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Common thread here is they're generally Hasbro/Mattel. The big boys. The Neca examples are for limited edition Con Exclusives so its understandable.

Most people complain either its taking shelf space for something they would rather have. Sometimes its just trying to make sure shelves are filled (can say the same with how streaming services are in need for content). Or in a very worse case scenario, environmentally gets dumped which is an overall waste from start to finish.

Been collecting for years, if the company feels they need to do the variants, so be it, I'm not buying it but maybe someone else may want. Though I'm sure we all had the urge, however rarely it might have happened, of getting a variant which looks better in our eyes than a standard that we really badly wanted.

Companies know, there's a market for everything. All sorts of collectors.