[CoolToysOnly]

Toy Companies should make EVERY figure in the wave valuable

-Stormtrooper 6'' black series
-Carnage 6'' black series
-Black Widow 6'' black series

make these $20 retail and HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY available and most of my annoyance will go away

I'm not sure why some characters are made into toys anyway, some of the waves they make up have only 1 cool figure and the rest lame-o figures.

[IRONTUCK3000]

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

I got Abomb he's decent, actually rebought him that's how much I liked him. Heavy figures, lots of plastic for your $$. Juggernaut is sick, Hulks are awesome. The 1 main figure you forgot is Thw Watcher, he still commands like $70-80 loose and works well with ML and MU. I think they're similiar to Mcfarlane figures, great paint and sculpt, just limited poseability.

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Originally Posted by cidman911

Yeah totally forgot about The Watcher. Very cool figure just based on his appearance. Pretty much any Marvel Select that stands in scale to Marvel Legends is a fun addition to the collection.

BBTS has the watcher up for pre order hurry before its gone again.

[trebleshot]

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Originally Posted by VashTS

I am very upset, they charge us a lot. Someone will try to say its cost of raw materials but legends are tripe the price in a 5 year span.

Ok, so I'm just going to ignore the fact that 5 years ago was the death of the original Marvel Legends line and no one was paying anything for them at retail. Even still, I think your math is wrong, unless ML cost you about $30 apiece now. Five years ago they were about $10 - 15 USD each, depending on where you shopped. At worst they're only double the price.

A couple things you should keep in mind: it's not just Marvel Legends and it's not just Hasbro. Things are tough all over.

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Hasbro had no plans on a baf sentinel our any baf above 9 inches. Movie sentinels, nope, Nimrod, nope; where is my movie Storm, young Magneto and Xavier? Charge me SRP $20 dollars but no movie merch. They are finally releasing some promised figures, but nothing short of disappointment, a baf jubilee? How can a regular figure be a baf? The 20 bucks price increase was to insure my big baf? I get it, no Mattel = no competition = take this or else?

No wonder those Hasbro guys were quiet when we are so close to the xmen movie. I wish someone would all them what is up?

Without going into a bunch of detail, I will say this. X3 sucked and the toyline sucked with it. That made Hasbro gun-shy about doing any kind of toy line for an X-Men movie.

Hasbro's Marvel team also has a lot on their plates for this year, so something had to give and in the last few years, it's been X-Men.

There is no competition with Mattel because Mattel doesn't make Marvel toys.

[kylactus]

I thought the XMO did well, a few of the movie biased wolvies peg warmed, but there was a hall of a lot of figures in there that were hard to find. If I blamed the recent movie line suck fest on anything it would be the fact that IM2 (although it was just about the most diverse movie line in marvel history) peg warmed like a son of a bitch! you can still find them at retail in some areas! I think that left a bad taste in Hasbro's mouth, that's why we get like six figures for Thor, and what 5 for cap? I thought XMO was a perfect movie line, about 20 figures, good mix of comic and movie versions, a couple two packs, all main villains represented. IM2 over produced and now were screwed. But I am amazed that Hasbro Isn't getting on the "Giant robot train" kids eat that stuff up!

[VashTS]

Mattel used to make bafs, not any more. Hasbro can give less and charge more.

Hasbro irked me with no Nimrod, sentinels, any movie stuff. No Garfield head for ASM2, no Green Goblin, or a Baf rhino...just a reused hulk goblin.

I cannot be the only upset fan. I wish someone will take Hasbro to task about their lack if product.

[trebleshot]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

I thought the XMO did well, a few of the movie biased wolvies peg warmed, but there was a hall of a lot of figures in there that were hard to find.

I'd almost bet money that The Wolverine only got the toys it did because XMO:W did ok at retail.

I would certainly point to IM2's toy line as the reason all subsequent movie lines have been smaller in terms of scale, though.

[bigkid24]

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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

Speaking of Marvel Select... I love how comparably easy it is to find Marvel Select figures at my LCS ... plus the mark-up on them is almost non-existent even with the more popular characters. A lot of times at my LCS a single HTF current MU will be priced higher than the Marvel Select figs right next to it... which on a purely intellectually level is insane to me.

And by the time I get to my LCS all the good MU and ML figs are almost always gone even at mark-up... but this is never the case with Marvel Select... even the variants sit there for a good while. I was just wondering why this is the case? Even scalpers tend to avoid Marvel Select for some reason.

I think this is an issue of distribution. MUs come in case assortments while Marvel Selects I assume come in full cases. The LCS gets a box of MUs and gets 1 maybe 2 hot figure to mark up, but when they order a case of MS then they get 12 of the same fig. So the need to buy MS immediately isn't so great compared to a MU fig.

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Originally Posted by CoolToysOnly

Toy Companies should make EVERY figure in the wave valuable

-Stormtrooper 6'' black series
-Carnage 6'' black series
-Black Widow 6'' black series

make these $20 retail and HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY available and most of my annoyance will go away

How do you want toy companies to make all of the figures highly available? It's not an annoyance to the toy company. Each figure is priced the same so they get their money whether they sell all Black Widows or all WW2 Caps. It's probably retailer pressure (and probably mostly Walmart) that makes them ask for the main characters to be more heavily packed. For instance, retailers love Bumblebee from Transformers so they always ask for him to be in waves, but then we get the problem of TF:Prime where BBs were everywhere clogging the pegs.

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Originally Posted by VashTS

Mattel used to make bafs, not any more. Hasbro can give less and charge more.

Hasbro irked me with no Nimrod, sentinels, any movie stuff. No Garfield head for ASM2, no Green Goblin, or a Baf rhino...just a reused hulk goblin.

I cannot be the only upset fan. I wish someone will take Hasbro to task about their lack if product.

To be fair, Mattel doesn't make much of anything anymore in the way of 6" figs. I'd rather continue giving Hasbro my $20 at retail than $30 plus through a subscription service. And with the MLI line how can you say they are giving less when we get accessories like replacement hands and a decent sized BAF piece? Yeah the Jubilee series is kind of a disappointment but I'd rather get her than no BAF at all. I'd feel more pissed if I had to pay $20 for Jubilee. It'd be like paying $10 for a small ewok fig in the 4" Star Wars Line.

[Black Arbor]

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Originally Posted by bigkid24

I think this is an issue of distribution. MUs come in case assortments while Marvel Selects I assume come in full cases. The LCS gets a box of MUs and gets 1 maybe 2 hot figure to mark up, but when they order a case of MS then they get 12 of the same fig. So the need to buy MS immediately isn't so great compared to a MU fig.



How do you want toy companies to make all of the figures highly available? It's not an annoyance to the toy company. Each figure is priced the same so they get their money whether they sell all Black Widows or all WW2 Caps. It's probably retailer pressure (and probably mostly Walmart) that makes them ask for the main characters to be more heavily packed. For instance, retailers love Bumblebee from Transformers so they always ask for him to be in waves, but then we get the problem of TF:Prime where BBs were everywhere clogging the pegs.



To be fair, Mattel doesn't make much of anything anymore in the way of 6" figs. I'd rather continue giving Hasbro my $20 at retail than $30 plus through a subscription service. And with the MLI line how can you say they are giving less when we get accessories like replacement hands and a decent sized BAF piece? Yeah the Jubilee series is kind of a disappointment but I'd rather get her than no BAF at all. I'd feel more pissed if I had to pay $20 for Jubilee. It'd be like paying $10 for a small ewok fig in the 4" Star Wars Line.

Well, considering that Jubilee is built off the Spider-Girl body, and she herself has an accessory ( a bo staff, I think) I think it'd be fair if they put her out as a single release. Plus, lots of people paid 10 bucks for those Vintage Collection Ewoks!

[CoolToysOnly]

Also I hate the hasbrotoyshop.com scalpers who buy all the rare figures and then insta-ebay them for double price

[VashTS]

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Originally Posted by bigkid24

I think this is an issue of distribution. MUs come in case assortments while Marvel Selects I assume come in full cases. The LCS gets a box of MUs and gets 1 maybe 2 hot figure to mark up, but when they order a case of MS then they get 12 of the same fig. So the need to buy MS immediately isn't so great compared to a MU fig.



How do you want toy companies to make all of the figures highly available? It's not an annoyance to the toy company. Each figure is priced the same so they get their money whether they sell all Black Widows or all WW2 Caps. It's probably retailer pressure (and probably mostly Walmart) that makes them ask for the main characters to be more heavily packed. For instance, retailers love Bumblebee from Transformers so they always ask for him to be in waves, but then we get the problem of TF:Prime where BBs were everywhere clogging the pegs.



To be fair, Mattel doesn't make much of anything anymore in the way of 6" figs. I'd rather continue giving Hasbro my $20 at retail than $30 plus through a subscription service. And with the MLI line how can you say they are giving less when we get accessories like replacement hands and a decent sized BAF piece? Yeah the Jubilee series is kind of a disappointment but I'd rather get her than no BAF at all. I'd feel more pissed if I had to pay $20 for Jubilee. It'd be like paying $10 for a small ewok fig in the 4" Star Wars Line.

Fine post, your not wrong but that's what Hasbro wants. They want you to smile and accept Jubilee. They WANT you to be grateful and pay them their 20 bucks and give you less.

They are slowly implementing changes and the worse thing we can say is "At least we're getting....."

[Nymesys Prime]

all started with that Rocket Raccoon, Hit monkey and Puck BAF....next thing you know we'll be getting the teeny tiny wasp as a BAF

[VashTS]

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Originally Posted by Nymesys Prime

all started with that Rocket Raccoon, Hit monkey and Puck BAF....next thing you know we'll be getting the teeny tiny wasp as a BAF

Baf Wasp will come in five pieces. Must buy wolverine and his variant for both arms....

What Hasbro and Mattel are doing is very similar to the music industry. Charging more and giving less. Its a rough comparison but ten years ago the music industry did everything to alienate their buyers. Long story short, Hasbro is not done cost cutting and charging more for less.

[kylactus]

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Originally Posted by VashTS

Baf Wasp will come in five pieces. Must buy wolverine and his variant for both arms....

What Hasbro and Mattel are doing is very similar to the music industry. Charging more and giving less. Its a rough comparison but ten years ago the music industry did everything to alienate their buyers. Long story short, Hasbro is not done cost cutting and charging more for less.

do you mean by not letting you steal music off of the internet? And no, until the economy improves or a magic dragon starts shitting plastic for Hasbro they have to do what they have to do to achieve a bottom line that's business man, it sucks sometimes, but understand they're doing there best, no one goes into business to alienate offend or turn off there consumer, they are there to make money, the best way is to do your best, within your budget to make a product your fans want and to keep them coming back. but when times get tough cuts have to be made, look out your window! there are a lot of people struggling to stay afloat. a lot of companies are going under. there's not a lot of people with the disposable income to buy toys right now. I think it will get better eventually.

Also: I've come to the conclusion that the new plain black packaging is designed to emulate the boxes of tec toys, IPad for example comes in a flat white box with the logo in glossy finish. My guess is that they're trying to appeal to the minimalist "tec" look modern kids are use to.

[Nymesys Prime]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

do you mean by not letting you steal music off of the internet? And no, until the economy improves or a magic dragon starts shitting plastic for Hasbro they have to do what they have to do to achieve a bottom line that's business man, it sucks sometimes, but understand they're doing there best, no one goes into business to alienate offend or turn off there consumer, they are there to make money, the best way is to do your best, within your budget to make a product your fans want and to keep them coming back. but when times get tough cuts have to be made, look out your window! there are a lot of people struggling to stay afloat. a lot of companies are going under. there's not a lot of people with the disposable income to buy toys right now. I think it will get better eventually.

Also: I've come to the conclusion that the new plain black packaging is designed to emulate the boxes of tec toys, IPad for example comes in a flat white box with the logo in glossy finish. My guess is that they're trying to appeal to the minimalist "tec" look modern kids are use to.

I understood what he meant by the music industry but where we have a differing opinion is that years ago artist put out a cd and the whole thing was good for like 10 bucks..now cd's have like 1 maybe 2-3 good songs yet cost 15-20. Why buy a cd when you can by just the 1 or 2 songs you like for a whole lot less? Same principle with the action figure market..we all wanted the Cap waves so we could build mandroid. but why would you put the PRIMARY piece of mandroid with a figure(female) that supposedly wont sale? and then only put her at 1 percase? I get that packaging is everchanging..given how Starwars come in the Black display or open boxes I see ML doing the same(which they have) its a neat gimmick that can appeal to those who open and those who keep MISB unlike earlier cardbacked or bubble encapsuled figures that once open there was noway they could get back into the casing.
However I do hoep that what you say comes to pass and it all gets better but reality says it will get worse before it gets better

[kylactus]

its all part of the flow brother, in the 70's there were gas riots and people were sure we'd be dead by 1989, in the 80's and 90's the economy was booming, it rises and falls man there is a bust then a boom then a bust, it's the nature of cavitation. the wheel ain't stopped turning and short of some extinction level event I don't think it will any time soon. You have to take the long view, since the beginning of time everyone thinks they live in the end times, where the next bust will kill us, or we've reached the panicle of human achievement. Things might get worse, but if the do we have a lot more than MI figure assortments to worry about. But remember things do, and always will recover. 20 years from now no one will even remember these economic blips.

[VashTS]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

do you mean by not letting you steal music off of the internet? And no, until the economy improves or a magic dragon starts shitting plastic for Hasbro they have to do what they have to do to achieve a bottom line that's business man, it sucks sometimes, but understand they're doing there best, no one goes into business to alienate offend or turn off there consumer, they are there to make money, the best way is to do your best, within your budget to make a product your fans want and to keep them coming back. but when times get tough cuts have to be made, look out your window! there are a lot of people struggling to stay afloat. a lot of companies are going under. there's not a lot of people with the disposable income to buy toys right now. I think it will get better eventually.

Also: I've come to the conclusion that the new plain black packaging is designed to emulate the boxes of tec toys, IPad for example comes in a flat white box with the logo in glossy finish. My guess is that they're trying to appeal to the minimalist "tec" look modern kids are use to.

No black is much harder to paint over for example. I am using my knowledge of certain industries I work in. Nope, on simplistic, I respect your opinion, but I know for FACT Hasbro increased the cost of packaging because they used black boxes and more recycled packaging to win awards.

My use of mp3 and movies industry was appropriate. Gave consumers less, eventually they got fed up and decided to move away from traditional markets.

BTW I saw staples advertising 3D printers today in the papers and TV.

[Trivial Psychic]

Getting away from the Hasbro bashing for a bit and back to Scalpers, I saw these, and just could not help but laugh. I wonder how long these will languish on Ebay...

Marvel Classic Legends Super Poseable Spiderman Todd McFarlane 6" Figure New | eBay

750 dollars? Seriously?...
Marvel Legends 6 inch McFarlane Spider Man Spiderman Classics Superposeable | eBay

This last one is great....the plastic on the packaging is starting to turn yellow!
Marvel Classic Legends Spider Man Todd McFarlane 6" Figure NIP Yellowing Retired | eBay

This last one has me scratching my head, it's up over 250 dollars, and has over 50 bids. At what point does one say "STOP!...Am I really going to pay THAT much for this?"
Spider Man Classics Marvel Legends Superposeable Spider Man McFarlane Figure | eBay

[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Getting away from the Hasbro bashing for a bit and back to Scalpers, I saw these, and just could not help but laugh. I wonder how long these will languish on Ebay...

Marvel Classic Legends Super Poseable Spiderman Todd McFarlane 6" Figure New | eBay

750 dollars? Seriously?...
Marvel Legends 6 inch McFarlane Spider Man Spiderman Classics Superposeable | eBay

This last one is great....the plastic on the packaging is starting to turn yellow!
Marvel Classic Legends Spider Man Todd McFarlane 6" Figure NIP Yellowing Retired | eBay

This last one has me scratching my head, it's up over 250 dollars, and has over 50 bids. At what point does one say "STOP!...Am I really going to pay THAT much for this?"
Spider Man Classics Marvel Legends Superposeable Spider Man McFarlane Figure | eBay

Yeah, eBay can be the source of all sorts of comedic material at times. Check that last one again. In particular, review the bidding history. Most of the bids are made by two people. One of whom sports a whopping "8" feedback history. Can we say this bidder might be running up the price? Who knows. I have won a couple of auctions that I though I lost upon their closing. Once, the seller informed me the winner could not pay and I was the second highest bidder. Another time, I determined my limit had been met and I was not going to bid-battle some idiot for the item. The auction closes and I lose end of story...except I find the item a few hours later in my "won items" list. As the seller, I have actually erased bids I believe to be made by sketchy bidders. Whenever I auction something off, I explicitly state that the bidder needs to have at least a few purchases and a good feedback history....

About the cost element of those Spidey figs. It never ceases to amaze me what some will pay for any collector's item (myself included, at times...although I've never paid nearly that much!). On the other side of the coin I'm cheered by this because the items I've collected have value. Value that maybe one day I'll cash in on (if it holds).

[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

Yeah, eBay can be the source of all sorts of comedic material at times. Check that last one again. In particular, review the bidding history. Most of the bids are made by two people. One of whom sports a whopping "8" feedback history. Can we say this bidder might be running up the price? Who knows. I have won a couple of auctions that I though I lost upon their closing. Once, the seller informed me the winner could not pay and I was the second highest bidder. Another time, I determined my limit had been met and I was not going to bid-battle some idiot for the item. The auction closes and I lose end of story...except I find the item a few hours later in my "won items" list. As the seller, I have actually erased bids I believe to be made by sketchy bidders. Whenever I auction something off, I explicitly state that the bidder needs to have at least a few purchases and a good feedback history....

That's a good point. I've never really thought of that before, but it really wouldn't be hard to have a friend or loved one with their own account, or even an alt account, to artificially raise the "value" of their auction by putting in phony bids. Good observation.

This is why I have developed a sniper's mentality on Ebay over the years. Better to give it your best shot at the end of an auction when a person has less time to attempt such chicanery, than to go all in from the outright.

[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

This is why I have developed a sniper's mentality on Ebay over the years.

Trade secrets man! Don't give up the techniques! Most still have not caught on!! "The first rule is.....never talk about fight club."

[aefranci]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

That's a good point. I've never really thought of that before, but it really wouldn't be hard to have a friend or loved one with their own account, or even an alt account, to artificially raise the "value" of their auction by putting in phony bids. Good observation.

This is why I have developed a sniper's mentality on Ebay over the years. Better to give it your best shot at the end of an auction when a person has less time to attempt such chicanery, than to go all in from the outright.

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

Trade secrets man! Don't give up the techniques! Most still have not caught on!! "The first rule is.....never talk about fight club."

Yeah despite how much I like that mcfarlane spidey.i refuse to pay $600 for 6inches of plastic...I'm going to resort to customizing and making an even better one...and thats typically what I've been doing..snipe and hopefully other bidders wont realize

[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by aefranci

Yeah despite how much I like that mcfarlane spidey.i refuse to pay $600 for 6inches of plastic...I'm going to resort to customizing and making an even better one...and thats typically what I've been doing..snipe and hopefully other bidders wont realize

Believe it or not, I scored a Mcfar-Spidey (the dark version...which I prefer more) off eBay 2-3 yrs ago for $20 bucks. I attribute my good fortune to it being loose (but like new), a bad pic (grainy and dark), and the general ignorance of the eBay community (at the time) to the fact that it was the same sculpt as the highly coveted lighter shaded one. Additionally, if I remember correctly, it was a weird late night auction. Note to sellers: always make sure your auction ends in "prime-time" (between 7pm and 11pm)....that is if you want max exposure/money.

[cidman911]

There's a bunch of dark McFarlane Spidey's from the usual China sellers on eBay right now.

Most have been ending at $40-50 but once those people willing to pay that much for it wash away they should be selling regularly for $30 shipped like Red Deadpools.

And thanks for The Watcher Marvel Select heads up. I'll wait until the month before they come out to pre-order. A few sites have them up for October re-release...Venom too.

[TimothyR]

i wish hasbro would get their act together.

i've seen SOOO many hasbro products that are having a TERRIBLE time selling.. they're even peg warming with MAJOR clearance mark downs, it's unbelievable. absolutely unbelievable.

[bmorr]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Getting away from the Hasbro bashing for a bit and back to Scalpers, I saw these, and just could not help but laugh. I wonder how long these will languish on Ebay...

Marvel Classic Legends Super Poseable Spiderman Todd McFarlane 6" Figure New | eBay

750 dollars? Seriously?...
Marvel Legends 6 inch McFarlane Spider Man Spiderman Classics Superposeable | eBay

This last one is great....the plastic on the packaging is starting to turn yellow!
Marvel Classic Legends Spider Man Todd McFarlane 6" Figure NIP Yellowing Retired | eBay

This last one has me scratching my head, it's up over 250 dollars, and has over 50 bids. At what point does one say "STOP!...Am I really going to pay THAT much for this?"
Spider Man Classics Marvel Legends Superposeable Spider Man McFarlane Figure | eBay

cane someone explain to me why a spiderman figure off all characters is going for that much? the dragon man thing i understand, but this is spiderman. whats the story on this one?