>>9647067>Giving people random unpainted artist proofs that are factually worse than the painted version rather than selling them as an option so people know they are getting itDisliking the actual unpainted proto style I get. They aren't for everyone and the mindset is: no paint = cheaper/lazy.
But complaining about the distribution of them I don't understand. Are you saying you would rather have them taking slots in a wave? Taking Warhammer Series 2 and 3 for example, you would rather have 2 regularly painted figures and 2 unpainted figures and push Flayed One and AS Battle Sister to Series 3 instead of just being able to have all 4 in a single wave with the Artist Proofs as hard-to-find variants. Which brings me to my next point: it isn't like the AP variants are abundant. It isn't like people can't find the regular versions because the AP variants are clogging the shelves. The only one that is maybe, MAYBE happening with is Swamp Thing, and there isn't even any conclusive evidence of that. Having them as hard-to-find platinum variants essentially creates another slot in the wave while still allowing room for more (regularly painted) characters. The people who want them will search for them, and the people that don't, won't. I actually think that this approach is great, and creates demand for the unpainted variants while not padding out half the wave with lazy releases that maybe 1/5th of people will actually buy. Hell, i'm kind of surprised/disappointed that Jaz/WCT hasn't stolen this buisness model for putting shiny pokemon as variants since we obviously know it can be done through Mcfarlane's Platinum releases. And Pokemon is literally the biggest media franchise in the world
But I digress, I think the way that they're releasing AP variants is fine the way it is
