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Originally Posted by MeLikeJinx

Speaking of Marvel Select... I love how comparably easy it is to find Marvel Select figures at my LCS ... plus the mark-up on them is almost non-existent even with the more popular characters. A lot of times at my LCS a single HTF current MU will be priced higher than the Marvel Select figs right next to it... which on a purely intellectually level is insane to me.

And by the time I get to my LCS all the good MU and ML figs are almost always gone even at mark-up... but this is never the case with Marvel Select... even the variants sit there for a good while. I was just wondering why this is the case? Even scalpers tend to avoid Marvel Select for some reason.

I think this is an issue of distribution. MUs come in case assortments while Marvel Selects I assume come in full cases. The LCS gets a box of MUs and gets 1 maybe 2 hot figure to mark up, but when they order a case of MS then they get 12 of the same fig. So the need to buy MS immediately isn't so great compared to a MU fig.

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Originally Posted by CoolToysOnly

Toy Companies should make EVERY figure in the wave valuable

-Stormtrooper 6'' black series
-Carnage 6'' black series
-Black Widow 6'' black series

make these $20 retail and HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY available and most of my annoyance will go away

How do you want toy companies to make all of the figures highly available? It's not an annoyance to the toy company. Each figure is priced the same so they get their money whether they sell all Black Widows or all WW2 Caps. It's probably retailer pressure (and probably mostly Walmart) that makes them ask for the main characters to be more heavily packed. For instance, retailers love Bumblebee from Transformers so they always ask for him to be in waves, but then we get the problem of TF:Prime where BBs were everywhere clogging the pegs.

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Originally Posted by VashTS

Mattel used to make bafs, not any more. Hasbro can give less and charge more.

Hasbro irked me with no Nimrod, sentinels, any movie stuff. No Garfield head for ASM2, no Green Goblin, or a Baf rhino...just a reused hulk goblin.

I cannot be the only upset fan. I wish someone will take Hasbro to task about their lack if product.

To be fair, Mattel doesn't make much of anything anymore in the way of 6" figs. I'd rather continue giving Hasbro my $20 at retail than $30 plus through a subscription service. And with the MLI line how can you say they are giving less when we get accessories like replacement hands and a decent sized BAF piece? Yeah the Jubilee series is kind of a disappointment but I'd rather get her than no BAF at all. I'd feel more pissed if I had to pay $20 for Jubilee. It'd be like paying $10 for a small ewok fig in the 4" Star Wars Line.