Collecting becoming too hard.

It's become more stressful than fun for sure. Distribution for store exclusives should not be this bad. I would even enjoy collecting more if everything was just made available to Ringside. Still haven't found TNF Series 2 once. I'm over store exclusives.

Esp when exclusives are 1st in line

I have reduced my collecting to thrift shops and stores like 5 below where elites are affordable. But finding these at any of the mentioned retailers are a gamble.

And just to add another kick in the teeth, Lets say you do end up paying a lot for a certain figure. Only to have them show up in discounter retail store IE Five Below, Big Lots, Ollies, TJ Maxx etc. I was thinking about this the other day. Look at resurrected Mego line, this company wasn't selling toys from 1983 up until the middle of last year. How in the f**k can they resurrect themselves and already have 3 waves of EXCLUSIVE to Target figures out? They are always stock, the product sells they restock, they push out a new wave it's in stores. Mattel has been around longer and putting out product consistently for over 70 years and still cant get it right? Anyone who says distribution isn't up to Mattel, ok well it should be priority. I'm wondering if contacting WWE would help, you know damn well they aren't ones to leave any money on the table. I've never seen a major company who has has product that people want and don't try to ensure it gets to the people with cash in hand.

With a lot of consumers switching to online buying, store exclusives seem counter productive.  At least in my case, they aren't doing a damn thing to get my butt into stores I don't otherwise shop at.  I haven't bought a single one unless it showed up online at a reasonable second market price.  I'm getting by just fine with the main elite line and non-exclusive specialty lines like EG and EM that you can get from RSC or Amazon.

It's not as fun as it once was. I am not quite ready to give up yet though. The store exclusives will hopefully be easy to find. We should know soon.

Try being a Canadian and collecting wrestling figures, then you will see how hard it truly is!

I only purchase what makes sense to me. I was an 80’s kid so golden era figures will find their way into my collection provided they are available online or at retail. King Harley Race still eludes me.

I’m also a huge MMA fan so Shamrock, Ronda, Shayna and soon to be Matt Riddle will also be part of my collection.

But I don’t NEED any of these things. They want to make this hard to collect, hard to find...so be it. I don’t need it. I’ll still wake up tomorrow.

Yup - In many trips,..
I never saw hoc 3 in stores besides one Ron Simmons one time.
I saw hoc2 once.
I saw flashback 3 and 2 once.

I don’t buy the regular elite line (since no flashbacks) but from what I see on shelves it doesn’t look fun trying to find those.
Buying online through amazon is a chore the way they make stock available. Once I actually had a figure I wanted in my cart and backed out because after shipping it was $27 for the one figure. I made the choice to find it in store or risk never seeing/owning it. I never saw it once on a shelf (hoc3 Kane).
Backlund was so easy and convenient on wwe shop but now I worry Sherri will be stressful to find so I’m trying to convince myself that I don’t care enough about it if it’s a headache.
Brickseek isn’t as useful as it used to be.

They are making less and less I’m interested anyways but I feel like I’ll have to visit retail stores just as much if not more to get the few I want. At some point I’ll just stop trying.

**Thank God I’ll be able to preorder king Mabel thru rsc. I wish I could get Sherri from them too.