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Originally Posted by Boba Fettuccini

If I were doing this line, wave one would have been Mark V, Mark VI, Whiplash, War Machine, and a generic Hammer drone. In my hunts, I've heard many kids and parents upset at the inability to find anything but Iron Man, when they wanted to have all the bad guys too. Wave II would have introduced a few armor variations, his older armors, and maybe a Whiplash in battle armor. All the waves after that could do whatever they wanted, because the basic stuff the kids AND collectors would like would have already got the product moving.

Same deal with Thor, Captain America... why can't Hasbro dedicate themselves to getting more characters on the shelf before getting into variations? Imagine if the old Star Wars POTF series had been nothing but Luke Skywalker for the entire first wave!!

You make a good point. One you think Hasbro would catch onto by now. I can forgive the constant insertion of top tear characters like Spidy, Wolverine, Hulk, Iron Man and others into the Marvel Universe line. It helps the line to sell because while collectors are grabbing up the nobodies, kids are freaking over the main characters. But when it comes to lines like Iron Man and Captain America, kids want bad guys to fight. If they can't find them they will stray onto others things. When I was a kid I liked getting as many characters as possible. But at the least i wanted someone to fight, but when you go to your local toy store all you can find is Iron Man or Captain America. How many years of shelf warmers and clearance sells is it going to take them to figure out that there is an element to their distribution practices that doesn't work and needs some consideration. I don't think I've seen one Captain America villain at retail. And I think that all the Iron Man villains I have I've ordered. Now i hear that stores are dropping Marvel lines because of all the shelf warmers.