[StuartGreen2019]

@Spyne98 - Even the Spider-Man anniversary line was underwhelming to me, and Spider-Man's my favorite comic book hero! I felt cheated by the lack of new classic villains, too many alternate Spider-Men, making the cool characters like Lizard exclusive to one store, and making most of the offerings based on more modern stories I didn't like and buy (with the exception of "Renew Your Vows"). Since we got the re-release of Doc Ock on a cheaper plastic body mold with the static tentacles and two versions of classic Venom in two different multi-packs, my chances of owning sold-separately figures of classic Doctor Octopus and Venom are pushed back considerably, which is really infuriating. I was also hoping we'd get some kind of Retro Doc Ock this year before Hasbro goes with the plastic-free packaging, since he's one of the few A-list members of Spider-Man's rogues gallery who hasn't had a Retro release.

Also, it'd be pretty disappointing if Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man and Toad are it for the Marvel Legends 20th anniversary line. Then again, we only got four figures for the 2000 X-Men movie line, so I wouldn't be surprised. I'm still hoping we'll get some kind of 2000 X-Men movie figures re-visit in the future. I would easily buy updated figures of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, Halle Berry's Storm, Ian McKellen's Magneto, Anna Paquin's, Famke Janssen's Jean Grey, James Marsden's Cyclops, Alan Cumming's Nightcrawler, Shawn Ashmore's Iceman and Kelly Hu's Deathstrike. Since 'X2' has its 20th anniversary next year, maybe they'll surprise us with a few more figures for it?

As a side note, I hope Hasbro has better 60th anniversary plans for the Avengers and the X-Men than they did with Spider-Man. I don't want the X-Men wave to pull a Spider-Man wave on us and just give collectors and fans a ton of different versions of Wolverine (though I wouldn't mind an Astonishing suit update, a classic blue-and-yellow X-Men uniform version, and a classic brown-and-tan suit with the X belt buckle). I'm also hoping we'll get updated sold-separately, non cel-shaded versions of the Jim Lee era X-Men that I missed out on previously, like Cyclops (with an optic blast this time, please, Hasbro), Jean Grey, Sabretooth, and a new Gold Team version of Colossus.