[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by JPs

For some reason when the OG version came out from McFarlane, Entertainment Earth canceled my pre-order (the first, but would not be the last time) citing that the manufacturer had ceased production. Of course by the time they did this I was SOL for pre-ordering anywhere else. Honestly still don’t know if this was a problem for everyone or just EE, as I don’t see even much of a secondary market for it. Welll price tag is a bit much but this Medicom version is superior…. Maybe it’ll cone to kappahobby for slightly cheaper?

I stopped doing pre-orders at EE years ago because this basically happened to me like three times in a row. From what I gathered at the time (could still be the same problem) they weren't updating pre-order pages to acknowledge if something had pre-sold out which resulted in silent back-orders on pre-orders even if there wouldn't be enough stock to satisfy those orders. You'd only learn it was pre-sold out when they finally got the item but all you received was an email explaining that you were too far back in line so you have to wait for the next stock which wouldn't even happen for some items. I still buy in-stock items from them and have little to no issues there but I've sworn off placing pre-orders through EE.

As for McFarlane's Bane, I pre-ordered him at BBTS and he showed up last August no problem. I think that figure's general scarcity was more a reflection of supply and demand, collectors hadn't gotten a regular comic Bane in over a decade so it was pretty quick to go.

As for this Bane, I do think they should've included the alternate parts to allow for his post-venom look. An extra arm and a couple more heads doesn't seem like it'd be asking too much from them given all this figure comes with are an alternate head and hands. Still I'll keep an eye on this one.