[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by dorksidetoys

You're welcome! Also, I had it shipped USPS this time, you'll have them in a couple of days

Thanks, I really appreciate that!

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Regarding the discussion of the quantity of things being produced and the repaints, I definitely feel like we've had this discussion before, maybe last year, when we also got 7 full waves and various exclusives.

Back then I said I would be perfectly happy with 5-6 really great waves, instead of 7 waves that have varying degrees of quality. That has not changed for me. Not only is it pretty tough on the wallet but we end up getting a lot of repeat figures in order to pad out those lines. I'm not just talking about various versions of Spider-Man either. Sadly I'm seeing the 7 waves being a likely trend next year too (at minimum: X-Men wave, Deadpool Wave, BP wave, 2 Avengers waves and 2 Spider-Man waves, and that's if we don't get a Netflix wave until 2019, otherwise it bumps it up even more.) 2019 is likely going to be a similar scenario, I can see it now: NetFlix wave, Captain Marvel wave, 2 Spider-Man, 2 Avengers and 1 X-Men...and so forth. The increase in production of movies has led to an increase in associated waves, in addition to the pretty much required Spider-Man wave and now a dedicated X-Men wave too.

I found it hard to keep up with it this year, and I feel like next year I can't keep up anymore, especially when so much of what is coming is lackluster or repetition. Starting next year I'm probably going to pull away focus on waves and just get the individual figures I want, unless the BAF completely blows me away (and Dorkside has a way to cover for that, bless them!) This obviously doesn't pertain to X-waves as they could put that line out for a good 2-3 years without getting any further than second tier characters, and much more than that if they want to go deeper. And as I've said, even though I love so much of Marvel, the X-Men corner is truly where my heart is.

As far and repainting and reuse of molds, I think it's a necessary evil. I think they've done mostly fairly well so far with it. Could some figures be better and be more comic accurate? Sure, but I'm generally fairly happy with what we get in that respect. It's also why we maybe haven't gotten some figures yet that would require some extra beyond the normal retooling, outside of obvious ones like Sauron of course. I don't want to lower my expectations to character availability but I guess it may be something we have to do.