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12-19-2011, 11:03 AM
Mainframe
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netkid
That's crazy.
And yeah, I think the next 2 30th waves *might* be hard to find/non-existent at retail and become future TJ Maxx/Marshalls/Ross/5-Below fodder if they don't hit mass retail due to a Renegades/Arctic Destro shelf-warmer jam up.
The way I see it:
as Air-Tight explained to me earlier, even though the line is reaching stores, it's getting clogged up by waves with no troop builders. We will only buy one of a non-troopbuilder (instead of buying a ton of vipers), thus, causing shelfwarmers and preventing newer waves from appearing, by which we are then unknowingly forcing ourselves to buy online to get the new stuff. Then if/whenever the new stuff finally hits retail, we will already have it from buying online. Now, by having no need to buy these figures(again), we are creating
even more
shelfwarmers and harming the retail performance of the line, which then causes retailers to see and say "hmm...these Joes aren't selling well" and decide to drop the line which then forces the line into another online-only product (or worse...), and has us once again buying Joes only online. Vicious a cycle it could become. Mmh.
Yeah, that's dead on, a vicious cycle. There's much more to things between the lines, it's not just Hasbro's choice to pick and choose figs for wave selection but they are bound by contract to release "recognizable" figs in each line. Yes Arctic Destro is a bad idea and clogs waves, but Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Duke, ect....
There are contract stuipulations that Hasbro must include certain figs or large retailers won't carry the waves/brand in large quantities. Why are the Dreadnocks online only? They won't sell to the massese but this above is especailly why. There's alot to the business that the general public doesn't know about why it gets rounded out with usually "Hasblow's fault". Not the case at all.
I would prefer to support local business and love the thrill of the hunt, it's the best part of this hobby, not knowing what you are going to walk into when you hit the Joe isle, hoping to see a fresh peg of Joes. But with your above statement that rarely happens nowadays, the 25th seemed to move more easily, they always sold out at my Target's. Except for that damn Buzzer, he was Arctic Destro back in the day, and I only have one carded and don't have one open to put with my Dreadnock set......and they're not cheap on E-bay either.
On that note today I went and cleared out the Renegades at my local Target and dropped by Toys for Tots drop off by my house and donated all of them. I have't bought one for myslef, not my thing but the damn things are clogging the pegs and I can't take it anymore. I want to see wave 3 and 4! So stay the hell away from my Target :0
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