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03-05-2021, 02:42 AM
PlanckEpoch
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My theory is that the Northwest received a smaller amount of CI wave 1 than most other regions. Here in the greater Seattle area I saw Roadblock a couple times, trooper once, beachhead once, and my dad found Baroness once. Always amazed at the difference when folks in other parts of the country say they saw them all multiple times.
For wave 2 I was at least able to get them on release day so it seems like the distribution was a little better, but I haven't been looking since then so I am curious how many later shipments there might have been.
I'd believe it. To be honest I didn't really ask for help on anything else from Wave 1 on the belief that the rest would be readily available...hahaha...but I'm not sure if many of the locals that I'm connected with even saw much Wave 1 either. I should ask sometime to get an idea.
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I’m convinced that in addition to just not ordering enough, Target completely lost control of the shipments at every step of the way, which is to say Vipers were being snagged by the case even at the warehouses. This would explain the number of stores I visited that were supposed to have either 4 or 6 “arriving with the truck” and then they wouldn’t be able to find them even right when the store opened. This might also explain how the preorders got screwed up — like they’re SUPPOSED to be at the warehouse, but the whole case/box/pallet disappeared. Wild theory but yeah once word got out to Target employees that these were hot items we as collectors were TOAST.
I wonder how feasible this really is though? The rationalist in me applies Occam's Razor right away. This would imply that there's a Corporate wide conspiracy of warehouse employees making sure that as few actually get to stores and hands as possible. The most reasonable explanation is that Hasbro simply didn't make enough to go around.
They certainly said they'd do better by Wave 2 but by all accounts they didn't and I would bet the pandemic has had a hand in it. I'm going by what happened in Transformers. A number of Amazon exclusives became scarce without warning and many people, even those who pre-ordered within a day or two of the window opening up had their orders cancelled. Likewise, Target exlusive Transformers, Thrust and Runabout, made a blip and then just up and disappeared. The Walmart exclusive Netflix Transformers wave 2 likewise blipped before the holidays in 2020, never restocked, and aside from one or two stores reported, have seemed to disappear also.
I lucked out for most of the TF stuff. I've gotten every Amazon Transformers exclusive I pre-ordered but I know a lot of day-1 pre-orders that ended up getting cancelled. No rhyme or reason why Amazon did this. I never got a pre-order for Target's Thrust but I did get one for Runabout. Thrust also came months after it's release date due to a possible transit issue. By this time the Walmart exclusives should be clogging shelves but even the peg warmers of wave 2 are nowhere to be found.
It all suggests there's a supply line problem on Hasbro's end. Exclusives being exclusives, with people buying multiples int he case of the CI troop builders, resellers looking to make money, and the nature of more limited runs combinging with supply issues means the perfect storm for a lot of unhappy fans across Hasbro's various brands.
It's an absolutely shitty situation all around for GI Joe and Transformers and I really hope to fuck that Hasbro is already in the works to fix this. I can't imagine that Hasbro is really that happy about what's going on but ultimaately it's up to them to come up with timely solutions.
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