM II Figure - I'd say Hasbro is aware of the desire for the BOEM II to be completed, likely even more than the original BOEM. Blob/Destiny/Avalanche would complete the core team, a box set with Mystique would be great, or even just these three alone. If not a boxset Blob would need to be a BAF. I think odds are good we'll get at least one of these this year.

Excalibur figure - Since they haven't really gone too deep into this, I see this as more likely than any other as a boxset, but the team has been working on completing the core 90's team looks. I'd say Shadowcat is the most obvious choice, but they may do another first (which would be baffling but it would at least be something)

Cosmic Walgreens - Since this is going to be the next theme for the Walgreens releases, I'm thinking Quasar is definitely a very likely and logical option. Possibly Adam Warlock as well? I think some of the Eternals would also fit in here, but I'm not sure if they'd want to use them in a separate property given their own film. I think it would be a great way to get some comic Eternals though given their main ML wave will be completely MCU based.

Marvel Villains - Lady Deathstrike is rumored for the BOTBG wave, Mr. Hyde would be easily done and likely planned with the Mr. Fixit body, and Mandarin being in the Shang-Chi movie would seem like it would be hard not to release a comic version of him at some point this year.

Other X-Men figures - based on recent tweets by a member of the team it would seem a second wave is coming, but they did also ask who we'd like to see as the BAF - that may mean that the wave is not planned for 2021 since it takes over a year from concept to retail release. Deadpool wave (including X-Force) may not likely come until 2022 as well, but they're almost surely going to release a second X-themed wave this year. I would say Banshee and X-Factor Wolfsbane would be the most obvious choices, maybe Longshot as well. Maybe this is where BAF Blob and Avalanche could go (along with another Wolverine of course!)

Spider-Man - I think the newly revealed outfit (as much as I dislike it) will likely come through this year. I keep saying Spot and Mr. Negative are nobrainers as they'd be so easy to do, yet they keep not getting made, so I don't know anymore.

F4 Retro wave - seems like this will be the Retro wave for 2021. Between the actual wave and exclusives I think we'd get all four of the main four, at very minimum 2. I think this is a good spot where Crystal would fit given her strong ties to the title, either in her F4 uniform or her classic outfit.

Of course, all the movie waves as well, some of which has been revealed and leaked and who knows if BW will have another wave, a re-release of last year's wave, or nothing at all, given the unique hurdles that movie and connected figures would have.