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Originally Posted by OriginalFire

I guess you are paying for the packaging and its a way to get the figures to people who missed out. I am glad they are releasing them.......I hate exclusives now, they don't need them anymore for conventions or anything else I guess.

I'm with you and everyone else. I'd love for every exclusive to be a pre-cursor to widely distributed retail releases.

Mattel is to blame for overpricing it to the degree people would equate that price with an exclusivity unreasonable for mass retail. People paying upwards of $600 for them aftermarket because they think they will never have a chance again, or else, buy it later for maybe $1000.

When NECA released the SDCC 2017 Cartoon TMNT "exclusive" set. It was $200 with 8 figures. Same as retail. I see no problem at all. The box is unique, it's a bonus. I paid aftermarket on that set but it's okay, they were talking about a wide retail release, I wanted them quick and all at once, name of the game.
When I can't find NECA TMNT 2 PACK or Origins figs at the store and resort to buying on the aftermarket because of the same fear of "losing out" down the line, I'm okay with that. Name of the game.

Mattel would never have been able to command that outrageous price for the exclusive if people knew otherwise. I feel bad for the people who paid $600. That's not their fault. Mattel is being an asshole messing with peoples heads.

So next exclusive comes around...Do I buy or wait for retail? Or is that when they go back to making it actually exclusive and I'm priced out?