[Lionheart]

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You have no need to apologise about ranting, me and my buddy Lionheart (he skulks around these boards every so often. SHOW YOURSELF!) turn the air blue with rants about this hobby. Especially since the Hasbro SDCC exclusives have been revealed. Or as I like to think of it, waved in front of our noses and then yanked away.

Hello.

'Yanked' away. I see what you did there.

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We live in the UK, we aren't privileged with variants

Or complete waves... or second waves... or Giant Battles... or convention exclusives... or...

This is why collectors from the US have seven million Hydra Troopers and AIM Troopers and sixty-one Sentinels - they have every release and they get them dirt cheap (comparatively). Not knocking US collectors at all, just stressing how sucky it is to be anywhere else on Earth and have toy collecting as a hobby.

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To be fair the way Hasbro pick their MU releases for this country has always mystified me

They don't pick - they just ship whatever they happen to have overproduced in the US in an ugly 48 language pack. 'Hasbro UK' is a name only - they have no more power to decide releases than the average 18 year old ASDA employee. They just wait for Hasbro US to dump some stock on them:

Hasbro US to Hasbro UK:

"Here, have a bunch of characters that the average kid has never heard of. We'll send you tons of them so they can pegwarm and we can justify not sending you the next wave at all. We've thrown in a Spiderman / Iron Man - they'll be sure to sell, and if they don't, well... see above. That ok with you? You don't need to reply because it really doesn't matter what you say - this is what you're getting. By the way, have you seen some of the cool SDCC stuff we're making this year? Finally got around to making one of Marvel's top villains 'Baron Zemo'. Europe? No - never. Black Widow from the hugely successful Avengers movie? Why would we want to send figures of the only female superhero in the film? It's not like any girls that may have seen the movie would like to own a figure of the only female hero is it? Loki? Why would any kids in Europe want to play with the villain of the movie? Didn't we send you a Loki in the Thor line? Never made it there? What about the Gigantic Battles Loki? US only? Hold on - seems like a few Loki's slipped through and showed up at Toys R Us - we've plugged that leak - sorry about that, and by 'sorry' I mean we don't care. We're just not seeing the need for a Loki release over there from over here. Look, we'll send you more Thor's, Captain America's and Iron Men. Does that sound good? Please don't answer - this conversation is over."

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Well i dont live in the UK,so i guess i can still look around.who knows what i might find

UK, Ireland, France - it's all the same to Hasblo. As Primewolf has said many times in the past... "Hasbro hates Europe". It ain't just the UK. They've screwed the European market since the 80's.