[quote name='kraftwerks']I cant believe people still go nuts for these "hard to find" figures. Aside from the truly limited variants, what normal figure that has been hard to get intially actually stayed that way? Two weeks after a friend bought the stupid toys r us storage box for $40 because it came with Whamshell, TRU had a bin full of single figures with lots of whamshells, and they had a bogoho deal too.[/QUOTE]
Some people have fun searching for and collecting things. This happens to be the last unique character in this game to be released, everything left is just an alternative variant of some sort.
Also, if you have a bin full of Wham-Shells, I'd like to have one. I'm assuming that bin went within a few days or weeks and was never replenished, but you're making it sound like that rare character is still sitting there waiting for us all to stop by.