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It's a bad day when a collector starts to wish an item had never been produced in the first place, isn't it?

It's a real kick in the balls for me as someone who buys NECA stuff around it's release date and has spent over a grand buying previous releases!

At the very least couldn't they stagger the release date between con and retail? Even by a year? I mean that's actually giving exclusivity more credit than it's fucking due, but...

Presumably the IP holder has stipulated all this nonsense, so why can't they see the benefit of a proper release when they're clearly making money from NECA's Predator line, for instance?

Just so nobody assumes I'm ignorant of the facts or something, I get that there would be a difference in negotiations over Scar and Newt because of likeness rights and so on and so on...