Bumblebee "Evolution of a Hero" Target-Exclusive 2-Pack Delayed

Great. Meanwhile, the shelves of every Target, Wal-Mart, and TRU in my area are STILL practically bare. If not for the recent Target exclusives I would have had nothing new in more than a month.

Already sighted at Tesco in the UK. UK rules!

Yep, confirmed here...just got my email today with the delayed date of late November, with Delivery first few days of DECEMBER (at least that's what mine said).

Absolutely ridiculous. There's no reason given for it either.

I'm so sick and tired of this crap. It's time someone steps up and either gives us the raw deal, or does something about this.

Yea i've also seen it in tesco and i passed on it. battle damaged concept BB looks crap IMHO.

i'm happy with my prime/08 BB 2 pack.

Hope Hasbro reps realize how much money they are missing out on in sales by their production issues. If I was Hasbro I would start moving some of the production out of China and start considering having environmental footprint stamps on their products so that China cleans up its act. That would be a great sales promotion.

DorkimusPrime wrote:I personally could give two shits; I doubt any collector would. The reason to get production out of China is so the damn things can be brought into the US lead-free.

I humbly disagree. Putting a couple of bucks on the cost of an item ahead of the pollution caused by the cheaper price is very short sighted. The majority of the recent problems from China was related to design flaws by Mattel with those stupid little magnets on their various toy lines. The CEO said as much recently. Some of the other issues was lead paint. The whole cat and dog food issue was a different matter altogether.

Back to initial point though most of the pollution from the production plants serviced with electricity from coal fired power plants in China crosses the Pacific and rains all over North America and makes us all sick. This is a global problem with global implications. Time to realize how the products that we buy in China is killing the planet. Better sooner than later for the benefit of future generations. This issue is well documented if you watch Nova, National Geographic and Discovery channel. Check it out yourself:

http://www.everybodysweather.com/Static ... /index.htm

Zeds wrote:Hope Hasbro reps realize how much money they are missing out on in sales by their production issues.

Environment aside...

In terms of production issues (not meeting demand, empty pegs and all that), you're right.

Hasbro is missing out on sales. I know for sure I haven't bought much in the way of TFs lately.

Nor will I be. (Only a handful of new figures, beyond that, nothing they have coming up (aside from Classics/Universe 2.0) that interests me...)

It's a shame, I remember years when they commanded my full wallet and got it. Every nickel and dime. (Well, not really. I'm exaggerating there, but it gives you the idea.) Now...not so much.

I realize the movie has been their one hope to keep from dying, but they just put so much into it they've let everything else go and now...they don't even have product for the movie line to go with the demand. =\

And yes, they did stop focusing on Classics, Titaniums (which I didn't care about, but many others did!) Alternators (which were expensive, but I'd have taken no name cars with the same type of transformation/detail and been happy as well) and they did it all for the movie line.

But, this is a positive for me. Less money to them for the time being, more money to go into my new PC that I'll be building here in a few weeks. (Powerful. )

So yeah...Hasbro is definitely losing out in the sales department.

Autobot032 wrote:So yeah...Hasbro is definitely losing out in the sales department.

This is true no matter what. Not on par with Nintendo losing out on sales on the Wii, but a definite missed opportunity.

Dude, Papa John's delivers.