InspectorZartan

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run this scene back in my head when in these situations lol

I placed my preorder for this figure months ago immediately after it went live following the Hasbro livestream. Today I received an email stating my preorder was cancelled due to payment issues (I knew that couldn’t be correct). Instantly I called Walgreens customer service and they confirmed there was nothing wrong with my payment method and they simply cancelled because they did not have enough inventory to fulfill my order. Meanwhile a friend who ordered after me (I know this for a fact since I sent him the order link) received his shipping notice. So it’s bad enough that they would come back and cancel preorders months later but they weren’t even cancelling them based on the order received. Yet another example of how and why I hate these store exclusives and how after years and years of collecting the amount and frequency of these store exclusives with poor distribution and lack of online availability is slowly starting to turn me off of collecting modern figures. For the past few years Marvel Legends has been putting out around 150 figures per year which is a pretty crazy number but what’s even more crazy is I’ve actually tried to buy every single one of those releases and year after year I come close to where I’m only missing 3 or 4. And without fail those 3 or 4 that I end up missing end up being the Walgreens and Walmart exclusive ones. And with Walgreens it’s not a lack of trying as I hit up dozens and dozens of stores. And the same ends up being true for many of the other retail lines I collect like Star Wars where I’ll end up buying 99% of what they come out with in a year but come up short of 100% because some figure ended up being unfindable at Walgreens or Walmart etc. The hobby is meant to be fun and I’ve never been one to be prone to let myself become frustrated by the hobby but this retailer exclusive trend was already starting to take the fun out of things in years past as my time was being sucked away running from store to store on a fruitless hunt with no prize at the end. Now we’re here in the middle of a pandemic and I refuse to do that anymore. We need to keep our exposure levels down by minimizing contact. That right now is how we help keep ourselves and others safe and help to get things on the right track so our medical care and over all economy can recover. These retailers and manufacturers being obtuse to this fact and instead encouraging customers to “keep hunting” is burning away my desire to continue to support those parties.

Or maybe Hamilton was never intended to be a clue. Maybe it’s just that Hamilton was a trending topic and thus he mentioned it in his Marvel post in order to get more views. Or maybe it’s literally just a guy combining two topics into one tweet.

A Hellfire club set would make a ton of sense. It’s a big gap in the Legends line yet something that wouldn’t have made as much sense at traditional retail.

Will we ever get a non AOA Wildchild I can display on my Alpha Flight shelf?

This one is one I’ll get two of to have loose and on card

I kind of want the Deadpool just because it’s such a legendarily terrible thing that having a pop of it would be fun.

Good luck everyone

I’ve been saying it since I first saw it in the case at SDCC but that Lockjaw is the One:12 I am looking forward to the most.

I’m definetely trying to squeeze some of these into my budget but it gets difficult with so many legends and other toy lines stretching the budget. I still need Beast from last year.

I’m disappointed there’s not any 3-3/4” reveals. I loved the Marvel Universe line but it really lost steam after all the rebranding attempts. Unfortunate that it can’t make a return.

All the figures and reveals look fantastic, but is it too much product for a single calendar year. At MSRP if you buy one of every figure announced/released thus far for 2019 you’re looking to spend about $2200-2400 after tax—and that’s just the first half of the year. By the end of 2019 we’re going to be looking at $3000-4000 if you collect the whole line. That’s just too much for any Toyline to do in a single year.