Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

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Re: Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

Postby Emerje » Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:31 pm

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jruss1975 wrote:Look Emerje, this is getting ridiculous. You ask how on earth did I get to my "crazy conclusions". If you think they are crazy then so be it, I'm not going to rehash it for you all over again, go back and read my original posts if you don't understand my thought process on this.
And no, there is no xenophobia here, there is only logic and numbers. Numbers don't have the ability to lie nor do they have an opinion, they just are.
Hasbro Asia is NOT an independent company, it's a division of Hasbro Corp. If you've ever worked for a global corporation before you'll know how these things work (I'm guessing you haven't). Directions are sent down from on high (corporate HQ) and everything trickles down from there to the subordinate satellite divisions all over the world. Hasbro Asia (and the others) don't do anything without the corporate HQ blessing first. Having said that it all goes right back around to my original argument about Hasbro (corporate) making bad decisions with their distribution.
Listen to ANY American based Transformers podcast and you will hear constant gripes about product that collectors want not being on store shelves. So it isn't just me and it isn't just in my area, it's all over the place unless you live in a foreign market that seem to have plenty based on online stories I read at least two or three times a month.

The other two made a lot of good points that I completely agree with. I just want to say that while numbers don't lie, they also don't mean anything here. And not only do I listen to at least one podcast regularly, but I also read every post in the Transformers toy forum here and have made more than my fair share of complaints about shoddy distribution. But you're directing your anger in the wrong place. The problem isn't with products showing up in other countries first, it's with Hasbro seemingly forgetting to allocate stock properly. That stuff showing up in Asia was always going to show up there. I can only think of two cases where Hasbro actually admitted to distributions issues AND did something about it. The first was recently when they promised PotP Deluxe wave 2 would return to stores after multiple complaints about them being hard to find in the US. And wouldn't you know it, they did. The other case was back in 2016 during May Mayhem when they accidentally distributed too many Combiner Wars Deluxe Grooves over to Asia not leaving enough for North America, they did a second production run with a fall release. Hasbro does listen to us fans sometimes, we just need to make sure we're being vocal enough about it and direction our energy in the right direction.

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Re: Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

Postby jruss1975 » Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:06 am

"...the US is one of the only countries where you can get that G1 Hot Rod (the other being Singapore, as stated above). there is no sighting yet of that toy in Canada."

This is a link to your own post...
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ada/41887/

I can pretty much promise you I'll never see that in any store within a hundred miles of my location. It just keeps on making my original point.
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Re: Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

Postby william-james88 » Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:45 am

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jruss1975 wrote:"...the US is one of the only countries where you can get that G1 Hot Rod (the other being Singapore, as stated above). there is no sighting yet of that toy in Canada."

This is a link to your own post...
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ada/41887/

I can pretty much promise you I'll never see that in any store within a hundred miles of my location. It just keeps on making my original point.

This is getting ridiculous. I wrote what you quoted yesterday (when he was not found yet) and the sighting I posted was this morning.

And you will notice that regardless, the US got Hot Rod first.
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Re: Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

Postby Seibertron » Tue Sep 04, 2018 4:30 pm

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hausjam wrote:So Hot Rod is getting packed backwards, and Devastator is getting packed upside down.


wouldn't have noticed if you mentioned that... but... yeah... they aren't supposed to be packaged like that.

I'm also planning on heading to Universal Orlando next weekend, so if I see any of these while there, I'll be sure to report it! Unless someone else beats me to it.


Maybe this is why there has been a delay and why orders were canceled.
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Re: Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

Postby william-james88 » Tue Sep 04, 2018 5:45 pm

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LordBludgeon wrote:
hausjam wrote:So Hot Rod is getting packed backwards, and Devastator is getting packed upside down.


wouldn't have noticed if you mentioned that... but... yeah... they aren't supposed to be packaged like that.

I'm also planning on heading to Universal Orlando next weekend, so if I see any of these while there, I'll be sure to report it! Unless someone else beats me to it.


Maybe this is why there has been a delay and why orders were canceled.

But hot rod was the first to ship out to people while it was the other reissues that were being cancelled instead.

Plus, all the hot rods currently on shelves in canada and singapore are also packaged backwards.
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Re: Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

Postby Emerje » Tue Sep 04, 2018 6:05 pm

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Starscream is the only one that's getting packaged correctly, but also the one that seems to be getting canceled the most.

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Re: Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

Postby william-james88 » Tue Sep 04, 2018 6:48 pm

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Emerje wrote:Starscream is the only one that's getting packaged correctly, but also the one that seems to be getting canceled the most.

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I thought it was the minibots that got cancelled most. several people have been getting their starscreams starting last week.
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Re: Exclusive G1 Reissues and Prime Wars Toys Found at Universal Studios Singapore

Postby Emerje » Tue Sep 04, 2018 7:11 pm

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Emerje wrote:Starscream is the only one that's getting packaged correctly, but also the one that seems to be getting canceled the most.

Emerje

I thought it was the minibots that got cancelled most. several people have been getting their starscreams starting last week.

I meant of the boxed figures since it's hard package a carded figure backwards and upside down. ;) The minibots seem to be their own kind of mess with each one being cancelled at random even in the same order.

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