[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

This issue has been bugging me for a while now, with the huge quantity of new waves ( it seems like one a month sometimes) do you think they're producing fewer or each figure? I've yet to see a wave past onslaught get restocked. Plus everyone use to bitch about rare one per case figures, now everything is one per case! Now if you miss a figure like dead pool in a couple months it's like he came out ten years ago.

I don't think it is so much an issue of Hasbro releasing less and less of each wave, but rather the like SKUS being used by these waves like Phantomcrow mentioned. These recycled SKUS cause havoc for employees and computer systems, as it puts in place a system that allows older figures to be scanned under the same barcodes as newer ones.

Another part of the problem lies in the packaging and listing of these things themselves with retailers. The old ToyBiz waves would tell you clearly on the sides of the shipping boxes, as well as in the ordering listings, what was inside. You knew if you were getting Series 6, or the Sentinel wave when you were ordering or stocking. With the way Hasbro has been labeling and listing them, you don't know. You just know you're getting Marvel Legends Spider-Man or Cap, with no other info to identify them outside of the names of the individual figures themselves. To further compound this issue has been the fact that Hasbro has issued multiple case repackd mid wave, causing even more confusion to retailers.

As for one per case figures, only in instances where there are less than 8 figures in a wave are you finding all one per case (such as the new Strange or Xmen waves.) Most of the waves in the past year have carried doubles of certain figures, and in most cases, Hasbro has done a good job of picking the right ones to double pack (Pizza Spidey and 2099 for the Hobgoblin wave, or the two teenager Spideys for the Space Venom Wave for example.) Deadpool just ended up on the wrong end of an 8 figure wave.