Not Even Holiday Shopping Can Move Unwanted Repacks

We've reported heavily on "Wave One-Pocalypse". For those of you averse to clicking on that link for a little remedial reading, it's basically that it was fool's gold to think that Walmart skipped over the awful Vintage Collection wave 1. It was there, and in greater numbers than we imagined. It was merely masked by Walmart's confusing LIFO inventory system.

But if there was ever a time of year for utterly unwanted wave 1 stock to show up, perhaps the holiday gift giving season was it. Mayhaps stupid aunts and uncles would help move those essentially worthless Snoke figures, or so we thought. Well, my anecdotes from my local Walmart says otherwise. This stock has been there for weeks and it's not moving. It's even taken up dreaded real estate in the overstock area.

My one hope for this site is that we be fair. If there is any possible mitigating circumstance that could explain a curious decision on Hasbro's part, we give them that benefit of the doubt. But the continued toxic launch waves are an area where my personal patience has worn thin. Hasbro, let me pick the case ratio for your next launch assortment. The only complaint you'll get is that they're too hard to find because they sell so quickly.

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