LEGO Bizarro & Phoenix Minifigures SDCC 2012

[vynsane]

I was at SDCC and I couldn't even get any of these. The way Lego handles these exclusive figures is just total BS and a kick in the nuts to their collectors. I mean how are we supposed to get things from Toyfair (when its not open to the public) or SDCC (where they raffle them out) when they don't make very many and make them near-impossible to get? Refusing to put these in future sets only rubs salt into the wound. Doesn't make me feel valued at all as a customer when they do things like this on purpose.

I hear that, but at the same time I think the badge scanning/random drawing is much better than the way other toy exclusives are handled, with long lines that basically bar you from seeing anything else at the con. Honestly, there's no perfect way to facilitate these types of things and there's always going to be someone who misses out, but at least you were free to roam the exhibit hall as opposed to being stuck in line (and being stuck in line still rarely means you actually receive what you're waiting for, given the limited nature of most of those types of things).

[unclephn]

And thus is the nature of all things 'exclusive'.