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  1. Has anyone experienced ordering something off the TRU website? I had a $100 gift card and was able to order the new Avengers Legends Hawkeye, Sentry, and Machine Man. The rest didn't have the "Ship to Home" option, so were unorderable. On February 2, I got an email that they shipped, and provided me with a tracking number. Days went by, and every time I tried to look up the tracking on the link, thru UPS, there was no information found. I would go back through my order history, and it didn't even list my order, the only one listed was something I ordered back in 2007(!!!!)... So by February 5th, I got upset with absolutely no way to determine the status of my order, and dug around to find a phone number to call for "24/7" customer service. At that phone number, there was no option to speak to a live person, just a round robin of button-pushing options. The automated voice was able to repeat my recent Marvel Legends order back to me, and what the shipped package contained, but also had "no further information" like where it was at the time. Got off the phone knowing absolutely nothing more than I did going into the call. I happened to be off work today, and the package delivered, thankfully, but I have never had such a poor experience with a website purchase, and customer service, and it really surprised me that I would have that experience with Toys R Us, which has been a chain for longer than I've been alive, probably. Anyone else had a bad experience or was this a fluke?
  2. LOL, do you guys mind stating where you are located? So we can get a sense and pattern of where in the country these are hitting? Since it's a sightings thread? I feel like NYC is traditionally the last to see these live in stores, but maybe one of you lives in NYC and I'm just too ticked off at the cold and snow to go to TRU after work every day to start picking these up and I'm missing out. I did get notification from TRU.com today that the three that were available to order (Hawkeye, Sentry, Machine Man) have shipped to me, but the other four I'm going to have to start hunting for if their status on the website doesn't change soon. So... where do you guys live???
  3. Haha... I put Banshee's head on the Forge/Wolverine 2pack Wolverine body, so Banshee doesn't bother me anymore. My picks for desperate need of remaking: Hercules (I prefer that green harness over the sash and skirt costume) Yellowjacket Namor Silver Surfer Cable Cannonball Domino Black Knight Absorbing Man Elektra Adam Warlock Guardian Vision Tigra Kree Soldier
  4. I was thinking about how many of the early characters released once Hasbro took over the Marvel Legends license have been redone already. I still consider the Hasbro takeover a major benchmark in the Marvel Legends line, and then another with the "return of ML". But think about it: Emma Frost (2006 / 2013) She-Hulk/Red She-Hulk (body update) (2007 / 2013) Astonishing Cyclops (2007 / 2013) HYDRA Soldier (2007 / 2013) Black Bolt (2009 / 2014) Daredevil (2009 / 2015) Punisher (2009 / 2012) Nova (2009 / 2014) Valkyrie (2010 / 2015) Are there other remakes you feel might be necessary for releases from the "dark era" of Hasbro Marvel Legends (2006-2011)?
  5. I own both of these, and while Hasbro's Vision was "newer" and had a strong choice of paint apps with metallic qualities, over the years I just can't get past his scale and lacking sculpt. He looks tiny next to most figures that came before and after him, his body sculpt doesn't particularly look like Vision, and doesn't even look proportionate to himself. I always find myself going back to the Toy Biz Vision in my display, because he still holds up as a great face sculpt, cape, color scheme, and scale works better with current releases. What are your thoughts?
  6. I'm always up for a wish list!!! New Characters 1. Jamie Madrox (X-Factor Investigations) 2. Polaris 3. Northstar 4. Aurora 5. Lilandra 6. Captain Marvel/Pulsar/Photon/Spectrum (Monica Rambeau) 7. Wolfsbane 8. Sunfire (classic) 9. Mockingbird 10. Enchantress Remakes 1. Vision 2. Guardian 3. Toad 4. Tigra 5. Havok 6. Wonder Man 7. Arachne (Julia Carpenter, Omega Flight) 8. Quicksilver 9. Rogue (Jim Lee) 10. Cable BAF 1. Strong Guy 2. Lockjaw 3. Professor X (Jim Lee: jumpsuit & hoverchair) 4. Sauron 5. Stature And just because I can't help myself: SDCC Boxed Set: Inhumans -Crystal -Karnak -Gorgon -Triton -Maximus the Mad -Luna
  7. Thanks! The TRU website says the arrival date is estimated for February 4th, so I'm hoping that will be the in-store date in my area, NYC.
  8. decepticonmark, where are you located? I'm crazy psyched for this wave and I have a $100 TRU gift card that I've been saving for this very occasion...
  9. Well I guess you're right. Recent waves have gotten away from that. I guess I was thinking back to past swaps, or swaps that never ended up seeing release. Red She-Hulk / Lyra Piledriver / Thunderball Sentry / Hyperion Madame Masque / Madame Hydra Rogue / Emma Frost Moonstar / Mystique Blade / Punisher All were based on the same bodies for their swaps. So I guess what used to be a rule is no longer a rule. But my theory at one time had basis in reality. LOL.
  10. Hmmm... hard to tell with that perspective/angle on the photo, but those hip joints could be the Red She-Hulk body mold. That would make more sense... Could that mean Lyra would stand a chance at being released in this wave as a Valkyrie swap? I totally agree Quicksilver needs a remake...
  11. Well, Hellcat and Spider-woman were the only ones announced at first, so I know we assumed they would be swaps for each other, but technically with Valkyrie now in the mix as another comic version character, she could be a swap for either of the other two ladies. So I guess a fourth female would work as a second swap character. But if one female has no swap, then we could have a set of male comic characters as other swaps. The one safe bet for being a female swap would be Hellcat, as the swap figures never get their character name printed on the box, and we've always heard the name Hellcat held this character back from production so long because that name might turn kids away in the toy aisle, or rather the parents that are spending the money. Either other female character could stand on her own as a non-swap, since Valkyrie could be considered a female Thor equivalent to the uninitiated toy collectors, or Spider-Woman as a female extension of the easy-buy Spider-Man franchise. I'd consider Spider-Woman the easier sell in the toy aisle, since Spider-Man is a bigger franchise than Thor on his own. If we look at the Captain America wave, that had three movie figures in it and then comic characters, the breakdown was: Captain America (Movie) Black Widow (Movie) Winter Soldier (Movie) Captain America WWII (Movie reissue, no BAF part) Marvel NOW Captain America Baron Zemo / AIM Soldier Red Skull / HYDRA Soldier Mandroid BAF Then swap in the announced characters... Captain America (Avengers Movie) Iron Man (Avengers Movie) Hulk (Avengers Movie) __________ (Movie reissue, no BAF part... or open slot for a movie or comic character in the case breakdown) __________ (comic character anchor for wave) Spider-Woman / other swap? (curvy base body?) Hellcat / Valkyrie (pairing them as swaps since they both use the thinner base body) Thanos BAF So technically there are still three open slots in this wave for more characters IF we are following the formula set as a precedent in the Captain America Winter Soldier Movie wave.
  12. Valkyrie was announced/shown at NYCC this Fall. So far, the second wave of Avengers will contain: Iron Man Mark 43 (Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie) Captain America (Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie) Hulk (Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie) Hellcat Spider-woman (Jessica Drew remake) Valkyrie (remake) Thanos (modern, BAF) With 3 females already in this wave, I don't think Moonstar would ALSO be in it, unless there's a 4th female and two of them are swaps for the other two. But still, that's a lot of female figures in one wave. I wouldn't mind a Shang-Chi figure. Still want a movie Ant-Man figure though.
  13. Pretty sure that Cap body and the SHIELD body is the same, so the head swap should work.
  14. So I'm officially OCD. There was a paint glob over Jubilee's right eye, and it was kinda bugging me. So I bought an extra Stryfe that had a well-painted Jubilee head, there were about 6 to choose from at TRU in Times Square, and I swapped the head out on my Jubilee figure and will return the extra Stryfe tomorrow.
  15. LOL! I like the idea of Dust, visually striking character, but I have more of an actual sentimental connection to the Siryn character. Also would possibly want to make Dust a BAF, to be able to incorporate her power into the look of the figure and have some kind of dust cloud base. Just couldn't figure out how that would need to be constructed, so I left that for the 2017 list, haha... Besides, we're gonna have Madrox, Rahne, Strong Guy, Monet, Rictor, Shatterstar... and no Siryn? That's not fair to X-Factor Investigations. Not fair at all. I think Armor would have a lot more going for her visually than Pixie. I haven't read the books featuring either character, but you get this big clip-on Armor beast that envelops Armor, instead of just a girl with pink butterfly wings. So much more imposing on display! I considered a Revanche figure as Psylocke's swap, which could have been that classic costume (which Revanche débuted wearing) or the later leotard she wore before she died, but I needed to have a Destiny figure so I scrapped 80s Psylocke. Sorry man. I also considered the black/green leotard look from Rogue's 80s closet, but just didn't have room for her! You have a vote on the second Dazzler figure? 80s or 90s look? I think 90s would fit better with Longshot and the Mojo crew, but the 80s look kinda completes that arcade video game team and the Pryde of the X-Men cartoon pilot team. So torn, but I'd be happy to have either one. The disco version could be a straight repaint of the Black Widow body, though. Come to think of it, so could Monet. And not that we're competing, but I think I outdid you with Stepford Cuckoo build-a-figures that come in three different costume colors to differentiate them. I just read on Wikipedia that Mindee dyed her hair brown and cut it short... two alternate heads for Mindee? I did kinda lose my mind on the all-female wave, but seeing Hasbro package almost the entire Jubilee body in with this recent wave's Marvel NOW Storm, that just gave me license to pack a whole bunch of bodies in with the all-ladies wave. Think of the value in buying both cases of that wave... 16 characters... in essentially 16 packages?
  16. X-Men Infinite Series Wave 5 (Jan/Feb 2016) (Powerful and Deadly Mutant Villains) Sebastian Shaw / Donald Pierce (swap) Mastermind / Inner Circle Soldier (swap) Selene / Tessa (swap) Trevor Fitzroy (includes Bantam; contains Harry Leland arms) Legion (contains Harry Leland legs) Deathbird (contains Harry Leland head & torso) BAF: Harry Leland X-Men Infinite Series Wave 6 (April/May 2016) (Mutants In The Shadows) Marrow / Annalee (swap) Tar Baby / Masque (swap) Ape / Erg (swap) Caliban (includes Leech) Wolverine (Fang costume) (with 2-dimensional Tommy) Sugar Man BAF: Sunder SDCC Exclusive Boxed Set (July 2016) (Mutant Outcasts? Fan-Favorite Mutants? At least this fan, lol... I just put everyone I couldn't find a home for in a wave) Rictor Feral Random Chamber Arcade Phantazia (floating head and cape won't take up much room in the package) X-Men Infinite Series Wave 7 (July/August 2016) (Mutants Out Of Time) Shard / Rachel Grey (in red spiky hound costume) (swap) Longshot (remake) / Nate Grey (swap) Morph (Exiles) / Morph (90s X-Men Cartoon) (swap) Magik (includes Gateway) Deathlok (X-Force) Thunderbird (Giant-Size X-Men #1) BAF: Nimrod Alternate BAF: High Evolutionary X-Men Infinite Series Wave 8 (October/November 2016) (The Ladies of X) Snowbird / Vindicator (swap) (each contains torso & legs with a different color highlight for a different Stepford Cuckoo) Monet / Siryn (swap) (Monet comes with another torso with a different color highlight for third Stepford Cuckoo; Siryn comes with 3 different heads with differing facial expressions) Arclight / Vertigo (swap) (each contains 3 BAF arms: Arclight with two lefts and one right, Vertigo with two rights and one left, all have different sculpted hands attached) Dazzler (1st appearance "disco") / Dazzler (80s blue leotard or 90s navy jacket over white tank and blue pants) (swap) (each contains left or right upper body armor) Psylocke (repaint of the SDCC X-Force version in her classic blue color with pink sash) / Destiny (swap) (each contains left or right lower body armor) Storm (80s leather & Mohawk) / Boom Boom (swap) (Storm contains Armor's arms, head and "head armor") (Boom Boom contains Armor's torso and legs) BAF: Stepford Cuckoos (Celeste, Mindee, Phoebe, in costumes distinguished by blue, green, and red highlights) Alternate BAF: Armor and her "armor" Note: Snowbird, Vindicator, Monet, Siryn, Arclight and Vertigo complete ALL three Stepford Cuckoos. Both Dazzlers, Psylocke, Destiny, Storm, and Boom Boom would complete Armor and her armor. (This actually releases 16 female figures in one wave! I mean DAMN! I would DIE and go to heaven if this would EVER actually happen)
  17. LOL and each of us only suggested one Wolverine each in all those figures... I'm gonna come up with some more waves, try to fit in some of the characters I missed the first go-round!
  18. LOL really? Multiple releases of the same character are a necessary evil in the toy business. That said, I'm just gonna put out some math for the sake of argument. Of the 50 figures I suggested in my initial post, 23 of them were completely new and as-yet unreleased characters (nearly half), 11 were different versions of characters we've already had released, and 15 were straight up remakes of what was done before to account for advances in sculpt, scale, and aesthetic since the original releases. For vicious_maturity, of the 66 figures he listed, there were 45 brand new characters, 10 were different versions of characters already seen, 6 were different versions of characters he introduced, and 8 were straight up remakes (I'm assuming, since he didn't specify a different costume from previous releases, or the specified costume was released already). Well my math adds up to 69, but I don't know where I screwed that up. Hardly just a bunch of Wolverines.
  19. Vicious_maturity! There are SO MANY damn characters that I think we NEED an X-Men line in our life to get them all covered. It's just so much. I like a lot of what you did there. Glad you're on the swap BAF bandwagon. I like trying to figure out what could be shared parts and what would fit in a package with what figure, etc. LOL. I'm glad you were able to get certain characters out that I couldn't fit, like Selene, the entire Hellfire Club, Rictor, Boom Boom, Thunderbird, Dazzler, Destiny, Mastermind, Hellfire Club Soldier, Snowbird, Vindicator, Arcade, some Marauders, and complete teams with nearly every wave. I had tried mixing things up to balance more "marketable" heavy hitters to anchor each wave, and limit the females to one set of swaps per wave. But I'm sure you could tell that already and I admire your nerve in not bothering to adhere to that, LOL. Neither of us were able to get Magik into a wave, but she was announced by Hasbro already, so I wasn't going to stress about it. I also like that you used the swap BAF to get out two versions of characters like Wolfsbane, Sauron, and Callisto. Creative! I personally wouldn't want a Karl Lykos figure, not much to display, he wouldn't be too different from what we got in Ka-Zar. Morlocks! I was only able to squeeze Callisto into my waves, but she really does need the Morlocks around her. I figured they were so "past tense" they'd be difficult to get released, but I'd want more than the ones you listed. I need Callisto, Sunder, Annalee, Tommy (would be interested to see how they do a two-dimensional figure... bendy wires in a nearly flat plastic frame? What about the feet?), Leech, Tar Baby, Erg, Masque, Capitan, Thornn... I mean the list goes on! Wasn't too jazzed about tentacles on Callisto, but the more I think about it, she'd make a hell of a display piece that way! I would probably need an SDCC set of them, a huge monster set like the DCUC Legion of Superheroes boxed set from a couple of years back that had like 12 figures in it. Box folds out into a sewer or a subway tunnel diorama? I also would want a set of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to back up Gladiator. And a Deathbird, who didn't make it into either of our waves, but that would likely need a huge boxed set also, and I doubt Hasbro would invest in all those peripheral characters. Such a shame! And ironic, since so many of the Imperial Guard characters are copies of the DC Legion of Superheroes team. Love your lists, maybe I'll circle back around and keep this going...
  20. I'm a dreamer. I would be SO thrilled if we had Avengers, X-Men, and Spider-Man lines running at the same time throughout the year. They're the tentpoles of the Marvel Universe (plus Fantastic Four, but man, have they lost their luster), and their movie franchises are hotter than ever, only expanding more and more as the years go on. So because I LOVE wish lists, surprise, surprise, I figured it could be fun to plan waves for 2015, four waves a year per line, planning three swaps per wave (like Infinite Spider-Man wave had), remakes, fresh characters, etc. I kept it all comic-based, since the next X-Men movie isn't until 2016. But I still had trouble packing all the characters I wanted into the waves. Still missing some! I also planned which figures wouldn't contain BAF parts based on what Hasbro probably think wouldn't need them to sell and also how many parts the BAF would need to be broken up into. Also, following along the lines of Arnim Zola and the upcoming Thor/Odin variant BAFs, I created a BAF and an alternate BAF for each wave! This brings the total of characters per wave to 11 characters! Feel free to jump in. Here I go... X-Men Infinite Series Wave 1 (Dec 2014/Jan 2015) Polaris (modern) / Storm (1st appearance) (swap) (contains BAF torsos) Havok (modern) / Iceman (remake) (swap) (contains BAF arms) Quicksilver (classic remake) / Avalanche (swap) (contains BAF legs) Silver Samurai (contains BAF head) Wolverine (patch) (no BAF parts) Archangel (metal wings, blue face/long hair, blue/white "halo" logo costume, no BAF parts) BAF: Strong Guy (X-Factor costume) Alternate BAF (packaged with swap figures): Strong Guy (black t-shirt & jeans) (common parts packaged with non-swap figures) X-Men Infinite Series Wave 2 (March/April 2015) Rogue (modern, unreleased) / Aurora (swap) (contains BAF torsos) Shatterstar / Multiple Man (swap) (contains BAF heads) Northstar / Shaman (swap) (contains BAF legs) Gambit (remake) (contains BAF arms) Sabretooth (Jim Lee remake) (no BAF parts) Angel (articulated feather wings, flesh-tone face/long hair, red/white "halo" logo costume, no BAF parts) (wings & head swappable with prior wave Warren Worthington) BAF: Colossus (Jim Lee remake) Alternate BAF (packaged with swap figures): Cyber (some parts common with Colossus are packaged with non-swap figures) X-Men Infinite Series Wave 3 (June/July 2015) Lilandra / Callisto (swap) (contains BAF torsos and heads) Nightcrawler (classic remake) / AOA Nightcrawler (swap) (contains BAF legs) Toad (remake) / Namor (Dark X-Men) (swap) (contains BAF arms) Cable (modern) (no BAF parts) Mimic (Dark X-Men) (no BAF parts) Cyttorak Colossus (no BAF parts) BAF: Beast (Jim Lee remake, better articulation) Alternate BAF (packaged with swap figures): AOA/Dark Beast SDCC Exclusive New Mutants Boxed Set: July 2015 Moonstar (unreleased) Karma Magma (translucent plastic painted like her powered-up "lava lines") Sunspot Cannonball (detachable at waist with alternate "blast-off" base) Warlock X-Men Infinite Series Wave 4 (September/October 2015) Rogue (Jim Lee remake) / Mystique (classic white dress remake) (swap) (contains BAF torsos) Cyclops (Jim Lee remake) / Corsair (swap) (contains BAF legs and heads) Guardian (remake) / Captain Britain (remake) (swap) (contains BAF arms) Sunfire (classic, alternate masked and unmasked heads, flame attachments) (no BAF parts) Sauron (no BAF parts) Professor X (hoverchair) (no BAF parts) BAF: Blink Alternate BAF (packaged with swap figures): Wolfsbane
  21. Favorite... #1: Storm #2: Jubilee #3: Magneto #4: Stryfe #5: Wolverine And Least Favorite... #6: Cyclops That being said, as a non-fan of Wolverine, I LOVE the figure. He only got edged down so low on the list because Stryfe is a new character to the line, and Magneto was a much-needed remake. So the only true clunker of the wave for me is Cyclops.
  22. I agree, it's just smarter from a marketing standpoint. Defenders makes sense, but they'd likely have to do the entire wave of them as comic and TV version (or "entertainment version" since it's Netflix?) swaps. I like your idea of Bullseye, maybe Jigsaw, Elektra, and maybe a new Kingpin BAF? The Netflix concept is yet another unproven experiment thus far, so toys aimed at an audience that hasn't tuned in yet might need to be balanced with comic versions so at least THOSE fans will buy. The toy line would likely serve to better market the series to unknowing comic fans who have been living under a rock for the last year. "Regular clothes" and non-powered characters like all those in Agents of SHIELD and the upcoming Agent Carter (also a period piece which might be an even tougher sell) would likely need to get folded into bigger toy lines with broader appeal if they stand a shred of a chance at being released. They already cherry-picked the Hill and Coulson characters for this supposed upcoming exclusive boxed set with Nick Fury, but all three of those characters have a notoriety due to movies more than TV. I honestly think we stand a better chance at seeing "Agent Sharon" from CA2 with Falcon and Movie Red Skull in toy form before we see Peggy Carter in plastic.
  23. Well the way I look at that is, after the Rocket Raccoon wave, they basically ended the Marvel Legends line as it was, and rebranded as the Infinite series. Packaging redesign, now tailored to movie releases.... shoe-horning those older unreleased characters into those waves wasn't going to work. With the Avengers sequel and the Ant-Man movies (and Fantastic Four) slated for 2015, do characters like Blade and Moonstar work in those lines now? Not really. I think we could stand a chance for Moonstar (and Rogue) in an X-Men wave provided the TRU exclusive proves profitable and popular with consumers. If it's worth it, TRU will go back to that well. The test is whether X-Men can survive at retail while NOT being tied to an existing property (I don't know what the behind-the-scenes drama is with Fox studios, though, since Hasbro entirely ignored cashing in on a Days of Future Past tie-in), and I personally think X-Men can. With proper character choice, dynamic designs, and smart balance for fans of all ages and eras, the line could be as successful as any before. I was more frustrated that we got an unannounced Punisher variant (unknown to us until it started popping up on eBay) in the Rocket Raccoon wave cases, rather than a Blade figure, cause I don't know where he could fit into another line unless it was an exclusive boxed set of street characters. They could try it with a Marvel Knights set of characters, an updated Daredevil, Cloak/Dagger, Silver Sable, etc. Songbird, Batroc, Blizzard, Bulldozer, Tiger Shark, Rescue, Lyra, even Movie Mandarin could all find a legitimate home in the Avengers wave either directly or through ties to major Avengers characters. I don't think they'll bother with Movie War Machine Mark II since he really didn't appear as such in the IM3 movie, and Iron Patriot from the movie was already released. That really just leaves Moonstar, Rogue, Blade, and Jean Grey (white Phoenix or AOA) as release potential question marks. And I personally think AOA Jean was too specific and irrelevant to find release. If you guys remember she didn't appear at later comic cons when White Phoenix still was popping up alongside Jim Lee Jean. It's the same thing with Phoenix 5 Cyclops... they were topical for their time, but if you're not going to walk through that door all the way (by doing all Phoenix 5 characters, or continuing with a bunch more AOA releases) then why open the door at all? 2015 holds the potential to catch up on ALL the unreleased figures, if they play this Avengers line the right way. If wave two is Hellcat / Spider-Woman (swap) (since two women at retail in one wave simultaneously is apparently business suicide, lol) Batroc / Blizzard (swap) Bulldozer / Tiger Shark (swap) Movie Mandarin (Iron Man 3) Movie Ant-Man (Ant-Man) Movie Thor (Avengers 2) BAF: Thanos (modern) Wave Three could be: Songbird / Rescue (swap) Vision / Wonder Man (comic remakes) (swap) Classic Captain America / Iron Man (black & gold armor) (swap) Movie Iron Man (Avengers 2, Tony Stark alternate head) Movie Quicksilver (Avengers 2) Movie Ultron (Avengers 2) BAF: Movie Hulkbuster Iron Man (Avengers 2) Wave Four: Crystal / Sersi (swap) Gorgon / Maximus the Mad (swap) Thunderstrike / Eric Masterson as bearded Thor (swap) Movie Falcon (CA2: Winter Soldier) Movie Scarlet Witch (Avengers 2) Movie Bruce Banner (Avengers 1 and/or Avengers 2) BAF: Lockjaw
  24. I personally think it will be. The character roster is still so small (pun intended) that I don't think they could sustain its own wave, and it's still an unfamiliar property to movie-goers. Comic fans know all about him, but the movie-goers? There hasn't been a hint of him in the cinematic universe so far. I'm betting they'll fold one or two movie figures from Ant-Man into Avengers wave 3 or 4 somewhere in the fall. Hoping if wave 1 is landing in Jan/Feb, wave 2 should hit in April/May, wave 3 would hit July/August, and wave 4 should hit in October/November.
  25. Well this is a rather pessimistic post. LOL. I think Hasbro has learned from their mistakes and that's why we had such scaled-back reveals at this SDCC. We really only saw one and a half waves at SDCC this year. The full Avengers wave 1 had a Jan/Feb 2015 release date (I'm assuming January for case assortment A, February for case assortment B containing swaps), and two promotional shots for Hellcat and Spider-Woman, potentially a SHIELD 3pack, a half a Spider-Man wave. Exclusive sets that would release unreleased figures previously announced... Hasbro didn't over-commit, and their business strategy of tying their lines to existing movie and television properties seems to have secured them shelf space at retailers for the foreseeable future. Warehouse samples of the Target exclusive 3pack are already popping up on eBay. Announcements have gotten us renewed promises on 6 previously unreleased characters (counting the imminent Agent Venom release, and you can make that 7 if you want to count the already in-hand Jubilee figure, 9 if you want to count photographed prototype sculpts of comic Star-Lord and Stryfe that have just landed in consumers' hands as finished products). The list of unreleased figures still in limbo shrank by about HALF and they only legitimately previewed one full wave. So I am placing a lot of faith in Hasbro this year, I don't think ANY company goes into design and production with the intent of just teasing consumers... their job is to create and sell product. Since the landscape in toy stores (and toy aisles, let's be realistic, since so many Wal-Marts and Targets have shrunk the actual toy store business) has changed, it makes sense that marketing strategies needed to shift as well to time product release with promotional tie-ins like movie release dates and television shows. 2014 was that learning curve, 2015 should just be murder on my wallet since they seem to have figured out their solve.
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