[Peteparker]

Sales history CANT play a major factor in case assortments, because not all retailers keep track of how each individual UPC sells.

Target groups items into one code, so they can't know how many Flesh Absorbing Men or Falcons they have on pegs, and can't report that back to Hasbro.

While Walmart and Toys R Us do track those individually, I don't think that information actually gets back or is all that correct.

I would be doubting the 'random' choices as well, if I didn't see the kinds of rev cases being put together as well as actually ask this specific question of Hasbro reps at their panel.

They began by saying that they 'look at what figures sold and what are still on pegs', and continued by asking, "What were you specifically looking for?" When I mentioned solid Vision and Blade, Falcon's response was to, "Open your wallet and buy them on eBay." And Stall's final answer as I was leaving the mic was, "It's a grab-bag, completely random."

If I hadn't heard the response I did, I wouldn't believe it either.

It's altogether possible that someone who knows nothing about what 'fans' want is in charge of these choices, but I don't think it's the marketing department. More than likely, the retailers have a say themselves, and generally have no clue.

Makes me wonder if buying all those Flesh Abby Men and Falcons at one store and returning them to another counts as a sale for that figure.... Rut Roh Reorge...