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Really is a shame. I remember all the Endgame stuff selling pretty darn well in my neck of the woods, even those rather boring, heavily re-used quantum suits. Even though it came out after the movie, I don't see us getting figures like Iron Patriot, Heimdall, or Valkyrie nowadays. Maybe IP, since the suits do rather well, but I feel like the others are too big a risk.

At worst, if/when it does gangbusters at the Box Office, maybe we'll get a make-up wave a year or two after the fact of some of the simpler to make characters
 
joshsquash729 said:
But the question is how much we'll be getting for Doomsday. There could be a glut of stuff- rumors have speculated a wave plus a couple 2 packs. IF that comes to fruition, I feel like it might be Hasbro taking one last chance on going all out for MCU stuff. If it works, they may invest a little more; if not, we may be limited to a couple things per movie, and maybe a couple catch-up figures long after the fact. Then again, I feel like the Avengers movies are usually safer bets than the single-hero projects, especially for the less established characters. But we'll see.
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I expect 1 wave at this point. Maybe a 2nd wave in 3 years lol! Secret Wars may get more product. That and I could see a MCU 20th line in 2028. But next year, I am thinking 1 Doomsday wave
 
Misfit said:
It probably all depends on how secretive Marvel/Disney are being with character designs. I bet we would have had more from Deadpool and Wolverine if the studio had been more forthcoming with the characters featured.
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That part. The secrecy is not only silly, but kinda killing things at this point. These companies can't get proper merch out on time because either half the cast is hidden, or the designs change so much between concept and final film. Especially when a lot of these are the worst kept secrets. I doubt less people are gonna go see a movie because they know so-and-so is in the movie beforehand. If anything, saying a certain character is gonna be in the movie would only drum up more interest, I'd think. Those "holy shit, it's that guy!" moments really only work for one or two watches before they just become part of the film, so we gotta stop making such a big deal out of these intros.
 
In the 90s, I’d have a full line of action figures, a novelization, a comic book adaptation, and like three making-of books before any “media IP” film even came out. The modern secrecy stuff is completely bizarre to me.
I knew the plot of the 89 Batman well enough to pick out what was cut/added from the original script by the time the movie came out.

And none of that diminished my enjoyment in the slightest: indeed, it greatly enhanced it.
 
I think a lot of that merch in the 80s and 90s was the result of executives thinking "This is just for kids - who cares what they think?" And stuff didn't spread as fast prior to the internet/broadband. Now they like to drip feed the audience in a bid to build hype. I don't know if it actually works, but they seem to have little interest in altering the approach. Now the same executives think, "Who cares if the basement-dwellers don't get their toy."
 
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Misfit said:
I think a lot of that merch in the 80s and 90s was the result of executives thinking "This is just for kids - who cares what they think?" And stuff didn't spread as fast prior to the internet/broadband. Now they like to drip feed the audience in a big to build hype. I don't know if it actually works, but they seem to have little interest in altering the approach. Now the same executives think, "Who cares if the basement-dwellers don't get their toy."
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Well we do live in a world where the Supergirl trailer dropped yesterday and within 3 hours there was a 90 minute video on my feed from angry looking gamer girl who had already published a video essay on why Supergirl is woke and woke is destroying real masculinity that women want, purely off the trailer.

Definitely a different world.
 
It would kinda make sense if there were going to be a lot of MCU figures between 2026 and 2027, bridging the two movies with now-revealed Doomsday designs.

The MCU drought really makes me sad. The last proper wave we got - was it Love & Thunder or Disney+ Infinity Ultron before PFP came in and just cratered sales? It wasn't the MCU figs' fault!

Ugh. Corporate America always learning the wrong lessons.

I don't understand the resistance to revisiting past MCU projects and filling-in holes. They are not irrelevant. Look at Star Wars!!! Do them faithfully, make re-dos significant upgrades and don't treat your customers as fools. MONEY.
 
joshsquash729 said:
These companies can't get proper merch out on time because either half the cast is hidden, or the designs change so much between concept and final film.
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My position, though, is that I only get one chance to be surprised by a Baby Yoda and I'd rather it be in the show.

Contrast with Giant Man from Civil War being revealed in a Lego set before the movie even comes out.
 
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