[behindthemask]

Hasbro Cares about making money plain and simple, I would assume a billion dollary company would have advanced security measures for it's employees and workers to avoid major press leaks before work is actually complete, the same way FORD,GMC,CHEVY etc do with all their new toys, they test them and make sure everything is perfect before showings pics to the general public. With toys it's different, for all we know Hasbro has in their contract with the factory workers your allowed to take x # of figures /week/month/year or at the very least major discount if they wanted to buy any, from there go to ebay see what's selling for the most and aim to take thoose. There is also the robin-hood side of the story, worker who works hard to support his family. steals from the big Monster Hasbro, in returns sells the toys for enough profit/risk to justify supporting his family. Frankly Hasbro and it's top level works and design frame ain't making $100/month more like $100-1000/day! as long as they meet their quota who cares how many extra copies get made/stolen/broken?

Frankily I don't condone it but don't hate bash, it gives us the chance to see merch before hasbro even decided to release it, opportunities for collectors to find missing holes in their collection for cheap/cheaper then retail/scalper. It allows customizers rescources to more fodder parts for cheap, and allows die-hards the options to army build at not a crazy amount of $$ doing so, I always see this seller who has 4-5 red ninja's for like $5... hells ya.