DorkimusPrime wrote:Autobot032 wrote:So yeah...Hasbro is definitely losing out in the sales department.
This is true no matter what. Not on par with Nintendo losing out on sales on the Wii, but a definite missed opportunity.
I just can't understand the logic of these statements. Both Hasbro and Nintendo are making money hand over fist because their products are spectacularly popular. There's nothing out there not because of supply issues but because consumers have bought it all. The TF film, like the Wii was a completely unknown quantity since nothing like it had really been done before. If it had not been well received Hasbro would currently be sitting on a mountain of unsold movie toys that they'd have to sell off at a lower price and it would have cost them a fortune.
This sort of thing happens every year, especially in toys. In 2003 (in the UK) it was Turtles. In 2005 it was Revenge of the Sith (anyone try finding a General Grievous with the four lightsabers more than a week after the film came out?). At the start of this year it was Ben 10. A small delivery would come in and be gone by the end of the week, and we wouldn't see any more that month. Ban Dai had massively underestimated demand. Now, six months later, we're swimming in Ben 10 stuff and you know what? It still shifts by the ton!
I expect TF to be this Christmas' Turtles- a delivery arrives and parents descend on it like vultures on a wildebeest carcass. Everything goes the day it comes in, or the day after. We're lucky that it's Hasbro we're dealing with and not Vivid, because Hasbro as one of the world's biggest toy manufacturers actually has a hope of meeting demand over the festive period.
Yes, we'll have a fight on our hands to get the new figures. Yes, you'll have to be lucky and go in at the right time of the right day to score the latest deluxe wave. I for one wouldn't have it any other way, even if I didn't work in a toy shop
-Nick
