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Originally Posted by TimothyR

Really? I think companies (especially hasbro) really ruin the 3.75" line.. Especially when it comes to Thor and iron man. They have like 10,000 different versions or iron man.. And barely anyone else. Hell.. We had to wait forever to just get the hammer drones and whiplash.. And when all was said and done we never got a final battle fully armored whiplash. Same thing goes for the Thor line.

Hopefully Mattel will see all of the iron man 2 and Thor movie figures STILL warming pegs at toys r us, and won't just release 20 different superman figures with one other figure that is short packed and won't see retail until a year after the films release.

Also.. I hope there is some diversity with the movie masters figures.. Mattel has a pretty good track record with their batman line. A few different batmen, a few jokers, two face, Harvey dent, bane, catwoman, ras, robin, Gordon, and one of the clown guys.

Hopefully the 6 inch iron man 3 line will actually give us some more diversity than they have in the past.

The thing is, the fact that we didn't see a lot of the late Iron Man 2 figures and hardly any figures beyond the first wave of Thor and Captain America is not Hasbro's fault. The fault lies with the stores. The reason you still see Iron Man 2 and Thor figures is because stores over ordered the first wave, in Thor's case, in Iron Man's they overordered everything. So if you've got a large number of cases of figures, they're not going to sell out for a long time. And naturally, if a store has a mass quantity of them, they won't bother ordering later waves, because they haven't sold the first ones yet. So enough time goes by, the stores haven't moved stock and without orders for later waves, Hasbro cancels the figures because they aren't seeing a market for them. It's not Hasbro's fault, it's not the consumer (collector)'s fault either. It's the stores fault for ordering too much. It's not just the comic book movies either, the Star Wars vintage figures have the same problem. The thing is, even if you buy figures, there's no garauntee the stores will order more and Hasbro will produce the ones from later waves you want. There's really nothing you can do about it.