VioMeTriX wrote:hey i was being silly man, i dont care who gets news first.... as long as it is honest and accurate. i hold our australian members in very high regards, you live where i want to be someday. but i do honestly see what you mean about some of our american fans, and im sorry it is so apparent you feel it.
It's all good and I appreciate you were saying it as a tongue in cheek thing. This whole debacle, right down to a concern troll who showed up on TFW, has just been in parts, internet pettiness from some people - to the point where some of us are shaking our heads and wondering if the same people wouldn't be demanding it be taken as gospel if it came from them.
VioMeTriX wrote:by the way that comment i got about everything being true on the internet comes from a comercial that currently plays 50 times a day here.
Like I said, it's all good and certainly there can be reason to be cautious with unknowns.
Case in point is something I brought up a while ago on OTCA. In October, I went into the local Toyworld (Toyworld Fyshwick for any Aussies who might be reading this) and asked about big ticket items. I was told it would be Optimus Prime and Omega Supreme, yet the had no further info or pics, but the price range ($100 mark each) and the combo makes it virtually a dead certainty that it's the Platinum editions.
Since then there's been radio silence and it might have fallen through, but even if it was straightforward, I'm an unknown quantity, so I'd totally understand skepticism at my saying that
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VioMeTriX wrote:one of my best friends works for hasbro in retail distribution, and what does that mean for me getting insider info.... diddly squat. he can get me the figures i want without searching, but hes too far down the chain to know anything that is coming in advance.
so my question is, how does one go about becoming an insider?
Well as Griffin has shown with Hasbro Australia, building relationships with reps and marketing people/managers in companies seems to be the trick. I know in some cases he's been able to say things but in other cases he's had to sit on things until he's been given the ok. The key I think is to allow it to be a relationship where trust is slowly built until you're in far enough that you're on the inside track.