[Trivial Psychic]

The thing that we need to remember as consumers is that whenever we see a swell of product from a line hitting clearance/closeout merchants such as Ross/Ollies/TJMaxx, is that we need to view that as a signal of a particular line struggling to move product. While it feels nice on the bank account at the time, by waiting for these swells to take place, we are actually doing more damage to the product line's health overall, and could be dooming it out of existence. It's amazing how quickly we forgot what happened during the swell of Marvel Universe and G.I.Joe Retaliation/50th figures that hit closeout retailers in the mid 2010s. MU would end up seeing less and less product released in the coming year (with very noticeable cuts in quality, before finally being canceled altogether) while G.I.Joe was phased out very shortly afterward and then gone from toy shelves for a very long time.

I'm not saying to drop your money without prejudice on everything put out there at full price...but don't be afraid to do so on with the things/characters you actually enjoy. It helps to keep the line fresh and allows it to push onward. While we're all guilty of playing the long game for a deal, adopting the "wait for clearance" mentality for an entire line can be really destructive in the long term scheme of things.

Wolf Spider arrived from Walmart yesterday, and honestly, while not the most exciting figure, I feel he's vanilla enough to make a pretty decent troop builder. The ballistics mask looks pretty cool when paired with the helmet, which is probably what you're gonna wanna do since the NVGs on the helmet don't quite swing down properly to fit over the eyes as well as I would like. I dumped his shotgun for something more stealthy and compact, as Wolf Spider comes off as being a more stealthy addition to the team, given his Night Force designation.