VERY BAD toy distribution in your area? Vent your frustration here!
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:05 am
Wanna hear about VERY BAD distribution? You gonna hear about very bad distribution.
I'm Canadian, from the province of Québec.
I'm french speacking and I'm all bout defending my native language, but some times, Quebec's protective laws are killing me.
By law, everithing that is sold in Quebec MUST have french on the packaging.
That mean, not only we usually pay more for our toys, we have to wait weeks or months to have our Transformers after you Americans.
Wallmart is the best distributor. Whennever they have some exclusives, they always manage to have then, even if they are late. same thing for any TF waves. They still havent got the most recent DotM waves (Darksteel, Airraid and co.) but they finally managed to have Kup, Wheeljack, Thunderckracker, and Warpath. I bought them on sale at 10$, way after I gave up and bought them at the Hasbro Toy shop...
Zellers, (own by Target, it seem) do have the latest DotM wave (darsteel n Airraid) but they prices are ****. CAN17$+taxes for deluxes, CAN8$+taxes for legends Cyberverse, and CAN20$+taxes for shelfwarming Generation Darkmount and Red-Alert. Oh, and they have a couple of exclusive orange The Fallen at CAN40$+taxes for more than a year now. That **** was never, NEVER on sale. Not even on boxing day.
At least, the have some PPC at CAN10$+taxes and Bombshock at CAN15$+taxes...
Oh, and Exclusive HA Leadfoot? Never happen.
The worst offender is Toys r Us.
They do have exclusives..... for anything but Transformers.
NO MP Rodimus.
NO Scan series.
NO latest Generation waves like Walmart have.
No latest DotM waves like Zellers have.
Oh, and I never say any HA Roadbuster or the TF Prime Optimus/kids/Megs pack, Arcee and Cliffjumper. It's a miracle they had TF Prime deluxe Starscream and Bumblebee.
Oh, and the infamous 25th anniversary Unicron, Amazon Exclusive? It's a TrU exclusive in Canada. Everywhere in Canada. BUT NOT IN QUEBEC BECAUSE THERE'S NO FRENCH ON THE BOX!
AUUUUUUUUGGGHHHHHH!!!!
I was lucky enough to have a Unicron on Ebay for 90$ shipped. But just to make sure the insult is complete, the Kranix minicon have two right feet...
You Americans are spoiled to no end.
Oh, and just one last trivia. Are you American? You bought an American Transformers on American soil? You got the box or card? Look the fine prints and see where the packaging was printed.
Prepare to be amazed.
Edit: There, text cleaned up. Sorry, but it was originally a 4chan post.