[Neoblackdragon]

So far almost all the waves have showed up in a store a month or two earlier. But by the time they state, the figures are in most stores. So I feel its more a wide release estimate and not the earliest you can buy.

Entertainment Earth ships the whole box and doesn't sell individually.
Target and co sell each item individually on the rack and it takes a while for it to pop up fully in all stores(especially with older stock still on the rack that they refuse to put on sale).

Which brings up my next point. Target and co need to start putting these figures on sale when they've been up for a while. A Wave 1 figure shouldn't always be full price when Wave 3 is out.

Gamestop put the Legacy figures on sale for a day or two and they vanished.