Originally Posted by ChuckSass (Post 302671)

ugh Those Widows are so hard to get for a reasonable price. I just want one for my birthday, and I know scalpers just bought a bunch of them just to sell at a ridiculous price

Originally Posted by Primacron (Post 302685)

BBTS have got Widow, Hawkeye and a Skrull for about £30, not bad if you want the other figures as well: The Avengers 3.75" Figure Series 03 - Set of 3 - The Avengers (2012) Figures

Originally Posted by Sector15 (Post 302693)

Works out about £44 with shipping added. With any luck Dorkside or someone in the Far East will get them it'll be a lot cheaper.
Hopefully if the wave is being shipped to comic shops in the UK the should start appearing anytime.

Originally Posted by Primacron (Post 302700)

Depends on whether you buy anything else at the same time! (I've got a $300 POL building so shipping is almost negligible.)

Originally Posted by Sector15 (Post 303875)

I'm tempted with the MU Widow. I've just seen one on e-bay for £8 shipped from the Far East.
At least that way I'll have one and can wait for The Avengers one to show up.

Originally Posted by Panthro1978 (Post 303882)

Best be careful it's not one of the ones with £35 postage on it. I nearly bid on an Avengers Widow - at £6 - until I saw the postage cost. O_O

The MU Widow is ok, though.

Originally Posted by Sector15 (Post 303895)

Update.

I've just had a reply on my Facebook question to Hasbro reference the Widow/Hawkeye wave.



So they can take one figure and market that but we can't get the others. Once again Hasbro expects us to bend over and be happy with what we get.

Originally Posted by Panthro1978 (Post 303914)

Let's face it - Hawkeye wouldn't be a great loss.

Originally Posted by MGTAJ (Post 304008)

We live in the UK, we aren't privileged with variants

Originally Posted by proteus (Post 304011)

To be fair the way Hasbro pick their MU releases for this country has always mystified me,take the Apocalypse/Cyclops/Dr Strange wave we got,no Cable,no Commander Rogers,what was the thinking behind that?? If you compare ANY of the UK MU waves with the US ones,ours have always had seemingly random selections of figures from 2or3 of the US waves combined into one for us..........

Originally Posted by Sector15 (Post 303980)

Good idea it worth a shot. I've just fired an e-mail off to them asking. Even if they haven't they have at least 3 Iron Man figures to choose from lol.

Originally Posted by Lionheart (Post 304221)

Hello.

'Yanked' away. I see what you did there.



Or complete waves... or second waves... or Giant Battles... or convention exclusives... or...

This is why collectors from the US have seven million Hydra Troopers and AIM Troopers and sixty-one Sentinels - they have every release and they get them dirt cheap (comparatively). Not knocking US collectors at all, just stressing how sucky it is to be anywhere else on Earth and have toy collecting as a hobby.



They don't pick - they just ship whatever they happen to have overproduced in the US in an ugly 48 language pack. 'Hasbro UK' is a name only - they have no more power to decide releases than the average 18 year old ASDA employee. They just wait for Hasbro US to dump some stock on them:

Hasbro US to Hasbro UK:

"Here, have a bunch of characters that the average kid has never heard of. We'll send you tons of them so they can pegwarm and we can justify not sending you the next wave at all. We've thrown in a Spiderman / Iron Man - they'll be sure to sell, and if they don't, well... see above. That ok with you? You don't need to reply because it really doesn't matter what you say - this is what you're getting. By the way, have you seen some of the cool SDCC stuff we're making this year? Finally got around to making one of Marvel's top villains 'Baron Zemo'. Europe? No - never. Black Widow from the hugely successful Avengers movie? Why would we want to send figures of the only female superhero in the film? It's not like any girls that may have seen the movie would like to own a figure of the only female hero is it? Loki? Why would any kids in Europe want to play with the villain of the movie? Didn't we send you a Loki in the Thor line? Never made it there? What about the Gigantic Battles Loki? US only? Hold on - seems like a few Loki's slipped through and showed up at Toys R Us - we've plugged that leak - sorry about that, and by 'sorry' I mean we don't care. We're just not seeing the need for a Loki release over there from over here. Look, we'll send you more Thor's, Captain America's and Iron Men. Does that sound good? Please don't answer - this conversation is over."



UK, Ireland, France - it's all the same to Hasblo. As Primewolf has said many times in the past... "Hasbro hates Europe". It ain't just the UK. They've screwed the European market since the 80's.