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Hasbro Mocks the Collector?
Does anyone else find page 103 of issue 60, Aug 2002, SW Insider disturbing?
First up the title of the article is “AOTC Action Figure Update – Flying off the shelves at lightspeed.”
Since this article was written a couple months before the toys were released I find it interesting that Hasbro (remember Hasbro owns the company that makes the Insider) can now predict the future. Sounds like they have delusions of grandeur. No figures are flying anywhere except from the pegs to the floor. In fact it seems like more figures are around then E1. TRU has so much stuff they just fill up the pegs and then giant bins of figures. This stuff isn’t going anywhere even AFTER the movie opened. In one store I counted no less than 100 Slave-Is on the shelves. Retailers are going to take a beating once again making it quite hard to be able to snag the newest figures.
The second sentence of the article reads “…you might have to hang out by the stock room door every Tuesday morning for the rest of the summer to have a chance of snagging that one-per-case figure before anyone else does.”
Thank you Hasbro for proving what I have said all along. They have no idea what they are doing. Not only do they admit short packing figures, they have no problem suggesting you waste months of your time hanging out at stores waiting for new shipments like you have nothing better to do with your life. How about saying “All figures will ship evenly and often so everyone can get them without any hassle.” I guess that would require them to care about what they are doing?
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