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Originally Posted by firmpulse

I’m inclined to agree with a lot of what he says. The recent Classified reveals have release dates that are over a year out which allows them to further raise prices before these are charged and shipped. That’s crazy.

Why is it that Hasbro can’t deliver anything on time but DC Multiverse figures don’t seem to be effected by the “pandemic” or supply chain trouble? McFarlane has been releasing everything on time or early since this all kicked off. Hasbro offers nothing but excuses. Todd just delivers toys.

I suppose that depends on what your definition of "deliver anything on time" is. Exclusives are the only thing that have been on any kind of delay, and by all accounts that seems to be by the stores like Walgreens' decision. Everything else announced by Hasbro has come out and has been readily available, almost all of them way ahead of those "release dates", too.

And to be honest, McFarlane doesn't really seem as trouble free as you paint it as, either. They've kept product on the shelves, but once you dig deeper past all the various Batman variants and the other pegwarmers, they haven't been nearly as plentiful as it would appear (and that's still with like only a third of the product versus Marvel Legends). I suppose they have kept prices down, I'll give you that, but given what's actually what you get in the box I'd argue that wasn't possible without some sacrifice.