Xenomurphy

That is a brilliant idea.

You've got some convincing arguments and I even agree to most of them. To make it fun, collecting shouldn't be easy, that's right, but it should be realistically possible. A price of $400 for a little ABS fig is in my opinion bare every commensurability. I'd gladly pay a price of even $100 for a minifig which is very rare, even though this is also a very high price. But $400 (or, like last year, in Azog's case, $1,000) is too much even for a hard working man with no other costly hobbies. And this is not just about collecting. LEGO is a building toy. I love building and sharing MOCs and it saddens me that (especially in the case of superheroes) I can't build all the MOCs I'd like to, only because I can't afford to buy the minifigs. If SDCC minifigs are just variants of already existing minifigs (like Spider-Man for example) it is still okay, since I can use one of the regular Spidey figs (though, as a collector, I'd still like to have the exclusive, hehehe). But exclusive figs like Bizarro of the Collector for example are in my opinion not really fair. I'd prefer that TLG produces little exclusive sets without exclusive minifigs as giveaways or not to limit the exclusives to such a low number like 1,000 pieces worldwide.

I don't get it. You call yourself a completist, yet you clearly vote for exclusive minifigs that are only available in a certain geographic area. I'm collecting LotR and Hobbit minifigs for 2 years and now and with the announced SDCC Bard minifig, I realise that those 2 years were for the birds, because I'll not be able to afford this last minifig. It doesn't matter for a real completist wether a set or a fig is consecutively numbered or not as long as it is part of a particular series that he or she is collecting.

You are right. While there is life, there is hope. I'd be among the first to sign the petition.

A nice idea, although it is probably useless. I'm trying for 2 years now to get people to write letters to TLG and to complain about how unfair their comic con policy is. I also pointed out alternatives. I used my Arkham Asylum MOC which generated 1,000,000 clicks to spread the message but NOTHING happened. Fact is, as long as TLG is making loads and loads of money from us, they don't care and ignore us. I'm afraid and sure no petition will change that, sad as it is.

This is a wonderful idea and very professionally executed. I love your idea as much as the design.