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Originally Posted by ZeoVGM

How is it Hasbro's fault, if it was apparently stores "not stocking right".

Some of you guys attack this business far more than you should.

Oh I do bemoan the stores about it, in fact I loathe toys r us for this among many other reasons. It's a good chunk their fault for not having the blurr wave up for christmas because at that point all the kids had the other figures, and were asking for that wave.

But on that same notion, I'm disheartened by hasbro canning the line cause of the dips in sales because kids couldn't get the characters they wanted. (Heck I can STILL find normal animated prowl, but still no samurai prowl.) Especially after it sold so well initially. And it's not like they weren't moving here, stores just wouldn't restock them that fast, to the point pegs were empty fro weeks at a time, and when it was restocked, it was the same initial waves over and over.

In that aspect, it works both ways. The toy store screws up, and instead of seeing why, hasbro assumes it's a failing/dying line.
It'd be like if they still have the first 5 MU waves out for christmas alongside the new comic packs. Then tell us it doesn't sell anymore... Well it won't sell if new merchandise isn't out there! Not everyone kitbashes like some of us.
I'm just hoping that's the case with the XMO deluxe figures, that it's one of those pushing back to fill the rift between them and sdcc's new wave figures showings to tease for the holidays type things. Otherwise I worry the same may happen to it and MU after the DVD market figure boom.

I don't feel they've jilted the fan or collector at all, I think they've tried very hard to incorporate what we want into some of the lines, but at the same time, I'm getting peeved by their trusting of retailers who seemingly only stock the first two waves of animated over and over, while other areas get new stock. And then say, oh well it's not selling, when the problem is really even distrobution among the stores. And the store not ordering or placing the cases right.

You would not believe the amount of people disheartened to hear they couldn't get blurr till after christmas. Whereas from the movie-line at that point all they wanted was BB really.

No ICT or Ravage let alone soundwave on the release date of the ROTF toys(I went at midnight, and they didn't even have chromia's wave! And still don't the fallen's voyager wave!), just helped cement my agitation, because heaven knows when my local stores will get off their ass to get them in stock or on shelves. They aren't very good at that, just restocking the same initial waves, because "lawl they sold so well lawl." Which causes a pile up cause after about oh say a month of that, they still have new cases of the first waves while everyone is looking for later waves.

Moon Knight and Union Jack probably won't show up here till august, and that's just ridiculous. One store in particular pretends to not even know what MU is, and keeps removing the peg so the restockers can't restock right. You'd think the vendors/person representing hasbro at these stores would notice!

Mattel I've already given up on, their DCIH line here is horridly stocked, it's been the damn guy gardner wave or spectre wave since they've shown up in stores. (TRU and walmart respectively) Target locally just now got the Raven starfire captain boomerang packs in.

Now in Hasbro's defense for MU, I can understand it, they sell so fast and can't stay stocked that it very well may take till christmas so characters are saturated enough to find at any time. But I hope at that point fans don't start getting bored with the line out of impatience for new characters. And once they do finally manage to stay on shelves, is that because everyone has their fill of thos figures finally? And if they do, who's going to buy the ones on pegs for the next waves to be stocked?