Hasbro's very honest answers in the QNA this week about their doubts on prodouct levels and distribution for Legacy, and the fact they're not shipping any to Canada, has nudged me toward pre-ordering everything online.  I don't do as many runs as I used to, and I think HTS will be as a good a source as any, but I'm not taking any chances.

That's probably the smart thing to do as a collector.  My concern is that when sales rates decline at retail because we're all ordering online, there will no longer be any reason for retailers to carry anything but CW for the kids.  If its not turning fast enough at Wal-Mart and Target, the Legacy line will go away.   

For that to happen at over 20 Star Wars collecting sites that had different criteria for conducting their polls?  Then it starts sounding far-fetched.  Especially since some sites were only accepting submissions from forum members who were registered before the Fan Choice Poll was announced.

Maybe you missed this a few posts above, Nick:

I spoke with some administrators at a few other sites and they too flushed out the "cheaters", but I didn't speak with everyone at every site, and I noticed the same stuff went on at other site's forums. 

Some seemed to catch it, others did not, or didn't pay close enough attention to bother.  The same sock accounts were turning up at most boards though, so it's no shock this was fairly wide spread.

I would not be at all surprised if it was spread to most of SW sites involved.  If someone is willing to make fake accounts at 4-5 sites, then why not 19-20 sites?  It really doesn't take that long to register.  I pretty much just stay with JD and Yak (where this also happened), but which sites limited entries to existing members?  As Jesse points out, some sites were contacted and some caught it, but likely others that weren't paying attention did not.  If 5 or 6 sites had Jocasta Nu show up as a top vote, that's probably all it took for Hasbro to think its a real fan favorite.

Outside all that, I know of zero people who would put Jocast Nu in their actual top 30 most desired figures.  I'm sure there are some, but why in the world would anyone want a librarian action figure?   

A local Target here in Minnesota raised the price of Marvel Universe figures from $7.99 to $9.29.   That's about the same price K-Mart sells them for.  I hope this price increase won't be happening at all Targets.

Wow, that's ridiculous.  Which of our Targets did you see this at?

I'm surprised that Jocasta Nu made it given the widespread communication on voting fraud for that figure.  Did JD or any other sites communicate that this was happening back to Hasbro?  Just curious how aware of the issue they are given that response.   

I nabbed the Maria Hill/Iron Man Legends 2pack at TRU today.  Never thought I'd see this at retail.  Not bad all things considered, but strange to buy the larger size figures again after so long!

Quote from: JediJman on October  1, 2009, 05:29 PM

Is the tie-breaker in our league head-to-head or total points? 

Total points.  Just as the placings are determined right now by win/loss record, then total points.  A might early to be thinking of the playoffs though, doncha think?

Well, per my post I was just curious about the standings.  I certainly won't complain about being in front of...

Dude knows everything there is to know about football but can't figure out the standings. . .

Did I ever say that I knew everything there is to know about football?  Seriously, how is it possible for you to have PMS every day of the month?  Lighten up.

Is the tie-breaker in our league head-to-head or total points?  I'm surprised to be ahead of Ruiner in the standings.

Dressel - I'll trade a RB for Moss if you're interested.