Fed up with Mattel

[rche]

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Can you name another toyline that reissues previously released figures so you can complete your collection? I can't.

I lost track of the repacks on the Hasbro Star Wars world years ago.

[vancegeoffmen]

Club Eternia subscription sign ups are held once a year. Matty puts up notices on their site way in advance for the subscription and the sign up lasts several weeks.

thanks for the heads up on that one

[vancegeoffmen]

Actually they do. You can sign up every year. 2012 subs will be offered during the week of SDCC this year.
You just sound really bitter because you missed a few figures...well, that's life. If you join the game late with ANY line, you're going to have to play catch-up.

Can you name another toyline that reissues previously released figures so you can complete your collection? I can't.

not so much that I want to collect them all, I'm just bugged that some are less available than others if you don't have a subscription. Knowing that there still is a chance to subscribe now, maybe I will do that. I just wish that the didn't have the subscription thing, just sort of discouraging.

[vancegeoffmen]

So true. Go there if you hate Mattel so much.

Touche

[Thor]

Distribution and prices have pretty much knocked me out of collecting DCUC and MOTUC. I can't pay $15 plus tax for figures that I can barely find. I have to add gas costs to that equation too. I actually bought a few of the earlier figures but that was before the price hikes. I also will not pay and even higher price for the MOTUC figures that seem to sell out before I can even get to the site to order, speculation has killed it for me also. Subscriptions? That's just too rich for my blood right now. I guess one needs to have a mixture of patience, will and cold hard cash to collect from Mattel. I think I will hop over to their site to let them know just how I feel.

[jacoblb]

Yeah, Mattel has disappointed me in one way or another.

I was collecting the MOTU figures that were re-releases of the original and I got them all, which of course, wasn't easy. (When is it easy to find toys in toys stores nowadays?)
And as awesome as the 4 Horsemen's work was I just never bothered to support the line when they modernized it.

Mattel dropped the ball on the 10" JL figures and never finished the Teen Titan wave of the same scale. Then I got into JLU figures, but the longer the line continued the more difficult it was to keep up or *surprise* find. I stopped after I bought the exclusive Giganta from Matty. And what annoyed me was how Mattel could have made the figure a little bit bigger to fit into the 10" scale of which they'd recently discontinued. 2 birds with one stone. But naturally that didn't happen.

Finally, I got into DCUC figures, but I have incomplete figures as far back as Grundy and as recent as Imperiex. So I've given up on that line. At the nearby Wal-mart they were clearing out the Ultra Humanite wave, but my wife put her foot down and said even at $10 a pop it was a slap in the face for the toymaker to charge what they should have all along and after so many waves never correct the dist. system.

I still will support the retro line, I have not bought the 4th wave yet, but burn me once...

[jwyblejr]

Don't know why people are surprised. This sort of thing has been going on since the 2002 He-Man relaunch.

[Thor]

Don't know why people are surprised. This sort of thing has been going on since the 2002 He-Man relaunch.

I will never forget that time. Waiting at Walmart 3AM in the morning hoping that they will put out a MOTU case or it will be a case with secondary characters. Instead of a million Skeletor and He-man figures. I had hoped Mattel had cleaned up their act but that was grasping at straws I guess.

[PeterRR]

My does my post keep on getting removed regarding quote from this post. Other people are allowed to knock mattel but not me

[PeterRR]

So true. Go there if you hate Mattel so much.

But be careful what you say or they will ban you.

[ScottA]

They are being removed because you are not doing what we asked you to do, which got you banned from the EMCE forum in the first place. Do not start pulling that in here.

[PeterRR]

They are being removed because you are not doing what we asked you to do, which got you banned from the EMCE forum in the first place. Do not start pulling that in here.

I didn't knock Mattel only quoted what vancegeoffmen said.

[EMCE Hammer]

But be careful what you say or they will ban you.

Darn straight - I wouldn't put it past Scott at all to ban himself. He's crazy.

[PeterRR]

For those that are frustrated with the whole Ma"shell" game just be patient. The most of these will be easily found in a year or two once all of the fizz wears off. Kind of like when the Starting Line Up's died off.

Speaking of Starting Lineup's I donate them to church for Christmas can't sell them