Ooh- if you're going to Japan this summer you should be able to snag what ever they put out for the Avengers...they put out one of the straps for Thor too, so I feel safe in guessing there will be something for the Avengers. :D But yeah there's lots of different Marvel gashapon, and USJ has a ton of stuff (even though that's mostly Spider-man).

And out of curiosity, when you were talking about European brands make their own manga figs- where you talking about Marvel or Japanese manga companies?