No More Walgreens Exclusive Marvel Legends In 2023

On 7/31/2023 at 12:56 PM, McHogan said:

Such a sad swing of affairs. Once all the rage (though due more to their unavailability than customer demand) now they can't give away these ae figures.

A other retailer who couldn't get their $#!+ together now signs off on Legends altogether.

I'm trying to stifle my mocking laughter but "now they can't give away these figures" has me rolling on the floor!

Such a sad swing of affairs. Once all the rage (though due more to their unavailability than customer demand) now they can't give away these ae figures.

A other retailer who couldn't get their $#!+ together now signs off on Legends altogether.

Time to discount or at least have Sentry available.

Heh, I actually saw a Moonstone on a Walgreens shelf this weekend. It's been years since I saw one of their ML exclusives in the wild, just never happens in my town. I already picked up these characters through Walgreen's online store, but I am always happy for anyone who still wants and needs them for their collection... nice discount!

Oh that's pretty awesome they got at least a few of them back in stock and at a reduced price, Walgreens made these figures intially very hard to get when they first came out, seemed like they got easier as time went on, and then now most of these made it to other retailers, I'm sure a ton of folks will be glad to get these at such a good price, Last years exclusives were a pretty good bunch, being characters people might really want.

Walgreens.com has the Hasbro Marvel Legends Series Moonstone, Quasar & Binary Figures on clearance for $12.50 each! Might be a good time to jump on these figures if you haven't already!

On 1/3/2023 at 2:26 AM, TheArrow said:

I think the '"exclusive" package is just something that Hasbro offers up to retailers, and Walgreens was one that bit. We got to realize a lot of different figures with them, got some new tooling for new figures out of it, and now.............the exclusives will probably go with some other retailer.......eventually.

That's exactly how it works. Hasbro offer retailers exclusives as a bribe so that store to sell the mainline products.

Of course this may not be the end of Walgreens getting exclusives. The reason there are no exclusives this year is because the person that dealt with the exclusives for Walgreens left the company and they hadn't gotten a replacement, so they could return next year.

I think the '"exclusive" package is just something that Hasbro offers up to retailers, and Walgreens was one that bit. We got to realize a lot of different figures with them, got some new tooling for new figures out of it, and now.............the exclusives will probably go with some other retailer.......eventually.

On 1/2/2023 at 1:17 PM, MODADDYDODOK said:

Yea one less avenue for comic Legends doesnt seem all that exciting to me. But maybe theyll make up for it in some way, or they already are.. who knows.Personally, Ive had very little difficulty with WG exclusives. Only ones I never saw in stores were the Silver Surfers.

Well this is a 180 for this forum for sure, because I recall countless scathing reviews condemning wg's exclusives, their non-stocking.

Threats to take action, even to the extent of going to their homes and toilet papering their houses...and then, REALLY hitting below the belt, mocking the very socks on their feet.

I'm ashamed to admit, I too took part in that one. I sought to tear them down for their bad clothing taste, in a way to build myself up. A low point for the fourm, indeed. Those were dark times, my friends.

All seriousness aside, I don't see anything that made those figures so special, that they could only be sold thru some other avenue. The Fantastic Four? Iron Man? Come on. They don't need to be "exclusives" but if hasbo wants to go that route, use Pulse.

Yea one less avenue for comic Legends doesnt seem all that exciting to me. But maybe theyll make up for it in some way, or they already are.. who knows.Personally, Ive had very little difficulty with WG exclusives. Only ones I never saw in stores were the Silver Surfers.

On 1/2/2023 at 8:07 AM, monron999 said:

Without the exclusive format I don't know that we'd ever have gotten a comic Punisher, and with what they've done to the comic I doubt we'll ever get another, at least not in the way we all remember him, so there's that.

That would be such a bummer; a first appearance update is one of my top 10.