
Originally Posted by
Shaun Flaherty
If history is any indicator, we seem to get about one wave of new sculpts per year. If the license gets renewed for another term, I’d expect to see Wave 6 at Toy Fair in February. But if it’s anything like Wave 5, those figures won’t be in our hands till almost summer.
I agree that the most recent releases would have benefitted from some variety. Three Moduloks between two conventions is almost as uninspiring as the three Stratoses we got at Power-Con last year.
Two things to consider:
1) It’s likely easier (cheaper) for the factory to make several variants at a time on one mold than loading in an older mold.
2) It’s possible that the line isn’t necessarily designed solely for the Collect Them All collector. Of course, they’d love for everybody to buy everything, but I imagine that there are folks who pick these up as one-offs — liking an interesting deco, remembering that particular version from childhood, etc.
My bigger concern about NYCC is: Where are the reveals? Where’s Brian? Something’s fishy.