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My only concern with the 6" line is that, unlike the neverending Star Wars line, they will abandon it after 2023 once the new film has come and gone, just like they did with the Ghostbusters Plasma series line. There's still some key characters we need in this line before Hasbro kills it.. especially the other female characters from the films (Willie, Elsa) and major villains like Belloq and Mola Ram. Henry Jones Sr. is also a must have. Hasbro would also be foolish not to offer some potential army builders too like Cairo German Soldiers from Raiders or Thugee Guards from Temple of Doom. I know I'd buy 2-3 of each of those.

Sadly I expect between lukewarm sales at retail and no new film or other media to continue to support interest after 2023, the line will fizzle out fast after one year.

Based on the livestream comments, it sounds like wave 2 will be Temple of Doom Indy, Short Round, Shirtless Indy, along with Indy and Helena from Indy 5. They are overloading these first waves with way too many Indy variants though and not enough other characters. 3 Indy figures in wave 2 is just stupid. We should be getting Mola Ram or Willie before that Temple of Doom shirtless Indy figure that probably very few people would even care about other than completists.

One comment they subtly made about the wrapped package Grail diary that comes with Professor Indy was that we'll see the unwrapped diary with a future figure. So that at least promises more figures beyond wave 2... and hopefully it comes with a Henry Sr. (assuming there's no issues with getting Sean Connery's likeness rights for a figure as some people have speculated might be a problem now).

As for the Kenner reproduction line, THIS is how they should have done it with the Kenner Star Wars figures. No fake weathering on the cardbacks or obnoxiously huge "RETRO" sticker covering up half the card art. These all look beautiful, and it's a great way to get many of these vintage figures that go for crazy prices on Ebay. The original Raiders line was only 9 figures total (or 11 if you count the Cairo Indy in the Map Room playset and Monkey Man in the Streets of Cairo playset), so it would be so easy for Hasbro to reproduce the entire line. What I'm REALLY curious about is them saying they plan to do Kenner-inspired figures of characters never made back then and I wonder if this is just limited to Raiders of the Lost Ark only. The only major one we never got in the Raiders line was Marion in her Cairo outfit (other than the pre-posed version hiding in a basket in the Cairo playset). But if they plan to extend it beyond Raiders, it would be awesome to get Kenner versions of Temple of Doom Indy, Short Round, Mola Ram, Willie, Elsa, Donovan, and Henry Sr.