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04-23-2021, 10:10 AM
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whether I've seen the contract or not I'm pretty damn sure there are strings attached that are preventing Hasbro from instantly flooding the market with Vipers, much less somehow magically making production of all those Vipers instantaneous and teleporting them directly into whiny collectors' hands the way some people are going on around here.
Right. If they could simply churn out all they wanted with no regard for exclusivity agreements they would. It took them over a year to implement a "Partner Exclusive" section due to such contractual restraints. I had an interesting conversation with the GM of an online toy store about this very thing. If you think music industry contracts are wild you should hear some of the shit they told me.
When a toy company locks in an order with a factory it can take a while to add additional product. Example: Hasbro orders 2000 of Figure A (which is a very small number and hardly worth prepping the injection press). Tooling is set and inserted into the injection press, Plastic is loaded, they fire up the press and churn out the order. Once that order is completed workers break down the tooling, clean and flush residual plastic from injection lines, and MOVE ON TO THE NEXT PRODUCT IN THE QUE that the factory and said machine are responsible for producing. These factories stay running 24/7. It's not like they hit "print" and a copy shoots out. In addition the injection presses are MASSIVE. It's extremely time consuming to prep and clean a press. I'm sure Hasbro gains a measure of preferential treatment but they do not have dedicated factories that only produce toys for them.
Has anyone ever toured a paper mill or a large format magazine printer that uses a "web press"? If you had you would have at least a gross understanding of how incredibly time consuming prep and clean up is. Toy production is very similar.
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