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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

Store exclusives are something the store wants. It's not the toy company that decides "Hey, let's make an exclusive for Walmart!"

Target comes to hasbro and says "We want to have a figure/doll that no one else has. We're comissioning you to make a special Transformer/MLP that only we can sell."

Why? It's an attraction to their store. Collector/parent goes into their store for a toy no one else has, and decides to do the rest of their shopping while you're there.
That's why store exclusives exist.
It's not some conspiricy to drive collectors insane, or make toys difficult to find.

As for TRU, it's only logical that they would get their share of exclusives, being a genuine toy store.

Oh, I agree 100%. But if that's the case, distribute it better. When Wal*Mart had their exclusive Marvel Legends Giant Man series, I went to every Wally that I knew existed. And some that I had to find online. I traveled to 3 different states. And found exactly 1 figure on the pegs. Piss poor distribution.