pluv wrote:
Jay wrote:
So how come they were able to get this proper movie-accurate Snake-Eyes out in the second wave but there's no sign of a movie-accurate Cobra Commander or Storm Shadow anywhere?
My guess is that since the knew who was playing Snake Eyes right off the bat, they were able to get a jump on his costume which meant Hasbro was able to get a jump on his movie accurate figure before some of the other characters.
The one thing I kind of like about the movie release date move is that we won't have the same problem as RoC where stores were clogged with the early waves. Every movie release the stores buy so much wave 1 and wave 2 that we it takes forever to see a wave 3 or 4, which tend to be more geared to what is actually shown in the movie. Normally I'd say the Wave 1 stuff will peg warm but there is plenty of time for these to sell through, get restocked, and sell through again before Duke and the Ninja Striker go on clearance. Then in March when the movie is released there is a good chance that this Rockblock, Blind Master, Joe Colton and hopefully movie Jinx will be on the shelves. We won't have to wait very long for the best figures of the movie line to be out in force.
I would love for this to be the case.
But if history is any indicator, Hasbro has plenty of wave 1 left to ship yet.
How much space the movie-move-burned retailers devote to movie product next year (and, by extension, how much they order) will more likely determine how soon or if we see those later waves.
