Sowndwave76 wrote:Neither Origins Bee nor Origins Jazz "shelf-warmed" in my area... In fact, I've never seen Jazz at any of the three Targets I've regularly checked for TF.
I only ever Saw Bee in stock once, and the store "in stock" website basically confirmed this as after about a week they were no longer orderable for in store pickup. After that I never saw it again.
I never saw Jazz in store, nor the Cliffjumper, Kup redeco. I did see the Bluestreak once.
The only ones that I did see regularly were the Bayformer movie releases.
Knowing what I know about retail, I'd chalk it up to horrible distribution where select stores always get more of an item than another thus affecting sales overall fi they didn't move as quickly as expected. Where as if they had been more equally distributed it would have possibly looked better, though not by much because some bots simply won't do as well as others.
Also, as with Walmart also making a boneheaded move caused Cosmos to be severely under packed. So there is an issue with not quite understanding the contents, it's not like they're buying a case of toasters in that they know exactly what they're getting and how to market it.
Buzzworthy has been around a while now so maybe t's time for a "refresh" on the packaging?
Overcracker wrote:It's also quite mistifying how they manage to shoehorn Wheeljack everywhere, 3 different lines, and now the bundle here but Hound was seemingly impossible to slip into any line Did we really need yet another Wheeljack?
Especially since VW Bee is right there in need of a reissue over anyone else. IMO
I mean if they were struggling with candidates for a 5pack, I can think of a few better ones! lol
Both might be neat if redone with non clear windows, but that really isn't my thing because if I go down that road then I'm gonna need all the others redone in the same manner. Right?
And I'm not about to go rebuy every bot because of an alternat window, and having just a few scatted about would look off to me.