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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Now this blind box fad that's being run by companies like Loyal Subjects...that's another ball of wax altogether. I would definitely include these on the list of worst collector lines. In fact, I'm surprised that there hasn't been more of a stink being raised by them, as I see them as a form of gambling. You are paying money for something with no guaranteed result other than you will get a figure of some sort. It would be one thing if they were coming out of a gachapon style machine for fifty cents at your local grocery store. It's another when they can run you ten to 12 dollars a pop depending on where you shop.

In principal, it's no different than the seedy things that EA was doing earlier this year with Star Wars Battlefront and the loot crate controversy in gaming. People cried to the high moons over it until it forced the company (and many others) to change it's policy over it, and even went as far as to force the hands of legal legislation in some states to brand it as gambling.

I also hate the current trend of blind box collectibles. I tend to only be interested in them when it's the only way to have a character represented on the shelf (I don't count the vast majority of pops) but I never buy any because the math is clearly against me getting the single one I want. Of course I could go to ebay to guarantee I get the specific one I want but then I pay much more than if I had just rolled the dice in the first place.