[Pravus Prime]

Is it Hasbro or the vendors? Remember, we've seen proof in the past that they're being far more cautious about clogging the shelves then they have in the past. Venders (except Wal-Mart) even passed on Avengers movie toys as they figured they'd get a luke-cool response at best. There were articles when Age of Extinctions product was underperforming that for a lot of vendors, that was the last big chance and that they'll be scaling back for movie releases from then on out.

We've also seen TRU's do some weird things with distribution, such as one store getting 20 Transformer Masterpiece figures, while another gets zero.

I'm not defending Hasbro and from the looks of things over the weekend, someone is clearly at fault here as there's all these empty pegs all over the place, but it may be regional distribution centers who wanted to hold stock for online purchases or used their screwy fulfillment model to determine that every store across the country should only get one case of everything.

On a positive note, I got what I wanted and for a pretty nifty bargain. Sunday I picked up the Hot Wheels finger flyer Ghost (Which is what I was looking for), but since they had a buy 1, get one 40% off, I also got the "new" Falcon. Since it was the last day that I could use my Rewards bucks, after the bucks and the sale price, they were $3.12. Then on my way home tonight (Monday), I stopped at a Meijer and picked up the Rebels Micro Machine set, which was on sale for 10% off and I had an Mperks coupon for another 10% general merchandise, so I got the set for 20% off. Not that big of a savings, but still. I got my ships, didn't fight in any lines, and saved quite a few bucks.