[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

Supply issues need to be better addressed to answer the demand, sure, but exclusives are never ever going away.

You're correct that exclusives aren't going to go away, but it's the marketing strategy that Hasbro is currently employing them with. Right now as it stands, nearly half of the G.I.Joe Classified figures in the entire line are an exclusive of some sorts...with the worst offenders being the Cobra Island waves, which has incorporated both core characters and army builders as exclusives, with only one figure thus far (the Infantry trooper) being re-released and no announcements for more in the future thus far.

This was a strategy that's not all that different from the one Hasbro employed in the late 2000s with the Marvel Legends line, where entire waves became extremely hard to find store exclusives, which killed collector interest and ended up shelving the line for years. If Hasbro doesn't change things up and soon with the way their handling the line, they are doomed to do the same with Classified.