[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I think the Lizard wave ties into the entire problem with Spider-Man waves. I know he's their number one character. But there's always at least 2 waves per year. And stores are still sitting on older Spider-Man waves, and I think we know which one currently - the one with the female Beetle and Morbius, and that's what - 2 and a half years ago??? Ridiculous. You think about it. Aside from the Abomination wave (which was an unheard of 3rd wave for a brand within a year), what's always been the hardest waves to find: Space Venom. Lizard. Sandman. even to a certain extent the Homecoming wave. It's been a running theme.

It's the same old story over and over again. With no way for retail stocking systems to differentiate between the branding of the waves, there's too many Spider-Man waves. Hasbro or retail needs to come up with a better system. I'm not saying release less Spider-Man waves, but a way for retail to tell the difference between waves.

Agreed. While I've had little trouble locating the Sandman wave, it took a while for it to be widely available at retail. Abomination wave is only just now able to be found on a repeat basis (specifically at Walgreens). Homecoming had a solid month of being pretty easy to find, but only at Walmart, it seemed. But Space Venom, only time I saw multiples of that wave were... well, at TRU. So there's that.

And yeah, the Morbius/Beetle/Speed Demon figures are still hanging out, but I swear, my Target cannot seem to get rid of the last few White Tigers and Misty Knights.

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Originally Posted by jwyss234

I know it's an unpopular opinion on this board, but I think Hasbro needs to back off in general. Right now, they're scheduled to release 10 waves this year and that doesn't even include 2 packs, Ultimate Riders, MCU 10th Anniversary figures/packs, or store exclusives. And to make things worse, half of the waves for 2018 have either been released in the past couple of months or will be released in the next few weeks. People have already been finding figures from the Cull Obsidian, Sp//der, Apocalypse, and Venom waves at retail (Gamestop, Target, Walgreens) and we all know the Sauron wave isn't far behind. Unless a store is only buying one case of each wave, they won't be able to move the figures quickly enough to keep up with the releases.

Actually, I think that's a pretty popular opinion on the board. Trying to keep up is tiring, even if you're ordering online or you have a retail outlet with good enough turnover. I mean, there's four solid waves that we've bought/are buying (Sasquatch, Apocalypse, Sauron, and SP//dr) where only one or two per wave, max, are going to be sold off after the fact. And that's on top of two to four from every other wave this year that we've bought, exclusives, the Riders... and I know there's people here buying even more than that. I love that we're getting all this product, but Hasbro does need to ease up.

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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

Yeah, that's really perplexing. I don't think Hasbro would make the Lizard wave in smaller numbers, so where did they all go?

I want to say it's just a distribution issue, but I can't say that with certainty, given the weird bits of evidence.