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

X-Men

Colossus & Kitty Pryde 2-pack (yes, if Astonishing)

Spider-Man Retro Wave

Owl

Hypno-Hustler - clearance

Cardiac

If Marvel Legends are not doing Build-A-Figures any more, the next Iron Man wave will have to be on retro cards.

The last IM was, right? Pretty sure retro is going to be the ML standard, with some boxed singles (most likely "exclusives" like Warbird Ms Marvel, now at BBTS!), two (or more) -packs. BAF waves (if any) will be a rare exception.