[Erland]

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Originally Posted by kylactus

I don’t know if y’all have noticed with legends lately, NONE OF THEM ARE THAT RARE! They are overproduced as hell, if you even make a half ass attempt you will find your figures at retail. Now mind you if you want it a couple months early, by all means go to eBay and be one of the first to pay a 4-500% mark up, but lately every figure is eventually getting to almost every retailer in an over abundance. Between that and Walmart and target putting out random back stock ( the Walmart near me just put out a case of SM vulture wave, which they clearances out months ago, and targets everywhere were getting GOTG vol 1 figures right as vol2 were dropping.) there is no such thing as “rare” anymore. I’ve been following some of this phenomenon on eBay for a wile now. 2 months before the juggernaut wave officially dropped people were paying 200 for Deadpool, one months later between 60-80 now loose your looking at 17-19. There are not a lot of figures holding up on the aftermarket nowadays, I believe this is because of overproduction, and the fact that stuffs comeing at us so fast nothing is “new” for more than a week or so. Hell I saw a cable go for 120 last week, now they’re averaging 70ish in a week they’ll be going for half of that, watch!

I live in an very big area, in Virginia. There are 7 cities all next to each other. I live next to 2 different cities and have 4 Wal-Marts and 3 Targets right "next" to me as well as 2 TRU. The Wal-Marts have been empty since about Christmas. They got in several cases of Thor and haven't had anything more than a case at a time since then. If you want a figure from those cases, you have to be there when they unpack them around midnight or you will end up missing the "HOT" figures.

When Spider-Gwen and Ghost Rider was out, I never once saw a GhostRider in the stores and I was looking. I've only seen Spider-Gwen once.

I still have yet to see an entire Vulture wave. I have seen all of them except Moon Knight and Hobo Spider-Man. The only 2 figures I'm missing from the wave. The only time they hit the shelves were in the Spider-man advertisement that sits in the middle of the electronics isle. So, once that single set was sold no Wal-Mart got any others since or at least that I've seen. This goes for Black Panther as well. Same situation, only in the big card board ad outside of electronics. I have seen the Black Panther wave in TRU and target so it's been a lot easier to find then Vulture and I haven't talked to anyone that saw the Vulture wave in any Target or TRU around here until recently and those that find them only report back seeing 1 or 2 figures left by the time they get there.

At any given time, any of the stores listed only get 1 case at a time. You either get to the store in the morning when they open or you miss out. If your lucky they end up getting in more months later but most of the time if you miss the first 2 shipments (1 case a piece) you miss out on getting it in a Brick and Mortar store around here.

Being as we have a ton of cities in a close area, we also have tons of people, and tons of collectors to compete with. On top of this I know for a fact that at least 1 comic shop in the area goes from store to store every morning looking for the new hot stuff. Him and his kids (both 25+ years old and work for him) will shop separately and hit up all of the major stores on a daily basis and then sell those items for triple in their store.

I prefer to buy my figures in store because I can't stand having to pay an extra $4-$7 per figure in shipping. It looks like I'm going to have to order online for Moon Knight and Hobo Spider-Man and just suck it up but the fact is, around here, as far as brick and mortar goes, there are tons of figures that are hard to get.