[Phantomcrow]

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Originally Posted by Iceman

Yeah, those variant figures could be very hard to get. What bugs me is that they kept telling us the line sells well, it is profitable, MU/ML do well. That is what we heard last year and at Toy Fair. Now they say MU/ML have a stigma with retailers as something that doesn't sell. Did that just happen or where they just posturing before?

They have the stigma because retailers ordered a TON of the first wave and then sold them but the re-orders were still packs with half the same figures so they sat on shelves and were not restocked again. I do not blame the retailers , I blame who ever at HASBRO decided to have 4 different repack cases of the first 2 waves of ML last year and SCREWED everyone getting new characters. They decided to just keep repacking series 1 and 2 in various cases and when the "Best Of" and Series 3 came out, pegs were still full of old stock so retailers passed. MU is about the same way, they will sale if they don't repack 75% of a case with old figures.