Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5486221-20160803133231/@comment-6883075-20160921211318

Aaronbill3 wrote: I can vouch for the toys part. You can walk into a Toys R Us here in the UK and the chances of finding a Ben 10 toy of some kind is pretty high. Even if it is just a shitty Toepick/Crashopper/Jury Rigg figure. Though the poor sales of UA figures (deservedly so, tbh*) does expliain why some of them were so hard to get in the US, as well as why the Reboot is airing here before it is for you guys.

* Not saying OV deserved to suffer because of it, or that Ultimate Alien had bad characters/aliens, but look at this non-posable piece of shit. You cannot tell me that a child would enjoy playing with that. And let's not forget that time when Bandai decided to just reuse old molds instead of making new ones, and just switched up the colour scheme like some D-list transformer. You cannot tell me that a child would eagerly want to spend his hard earned pocket money on those. With that in mind, you cannot reasonably expect retailers to decide to take a loss by stocking them. It's a shame really, most of the Omniverse toys were pretty good. Though knowing this does explain to me why they A) were smaller and B) most of them got repackaged several times. As one of the younger members here, only being around 11 when UA was out, I loved almost all the UA toys. Never even knew that non-posable Agreggor existed, but I always wanted that sick (posable) Ultimate Agreggor figure. And I also loved the Haywires- had a few, first that come to the mind being Ultimate Echo Echo Haywire, NRG Haywire and AmpFibian Haywire.