[Byrnes]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

(technically, I'd fit in both categories. I'm a father and a collector).

Using my earlier example, if Hasbro gets 80-85% of its profits from kids/parents and the remaining 15-20% from collectors, guess who they're going to cater to the most?

I went through the parent thing also. My kid would always ask for the $10 10" Toy Biz X-men and I'd always say no you can get the $4 4" figure. I've been there so many times.

Stop talking about the kids. Again I'll say with Legends it doesn't matter about kids. They aren't buying this line. The only kids that get Legends are the parents who collect also like yourself. You need to flip the percentages around on this particular line. When it comes to these guys HASBRO needs to ask the collectors what they want. Not just shove 3 more Capt America or Spiderman figures in our face. They do well with these, imagine if they polled collectors on what they want and made those figures. It might just surprise them what they sell instead of sending wave after wave over to 2nd hand retail stores like TJ Maxx and Ross. There is a huge reason Jean Grey, Archangel and Deadpool can't be found at these stores. Everybody wants those figures. Not Draxx, Hope Summers, crappy Thor and Klaw.