[SymbiSpidey]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

I'm not seeing a loss. Many of those figures are kitbashed or are retoolings of figures that never had that spot of articulation to begin with. Most MCU figures don't have that as an articulation point anyways, as they sacrifice it in favor of a clean sculpt.

I don't think what you mentioned is gonna kill Legends. What will kill Legends though is fatigue, double dipping, and the shoddy way exclusives are set up and cases are packed/ labeled for ordering.

Many figs are exclusives of Walmart for example, and truth be told, I'm actually seeing more and more Walmarts that don't carry Legends AT ALL since their last reset. No tags, no missing space, what was once there now filled by the 5poa titan figures or those little mini arcade cabinets that are all the rage. With TRU gone, Hasbro Toy Shop shutting its doors as a supplier next year, and Target still incapable of providing worthy competition, there's no need to. This is also the way Walmart pretty much strangled Legends out the first time, and I can see it happening again if Hasbro doesn't wisen up.

Black Series is even worse. I have to scour Target, Walgreens, Walmart, Amazon, EE, DISNEY STORE and several others just to track down figures that shouldn't be that difficult to find. It's exhausting, and its killed my joy in collecting that line altogether. Once Grevious drops and my Figuarts Dooku arrives...I'm out for good because of the nonsense.

Double dipping speaks for itself, and this next BP wave has three figures in it we pretty much already have. Black Series will soon be following this pattern as well with their upcoming Archive line.

As for fatigue...it's real. I have been finding myself walking away Legends figures in stores because I'm saying to myself...do I really need another BP figure? And to consider the alternative, the super niche characters whose names come up on these threads time and time again that have me scratching my head saying "SRSLY? Did that person seriously just suggest Sugar Man would fly off of shelves?"...when 90 to 95 percent of the general toy buying population would have no idea who the **** that is... (Looking at you SPY/DRP and Bonecrusher!) I don't look at my collection saying "Damn...I really need a Rocket Racer for my shelf...why is Hasbro not making it!?! "

Nah...I'm good.

Yeah, the double-dipping is getting pretty damn bad. The three MCU Star-Lords in one year was just gross, as was what they did with MCU Thanos this year. And we're getting 3 different versions of MCU T'Challa this year, and one of them is the exact same figure we already got. And to make it worse, they pack him in with a BAF part for a figure that a lot of people wanted (between this and the upcoming Spider-Man wave, I'm starting to not be against the idea of just totally scrapping the BAF concept in favor of deluxe figures).

And it seems like they're already going to be doing it going into next year with MCU Captain Marvel within the same wave. Does a bomber jacket and a different facial expression really justify releasing the same character twice within a wave? Meh.