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.

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So, if the Dark Avengers Spider-Man is the Ai Aipec version as six armed black costume Spidey, that's great.   If WWII Logan is in army outfit that's a great variant that we don't have.     That would make Enchantress the only let down of an inclusion in a banger of a wave.

Disappointing to get another Enchantress before we get Skurge - but maybe her re-inclusion heralds that Skurge may finally be planned.

Hope that if we get Phantom Rider I do hope there is a plan for Banshee.   There is such a huge need for horse sculpt in this line.   I really hope Hasbro has a plan for that.

My early thoughts:

Iron Man MK 72 (comic) - Looks like Ironheart and is from the Fall of X era. Not a big want.

WW2 Logan - Easy pass, but might pick up on clearance for possible accessories. Though with current ML there may not be much in the way of accessories.

Phantom Rider - Now this would be an instant buy, but without his horse I am disappointed.

Dark Avengers Spiderman - This could be the rumoured 6 armed version that was on lists last year. Either version isn't a big interest for me as I am good with the Retro card version.

Werewolf by Night - Hell to the yeah!!! About time (if the list is true). Instant buy.

Enchantress - Probably pick her up, depending on her look/execution because I am always glad to get more Thor characters.

Crystar Warbow - Now this would be interesting. I would be more than happy to keep expanding the Crystar lineup. JayC mentioned that maybe that greenish arrow tease during the stream could belong to Warbow.

As long as what's depicted in that IG post isn't the outfit Wolverine would be in I'd be interested.  He's had other WW2 looks that translated a lot cooler.

But seriously - WHO asked for a WWII Logan? I've never seen that version on one single wishlist.

This is complete abuse of a limited spot.

Really, really hope this rumored line-up is wrong.

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But seriously - WHO asked for a WWII Logan?

Hasbro bean counters?

Abuse of a limited Spot is getting the cartoon version of Spot before the comic version. 

Don’t lose hope. They certainly don’t seem to be slowing down on Spidey waves anytime soon, and those have had some deep cuts.

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But seriously - WHO asked for a WWII Logan? I've never seen that version on one single wishlist.

This is complete abuse of a limited spot.

Really, really hope this rumored line-up is wrong.

seriously, if they’re going to do WWII soldier types, where’s Sgt Fury and the Howling Commandos?

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Onslaught makes sense given the MVC wave.

I'm fine with getting a new Onslaught so long as he's generally oversized.  Problem is we're getting a new oversized Juggernaut and Onslaught is supposed to be able to easily take him out and be more imposing.  So I would hope for an oversized made-to-order Onslaught, perhaps not Haslab Sentinel size, as Onslaught DID grow to be larger than Sentinels and even buildings.  But an oversized deluxe would be nice.

Emma is hopefully the Generation X version.  Don't personally need anything Krakoa / Hellfire Gala / more modern than that.  Even a diamond form Utopia version I'd likely pass on as I've never liked the diamond upgrade idea.

Nimrod I'm fine with what I've got.

Colossus and Kitty I would likely buy simply because I like the characters.  If Kitty looks too much like Cassaday's art I likely don't need it as I'd prefer a more general-issue looking Colossus just in THAT outfit.  Plus I thought we were getting Cat Beast before these two, or am I misremembering another leak?

Not a massive Spidey guy, so whatever Lizard is incoming, great for those folks.

But Emma always does well under pressure.

Kinda surprised with how few diamond redecos Hasbro has done with her. Wouldn't mind the Astonishing look being the one AS LONG AS we are still getting the X-Men '97 version as well.