Finding myself buying fewer MLs every year, primarily baesd on charcter choice. I'd like to see more classic characters and not just reuse or re-do's, but a bunch of missing super-folks they've never done (or done right)- Inhumans!! - we have a better Crystal & lockjaw than Black Bolt or Medusa - inexplicable!
Anyway, as an excerise I decided to go through the front page list to weed out which ML's I'll buy if this year's rumored list is accurate, with notations of which I expect will hit clearance & I'll therefore wait on:
SPIDER-MAN RELATED
Retro Card Wave
Chameleon (Animated version) - clearance (already!)
Kaine ('90s Clone Saga) - clearance
Agent Venom
Other Comic-Related Offerings
Battle-Damaged Spider-Man
Anti-Vemon
Mysterio (Retro Card)
Princess Python - clearance
Hypno-Hustler - clearance
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Wave (if these have cel-shading, I'm out)
Spider-Man
Peter Parker (the Peter I've wanted all along - that Parker head with Maximum is embarrassing)
Daredevil
Doctor Strange - clearance
BAF - Doctor Octopus - if true, may buy whole wave but BAfs already going the way of the Dodo without tariffs, so I expect this to join the Spinner rack in oblivion, or be released as a deluxe.
Gamerverse Venom (10.5 inches)
X-MEN RELATED
Nemesis BAF Wave
Cyclops (X-Factor blue & yellow suit) - clearance
Marrow
Husk (Generation X) - clearance
Other Comic-Related Offerings
X-Factor Havok & Polaris 2-pack (?? doubtful - would have to be spectacularly different than previous offerings)
X-Force Warpath & X-23 2-pack - clearance - it's Amazon!
Retro Mystique
X-Men '97 Wave 3
Morph
Jubilee
Emma Frost
Cable
Roberto da Costa
Logan
2-Packs
Wolverine & Storm (?? would have to be spectacularly different than previous offerings)
Cyclops & Jean (?? would have to be improvement on TRU box, otherwise I'm good on these charcters)
Deluxe (not optimistic either of these will be different enough from previous releases, but I'll wait & see)
Storm
Professor X
OTHER CHARACTERS
Mini-Comic Wave
ROM (with ROM #1 mini comic)
Banshee (classic green costume with Giant-Size X-Men #1 mini comic)
Adam Warlock (with Infinity Gauntlet #1 mini comic)
if they ever do it: comic spinner rack
Iron Man Retro Wave
Mandarin - clearance
Maximum Series Fan Channel Exclusive Line
Spider-Man (got it, nice try, but unimpressed)
2-Packs:
Champion of the Universe & Magus (would buy for Magus, but we still don't have a Warlock in the OG Gil Kane design, so it'll annoy me to have Magus in that suit and no Adam) - clearance
Black Bolt & Triton (a poster on Insta claims he has seen pictures of a Black Bolt/Medusa 2-pack) - Desperately want to complete classic Inhumans, but man they have to make a better Black Bolt
Crossbones & Madame Masque - clearance
Mephisto & Robbie Reyes
Other Comic-Related Offerings
Dark Avengers Warbird
HasLab
unknown 2025 project - probably cancelled with tariff uncertainty, they will likely lose money (and def margin, which they are tight on already) on all currently funded HasLabs & large figs like Sentinel & Dragon Man
Deluxe
Shuma-Gorath - clearance
Deadpool & Wolverine Wave 2
Cassandra Nova
X-23
Blade
Elektra
Gambit
Human Torch
Mr. Paradox
BAF - Juggernaut (again, doubtful this will be a BAF)
Disney+
Werewolf By Night (would prefer comic version)
Other MCU Offerings
Captain Marvel & Dar-Benn 2-pack - clearance
Galactus (made-to-pre-order, 27 inches tall) - doubt this will happen
Punisher & Nick Fury 2-pack (which versions will be deciding factor, I'm pretty tapped out on both)
Gladiator & Deathbird 2-pack - clearance
Astonishing Beast
Medusa and Gorgon 2-pack
Secret Wars Wave 2
Constrictor - needs to be a noticable improvement - body choice has always been weird
Falcon - Finally! (they'll probably make it green costume at last minute)
X-Men
Colossus & Kitty Pryde 2-pack (yes, if Astonishing)
Spider-Man Retro Wave
Owl
Hypno-Hustler - clearance
Cardiac