[Lionheart]

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I hope Ram and Yori are in Series 2... no idea who the 3rd person would be though... the guard with the pole I guess. That probably means no Series 3... not enough main characters.

I hope so too, but the fact they shot their wadd with wave 1 means they almost certainly aren't going to do a second wave. They should have done Tron, Sark and Guard wave 1, then Flynn, Ram and Yori wave 2. Ram could easily reuse the same buck as Tron / Flynn.

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Online preorders for this wave may have been less than ideal, which could be why the Recognizer got cancelled from the set and the price per figure lowered. Maybe they shouldn't have already offered the same Tron and Sark figures (with less accessories) for sale at Walgreens stores last year. I suspect many people just settled for getting those rather than ordering the higher priced online versions that were taking forever to get released. If this is the negative result of all that, then the blue Flynn variant should have been the only figure offered exclusively at Walgreens so that it wouldn't harm the sales of the other figures in the wave.

Lots of people wait to see reviews before they order figures, so I can't see why companies lean so hard on preorders - especially when in this case they chose to release the same figures at a lower cost at retail months before! Crazy!

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On the flipside, I wonder how well those "discount" versions of the figures sold at Walgreens and if Walgreens might support DST in doing a 2nd wave exclusive to the store. I'd gladly get a 2nd wave with less accessories at Walgreens if it means we can get Yori, Ram, and a Sentry Guard.

Truth is - we don't need effects pieces for Ram, Yori or the Guard - just their 'weapons'. I really do hope wave 1 sold well enough for a wave 2...