[thechris]

Yeah, practically weeping about this wave. If it continues going like this, fans are going to turn on Hasbro like they did on Mattel with the DC Infinite Heroes line. I was buying those like crazy and they started doing stupid packaging with Superman in a box set and crap to the point where everyone ended up with 5 or 6 Superman, Captain Marvel, Flash and Lex Luthor figures and to be fair, they were a lot less annoying with the repaints and a lot better with the production of obscure characters than Hasbro have been although not giving us an Aquaman or important Flash villain like Trickster until interest in the line was basically dead.

My point is that no matter how popular a line is, interest will eventually fizzle out when they start pumping out lazy repeats and it doesn't matter how hard they try in the end. No one will care. For example, Mattel answered the poor articulation issue on their DCIH line after interest dropped to zero. They produced figures of popular characters like Martian Manhunter and Aquaman at the END of the line as a last ditch effort to reignite interest in the line. And I'm a hardcore collector. I collected every DCIH figure and have every Marvel figure and collected Heroclix and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures and never missed a line.

I know what it's like to be baited by a toy company and zombie or not, we do learn and we do eventually give up on a line. It's annoying when Mattel doesn't release a figure as important as an Aquaman or a Martian Manhunter. Or Wizards releases a monster as common as a troll as a "rare" figure. And in this case, it's a slap to the face to get another set of repaints and minor revisions of the same guys when we need well known characters like Beast, Rogue and Professor X to finish our X-Men teams. Nothing pisses me off more than a company and releases a series of figures INCOMPLETE.

Justice League NEEDED Superman, Flash, Batman, Hawkman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman in order to be complete. It seemed almost desperate (an a little last bit of thank-you to the loyal collectors) when Mattel FINALLY released Aquaman in a Starro boxset SDCC exclusive. Why even bother creating a Secret Wars line if they never intended on giving us a Lizard, Molecule Man, Volcana, Titania, Doc Ock, Beyonder, She Hulk, Professor X, Kang, Rogue, Psylocke or Captain Marvel? And no, they shipped Lizard in such low quantities from the Spider-Man toyline that he sells for 40 bucks on eBay and I can't find him in stores anywhere. I'm sick of buying a set of toys where I'm only getting half of a team or half of a something.

It's like why bother? And we got Spider-Man TWICE in the Secret Wars line. There was already a black Spider-Man and a regular Spider-Man several times over. Why didn't they leave those two slots for another two guys?? Why do Dark Avengers if we weren't getting Noh-Varr or Ares for another year or two? Why do X-Men if we don't know for sure if we're getting Beast? Why do Secret Wars if the Wrecker was the only guy we were going to get outside of the line over the span of a year?? Giant Size X-Men boxset, no Banshee?

I looked at how many Spider-Men I have and I was disgusted. I have close to 10 Spider-Man figures and I don't even have ALL of them yet. I'm still waiting on my Sentry figure and when that arrives in the two pack, I'll have 11. And then with the new Captain Britain/Spider-Man two pack, I'll have 12. This is pissing me off. You guys can't pack these guys with someone else? I don't want your stinking comics if that's what determines the two packs. How about giving us a boxset of the remaining Secret Wars guys?

Or a "Because Fans With More Than Half a Brain Wanted It, You know, the ones who aren't fanboys who are beating themselves off to the prospect of YET ANOTHER Wolverine or Spider-Man or Iron Man figure with a new paint job or slightly different body configuration." boxset containing OBVIOUS figures like BLUE FURRY WELL-KNOWN Beast, OLD SCHOOL Doctor Octopus, Elektra, The 90s Scarlet Witch, Hercules and Rogue. I feel like I have to specify which versions, otherwise we'll get Dark Beast before we even get regular Beast... It's not all bad. LOL. I'll post a happy post after.