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Originally Posted by CLASSIFIED

They aren't?

That's kind of stupid if they aren't, because it seems to me that making the 13th figure Kwinn, then letting everyone know would be a good way of boosting sales, don't you agree?

Sure..if Kwinn were the 13th figure...which he's not. The club has said they're not going to reveal the 13th figure until it shows up in peoples' mailboxes. If Kwinn were part of the subscription, the Club would have advertised him. They haven't, so he's not. I refuse to believe they're that stupid.

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As to your last point... I agree. It's part of the reason I think Kwinn will be the 13th figure.

You really seem to miss the key point that the Club is not Hasbro. If the Club sells Kwinn as part of the subscription, then Hasbro is not getting a return on their tens of thousands of dollars in tooling investment, because the money from the subscription goes to the Club, not to Hasbro. The Club can't afford to outright buy that tooling from Hasbro, or even to "rent" it for the amount of money Hasbro would need to "break even."

So no, once again, Kwinn will not be the 13th figure, because HASBRO needs to make money off the mold before the Club does. He has a heck of a lot more new tooling than say, an Iron Klaw, so it's highly unlikely they'd make the same kind of "exception to the rule" they did for Iron Klaw's tooling (which was basically just a new head and harness) and give up on making money on the Kwinn tooling by handing it over to the Club. ESPECIALLY since the Club likely had to have their "list" of characters (including the "mystery 13th") approved by Hasbro before Hasbro even knew for sure that Kwinn was going to be "postponed." Once again, as I said in my original post, the timelines do not match up, making Kwinn as the 13th figure virtually impossible.