2025-2026 Rumor/Leak List - UPDATED List 10-30-25 (after Lucca Con Panel)

RicksNerdLife said:
It's a little different to create a whole brand new figure and then try to fall back to that excuse. Doesn't exactly carry the same weight.
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The figure would be new, but the characters they're based on wouldn't be. American Eagle first appeared in 1981 and Man-Ape in 1969. I was there for both of those debuts and trust me, it was a different world. A disclaimer could explain that.

RicksNerdLife said:
Look, end of the day, if Hasbro felt that they COULD do it, then they would have. Chances are though, a character like AE just isn't viable as a marketable, sellable item.
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And Warbow IS? ;)

RicksNerdLife said:
Chances are also good that the Marvel team doesn't even know a thing about AE---considering they don't even know who the Slingers were, and they claim to be big 90s fans. I doubt they know a character like AE.
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You would be surprised. A couple of years ago I asked Dwight about Marvel's western characters, and he said he pitched a multi-pack with Two-Gun Kid, Kid Colt, Red Wolf, Gail Simone's Outlaw, and a horse. The idea got shot down because "horse are expensive". I tried to argue the point but since Ryan Ting was a Product Manager and I wasn't, I lost. But the point is, Dwight, Dan and Jesse are very knowledgeable about Marvel. I can tell you that for a fact.

RicksNerdLife said:
And if/when Black Panther 3 rolls around and there is no Man-Ape, I think there's your answer. It's never happening. Or if we do get one, this whole conversation is for nothing.
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Yeah, that's what Jesse used to say about Armadillo. Jesse also used to talk about how much he hated Kang and how he didn't think Yellowjacket was a doable character. I've heard it before.

Only time will tell.
 
RicksNerdLife said:
And if/when Black Panther 3 rolls around and there is no Man-Ape, I think there's your answer. It's never happening. Or if we do get one, this whole conversation is for nothing.
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I don't care about Black Panther anything in general, but why can't they still make the figure and just label it as whatever the name of guy in the suit is? They did the same with Holocaust/Genesis/Nemesis fairly easily.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
why can't they still make the figure and just label it as whatever the name of guy in the suit is?
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This would be my preferred solution.

Specific to M’Baku, my understanding is that the objection is, indeed, specifically to him being called “Man-Ape”, which was also (if I understand correctly) an initially-unintentional racist sobriquet. Like yeah, yeeeeesh calling an African guy “Man-Ape” is a major yikes on bikes by any stretch, even if the initial intent was “ok let’s do another animal-themed guy to fight Black Panther, apes are big and powerful while panthers are fast, so Man-Ape it is!”
But I think of how they billed Satana as “Judith Chambers” and put her in a boxed set, and I wonder if that could work for M’Baku, who I would actually contend is way more famous as “M’Baku” then as “Man-Ape” at this point.
Now there is still the “Black guy in an ape-themed outfit” angle, and I don’t think I’m the guy to speak on the relative “okay-ness” of that in absence of the Man-Ape name, buuuut he certainly wore ape-themed accessories in the Black Panther movie . . .
 
I would not buy an American Eagle figure cause i have no knowledge of this character and think he looks real bad.

but also he would probably get some accusations of being culturally insensitive from a large enough group thats its not worth risking.


Sadly i think Perez era full Romani stereotype has a larger chance of getting made since a lot of society still doesn't think of that as offensive
 
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