watanabefan

Happy holidays and best of luck!

Yup. There is a reason waves that include lesser known characters are almost always buffered with a popular A-lister or two. If retailers were interested in a bunch of C and D tier characters they'd be ordering them, but they aren't so they don't. Hence the Trojan horsing. If this fan channel exclusive wave experiment they've been trying this past year takes off then that could be a viable avenue potentially, but even there you see them putting in some bigger name characters.

As with Holocaust someone probably realized the name was a no-go and requested a change.

The web effect also looks a lot like Spider-Man’s web throw from Marvel vs Capcom, and they pretty much confirmed the leaks of an MVC sub-line next year when talking about Marrow fitting a new theme coming in 2025.

At least the hips and limbs are new, so it'll move better hopefully. I like the new head too. It was nice to get confirmation of Electro coming next year too (even if that was already in the leaks.

Most likely they’d do the 97 version first if it’s Sunspot.

*Spongebob narrator voice* One day later... Looks like we're also getting something out of CCXP in Brazil tomorrow. Hoping it's the X-Men 97 Sunspot that was in the leaks.

You're coming at it from the perspective of a disappointed fan, but objectively, that is untrue. Their production capacity is far higher than anything Jada is currently doing with Street Fighter or any of their other lines. 2024 alone had well over 50 Marvel Legends figures, and that's just single releases, not counting two packs and box sets. Comparatively, Jada's Street Fighter in this year was around 6 general release figures (Ken, M. Bison, Dhalsim, Guile, Dee Jay and Cammy) plus a few repaints and convention exclusives like Violent Ken. Again, they simply do not have the production capacity for a line like Marvel Legends, and that goes for a lot of these other toy companies. And if anyone else handled the license they'd also heavily feature Spider-Man and the X-Men because those are their evergreen sellers. The reason you don't see Captain America, Daredevil and Thor waves is because those are characters retailers only care about relative to their MCU releases. If they put up the numbers Spider-Man or the X-Men do, they'd get dedicated waves more often. And I know this is the case because McFarlane Toys, one of the companies people fantasize about taking the Legends license from Hasbro, is like 75 percent Batman-related characters. Nobody is going to the hassle and expense of getting the Marvel license to not merchandise the characters they know make money reliably.

End of the year stream?

Jada is doing amazing work, but there's no way they have the production capacity for something like Marvel Legends. They're a much smaller company and the Street Fighter line, while amazing, struggles to get out a handful of figures a year. The figures themselves are some of the best on the market, but they need at least a few more years of growth before they can realistically handle a license as massive as Marvel.

We're getting something today. https://bsky.app/profile/danyun.bsky.social/post/3lbuetipfr22i Probably the Spider-Boy figure that had the sneaker tease a while back, since Dan Slott is involved. https://www.instagram.com/zactionfigures/p/C95hyTBx2GK/

I know, dude.

Wave: Void BAF wave Packaging: Deadpool and Wolverine wave BAF: Blackheart (sorely needed for the Marvel vs. Capcom display) Deluxe: Angel

I think Marvel might have realized people are getting a bit tired of all this Multiverse stuff, so they probably intend to do something else after Secret Wars. Storm looks awesome. I'd even get a figure of that.

I wonder how, if at all, the MVC figures will differ from their original releases. Venom is likely gonna be a blue repaint or the recent release, but hopefully Psylocke gets some better articulation on a newer body. And it’d be awesome if War Machine got some add-on weapon accessories.