Ok, exclusives, Love'em or Hate'em?

[bizzaro megomauler]

Personally they drive me away from toy lines. Like Matty Collector having Green Arrow....I don't mind when they have a slight variant or special accessory, but when a character has no representation in the line at all other than the exclusive, It annoys me to no end. what is your take?

[ODBJBG]

If it's a Walmart exclusive. Because despite being the largest retailer in the galaxy, they never seem to have enough or bother to stock them.

The three words that haunt any toy collector: Mattel Walmart Exclusive.

Might as well be a Bigfoot's house exclusive.

[Meule]

Ugh, I hate exclusives. They never seem to have enough and you have to jump through hoops to get it. Plus they usually end up on eBay for twice what they went for

[LonnieFisher]

I'm glad Matty had the Green Arrow exclusive! Otherwise I wouldn't have any of the new Mattel figures yet. It was very easy to get and I didn't have to make a sixty mile round trip to TRU to get it.

[hobub]

It's the ole dangling carrot approach.

[Gorn Captain]

I don't like exclusives.
I think we all should have complete access to tons of figures.
It's not the rarity of a figure that's important, it's the fun of the figure itself.

My favourite items are not rare at all, and easily available.

[LonnieFisher]

I don't like exclusives.
I think we all should have complete access to tons of figures.
It's not the rarity of a figure that's important, it's the fun of the figure itself.

My favourite items are not rare at all, and easily available.

We have total access to the Matty exclusive figure. It is fun to get the exclusive MONTHS before the mass retail release!

[Meule]

We have total access to the Matty exclusive figure. It is fun to get the exclusive MONTHS before the mass retail release!

In stead of releasing 1 exclusive now they could've also released the entire wave 1 now

[Mikey]

Exclusives are a great invention to charge more money for something that normally would be normal priced.

I'm surprised the whole collecting community never revolted and and shunned them by now.

Keep buying them and they'll never go away.

[Orion]

As a general rule I'm not crazy about exclusives, but the Green Arrow exclusive on mattycollector was pain free so no complaints on that one.

[LonnieFisher]

I don't collect other stuff enough to want any other exclusives. I don't even know what is out there.

[kryptosmaster]

I think if they want to have exclusives they should make it a variant and then release the normal figure in stores so that everyone else who wants that figure can still buy it. This way if I don't want the purple-suited, chromatic bow, beardless Green Arrow online I can still buy a Green Arrow at the store with the rest of the line, dressed in his traditional outfit. All the completist geeks can waste their money on the online variant and I would care less.
Rich

[bondtoddbond]

Hate them. As a rule they don't end up being more valuable anyhow, and they're a pain to find. Nothing like going to a toy scalper to pay a premium for them emptying the shelves so that you can't find any in the store anyway. Also, why pay shipping on this stuff? What a pain!

[HardyGirl]

I'm not too crazy about exclusives. I remember when the 12" GIJoe was making a come back, and Target was offering their exclusive 12" Hall Of Fame Duke, you had to put your name on a list to get one. Luckily, the day the commercial premiered, my ex-hubby and I put our names on the list and we each got one. Those things were gone in a week. I felt bad for the people who wanted one but never got to have one.

And in regards to this Green Arrow figure...I know most people have access to the internet, but what about the folks who don't? Some of these people might live near a Toys R Us or Target or Wallmart, but b/c they don't have a computer, they can't get the figure. I don't think that's fair.

[LonnieFisher]

Hate them. As a rule they don't end up being more valuable anyhow, and they're a pain to find. Nothing like going to a toy scalper to pay a premium for them emptying the shelves so that you can't find any in the store anyway. Also, why pay shipping on this stuff? What a pain!

It costs me more to drive to TRU than pay the $9.00 shipping from Mattycollector.com. So it cost me less to buy it online. And no scalper was involved.