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Originally Posted by MnemonicSyntax

TRU would only jump on that "opportunity" if there was something that made it worthwhile to them in the end.

True, and would a profit not be worthwhile to them? Do you really think, after the sales performance of the legacy morpher, that TRU wouldn't think they would profit from selling a gold legacy morpher? Afterall, TRU fell for Mattel's MOTUC-DCU 2-packs.

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Originally Posted by MnemonicSyntax

It's not like TRU or any retailer for that matter is interested in pandering to the small, niche market of the adult neckbeard collector.

Of course. That's why retailers avoid exclusive figures or waves in collector lines. They hate pandering. That's especially why there are so few Star Wars exclusives. After all, there are no Star Wars collectors to make money from.

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Originally Posted by MnemonicSyntax

Again, your examples are hit and miss. Most "exclusive" or "collector" items shelf-warm. It is quite possible to have that diamond in the rough (Power Morpher for example) but most of it collects dust.

I'm not sure what you're trying to prove, but each and every one of my examples hit precisely to counter the absurd assertion that I was originally refuting, which is that retailers don't "acknowledge" fans or collectors. Clearly, by their conduct, demonstrated by my examples, they do. Just because collector stuff might shelf-warm sometimes, doesn't mean that retailers don't keep trying to capture that lightning in a bottle and profit by selling to collectors what collectors want.