I wonder if this has anything to do with a lack of sales from the previous two films action figures? I know that I wasn't interested in anything from either of those two movies except for Phoenix Jean Grey which I picked up.
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Casting, Rumors, Pics till release)
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Why wouldn't toys from those films have sold particularly well? I don't do the collectibles/action figure thing at all, so I'm just curious.
Good.
Jean Grey & Beast were part of the Marvel Legends build a figure assortment. If you wanted the 5th figure, you had to buy them. It kinda helped gaurentee they'd sell. Marvel Legends & the build a figure concept have proven to be a great line and selling point for Hasbro. I don't believe lack of sales was an issue.
@Flemm...one reason why the toys wouldn't have sold well for either "X-Men: The Last Stand" or "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is because those movies were critically panned by fans. Why bother buying toys from movies that sucked?
......because fans will still buy toys of characters they like regardless of the films success. It also doesn't factor in the fact that children will still ask their parents to buy them. Marvel toys much like Transformers & G.I.Joe merchendise still sell regardless of whatever film or cartoon is promoting them.
^ And the movies still made shitloads of money ...
That's why I wondered what the sales were like in the first place though, obviously there is still gonna be a market for the toys in the first place. It could be a case of Hasbro's contract expiring and not being renewed. Either way it doesn't look like we're getting figures from this movie which would make "First Class" the only comic book movie coming out this year that doesn't have any.
..or with Thor, Capt. America, Marvel Universe, Iron-Man, Spider-Man & the relaunch of Marvel Legends, Hasbro is stretched thin and couldn't get another production team to sculpt and produce them. It's very possable that figures from the film could make their way into a line next year.
Have we forgotten the Green Hornet already?
Yes 
Yep, nuGreen Hornet was pretty bad.
I would prefer to erase The Green Hornet from memory if possible.
Well, one good thing about the Green Hornet movie is that it's gotten Syfy to air the '60s show again (it's already done two daylong marathons of the whole run and apparently has another scheduled this week). Hopefully it'll lead to the show getting a DVD release too.
Oh, ok yeah, when I read your original post I thought you were referring to the last two movies in the original X-trilogy, so I didn't make the connection with the movies' quality/critical reception. My bad for not reading the earlier part of the discussion.
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Archer.
Please, BE KIND and REWIND, so that it never happened!
Back to X-Men news, here's a link to a story about how to ask questions of the cast on twitter. Be warned, at the bottom of the page, Michael Fassbender talks about his character and gives some information which many of you may consider spoilerish:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/19595/ask-x-men-cast-questions-more-talk
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/19595/ask-x-men-cast-questions-more-talk
Yeah facebook has a similar campaign as well.