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Originally Posted by Lionheart

I was going to say that this kind of policy is just going to guarantee that the small retailers will stop buying. Hasbro won't care of course, as long as they have Walmart, etc, but it's exponential - eventually it will kill the roots of the collectors market and then Walmart will drop out too. There is literally *no reason* for Hasbro to do this - none. And when they feign ignorance it's a double insult - you can't tell me there are no employees that are aware of comics or the fan market. To shortpack a new figure, a female figure, and one of the primary characters in the Marvel Universe, and then say "Eh?" when people complain is just insulting - they *know* what this will do, but they don't seem to recognise that the small retailers can't take hits this big time and again (variants and shortpacks over and over and over and over for *no* reason). All we can hope is that the distribution for the new brand is much better and wider based on what they said about retailers recogising the Avengers brand more. If it's not, then it's the same old Hasbro lies and games.

That said; I don't buy that 400 people reserved Wasp, but there were only 78 people who wanted Reaper, Hyperion and Hulk combined. These are new figures (well, Reaper and Hype), and they would be wanted by most collectors. This just looks like Scalper tactics hitting the retailers as hard as the Hasbro ones, as a big chunk of those orders are based on 'she's scarce, I could make some money on her!' which ultimately, Hasbro is still responsible for.

not to me but out of that case wasp goes alot farther to completing alot of ppls avengers team line-ups then anyone else goes to completing a team in that wave, reaper is a "D" villain and hyperion just gives you the 2nd character to his team, so i could definitely see her out pacing all those figures like that.

if i found a wasp at retailers i would pick it up but im not going to search her out and pay more then face value, honestly no one in that wave makes me want to search for them, i want reaper (i need more bad guys) and hyperion (just in hopes they release some exiles) but the next 2 waves have more ppl i want and really most are just to give me more bad guys