[roshan]

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Originally Posted by webz

I never said there wasn't a classic costume or black costume on the shelf... what I said was there was nothing but Spider-Man on the shelf. Hydroshooter Spider-man in a wetsuit. Hang-gliding Spider-Man with silly goggles and a backpack. Zip-Line Spider-Man with another gimmick. No Venom. No Carnage. No Doc Ock. No Green Goblin. Nothing but Spider-Man. Once I even went to TRU as they were stocking the figures, and a freshly opened box was... you guessed it... nothing but Spider-Mans.

My point is there doesn't need to be 30 different Spider-Man toys. Three at most. Instead of the 30 version of Spider-Man, use that energy and money to make Venom, Carnage, Doc Ock, Black Cat, JJ, etc.

Ah I see, I thought you meant all you could find was gimic spidey instead of normal suit spidey. The Spidey Classics line is not designed for collectors in mind. They've done fairly well for themselves with the gimick spidey concept at retail among kids. It promotes playability over character variety and doesn't expect a kid to try and want them all, they want the kids who are going to get just one or two from the line. Statistically 20% of a wave will have a non-Spidey character in it (I say 20% because sometimes a wave of 4 will give us a collector type spidey like Iron Spider and not actually a new character)

As a collector I've never much had a problem with it because it's really a bonus line. We have the Legends line as the core, and every now and then we get a nice figure out of the Spidey lines. Now I agree over the last couple of years there hasn't been many non-spidey characters (Tarantula, Gargan Venom, Green Goblin, Lizard), but there has also not been very many waves either over the last couple of years. Because it's a kid based line they can continue to throw the same wave or a slightly mixed up wave over and over again to get the casual customer.