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Just realized we haven't brought this thread over yet. We had some pretty good wishlisting and speculation over on Proboards so feel free to continue that here.

My big want is still to see the Four Horsemen's take on a pirate of some sort.
 
I've always loved ancient Egyptian lore. So the Anubis & Bastet set was way up my alley. He's maybe not the most toyetic deity, but I really hope to see Thoth sooner than later.
 
The only thing I don't want is for FO to get stuck in a rut. I feel like we are kind of already there with the winter release now that they've shown they are doing A Christmas Carol for at least two more years.

I'd love for each release to be a surprise and different from what came before.
 
I’m fine with them finishing A Christmas Carol yearly until it’s done, but yes I wouldn’t want FO to be stuck in a rut.
I do think the general “themes” (Spring for a world mythology figure, Fall for classic literary horror/sci-fi/adventure [Halloween], and Winter for winter-holiday/winter themed) are fine for now.
I’d like to see them tackle:
SPRING - Norse mythology (Odin, etc), Hindu mythology (Ganesha, etc), more Egypt (I’d love the Isis/Osiris/Set triad), maybe straying away from “gods” and doing things like the Chinese Jiang-shi (“hopping vampire”) various Greek mythology monsters (MEDUSA), and others. Oh, and Beowulf and GRENDEL.

FALL - well, obviously DRACULA with the same “from the book” ethos they used for Frankenstein’s Monster, the Invisible Man, Queen Tera from Jewel of the Seven Stars (an evil mummy Queen, for those who don’t know, see Hammer Films’ Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb), Deep Ones/“Innsmouth Look” and/or other Lovecraftian human-sized horrors like Pickman’s Model (a ghoul), Erik the Opera Ghost from Phantom of the Opera, Quasimodo the Hunchback of Notre Dame, oh and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Countess Mircalla Karnstein aka CARMILLA. And also maybe expand to things like Long John Silver and Martians from War of the Worlds.

WINTER: this is tougher, because there is really only so much “Christmas” they can do and also “Christmas” is kinda limiting and boxed in. That said, they have at least 3 more Christmas Carol characters that are “musts” (Christmas Past, Christmas Yet To Come, and Scrooge himself), and then maybe hit a wintery cryptid like a Yeti?

Which brings me to:

They should have another “slot” specifically for “modern” post-mythological cryptids like Bigfoot, Mothman, chupacabras, grey aliens, Black Eyed Kids, Slenderman, etc. I feel like that’s a BIG missing piece of this line.
 
Justice said:
The only thing I don't want is for FO to get stuck in a rut. I feel like we are kind of already there with the winter release now that they've shown they are doing A Christmas Carol for at least two more years.

I'd love for each release to be a surprise and different from what came before.
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While I also like that, them completing a group is also great to me. I'm hyped to see how they do Present and Yet to Come.
 
AceofKnaves said:
I’m fine with them finishing A Christmas Carol yearly until it’s done, but yes I wouldn’t want FO to be stuck in a rut.
I do think the general “themes” (Spring for a world mythology figure, Fall for classic literary horror/sci-fi/adventure [Halloween], and Winter for winter-holiday/winter themed) are fine for now.
I’d like to see them tackle:
SPRING - Norse mythology (Odin, etc), Hindu mythology (Ganesha, etc), more Egypt (I’d love the Isis/Osiris/Set triad), maybe straying away from “gods” and doing things like the Chinese Jiang-shi (“hopping vampire”) various Greek mythology monsters (MEDUSA), and others. Oh, and Beowulf and GRENDEL.

FALL - well, obviously DRACULA with the same “from the book” ethos they used for Frankenstein’s Monster, the Invisible Man, Queen Tera from Jewel of the Seven Stars (an evil mummy Queen, for those who don’t know, see Hammer Films’ Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb), Deep Ones/“Innsmouth Look” and/or other Lovecraftian human-sized horrors like Pickman’s Model (a ghoul), Erik the Opera Ghost from Phantom of the Opera, Quasimodo the Hunchback of Notre Dame, oh and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Countess Mircalla Karnstein aka CARMILLA. And also maybe expand to things like Long John Silver and Martians from War of the Worlds.

WINTER: this is tougher, because there is really only so much “Christmas” they can do and also “Christmas” is kinda limiting and boxed in. That said, they have at least 3 more Christmas Carol characters that are “musts” (Christmas Past, Christmas Yet To Come, and Scrooge himself), and then maybe hit a wintery cryptid like a Yeti?

Which brings me to:

They should have another “slot” specifically for “modern” post-mythological cryptids like Bigfoot, Mothman, chupacabras, grey aliens, Black Eyed Kids, Slenderman, etc. I feel like that’s a BIG missing piece of this line.
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A Jiang-Shi would make me so so happy! As for Christmas, I'd love to see the Rat King and Nutcracker from The Nutcracker. Also, this line started with Krampus and Father Christmas. They could go more the holiday character route. There are so many characters from all over the world. We could get some cool stuff.
 
ManOfTheLamb said:
While I also like that, them completing a group is also great to me. I'm hyped to see how they do Present and Yet to Come.
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I for sure want to see A Christmas Carol finished. I love Christmas figures. I just don't want to see every seasonal release start to become a predictable trend like winter has.
 
Justice said:
I for sure want to see A Christmas Carol finished. I love Christmas figures. I just don't want to see every seasonal release start to become a predictable trend like winter has.
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They've said the Egyptian Gods will return. That could just mean they'll do more in the future, but my guess is that we'll get more this year. That being said, with those, I'm fine with them dipping in and out of mythologies
 
Ohhh some ETA Hoffman-inspired Nutrcracker stuff could be pretty wild. Rat King, Nutcracker, Drosselmeyer . . .
 
I wouldn't be surprised to see them do a Nosferatu-y thing this Fall.

I'm always down for mythological creatures and gods. Norse, Egyptian, and Greek gods are at the top of my list.
 
This is my favorite Horsemen line by far. I love the freedom it gives them to just make awesome figures. The little pamphlet that came with the graveyard skeletons did mention cryptozoology as being apart of this line and as of yet they haven’t touched upon that theme. That makes me think we might see something in that regard this year. We know Ghost of Christmas Present is all but confirmed for the Christmas figure but the Halloween or Spring ones could easily be in that category.
 
There is so much untapped literary potential for this line I think they need to go to a four per year release schedule and do a summer release. Throw the cryptozoology release into that slot.
 
Buttmunch said:
This is my favorite Horsemen line by far. I love the freedom it gives them to just make awesome figures. The little pamphlet that came with the graveyard skeletons did mention cryptozoology as being apart of this line and as of yet they haven’t touched upon that theme. That makes me think we might see something in that regard this year. We know Ghost of Christmas Present is all but confirmed for the Christmas figure but the Halloween or Spring ones could easily be in that category.
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Isn't The Graveyard it's own seperate thing technically?
 
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