[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by ultraman zoffy

Why the heck would Hasbro do that? The whole point of the BAF parts is to sell the figures they're packed in with... they'd undermine the hell out of themselves offering the parts loose.

There were a lot of people who never got to complete their Ronin, Fin Fang Foom, and Ares BAFs, and more recently their Mandroids due to some of the rare nature of certain figures in those waves, and they probably never will due to the extravagant prices some of those pieces (not figures mind you, but pieces) have risen to on the secondary market.

I'm no fool, I know why Hasbro makes these BAFs, and it's like many of you have said, to sell waves of figures that people might not normally take interest in (such as the recent HulkBuster and Ultron waves). However, that doesn't mean that Hasbro couldn't make the selling of BAF pieces a timed exclusive only to HTS by say...releasing the individual pieces for sale maybe 4 or 5 months after a wave debuts. That way, people who weren't able to find certain figures to complete their BAFs (like many weren't initially with Mandroid due to Black Widow's rarity) without having to break the bank on Ebay. It would also allow people to army build BAFs if they wanted to, without having to hunt down entire waves or duplicates of figures they own all over again (like the recent Allfather series did.) It also benefits people like me, who had one defective piece in their BAF from having to scour ebay in hopes of a replacement.

Not saying that Hasbro should get rid of the BAFs altogether, as even I agree it is a great sales pitch, but it would be nice to have slightly more options to obtaining them than to deal with unscrupulous BAF part scalpers on the secondary market.