[TheBlueMarvel]

Anyone else care to discuss Hasbro’s new wrinkle of incomplete distribution of waves and pre-order offerings that don’t even include every figure for a BAF? What I mean is that I just received notification from BBTS that my Egghead, Crossfire, and Ultron are about ship without the MCU Kang that I also ordered. Additionally, after receiving Yelena and Mr. Orb last week I see that Molecule Man, Extremis Iron Man, Von Strucker, and Wonder Man are now available. This staggered release feels somewhat normal as I’ve noticed this happening with previous waves, however, BBTS has no listing for Ultimate Cap at all and, obviously, no ‘wave’ listing for Puff Adder. The same phenomenon is occurring on BBTS with the Ch’od wave. Everyone is “in stock” with the exception of Monet, and Emma is listed as being available, until you go to the listing itself where it states that she’s not available for “pre-order”….”wha? wait, it just said she was in stock….*groan*” This all is made more conspicuous by the lack of wave/set offerings for Puff Adder, Cassie Lang, and Ch’od (did Hasbro discontinue the ‘full-wave’ e-retail model and I missed it somehow???).

All of this has played havoc on my back up orders, which I believe is the purpose of this new brand of madness. I constantly hedge my bets between Pulse, Zavvi, BBTS, etc. and I’m beginning to wonder if online retailers are issuing full-throated complaints about pre-order cancelations. Is Hasbro purposely mucking around with distribution to certain E-retailers to prevent cancelations with others? I imagine that this cannot be what’s going on behind the scenes because I see no advantage for Hasbro outside of placating retail partners, which, I guess, is reason enough. However, cancellations wouldn’t be such an issue if Hasbro made more of an effort to tighten things up. It’s always been a struggle, but this is a new level of inconsistency and clusterfuck.

Edit: Emma was just removed from "in stock," so that must have been a BBTS error...