[AlanThCollector]

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Originally Posted by DannyBoy7783

The website is fine 99% of the time. They aren't going to invest the money to overhaul their website when a) it will be expensive and b) all the product sells anyway.

Everyone wants a Ticketmaster "your item is reserved in your cart for 5 minutes" system. That would be really nice. Maybe it'll happen some day. Don't count on it. Companies that reserve your item also sell way larger volumes than NECA does through their online store.

Here's the deal: anyone complaining about NECA needs to stop. Simple as that. The vitriol should be directed towards Playmates and Nickelodeon exclusivelyfor not allowing full-scale massive distribution of these figures. NECA has fought for years to get us these figures and they have 100% knocked all of them out of the park. What they have released is a dream come true. A limited dream, but a dream. They've done the absolute best they can given their constraints. Name a company that has worked harder for the fans than NECA (hint: you can't).

Their is always a massive wave of vitriol hurled at them during convention sales but I'm fairly certain it represents only the very small vocal minority. We just got a Green Lantern predator for god's sake. What more do you people want?!

Y'all are lucky to have Randy. He's a true fan and he understand where we come from, what we want, and how to put in the long hours to get licensing access.

I agree with most of what you said, but you can’t ignore the fact that this year’s online sale had the broken checkout button issue which persisted all three days and really messed a lot of people up. And NECA never really addressed it any of the days after.

At the end of the day it really only affected you if you real wanted the Turtle set or the John Conner set, which turned out to be the vast majority of people.

And while it’s all a matter of opinion, I’d say Hasbro and Diamond Select Toys work just as hard to give “the fans” what they want. They’re just less vocal about it. Which is sometimes better than being too vocal. And while McFarlane still has a long way to go, in the past couple of years they’ve made leaps and bounds in their quality even going as far to finally load their figure out with gobs of articulation.l, so I’d say they are really putting in the work as of late for the collectors especially on the heels of their DC licensce.

And to answer your last question, if I had to ask one more thing from NECA, it would 100% be a Judge Dredd figure from Dredd 3D or Detective Mike Harrigan from Predator 2.