I feel part of the issue with Captain Marvel is that if you stripped all aspects of gender out of it she's still a boring character the same way Hal Jordan is boring. Fearless test pilot is unrelatable and uninteresting.
I think James Gunn is doing his darndest to bring the comic bookyness of it all to live action. Not visually necessarily, but in tone. Superman was a banger.
I don't think Hasbro thinks on terms of one-off or smaller teams. I suspect the team completer is very much not going to complete a bigger team to most collector's minds.
Just watched the whole episode. My favorite part is that they mention several times that this is all happening in one day. You know, U.S. to South Pole to West Point to New York and then at the very end they meet the Viper... at noon.
Just in volume I think 2025 is the highest? Although it's been very back loaded so maybe it just feels like it. This feels like 1985 again when things peaked production wise.