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Originally Posted by roshan

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.

Being a kids line is no excuse. He-Man was a kids line, and there were only two or three He-Man toys in the entire run. The rest were his friends and enemies. There should be Classic Spider-Man, Symbiote Spider-Man, and then the supporting cast, Green Goblin, Shocker, Rhino, Lizard, Venom, Doc Ock, Mysterio, Kraven, Black Cat, JJ, Gwen Stacy (hate MJ), and a Daily Bugle and ESU playsets. THAT, to me, is a quality Spider-Man line. Then for Series 2, again have the classic suit and black suit, but then have Hobgoblin, Alastair Smythe, Electro, Styx & Stone, Paste-Pot Pete, Aunt May, Ghost Uncle Ben, Uncle Ben, Flash, Peter Parker, Dr. Conners.

BOOYA! I'd buy 2 of each of those ... one for my kids, one for myself, if Hasbro did a stellar line like that!