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Re-using molds from comic packs as single pack releases or vice versa is simply a way for Hasbro to make back the money they already spent on designing the mold and hopefully funding new molds in the future. It is not a ploy to make more money off helpless collectors in the throes of OCD.

No one at Hasbro expects anyone to buy every product they put out. And that's also part of the allure of repacks and revision waves. It gives kids and collectors the chance to get figures they might not have been able to get otherwise. For example, say you wanted Absorbing Man, but didn't want a Doom and Wasp figure too. Well, now you have that chance. Maybe some didn't like the green on Doom's outfit and prefer the more muted colors.

Or say you started collecting two years after the line debuted and you don't have Do Boy's luck at hunting down figures.

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Originally Posted by Peteparker

I guess I was thinking specifically of mohawk Storm, Nightcrawler, XMO comic Gambit, Sabretooth, and more. Maybe they're doing this, but not with the ones I give a crap about.

Who knows? Maybe Hasbro will repack those characters again (they already did it once with Nightcrawler). Maybe they will do a new version that's better than the comic pack (FF pack Reed vs. comic pack Reed).