[Greenskar]

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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

Very true, but if their wave 3 variants (RedPool, Blade, Moonstar and White Dr. Doom) are any indication, stores will probably just see the "Iron Man Legends" part and think "well, shit, we already have a case of those, no need to order more!" even though they're different assortments. That's another reason why I'm nervous about these new waves of Marvel Legends, stacked on Wolverine Legends, stacked on Iron Man Legends. I'm nervous the stores will think they have too many legends, and the guy who reorders will just throw a sideways glance at the pegs, see the word "legends" and just think they're all the same.

Even this thought is irrelevant because those variants have nothing to do with a BAF. After speaking to a few Walmart managers who stopped carrying MU because they claimed poor sales and excess inventory (at their respective stores at least), however, they were all unanimously in agreement that movie lines sell better for them. The reason why we always see full pegs is because the always order a lot, so they always have inventory. However, that's also for MU. ML figures have been much more rare over the years in the movie lines and the general ML lines. So while retailers still order these, they also tend to be more of a collector item at this scale, and are still at the mercy of first come first serve collectors and/or scalpers.

I don't like that this is what they do as a collector, but from a revenue perspective it makes perfect sense to me. If I could only count the number of times I see clueless mother's on the phone telling whoever that they're in the toyline for so and so's birthday gift and they know he/she likes Batman or Spider-man and just start pulling random figures of the pegs, I might actually be able to come up with sales figures in a given month, lol, ok maybe not but that scensrio sure does happen quite often. I saw the same thing after the Avengers movie.