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Well, the unthinkable has happened...I've officially given up on Marvel Legends. A toyline I've collected since 2002. Here's my letter to Hasbro explaining why...
Dear Hasbro,
I wanted to take a few moments to write your company and thank you. Due to your business practices, you will be saving me a great deal of money, as I will no longer be collecting Marvel Legends. This is something I never thought would happen. I’ve collected them since Toy Biz began producing them in 2002. My reason for stopping is the ridiculous, never-ending amount of exclusives you produce for the line. They do not make collecting the Marvel Legends line “fun” or “exciting” or “challenging” or anything of the sort. What they do accomplish is making the line an inconvenient, expensive pain-in-the-*** to collect. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and your tactics have completely sucked the joy out of it.
As of this writing, you currently have a Toys R Us exclusive box set, an entire Toys R Us exclusive wave, a Target exclusive box set, a San Diego Comic con exclusive box set, and a Walgreens exclusive figure. I am sick and tired of wasting my time and very expensive gasoline making endless trips to various stores chasing these figures down, only to come up empty handed. I am then forced to resort to EBay where I end up paying two to three times the retail price plus shipping. Paying $70 for an already overpriced $20 figure is ridiculous, and I’m not doing it anymore. The only people who benefit from all of these exclusives are scalpers who are laughing all the way to the bank, while true collectors are screwed.
Compounding the issue also are your ridiculously devised case ratios. Who within your company thought it was a good idea to offer an exclusive Toys R Us build-a-figure wave, and then short pack the figures that come with the torso and left arm of said build-a-figure? That doesn’t even make sense from a manufacturing standpoint. You molded, painted, and packaged twice as many right arms and heads as there are left arms and torsos to go with them. I’m no expert, but surely you see the lapse in logic here? You wasted money producing parts that cannot be used, the cost of which is then passed onto the consumer. I hope someone in your company will take note of these issues, and make an effort to change them. I know I’m not the only collector who feels this way, nor the only one who has stopped collecting because of it.
Sincerely,
Dwayne Pinkney
Dear Hasbro,
I wanted to take a few moments to write your company and thank you. Due to your business practices, you will be saving me a great deal of money, as I will no longer be collecting Marvel Legends. This is something I never thought would happen. I’ve collected them since Toy Biz began producing them in 2002. My reason for stopping is the ridiculous, never-ending amount of exclusives you produce for the line. They do not make collecting the Marvel Legends line “fun” or “exciting” or “challenging” or anything of the sort. What they do accomplish is making the line an inconvenient, expensive pain-in-the-*** to collect. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and your tactics have completely sucked the joy out of it.
As of this writing, you currently have a Toys R Us exclusive box set, an entire Toys R Us exclusive wave, a Target exclusive box set, a San Diego Comic con exclusive box set, and a Walgreens exclusive figure. I am sick and tired of wasting my time and very expensive gasoline making endless trips to various stores chasing these figures down, only to come up empty handed. I am then forced to resort to EBay where I end up paying two to three times the retail price plus shipping. Paying $70 for an already overpriced $20 figure is ridiculous, and I’m not doing it anymore. The only people who benefit from all of these exclusives are scalpers who are laughing all the way to the bank, while true collectors are screwed.
Compounding the issue also are your ridiculously devised case ratios. Who within your company thought it was a good idea to offer an exclusive Toys R Us build-a-figure wave, and then short pack the figures that come with the torso and left arm of said build-a-figure? That doesn’t even make sense from a manufacturing standpoint. You molded, painted, and packaged twice as many right arms and heads as there are left arms and torsos to go with them. I’m no expert, but surely you see the lapse in logic here? You wasted money producing parts that cannot be used, the cost of which is then passed onto the consumer. I hope someone in your company will take note of these issues, and make an effort to change them. I know I’m not the only collector who feels this way, nor the only one who has stopped collecting because of it.
Sincerely,
Dwayne Pinkney
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