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SymbiSpidey · 06-05-2018, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by hasbroherofan

Slightly ot rant but I feel like Hasbro's practice of trying to double dip like this is quickly pissing off potential customers. It's getting ridiculous.

Hey here's a popular new character like Valkyrie. Want her? Well you also have to buy the Same Thor you just bought but this time his head doesn't come with a helmet. Want that unmasked Michael B. Jordan headsculpt everyone was asking for on Killmonger? Hope you like buying the same figure you already bought and a side character nobody asked for. New War Machine? How about a repainted Iron Man based on a suit that had 3 seconds of screentime too! Want an updated Doctor Strange with a more accurate facial likeness? Gosh, I sure hope you also want the same Iron Man you just bought and the Thanos BAF you just paid 120 bucks (At least) to assemble!

And like, I get it. You need a cheap reuse figure to offset the cost of a new figure. ToyBiz used to do the same thing. But with Hasbro it's different because it seriously seems like they're purposefully holding off on including accessories or features that should've been in the single pack release just so they can try to make you buy the same damn figure again two months later.

*Rant over*

Agree 110%. It's getting a bit out of hand. What makes it worse is that they keep putting these figures with BAF pieces/accessories/characters that people REALLY want.

I used to think it may have been a retailer issue. It's probably hard to convince retailers to sell a Thor-related 2-pack that doesn't have Thor, after all. But that excuse definitely doesn't apply to Black Panther. I wonder if Hasbro could toy around with the idea of doing multipacks that are a mix of comic and MCU. Maybe a Classic Thor to sell alongside Movie Valkyrie. You've got the Thor character in there, but you're not restricted to the movie design that you just made a figure for already. I mean, yeah there's definitely people out there that collect MCU but don't collect comics and vice-versa, but we already have to buy comic figures to build movie BAFs and movie figures to build comic BAFs so it's not that different.

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SymbiSpidey Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,495	Quote: Originally Posted by hasbroherofan Slightly ot rant but I feel like Hasbro's practice of trying to double dip like this is quickly pissing off potential customers. It's getting ridiculous. Hey here's a popular new character like Valkyrie. Want her? Well you also have to buy the Same Thor you just bought but this time his head doesn't come with a helmet. Want that unmasked Michael B. Jordan headsculpt everyone was asking for on Killmonger? Hope you like buying the same figure you already bought and a side character nobody asked for. New War Machine? How about a repainted Iron Man based on a suit that had 3 seconds of screentime too! Want an updated Doctor Strange with a more accurate facial likeness? Gosh, I sure hope you also want the same Iron Man you just bought and the Thanos BAF you just paid 120 bucks (At least) to assemble! And like, I get it. You need a cheap reuse figure to offset the cost of a new figure. ToyBiz used to do the same thing. But with Hasbro it's different because it seriously seems like they're purposefully holding off on including accessories or features that should've been in the single pack release just so they can try to make you buy the same damn figure again two months later. Rant over Agree 110%. It's getting a bit out of hand. What makes it worse is that they keep putting these figures with BAF pieces/accessories/characters that people REALLY want. I used to think it may have been a retailer issue. It's probably hard to convince retailers to sell a Thor-related 2-pack that doesn't have Thor, after all. But that excuse definitely doesn't apply to Black Panther. I wonder if Hasbro could toy around with the idea of doing multipacks that are a mix of comic and MCU. Maybe a Classic Thor to sell alongside Movie Valkyrie. You've got the Thor character in there, but you're not restricted to the movie design that you just made a figure for already. I mean, yeah there's definitely people out there that collect MCU but don't collect comics and vice-versa, but we already have to buy comic figures to build movie BAFs and movie figures to build comic BAFs so it's not that different. Last edited by SymbiSpidey; 06-05-2018 at 11:00 AM..