Hasbro can easily bring back a run of different Troop Builder 2 packs every quarter in limited factory runs on those same old molds and sell out better than most movie waves.
I wonder why they don't.
It is curious. Some generic Kree Soldiers with a couple of alternate heads - blue skinned and pink skinned would sell like hot cakes.
I think a good idea would be to announce a Deluxe Supreme Intelligence figure for like $50 or $60 and then at the same time a Kree soldier two pack maybe with different colors or different chest insignia to specify different ranks - and then some alternate heads to have pink skinned and blue skinned soldiers and then an unmasked head for Yonn Rog and someone else. I think those would move well.
More Skrulls would always sell. More Hellfire guards. Actual Aim agents (not the AIM commandos they tried to pass off previously). Shield and Hydra can always be revisited. Badoon would be good. Brood obivously, but those would be more expensive to make.
And then a deluxe classic SHIELD Mandroid - the smooth gold design from the books. Let me buy a few of those please.
Hasbro has been surprisingly terrible with Troop Builders and their availability, aside from Hand-Ninjas and the A.I.M two-pack! Skrulls, Hellfire Guards, Hydra agents, and Shield agent All need to be actively and readily available constantly! Doombots also!
So the Outriders is a 2-pack?
I’m disappointed that it wasn’t a twin pack of Chitauri and Outrider together.
Even more logical would be a 3-pack of
1x Chitauri (with alt unmasked head)
1x Ultron bot (with easy to pop apart arms and legs)
1x Outrider (with alt head)
I think that might encourage people to buy even more packs.
I wish the new deluxe Kang had swappable heads rather than face plates. Those plates can’t be used on the extra Kang figures I already have. I’m stuck using them on just the deluxe Kang head.
Bust out that extra Kang head, an x-acto knife, and a whole bunch of gauze!
Actually though, I totally agree. I would have picked up an extra Kang already if they were coming with heads. As of now I'm not confident I'll be able to use both face plates - which is a shame, because I want to display all the Kang variants.
Still wanting my Terrordyne agents, Hasbro.
Get it together. We don’t even have Ultimatum agents yet either.
@kolobosrexx I feel like on some level they're trying out different combos to see what works. I liked the female SHIELD vs HYDRA pack and picked up two of those, and it feels like we could get more in that vein. I do feel like some should be evergreen (HYDRA, AIM, Hellfire), but my guess is the reason they aren't is storage costs. That said, a designated "troop builder month" each year would be cool. Set it up so everyone knows when to prep their wallets. Maybe do it like every year we get one old set and one new set (or an oldie with updated body or paints). So they can let stuff rest for a bit, but you'd know the golden oldies will come back around.
I also feel like there's a lot of room for female variants of the ones we've already got. Skrulls, AIM, Hellfire. Get some gender diversity up in here. Right now it seems weird that HYDRA is the only villain group that hires women henches.
And then a deluxe classic SHIELD Mandroid - the smooth gold design from the books. Let me buy a few of those please.
I definitely would go for Mandroids. Good all-purpose baddy option. Also agree Brood should be looked at as an option. More tooling and such for those, but I'd pick them up.
Just got a shipping notice from Hasbro Pulse for my Outriders order.
Just got my Outriders from Pulse. Big boys! Didn't realize they came with only one extra head for both figures--it's a duplicate of the head without the horns. They're standing next to the Walmart retro Venom and cel-shaded Daredevil for size reference below.
I didn't notice some having horns and some not in Infinity War during the Wakanda battle. Anyone know why only some have the horns?
Sweet! The preview pics made them look undersized to me, but they aren't. Don't do MCU, but these are a great get for you guys. Chuitari (sp?) time now.
@enigmaticclarity Don't quote me on this, but I think they said the one with horns was a "captain" when they first showed them. Mine arrived earlier this week also and I like them. I haven't put them next to my 2 Marvel Select Chitauri yet to get an idea on side compaison, but I'm pretty sure they're undersized compared to the Select Chitauri. I'll post a pic side by side at some point if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
These things are big enough that I'm glad I didn't order too many. I've got a 2pk coming from Pulse today and a second 2pk POed at Amazon.
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