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Originally Posted by Johnnyakiba

They may not control it but it IS their product. They should think it's important to pursue the companies to put the product on the shelf. I don't think it should be up to the consumer to have to contact the store. What do we say? "PUT MARVEL FIGURES ON THE SHELF!!!"...The Store: "Ok sir?.."

I'm sure Hasbro DOES think it's important and probably HAS talked to retailers about it before. But that's about all they can do, really.

But this notion that Hasbro can just "wave a wand" and make toys that we want appear on retail shelves for us to buy is simply ridiculous.

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There is a Hasbro rep at my store and her job is to make sure the product is on the shelf and displayed properly. I usually have a conversation with her about the distribution. Nice lady too.

But she can't force Wal-Mart, et.al., to put specific product (more to the point, specific items from a given case assortment) on the shelves any more than you or I can. She may have a bigger voice, but it's still up to the retailers to follow through.

So they have a bunch of MU Centurions and ROTF Tuner Mudflaps on the shelves? That's Hasbro product on the shelves and displayed properly. Granted, we'd rather see Vision, Iron Spider and HA Mudflap.

OTOH, if the pegs/shelves are empty, that's another story entirely. Even then, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be able to make that plastic grail magically appear from the back where it was being held hostage by the toy trolls.

She would do what you said above and hope for the best.