[thechris]

Seriously, who decides what gets stocked and when? It's like they don't even know the toy community. Do they do focus groups? Like what the heck happens? And how the hell do all my Walmarts have like literally 30 Multiple Men on their pegs? Does that mean they bought 30 boxes of that series? I mean how does this work? Who thought stocking 30 WWE Elite Mark Henry figures was a good idea? I mean who is the mass consumer? What determines which figures warm pegs?

We collectors, we're the adult consumer willing to shell out the full retail for our toys, but do we and in what quantities? How cheap are parents? Like when I'm at TRU or Walmart, usually I see parents are willing to pay no more than $10 on their kid and it's usually a really stupid toy that the kid doesn't really want. I'm willing to bet that MU figures are mainly sold to adult collectors. Why? Because kids don't know most of the guys. And for the price, it doesn't look very substantial to the parent. I was at Walmart and I was actually shocked when the 5 year old picked the Team X Wolverine figure over anything else. Although his only other choices were all Multiple Men or a totally different toy.

The reason why MU isn't flying off the racks as fast in some stores is probably because of the high price tag in Canada, which turns off parents. And we the collectors don't want the figure, ie: Multiple Man/Classic Ms. Marvel. Man, I just wish I knew how they stock these places. It's a big blame game. The stores say they have no say in what figures they get and Hasbro says they have no say in who gets what so why don't you guys stop shipping out garbage? Like who is it? Why can't you just ship out the same number of figures in every box? Why the hell would you ship POPULAR characters in lower quantities? Don't you want your numbers to do well? Oh, let's make less Cable and Archangel figures but let's pump out lots and lots of Ms. Marvel and Multiple Man.

If you guys make the Sentinel - classic colours variant an SDCC exclusive, you guys are dead to me...