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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

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?

To be fair, the way the GOTG wave went to me kinda made sense. Nova was in dire need of a redo after that piss-poor first attempt from Hasbro and he's become quite popular in recent memory. Meanwhile, he was alongside yet another Iron-Man, and it doesn't seem like too many people cared for the figures of Gamora or Rocket, but I can see your point otherwise. For example, half the damn Winter Soldier wave was impossible to come across, I only got Baron Zemo and Black Widow through sheer luck by finding them in random places (Zemo I got at a Barnes and Noble that almost never stocks Legends, and Widow from some seasonal gift shop for 4 bucks more than retail). I was especially surprised with how hard it was to find a Red Skull or Hydra/AIM soldier ANYWHERE. Mandroid is still the only BAF from the Infinite Series I never got around to completing for this exact reason.

The weird thing about Wanda though is that she's literally the only one from that wave that can't be purchased anywhere individually, outside of Amazon price gouging.