Agreed. The most recent wave with the Python Crimson guard I passed on. That's right, the whole wave I passed on, including a Dreadnok. Too much at once and the quality wasn't there.
I am still buying all the American carded singles but I could care less about the so called 25th international packaged ones released in Canada anymore. If I bought the full international wave 7 set today, that would have cost me around 54 CAN. I am already paying less than that for the American set. And for what? So I can have a second set and pay around $100 bucks a wave? That stupid mind set ended this week. I am either opening the Canadian carded ones I have or using the ones I don't want for presents or toy donations. But no more of the so called international ones.
I have no problem paying for a full wave. I rather keep my money in this country. But the cheaper US price with the full character art work leaves me no other alternative but to buy the ones the Americans get. Those are the ones I want in the end as I prefer to keep the single carded figures MOC. The international ones with the same boring generic artwork doesn't cut it.