the is also the option of getting a smaller figure in store. Figures like the Mandarin, Phantom Stranger, Cosmic Doom were all different sculpts but small enough to fit the idea of point of purchase pick up.

That being said while I loved being able to pick up my brick figure at the store and not having to rip off box bottoms, I would much rather do that and get an awesome brick figure like the Chariot or the Batman/Catwoman duo.

Yea i hear you on that, as far as figs like Krytpo and Venom too. But I, like you, would also have a really awesome figure.

Trust me guys I would like to have both things - awesome bigger fig and be able to get it in store - but we don't have that option.

I will be the first to say here that if the next marvel set is mutant based, and they want to give us a 2x2 base sized Apocalypse as a mail away, I am all for it. I kinda like being able to get things that do not fit in a standard booster as a mail away. If they want to let me do that for buying a brick I am cool with that. I will also just purchase one in a store outright. The in store redemption is nice, but I would rather get something special for free that would not normally fit in a booster.

There isn't a "strait up mail away or in store poll" because the answer to that is fairly obvious. We all want instant gratification, and none of us want to pay the shipping/handling charge.

Justin explained in his article that the mailaway is a necessary evil in order to provide "special" figures like World's Finest, Clown Prince of Crime or Thor's Mighty Chariot. It is not economically feasible for them to produce figures like that in the quantities necessary for point-of-purchase delivery.

So that's what I was trying to gauge. If the choice is between special figures as mailaways or not-as-special figures with purchase, which would the player base prefer?

-J

Exactly my point. Rep.

I can't find the reference, but I believe it was once revealed that creating a sculpt and mold was the highest expense for a set. (If someone can prove or disprove, please do so.) Therefore, it still may not be economically viable for them to produce and distribute.

-J

I prefer the special mail away figures. To say that they're a hassle, and not a reward to the customer seems a little entitled to me. To cut out the codes, fill out the form, and mail it out takes around half an hour (ten minutes if you drop by the post office on your way somewhere else). That doesn't seem like a huge investment of time.

[quote=mcrounds;4505263] To say that they're a hassle, and not a reward to the customer seems a little entitled to me. [quote]

Entitlement from these people??? No way....

This makes me sad. The main reason this game would die is because it would become too expensive to be competitive. This game should be about fun, not the price of your collection. It's bad enough we already have chase figures running around with 100 dollar price tags. Personally, I hate Chase figures. I don't want to have to buy 4 cases to get every figure in the set, and I also don't want to pay another 5 dollars shipping(which should be closer to 3) so I can get something that I already had to pay 75+ dollars for. It's ridiculous and a sad way to make that extra 2 dollars per brick. It's bad enough a lot of vendors pack their collections by taking advantage of their wholesale cost of cases, bust them, and sale them on ebay or presale figures on ebay. That just makes me sick. If you want to sell your figures, fine that's cool. I've done it. But don't ruin the experience for everybody else because you think you need to sell your figs. How about you just don't buy tge 4 cases. Also, I'm willing to bet you weren't one of the people that got screwed out of a World's Finest because you didn't mail the UPCs out the day before the set was supposed to be RELEASED. I was, and it WAS NOT COOL.

If this is the case then what's up with the Brave and the Bold figure? From the previews it's only on a peanut base. So why is this one a mail away? Don't give me the either or stuff.

It's on a double base - but I don't think it takes a genius to look at the sculpt with a huge bat symbol with a catwoman on top to realize that it's a tad bit bigger and heavier than figures found in a booster.

Again come with something substantial, your arguments are weak bro.

i think the thing is without the mail away part, we won't get anything like the clown prince of crime, or world's finest, nor Thor's Mighty Chariot (was supposed to be the brick fig for HoT) but rather stuff like Surtur and the stuff we used to get...

Which is fine by me.

And I'd like to point out this poll...

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=266482

I don't really care what the brick figure is. I don't have a single one and would appreciate having one to begin with.