[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by SymbiSpidey

*sigh* sometimes I just don't get why Hasbro doesn't bother double packing the clear sellers of the wave. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with retailers wanting an abundance of recognizable characters like Spidey/Cap/Iron-Man on the pegs, but it's not like there's a shortage of Captain America figures, even from this year.

They have to know at this point that most ML collectors care more about a movie version of Wanda than some obscure costume for Captain America. Just...anything to make sure that people that actually want these figures are able to get them, rather than inflating their value artificially so scalpers can price gouge.

To be fair...Hasbro has actually been double packing the sellers this year. With the Rhino Wave, Scarlet Spider was the double pack. With the Absorbing Man wave, it was Ben Reilly and Venom (Venom was double packed with the case revision.) Onslaught wave had two Cap Wolf figures (which I no longer see on store pegs around my stores.) With the Civil War wave, while Cap and Iron Man was double packed with wave 1, Black Panther is the double pack for the revision, and we know he's the seller. I'm sure once the Space Venom wave drops into stores regularly, you'll be hard pressed to find a either of the teen Spideys. Prepare to see one a case Ashley Barton sitting on shelves well into next year.

Those are the figures that were hardest to find in these respective waves. It's the duds like Speed Demon, Beetle, Misty Knight, White Tiger, Copperhead, and Sharon Carter...those are the ones clogging up store shelves...and every single one of those figures were one a case. Even with the Ant-Man wave, while it was Wasp that surprisingly pegwarmed, MCU Ant Man, the other double pack, was actually tough to find. I still find Grim Reapers and Bulldozers loitering store shelves occasionally, and one of those was a highly sought after "cancelled" figure.

Case pack selection really is a random thing, and it's really all dependent on luck. Sure, we think we know what will move, and in a lot of situations (Deadpool for example...) we would be right. However, in a lot of cases, we honestly just have no clue. For example, who would have thought that it would have been NOVA of all figures in the GOTG wave that would be the hot seller, not to mention the best selling Legends figure of all time according to Hasbro, and not Rocket Raccoon or Starlord?

Got out of work tonight, stopped by the local Walmart, and lone behold, there they were on the bottom shelf next to a lone Ice-Man figure from the X-Men wave. If I can find them at my crappy Walmarts (which to this day I STILL have not seen Black Series 3.75" figures at,) then these are out there folks. Good luck and happy hunting!