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05-25-2012, 07:38 PM
Irid70
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and for this reason i still cant understand why anyone cant log on to hasbro toy store, prepay for 100 of whatever figure and then it goes to the factory for fill and gets shipped to your house, i mean wtf? too easy. id have bought thousands of dollars of shit this way in 2011/12 alone, instead i spent the same money and half went to scalpers instead of hasbro, theyre retarded.
Hasbro is not and is never going to be a "made to order" business, because that model is ENTIRELY unsustainable at their scale. The factory it would go to "for fill" isn't going to set up the tools and use its massive expensive equipment to make
one hundred
of anything. They work in lots of THOUSANDS, and would charge Hasbro the same price for 100 as they did for say, 5000 - whatever the minimum number they'll run off. Not to mention that by the time your order of 100 troop builders went to them that factory has already retooled to make an entirely different product. For a company the size of Hasbro that idea is ludicrous. But by all means, don't let the admittedly crude understanding of global supply chains in the above paragraph dissuade you from your nerd rage.
In Maryland sightings news, North East and Elkton Wal-Marts don't have any Retaliation toys out yet, just some leftover 12" figure stock.
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