So, these Disney-Marvel figures...

[PNGwynne]

Lots of information there, after the 30-minute mark.

[Jmass]

Double post - sorry!

[puckace]

These are feeling more and more like a doa. I listened to that podcast. Lots of vague things are coming. But no actual confirmation of anything coming anytime soon. Are the license holders (Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros. etc..) not sold on Mego? The lack of information from Mego is disappointing. Yeah I know about July. But it's almost mid June. We should''ve heard about something by now.

[Oldtoydave]

I am hopeful we’ll get a set next month. Fingers are crossed. They said July so we’ll see

[Sonneveld]

These are feeling more and more like a doa. I listened to that podcast. Lots of vague things are coming. But no actual confirmation of anything coming anytime soon. Are the license holders (Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros. etc..) not sold on Mego? The lack of information from Mego is disappointing. Yeah I know about July. But it's almost mid June. We should''ve heard about something by now.

To answer your question, Hasbro holds the toy license for Marvel. Despite companies/toylines like Goo Jitsu and Funko producing Marvel figures that are available across retail stores and online, Hasbro dictated that Mego can only release Marvel figures via the Disney parks and website,

As you are probably aware, the Spider-Man set sold out quick, but was a logistical nightmare for many consumers who either could not purchase one, or had their orders cancelled. Demand is there, infrastructure isn't? Who knows.

I can't imagine Disney ignoring a revenue stream, as they slap their characters on every product imaginable.

Is there an issue on Mego's end, production and distribution-wise? Will tariffs be blamed? Again, who knows.

[CrimsonGhost]

To answer your question, Hasbro holds the toy license for Marvel. Despite companies/toylines like Goo Jitsu and Funko producing Marvel figures that are available across retail stores and online, Hasbro dictated that Mego can only release Marvel figures via the Disney parks and website,

That’s not quite accurate. Hasbro does hold the master toy license but they haven’t dictated anything to Mego.

Mego doesn’t have the Marvel license. These figures are ordered by Disney to sell exclusively at the parks. That circumvents Hasbros master toy license.

The difficulty Mego had trying to do Marvel with Hasbro was that the only license Hasbro offers to companies who want to make articulated figures is for an $80 boutique collectable figure. That’s no issue for Hot Toys, Sideshow, Mezco, etc who sell their figures for $80.

The licenses are different for a Funko figure (which is either a bobble head or a statue) or a Goo Jitsu figure (I’m not sure what that counts as but evidently not articulated figure.) McFarlane has a Marvel license to make statues, but not action figures.