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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

50$????

The 3 month subscription is below 30. That's all you need to get the figure from MARVEL. Yes it's a hasbro made figure, but it's a figure that's made for Marvel to use as a promotion for the digital subscription. So why blame hasbro for that? When it's MARVEL themselves that want something to help bolster their sales of the digital subscription? With your logic, you may as well blame fans for voting on X-force Archangel so he's out of your reach.



It is a low number though. This is why the collector favorites tend to shelf warm. In my hunting the other day, I ran into 6 juggernauts, and 8 aim soldiers... At the same store. No kitty pryde, but female figures tend to disappear fast whether it's collectors or kids. They also had ample colossus on shelves. You have to keep in mind, what you see on shelves doesn't always factor in how often that store has restocked, nor does it reflect the rest of the country on figure sales or who's popular. If collectors were the only ones buying these figures, I shouldn't have found as many of those figures as I did.

The Marvel digital subscription is $59.88. And no I don't mind that hasbro would do a commission piece for Marvel, but it's still annoying from a collectors standpoint that you would have to pay $59.88 if you wanted that figure.

As for your other point about shelf warmers, I think it's subject to the location. I've never seen that many villains just chilling on the shelf. What I see when i go to stores is dozens of the same IM figures next to 4 or five MU figures and those figures are always random ones but almost never the hard to find ones that collectors would be trolling for.

And yes I do blame the fans who voted for the ArchAngel repaint because we all know that it could have been a good opportunity to get a figure that most likely would never have been made. But instead we're getting a repaint Hasbro would have done anyways at some point in the line.