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Originally Posted by Jmacq1

But hey, if you all want to believe it's the grand Hasbro conspiracy to piss off toy collectors, be my guest.

My post didn't have anything in it that isn't supported by a few simple internet searches for yearly and quarterly earnings by Mattel and Hasbro, and what you can see with your own eyes every time you go to one of the stores over the past few years. Stuff floods in the fall/winter, and droughts the rest of the year unless it's a movie tie-in. The only difference now is that the drought is even drier because the retailers are losing confidence and faith in traditional toys over higher-profit items and electronics. Notice which sections of Wal-Mart and Target keep getting smaller and which keep getting bigger year-by-year.

I said nothing about a conspiracy,and no this is not the typical "dry period" we have all come to expect,forget numbers and figures from spreadsheets and quarterly earnings,stats only go so far,fact is in the 6 or so years I have been collecting it has never been this dry for this long at EVERY store,something is off,not sure what but its not typical.