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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I definitely am glad you're going to get him, since you've been asking for him. It's just a name that I haven't seen pop up a lot, and with all of the villains that haven't been figure-ized before, there are quite a few higher profile and higher requested characters that it would have made a bigger impact for.

Then again, if Zemo is the start of a Walgreens villain line, we may see (or not see as the case may be) some of those....hoping/not hoping it's some of the ones that have been requested quite a bit.

Also still holding out hope for more retro F4 figures later next year, single carded - Crystal, Wizard and Attuma mainly.

By count though I think we had 13 6 inch figure reveals, which isn't a small amount actually. It's just not a lot of characters that haven't been immortalized in plastic.

Yeah, they are obviously going to do whatever they want. "Higher profile" (which is subjectively dependent on era of fandom, not to mention character/team subset preference) and/or request frequency is nearly meaningless at this point. If this wasn't the case, and their choices weren't largely stochastic, we'd have gotten the likes of a Nefaria/Graviton/Wizard before Spymaster/Scientist Supreme/Psycho Man.

The age old adage that correlation doesn't always imply causation seems to apply here. There has been some consistency with characters recieving overwhelmingly routine calls for release getting made, resulting in some 'squeaky wheel' logic. However, there's an equal, if not greater, preponderance of 'WTF-batshit' Frogman and Xemnu (no offense, fans, with D'Spayre, I join thy ranks), especially as of late.

If anything, I think a host of randomized factors play a role in what gets made. Anniversary buzz in ancillary collecting communities (75th and 80th comic benchmarks along with complimentary 'toons), upcoming movies and trending themes in the books seem equally weighed alongside fan polling and popularity. "Dr. Strange has a movie coming up, let's get out the classic version people have been asking for and a rando villain..."

At this point, same as with Blue Marvel, I'm just happy to see what I want whenever they get around to it.