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Originally Posted by SH0CKWAVE

Glad ur digging the Ark. I highly recommend it... so far. You and I go back to the early days of the Marvel Universe thread on HT and you've always had my respect.

It's always nice to see familiar faces, for sure. Thanks for making this place a welcome one (and that extends out to most of the other folks here as well).

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Originally Posted by Peteparker

I honestly think it was the Thor line. I think it sold like ass, and strained the relationships with the retailers who bought in heavy ahead of time.

The thor line was funny, because around me it seemed like retailers underordered initially. I remember the frost giants as being htf--then the movie did well, and every store stocked up and choked on that wave 1 case with 9 Thors. With the cap line, they seemed to rectify that a bit by having wave 2 ready to roll out quickly.

The sentinel decision was just ridiculous, though. In the quest to make the SDCC version special, they shot themselves in the foot by giving retail consumers the nontraditional paint apps. It was terrible planning. It's the retail customer you need to appease, not the SDCC customers. Call it exclusive, and people will buy almost anything. And yes, I love my composite Hulk, thankyouverymuch.

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I miss the envelope cards. The letter were cool for the effect, the card art was great on these ones, and I love the bio card that shows the character's attributes. I'd rather have the envelopes back vs. the stupid card art crap.


Me too.

I loved the fury files. I feel like they added just as much to the toy experience as a pack in comic. They gave you cool art without worrying about the outer package and enough of a back story to get you interested in the character (and maybe a few others as well). I wish they would have maintained the website. Honestly, how hard could that have been, anyway?