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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

I disagree- for Hasbro it would be a hassle and the cost involved with producing unnique figs would never be met by the club revenue.

So you'd have non-stop repaints at best...at worst you'd have club exclusives that eliminate better produced characters from becoming retail figs.

For example- the club makes a repainted Firestar into a fairly inaccurate Mockingbird, this killing any chance of her being produced as a carded retail fig.

And of course, as with Mattycollector, fans would never be happy with what is offered- AND it gives Hasbro an "out" to sell figs only as club/online/diamond exclusives at a higher price point, which is bullshit.
And it would be scalper heaven.

Nope. It's a bad idea.

Going with that Firestar reference. If she was used for MI-13's Spitfire I'd be down for it. Plus as long as the retail figure is different looking than the exclusive, they can still do it.

For example:
Archangel - X-Force v3 Archangel exclusive - variant Death - Still can do a variant Uncanny X-Force Archangel

So for Firestar, they could do her Marvel Divas attire for an exclusive, or classic or modern Spitfire(literally just Firestar with some new gloves and maybe Ms. Marvel's hair), and still do the other interpretation for mainline. Like say New Warriors or Avengers Jacketed Firestar, or whatever spitfire costume is still open.

At least that's how I see exclusives working out the best. Go for the utterly obscure that may not move at retail(spitfire was a bad example because vampire figures move pretty well apparently after blade's release). Then the more common in comics iterations let go to store shelves.

Like someone mentioned above, Silver and black Armored Spidey, but leave Iron Spidey as retail. Same to captain america really. They could do his armored form from when he lost his powers, or some other brief obscure form no kid really wants but collectors would jump at. Okay, cap and spidey are again bad examples. Kids eat them up no matter what it seems. Something like Purple man though or Spot could make sense. Spot especially since he's literally just a buck that's white with black spots. Heck his accessory could even just be a playing card that has little black circles you pop out of with different sizes which would definitely be more adult line oriented for how small they are.

Super skrull Secret Invasion variants though would work perfectly. There's so many that can be made that hasbro could never cover them all. Same to really Skrull versions of characters.