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Originally Posted by BAD MOON

Just pre-ordered Hyperion/Sentry at BBTS. Hope I get the Sentry variant. Is it custom these days to see the release of the variant before the standard figure?

Seems to be the general pattern with ROML from what I've seen anyway. It's no surprise, though, since MU's been doing that since series 3. For the first two series, the variants came out much later and usually only in revision waves.

And I just want to mention a couple things about Hasbro's availability dates. Those dates are simply guesstimates on when that particular product will reach saturation (i.e. be available at most retail outlets). They are never meant to be taken as hard and fast street dates or that product will be guaranteed available by then.

There is no way that Hasbro could possibly control that, given the distribution of the various retailers they deal with. The only exception is when those retailers are contractually obligated to wait until a certain day before placing stock on the shelves. This is almost always a movie tie-in line that is planned to launch at or around the release of the associated film (the TF franchise is a good example of this. All three had street dates).

And any dates posted by online retailers are only when they expect to receive product from Hasbro, which as anyone who's had a preorder before can tell you, is never set in stone either.