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Originally Posted by CarafelliusMaximus

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.

Eh, it actually kinda is Hasbro's fault with the Thor figures. With the Iron man and Captain America figures, you had a decent mix of several movie characters and several comic characters, both of which appealed to the buyers. But with the Thor figures, the first wave had a bazillion goofy Thor variants, no comic versions of characters and only two other movie inspired characters, which is why they're still rotting on pegs to this day. Granted, the Iron Man and Cap lines eventually devolved into "goofy made up variant" territory, but at least that wasn't until later waves. And that is why they failed.


But back on-topic, it looks like they reused a lot of parts from Superman on Zod. or is that just my imagination (runnin' away with me?)