Official Starting Lineup Returns 2022

My guess is Lebron is bottom right, Luca bottom left, and Curry top left.

Same. I have zero interest in current guys.

Not interested in basketball figures unless it was Koby Bryant but I am interested in is Indiana Jones figures

$50?

For hasbro?

If they did NFL I don't think I could resist.

I don't get it. They were telling everyone SL is returning, but the reason we all collected SL was because they were $5 each and we could buy the whole league as kids. I thought this was going to be a line where I could get my kid some basketball figures he could play with at a reasonable price. Even at $25-30, I could have justified getting him a few and a hoop. But at $50 a pop, there is a zero percent chance I'm doing that.

As a collector, I was planning on buying the entire first wave. I figured this would be like Marvel Legends and I'd just put together a shelf of the bigger stars. At $50 each though, I'm willing to get Jimmy Butler, and that's really it for current stars. I would absolutely be more interested in Legends, but I think they'd be more expensive than $50 each the way they did this rollout with the NFTs. Even then, I have Mafex and Enterbay Jordan already, so it's not like I'm dying for an inferior figure from Hasbro.

This whole deal is such a bummer. They're not good enough to be higher end collectibles imo with cartoony likenesses and no tattoos, and they're not affordable enough to be for everyone, specifically kids. It just feels like they're selling a $20 figure for $50, which I think is the real issue with what they've done.

I still collect 1988 and 1989 NFL Starting Lineups and I know exactly what you're saying. Something about them was/is just really special, and the $5 price point was also something that made them great.
Even if they weren't $50 they look nothing like the Starting Lineup figures I know. I expected something very similar to the old school ones, in vintage, but updated packaging, with modern articulation. That's my opinion anyway.

Oh originally, when we just had the announcement, that's exactly what I wanted and thought we were getting, too. Just a retro style line with modern names, and the door would be wide open to do Legends, specifically from that 2000-2021 period when it would have been a continuation of the line, of sorts.

But when they showed the silhouette that's when I assumed they were doing Marvel Legends style figures, and I thought it was a way to appease both kids and collectors in one shot. Unfortunately, they did neither imo.

I still collect the original line, too. I try to add at least one off my checklist every two weeks or so. They don't go for much of anything and I love having something that feels constantly ongoing since there are so many guys.

I'd probably get my favorites (Bengals and Sabres) if they expanded to NFL and NHL, but that'd be it. Fifty apiece is nuts. Not sure what Hasbro's deal is anymore, but they're losing their minds or they know something I don't about action figure collecting.

I'd rather pick up a bunch of old SLUs or McFarlane figures than get one of these. I could throw in a little more and buy that Anthony Muñoz from the 80s I could never afford.