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Originally Posted by synapse17

Thank you! With the exception of the Christmas season I really believe that collectors make up a significant part of the MU consumer base. Much more than 10%.

I've said it could be a little more, but we're still nowhere near the majority yet.

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Originally Posted by synapse17

I appreciate all the opinions in response to my comments, and think that everyone here has made valid points. But responding to me as if I expect a cookie from Hasbro (as some did) is just rude. I think that everything I've said has some legitimate basses. Now some points I made may have been a bit nit-picky; nevertheless, they are common concerns amongst collectors and what are these forums for if not a chance for collectors to vent a bit to like minded folks who understand their frustrations. Now if anything, we've learned that we all like the collectors club idea. Maybe we should start a thread on that and see how others respond. Maybe we can push for that to be a question at one of the next Q&A's.

Sorry if that wasn't your intent, but that's the way you came off in your post. I was merely responding to what you said. You spoke of all the things you and fellow collectors have done for Hasbro (buying their merch, getting others to buy it too, etc). Then you asked "What's the thanks [you] get for [your] efforts?", which was followed by a list of expectations of things Hasbro should do in return.

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Originally Posted by synapse17

The Marvel digital subscription is $59.88. And no I don't mind that hasbro would do a commission piece for Marvel, but it's still annoying from a collectors standpoint that you would have to pay $59.88 if you wanted that figure.

$59.98 is for a full year. They have a second option for $9.98/month. As I understand the offer, you need to have a subscription for 3 months to qualify for it. So that would be $29.94, if all you want is the figure.

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As for your other point about shelf warmers, I think it's subject to the location. I've never seen that many villains just chilling on the shelf. What I see when i go to stores is dozens of the same IM figures next to 4 or five MU figures and those figures are always random ones but almost never the hard to find ones that collectors would be trolling for.

I agree. Every area has different sales demographics and the sales will reflect that. No one should ever think that his or he area is proof of the overall popularity of any given product.

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And yes I do blame the fans who voted for the Archangel repaint because we all know that it could have been a good opportunity to get a figure that most likely would never have been made. But instead we're getting a repaint Hasbro would have done anyways at some point in the line.

You can't really blame Hasbro for any of it, though. It was Marvel's idea to do a digital subscription-based offer and it was Marvel's idea to have a fan poll decide what the free figure would be. Hasbro just made the toy.

And I definitely think Hasbro would have made the figure anyway, since it's an easy redeco and matches other redecos that they've already done or announced. Whether it would have been a retail release or not, we'll never know.