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Originally Posted by Tiberius

I half disagree. My friend knows the Hasbro rep quite well for my area and even had a quick bite to eat with her. The main question during lunch was distribution, and as you say, its the retailers fault? A bit, yes, but it is also Hasbros. Hasbro will NOT ship to any warehouses unless it is successful in the USA. If retailers don't order the product and they get no numbers for sales, it just won't happen in Canada [and other places]. If the line isn't successful enough in a country with 10 times as many people as Canada, they won't waste resources making the legal packaging for Canadian shelves.

So after that rant, it is as much Hasbros fault as it is the retailers.

But notice that I said retail distribution. I wasn't talking about selling their products to companies outside the US. Once the company has placed an order and it's in Canada, it's up to that company to get it on the shelves.

Also, I hope everyone realizes that Hasbro is a business and their primary concern is to make money. If the profit margin for selling products in other countries is not to a certain level set by Hasbro, then they have every right to not sell their products there.

Of course, that isn't what most US fans are complaining about when they mention the words "Hasbro" and "distribution" in the same sentence.

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Originally Posted by behindthemask

Part of Hasbro's distrubution issues stem from having to add french dialougue to the packing, ...[snip]

That's not a part of distribution, though; that's part of product localization. The former is about physically moving product, while the latter is about make the product legal to sell in a given country.