Question about Dr. Strange and Abomination Wave
 

Hi everyone, hope everything is fine. Im opening this thread to ask you guys two questions:

1. Which figure from the Dr. Strange wave you guys think will be the hardest to get? So far I think it will be Echantress but I also think it could be Nico Minoru (she looks great). Maybe, both will be rare and hard to find (like deadpool and wolverine from the x-men wave)

2. I have seen some pics and video that people have some figures from the abomination wave, this is true!? I havent seen any from my local stores, wallmart, wallgreens and toy r us, but maybe some of you have seen some.

1 - Likely to be Enchantress, simply due to the fan demand, but Nico's also probably gonna be harder to find as well, due to the longtime fan love of the Runaways and (of course) how often the female figures in a given wave are the first ones collectors and scalpers will seek out.

2 - A number of web stores have already shipped out pre-ordered cases of the Abomination wave, but they have yet to start showing up in stores in full force.

Awesome, thanks Boy Blunder, I was thinking the same about how harder are to find female figures. Also, if any of you guys are looking to get Enchantress, amazon have her for $16 (preorder)

I don't think anyone from the Strang wave will be hard to find. In fact, I'm expecting you will still be able to get the entire wave on clearance come Dec.

I can't agree with female figures being harder to find though. Spider-Girl, Ultimate Spider-Woman, Mysty Knight, White Tiger, Black Cat, Beetle, Kitty, Phoenix, Mockingbird, Sharon Carter, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, and Miss Marvel are pegwarmers.

See I am going to think still Enchantress is going to be very hard to find. I think it's pretty clear she was one of the most (if not THE most ) highly requested figure prior to her release in the SDCC. Granted some people who got the SDCC pack won't get her, though I will, but the many who missed out on that pack will be wanting her.

I do think the wave will have pegwarming problems, but it will be of the Dr. Strange figures. I can see Iron Fist, Brother Voodoo and Baron Mordo being easy enough to find though, but Nico is going to be difficult as well, just not as much as Enchantress.

You have a point, in a way, because most of those are pegwarming waves. The Rhino, Absorbing Man, Allfather, and Red Onslaught waves sit around here quite a lot, and you can find almost anyone from those waves, regardless of gender, with a few exceptions (Kraven, Chameleon, Spider-Gwen, Ben Reilly, Venom, Taskmaster, and Scourge seem to sell the fastest).

Black Cat I've only seen once in the wild, Spider-Girl (I'm assuming Mayday, from the Hobgoblin wave) twice or maybe three times. Ultimate Spider-Woman and Jessica Drew Spider-Woman do tend to linger, though the USW have finally dried up around here (along with the rest of the Hobgoblin wave), and Jessica Drew seems to have a higher buy rate than Hellcat (probably due to Hellcat's often-sloppy paint).

The main thing, though, is that Enchantress has been on people's 'Most Wanted Figures' lists for probably ten years or more, and I don't mean a handful of collectors. She's been consistently in the official polls for 'fan vote' characters for a long while. She's a 'mainstay' villain in the general Marvel Universe. So I see her going really quickly.

Nico might have a longer peg-life, but only just - the original Runaways series is still one of Marvel's most positively received comics in the past fifteen years, both by fans and by critics, and the kids have woefully little merchandise - so to bust out of the gate with an amazing Nico figure is pretty much throwing some raw meat out into a field of hungry dogs.

You do make some good points, however, and ultimately we'll just have to wait and see how the winds blow with this wave.