[TheBlueMarvel]

@Stuart

We'll have to agree to disagree then. We just got a sample response to what is effectively a 'color edit' for the videogame looks hinted at a few months prior with what appears to be a Capcom version of Omega Red. The feedback from the collecting crowd wasn't so great for this fig's insertion into the Wolvie 5pack, with the greatest positive being that we get an emotive head that could have simply been a pack-in. That said, let me keep it Spider Man specific - the popular rationale that reissues blunt secondary costs isn't exactly standing up to scrutiny with figs like Ultimate Green Goblin: Black Cat creeping back up to $50-$60 on eBay and those prices nearly being matched by Spider Man Retro Animated: Black Cat, which is now fetching roughly $40. If these redrafts touted as some form of alms for those that missed out earlier on isn't actually mitigating much, then where's the value in having them?

You've correctly cited Frogman as a 1st draft character, to which I'll add White Rabbit and Stiltman as recent figs I welcome. Well, I can't really claim to "welcome" Frogman, as I personally - similar to many other collectors based on the fig's peg-warm - am not rushing out to buy the character. Nonetheless I'm happy to receive the variety and will get it at some point for $4-$5 plus ship. In just a few comments, we have rattled off a litany of characters, many of which have been called for year after year. Hasbro has been enjoying the Marvel license for 15 years now and IIRC we're at least 3-4 waves in on a Spider Man break-out line. Lets review the number of just some of the revisits we've received in that stretch of time including the character specific waves (off the top of my head and with no film figs): Black Cat -3, Kraven -2 (soon to be 3), Electro -2, Green Goblin -3, Hobgoblin -2, Sandman -2, Kingpin -2, Mysterio -2, Scarlet Spider -2, Spider Man 2099 -3, and Toxin -2. This, without touching the parade of actual Spider Man and Venom figs, amounts to 25+ in total and at least 16 redux figs in an incomplete list (I know I'm missing some). At some point, one has to identify a pattern.

Some collectors have transitioned from simply going along with this IMO abusive manufacturing methodology, to actually requesting it - a genius feat of operant conditioning on the part of toymakers. There are at least 16+ slots that could have delivered any one of the characters you, I and others mentioned wanting rather than issuing remakes. Acquiescing and/or calling for revisits directly conflicts with our other wants as consumers. IMO this folly serves little purpose other than to line the pockets of companies that spoon-feed us what we want in only drips and drabs, while convincing some of us what we REALLY want is what they've already given (with slight tweaks) and can reproduce with virtually no effort all while charging full price.

As I said, I'll take a new Ock, which I really shouldn't because that act also perpetuates this process, but it's time to move on to more of the 'new/never before seen'. Also, I disagree with a revisit of Sandman for the same reasons I don't believe a new Absorbing Man is needed. Both characters can alter their stature with one being able to completely manipulate the expression of his form. If my calls for a properly sized Beta Ray Thor, Abomination and, maybe, Ultron can be eschewed, than the Sandman purists can also be ignored.