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Originally Posted by NerfTW

They're not "faking out" the merchants. For starters, those are the names of the characters when they were on that team. They don't need to "fake out" anybody. It's not like Toys R Us is sitting at Hasbro headquarters saying "No, you can't make this figure, we only want Spider-man". And it's not like they buy the cases based on who's in them. They buy the cases because other cases have sold out.

Uh, trust me. Not many merchant buyers know who Daken is. Maybe Venom, but doubtful. Hasbro could have labeled them as such but chose A-list names instead. This definitely affects ordering. They do the same thing with Captain America instead of Steve Rogers/Super Soldier or Iron Man/Tony Stark. They choose the most marketable name.

All I was saying was, putting a order form that has a character named "Albert" in front of a buyer is not going to generate as much ordering as naming that character "Robot Wolverine".