Congratulations to Ernesto who was the contest winner!  Ernesto will receive a masters of the universe action figure.

For those of us who tried to actually buy the figure this month and came up short…This is a perfect example of how much demand there is over supply right now for this toy line.  I expected the figure to sell out in under a half hour, but given last month’s figure sell out time, I figured it might go quicker.

I was just as unsuccessful at purchasing the figure as many others were.  I don’t think that’s ever happened before when I actually planned on buying a figure on their site…

However, there is a way to avoid this for monthly figures in the future.  MattyCollector  plans to up the production of the figures starting June, depending how much, will determine how the pricing will change on the secondary market if at all.  They also offer a year subscription option which you can sign up for and it guarantees you the monthly figure.  This option will be available sometime this summer.  If you want to avoid the hit or miss game with getting the figures this is your best option.  You get as many monthly figures as subscriptions you buy and when they open up subscriptions there is no limit as to how many you can purchase.  Not even the 10 figure limit there is monthly.

There has also been talk it is changing to a year subscription to include all figures including bonus figures but no official announcement has been made yet.  I missed the subscription sign-up last year and I know I plan on getting a few yearly subscriptions either way once they become available, just to guarantee I get some figures each month.

Thanks to all that participated in the contest,

John