There is no way in hell that:
#1. Hasbro doesn't know what's going on.
#2. Hasbro can't make a ton more of all the exclusives so everybody can easily buy one & put a stop to scalping.
#3. These figures have to have such a tiny window/time limit.
#4. The only exclusive that has been mentioned so far is the Dirge/Ramjet pack but nobody told Hasbro about Siege Skywarp or Greenlight.
And not only exclusives. I think it's completely ridiculous how titan Scorponok showed up for only about 1 month last year, sold out everywhere & immediately shot up to $200 or $300. Now I've been waiting a full year for more to be restocked. Let that sink in,
1 FULL YEAR! What a load of BS! I didn't pre-order him because I wanted to buy him closer to November or December. But you can no longer choose when you want to make a large purchase like that. Now if you don't pre-order immediately you don't get it. And some Targets had him
IN STORES but none in my area, all the Targets near me are tiny stores. I wasted time hoping to find him in a store. Then I learned that none of the stores near me would be carrying it.
This entire situation is F'in ridiculous! I have a Scorponok pre-ordered at BBTS, it says it's due in June. But I can't count on that. I'm expecting June to come & go & Scorponok won't show up. Because that's exactly what happened to my Quintesson Pit Of Judgement at HasbroPulse. They delayed it by 3 months. I won't be surprised if they delay it again.
Hasbro made some horrible changes in the past couple years. Less figures being produced, tiny cases & stores taking more pre-orders than they can fulfill. Hasbro needs to revert back to the way it was. These new changes are absolutely horrible. It's perfectly ok to go back to the old ways when you try out something new & it doesn't work. No shame in that.
Target's exclusive Thrust was packed 2 per case. That nonsense
NEEDS TO STOP IMMEDIATELY! Thrust should've been packed at least 8 per case. Those are the kinds of new changes that don't work & need to be corrected immediately.
I don't think they can make it any more difficult to collect this crap. And if you look on Youtube, collectors from all of Hasbro's lines are going nuts. And also NECA collectors. And Master Of The Universe collectors. Mattel, Hasbro & NECA are driving all toy collectors insane. If it gets much worse collectors are going to start murdering each other over this crap.
https://www.fox6now.com/news/fight-over-trading-cards-outside-brookfield-target