[Joe Moore]

It's not up to Hasbro to say where items are exclusive to. The retailers themselves are the ones who request exclusives, and they have direct say in what will be exclusive. You can't just dump something on a store and tell them it's an exclusive.

And the reason no more Animated is being released is that there is simply no market at all for Animated in North America. Animated is still clogging toy shelves in nearly every market. No retailer woudl possible take on even more of a dead line. At best, they could do is a Hasbro Toy Shop exclusive, but even then, the demand is rather low.