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Wave 65 The Unknown Wave


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I miss the wild and fun speculation that comes with the unknown. Who are your guesses for Wave 65? Mine are...

Abomination

Planet Hulk

Classic Falcon

Bucky Cap

X-Face Cyclops

Toad

Magik in her leather boots

Now! Magneto

My theme was vs. and allies. Keeping universes in the same 2 packs. Your turn! Unless 65 is the animation stuff, which we already know :) haha

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My guess? All-New, All-Different Marvel NOW! costume redesigns.

ANAD Hulk

Invincible (Anime) Iron Man

Green Glowing Spider Spider-Man

Ant-Man

Sneakers and Axe Doctor Strange

Star-Lady (Kitty Pryde in Star-Lord's costume)
ANAD Wolverine (X-23)

Daredevil

No Black Panther, Blue Marvel, Moon Knight, 2099, Inhumans, Magik, Squadron or anything like that probably. Just more A-Listers with slightly new costumes. TRU might get something like Space Venom or Old Man Rogers, but I'm not holding my breath for other ANADM players.

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Why does it feel like, by finally bringing all of the "alternate" realities together, Marvel somehow managed to keep the worst things about all of them?

It's like they made an intentional decision that, instead of using Secret Wars to fix all of the years of continuity garbage and bad decisions, they doubled-down on most of it.

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Should be comic based, as there are no Marvel movies until Civil War in May.

Deadpool is in February, but I'm willing to bet we might only get a boxset (or 2) like Ant-Man.

X-Men Apocalypse is also May 2016, if DST even supports the movie. With JLaw's Select figure getting cancelled last year, it wouldn't surprise me if they just decided to skip it.

Waves 62 and 63 should be soon (next month or two), 64 will most likely be Nov/Dec. They should be able to get at least one more comic-based wave out before Civil War.

Yeah, Civil War is either going to be 2 waves, or we will somehow miss a lot of characters.

Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America

Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man

Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther

Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon

Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones

Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye

Daniel Brühl as Helmut Zemo

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch

Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter

Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine

Paul Bettany as Vision

Paul Rudd as Scott Lang/Ant-Man

William Hurt as General Thaddeus Thunderbolt Ross

Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Martin Freeman as a to-be-confirmed character

Those are the 17 announced characters, not taking into consideration any army builders, surprise characters, or variations of announced characters.

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Sneakers and Axe Doctor Strange

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This Doc Strange is also going to be making house calls. And carrying a shield, spear, sword and more. Also, his cloak is a hood, he has no sash but a leather belt and no gloves... It's not looking good IMO...

Anything but Moon Knight. I can't stand Moon Knight. If Moon Knight shows up, I'm out.

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My guess? None of those.

Most likely 1 or 2 new characters that people have been asking for, and a bunch of re-do's or costume variations of existing characters that will piss off Valo.

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I agree with every point you made.

In all seriousness, there are some costume variations I would actually like to see, where I start to really have a problem is when we get remakes of specific costume versions when we already have 19 versions of a character. I have no affection for the disco Dazzler costume, but I know a lot of people love it, so no harm no foul. But now it's getting to the point where people want remakes of the 90s X-Men because they didn't get them the first time, when we already have multiple versions of those characters in different costumes. How would those remakes be any different, other than the fact that you would now have them when you didn't before?

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They *might* try to make an entire wave out of Deadpool, we know that DST has had a lot of success with the Deadpool boxsets in the past. If DST has been happy with the Age of Ultron 61/63 split sales numbers, then I would rearrange the waves as such:

Wave 66: Deadpool movie

Wave 67: Civil War series 1

Wave 68: X-Men Apocalypse OR Comic Themed Wave if X-Men is skipped

Wave 69: Civil War series 2

Wave 70: Comic Themed Wave

Wave 71: Dr. Strange or Comic Themed Wave?

I can see Dr. Strange being given the shared boxset approach with Comic-Con and LCS sets.

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I really wish we could just get one wave for Civil War, and have it only be the characters that are new or in different looks. That being said, I have a better shot of having Zach call me at home and asking me what the next wave should be than not getting a massive rollout for Civil War.

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Yeah, the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that DST isn't going to make Minimates for two different FOX movies, and with the combination of proven sales numbers behind Deadpool and Marvel wanting to discourage X-Men product, X-Men Apocalypse isn't going to make the cut.

I am 100% fine with that decision.

This Doc Strange is also going to be making house calls. And carrying a shield, spear, sword and more. Also, his cloak is a hood, he has no sash but a leather belt and no gloves... It's not looking good IMO...

So instead of Stephen Strange, we have Ares as Dr Strange? Edited by youbastards
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I can deal with the constant recycling of the big names if it allowed us to get something new, for example the way they mixed the X-Men with the Brotherhood recently was an excellent idea. Why can't they do the same thing with the Avengers and the Wrecking Crew or the Masters of Evil?

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^ This.

A hero vs villain set or 2 is what should be stocked at Tru at the least. Maybe one hero and a sidekick/buddy set as well. A hero and villain in one box is an afternoon of play right there. A few accessories and you have everything you need in one little box for $7.50.

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This Doc Strange is also going to be making house calls. And carrying a shield, spear, sword and more. Also, his cloak is a hood, he has no sash but a leather belt and no gloves... It's not looking good IMO...

So instead of Stephen Strange, we have Ares as Dr Strange?

From Aaron's interviews I got the impression that he wants to write a Sandman like story, where magic always has a price, but I can't say that I'm loving what I'm hearing. The axe, shield and whatnot are supossed to be artifacts of great power, but IMHO, Stephen should use ancient scrolls amulets, not bows and arrows. Once in a while it's good, but it should not be the main focus. "The Oath" managed to have a Doc that was a magician, a doctor and a fighter, without making a mess. This book though simply doesn't sound like Doc Strange. It's as if I'm reading Wiccan: The Grown-Up Years or Constantine: Porn Stache Edition. It's still going to my sub list, but that's mainly because I love the character and like the creative team, not because I like the pitch.

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They've said in the past that even with an A-Lister in the two pack they can't make "just anybody," although that seems to be an "eye of the beholder" situation.

The moment the Howard/Dazzler 2-pack became a reality is the moment that argument got thrown out the window IMO.

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They've said in the past that even with an A-Lister in the two pack they can't make "just anybody," although that seems to be an "eye of the beholder" situation.

The moment the Howard/Dazzler 2-pack became a reality is the moment that argument got thrown out the window IMO.

I completely agree, and I made that point when I saw it, but Zach seemed to disagree.

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They've said in the past that even with an A-Lister in the two pack they can't make "just anybody," although that seems to be an "eye of the beholder" situation.

The moment the Howard/Dazzler 2-pack became a reality is the moment that argument got thrown out the window IMO.

I completely agree, and I made that point when I saw it, but Zach seemed to disagree.

Obviously Zach knows more about how character selection should work than us, I'm not debating that. But saying Moon Knight or Ghost Rider can't appear in a wave, even packed with Spider-Man or Iron Man, while there exists a Disco Dazzler/Howard 2-pack in this day and age just doesn't make sense to me. Anyway, I've had this very same conversation many times already, so I'm not going to repeat it again.

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Moon Knight can't happen. There's no Moon Knight movie cameo. There's no Moon Knight film. Face it; Moon Knight is no Howard the Duck.

But aha! here is where you're wrong! There is actually a Moon Knight-esque reference in The Winter Soldier, when Sitwell mentions a person of interest in Cairo. See? It totes counts...

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