o.supreme wrote:I received my Rodimus last month from Amazon. However, I was looking at brickseek a couple of days ago, and it did show a "limited stock" of Rodimus at the Target closest to me, while I did not personally see it in store myself, I'm sure they probably got one shipment in. I've not seen Rodimus physically in any store yet. This closest Target to me is also where I got The Ark at the end of July, and I know they restocked it at least 2 times since then, which also sold relatively quickly.
The reason I ask is to maybe get closer to answering your question about ho many they made. With knowing how many target got per store, we could make an estimate of how many got allocated to Target and that would show us a number of one of the 2 biggest stores in what might be the biggest market/nation where TFs are sold. There are 1,897 stores. If there is an allocation of 4 per store, then we already start with 7588. Walmart orders systematically and are technically bigger (what I mean is they will order it whether or not they stock it in store), so since it's been seen at one already we know they order it too. So we get to 14000. Then we have Amazon, would they order as much as Target? Don't see why not, so we get to 21000. Doesn't include BBTS or any other online store or smaller collectible store. It could be 40 000 just the US (in there I also include the stock needed for Target's online store which I had not written before). Yes, I made up that number, but I am extrapolating, based on the amount of retailers and possible demand. I am looking for a believable number to then get to the next part, could be higher, could be lower (but I doubt it's much lower). We had a stat from hasbro that US allocation for an exclusive Transformer (the only info we ever had on this) was 33%. So, let's say there are 40 000 Rodimus toys being sold in the US, that would mean over 120 000 Rodimus toys made. Of course, could be lower. If only 30 000 rodimus toys are made for the US, then the global output would be over 90 000, still what I see as a pretty big number.
So when talking about economies of scale, yeah we have multiples of ten compared to the proposed out put of something from Haslab.
And here is the only info on global production we got from hasbro (it was a pretty big leak). It's for the exclusive Fortress Maximus Titans Return toy that was a redeco of the later released Fortress Maximus.
There were 9000 made (at least that's how I read it, unless the 3000 US allocation is an addition to that 9000, but I'll keep the numbers conservative).
So 9000 of this exclusive that is a fraction of how many of the regular release exists. How many of us own that regular release compared to the exclusive release? What's the fraction? Don't know, but the number can't be low. If it's a factor of 10 (which would not surprise me), there you are again with a 90 000 - 100 000 units made of a titan class Transformer (not including the extra units made for this exclusive and brave max, I am seeing them apart, just trying to figure out how much of the regular release there are)
All I mean to say by all this is what people mean by economies of scale. Rather than 10 000 units, we are looking at 100 000 or more. And using the only numbers we have ever been given.
and I've passed on Scorponok 
