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Just got another message as well... apparently they are favouring the 12" line over the 3.75" for the Con showing this year. No reason offered as of yet, but my guess is a financial push. Sales are WAY up on Titans I know and they are doing well, according to HASBRO. Even Mattel are biting and releasing DC and other licensees in the same scale. I have seen them restock several times in the past few months at Tesco (#2 retail store in the world behind Wal-Mart) and have spotted about one in five young boys at the park carrying them around. Not that I am at the park on the lookout for young boys, just an observation I have had during our recent rare warm British weather on trips with my son.

So fingers crossed, we get all but skipped at the Con and get showered in love at HasCon the following month. I suspect the C-Bay thing has them very concerned. I think that horse is dead now though as they are over retail now over stocked. It is my belief (and I have been wrong on everything lately) that the "contract" we all heard so much about over the last 18 months has ended and a new one will be in place with perhaps a new factory. Or at least a deal were the factory can't sale their overflow production pieces. Perhaps HASBRO has even gone back actually owning the facility instead of leading the contract to independent manufacturing. Pure speculation on that.