I Think You Are Making A Mistake Mattel

They don’t care. I’m buying all mine second hand at flea markets. Don’t care if I’m paying double, I’m not chasing and I’m not giving Mattel my money on them 😂. I don’t understand what they are doing besides making it even harder to get figures.

Nah

I think people are a little hyperbolic about how hard to locate these figures are. I've seen every figure from HOC and Flashback series 1 and 2 available on ebay or Amazon for within a few dollars of retail, if not below. We'll have to wait to see how these are distributed, but I read that they'll be 2 per case. If that's true, I don't think these figures will be particularly hard to find. At the end of the day they're mass produced retail figures.

Of course they are. There’s more people buying current figures than flashbacks. They go where the money is

Give it till December when they go on clearance, because the line isn’t going to continue. They will be on the bay for $19.99 along with the rest of Series 2 & 3

I feel your pain - if you're in the US though, at least you have a chance of finding these figures... they're not even released here in the UK, so often our only choice is to pay about £40 for them.

But look at it this way: at least these types of figures are being made... at the end of the day, would you rather Mattel make them store exclusives/harder to get - or not make them at all? I think they are trying to get the figures out, but we are a small part of the overall market and they've had trouble with a lot of Flashbacks warming shelves in the past.

My kid has been out of the game for a few years now so the only figures I get are ones that make sense for me. Those would be Flashback figures and Ronda Rousey. I often wonder as to why I still collect because there’s never going to be an end game for me. I’d like to round out the Wrestlemania III roster but we’re never going to get Billy Jack Haynes or Tom Zenk. Every year we speculate as to who is gonna be the surprise Golden Era figures and we seemed to be disappointed with every reveal. Then we get Harley Race and it’s the best figure ever but limited quantity.

I don’t understand the business. I wish I did and would like to be in charge of the Flashback series. At least then I can have some perspective as to why we get two Big Boss Man figures and characters like Greg Valentine and Hercules continuously get skipped over.

If they are harder to get then that is pretty much the same as them not existing in the first place IMO?!  I am not paying ridiculously high prices for a piece of plastic.  These figures are a mass produced product, not high end collectibles so I refuse to pay anything more than retail or 10% above the retail price.

As for the notion that legends collectors make up only a small fraction of the customer base- anyone have any stats to back that claim up?!  Also, if this is the case then why are they bothering to release any legends figures at all?!  They have to be making some money from these figures or else they wouldn't be releasing them.  When the flashbacks were part of the main elite line, Bill had said they were selling very well, now that they spun them off into store exclusive lines they supposedly are not doing well which is why we keep seeing one exclusive line after another shut down.  They had the perfect formula and screwed it up, they should have left things as they were with 1 or 2 flashbacks per wave in the main elite line.  Surely allotting 1 slot per wave for a legends figure is not going to be detrimental to the current product?!

Because the Big Boss Man is gonna sell more than Greg Valentine & Hercules /thread