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Originally Posted by Freekazoo

I think you may be overestimating Wolverine's popularity outside of the Tiger Stripe suit and possibly the film iteration which hasn't had very good collectibles since The Wolverine. Lot's of places are marking down the Mezco X-Force version and there are several major vendors that have a loads of stock for the Brown suit. This released after the traditional Spidey but had around 1700 more units produced, so it's a bit of a wash. The Tiger Stripe being an Exclusive was still a shitty move on Mezco's part.

I only shop at smaller mom & pop type places, so I don’t know anywhere with “loads” of brown suits.

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Originally Posted by Freekazoo

I expect it is similar for Spider-Man and Wolverine in ML, but you could be right on this, though the example of the PS4 suit is a different issue as there was a widespread lukewarm reception to the giant white spider design from the beginning.

lukewarm? Overall I’ve seen nothing but positivity towards the suit in the game. Toys is another matter. I’ve never known a single wave of toybiz or Hasbro where wolverine was a shelf warmer. Brown suit, yellow suit, blue suit/yellow x, grey suit, weapon x,.. always sell out.

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Originally Posted by Freekazoo

Comic Wolverine has one "costume" to most of the planet, movie wolverine doesn't have a defined costume anymore.

if you grew up in the 80’s, the brown suit is his main suit. Yellow with Stripes was brought back for the fox cartoon in the 1990’s. It’s like James Bond actors. The stripes is most used in marketing, but the cartoons have been very flexible with his costumes as well.

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Originally Posted by Freekazoo

It's interesting you mention the Asian market position on villains. as a lot of that is derived from how integrated specific villains in defining the protagonists. There are several examples of villains having resounding popularity in Japanese media (Kiryu from Godzilla), but a lot of them suffer from just being an obstacle to the protagonists... Now I'm wanting a Mezco Green Goblin with a glider.

It’s a well documented fact that hero toys and collectibles outsell villain toys 10+ to one as a rule. Just look at SH Figuarts, for example. The toys are easily 80% hero characters. Very few villains. It’s that way with the mass-released toys too. I’ve had many conversations with fellow collectors who have lived overseas.