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Originally Posted by K Dubious

Also I do feel like the big retail chains are most definetlely Hasbro's Bread and Butter, but there is no way they have any say in the direction of these lines. For years we heard that the stores demand Ironman, Spider-man, and Wolverine that is why they are so abundant. While I agree that the average joe wants those three more than other figures, but the average joe does not buy the entire line like collectors do so why should their opinion be the one that matters? I think stores are smart enough to realize that when they buy into a line it will change from shipment to shipment, I could be wrong and maybe their is a Walton out there going "I can't wait for our stores to get more of the figures that never sell!"

So this goes back to Hasbro passing the blame from spot to spot. I don't hate them, in fact I love what they produce. I just wish there wasn't so much smoke and mirrors and someone could just tell us where things are heading and why.

yeah I kind of doubt that the retailers "force" hasbro to pack the same main characters that peg warm, and even if they did at least make them a little different so collectors will consider buying them (add a cap wolf or alternate zombie head, unmaksed variant or something). That first rebranding wave was brutal with the 3 IM per case (the same one that was single carded, repainted, and in the heroic age team pack).
I'm in the same boat, I love the stuff hasbro puts out, but I feel like constructive criticism helps. I hope they use that same Jim lee cyclops buck more (like they are doing with the yellow daredevil). Why reinvent the wheel just to make it worse?