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Movie Toys Might Be Released Earlier Than Expected
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06-17-2009, 12:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Jmacq1
I don't think Hasbro Customer Service is as knowledgeable about their product releases as some of these posts make them out to be.
That having been said, I'm sure plenty of RoC stuff will leak prior to the official release date, and maybe even we'll see the release date "bumped up" a day like they did for Transformers 2. Heck, I believe TF2 stuff started leaking about a month or so out...so we'd basically be due to start seeing it any day now.
However, Transformers 2 is the number one reason I take this posting with a huge grain of salt: Hasbro certainly isn't going to launch RoC toys prior to TF2 getting released next week, and probably not for a couple weeks afterwards...which was why the original July 11th date made sense. It'll give TF2 a couple of weeks and some change to sell-through after the release of the movie before RoC hits shelves.
Plus, with all -that- having been said, I've gotten no indications that July 11th is a hard "launch date" for retailers. In other words while they probably won't have stuff up before then...don't necessarily expect your retailers to "hop to it" and have G.I. Joe displays set up at midnight, etc.... I'd like to see that happen, but somehow I have a feeling this is going to be treated more like Iron Man or even Marvel Universe earlier this year: The resets happen when they happen, not so much a "BAM! Here they are!" sort of thing.
I suppose I could see Hasbro thinking "Hey, Terminator: Salvation basically bombed....maybe we can squeeze them out of the toy aisles if we push our Joe product a little earlier." Which means we'd basically get what looks like "leaked" product up until July 11th when the retailers probably had their resets scheduled anyway.
Well the Customer Service rep I spoke with had pulled it up on her terminal at said they were slated for June release (mind you this is not a HTS.com rep). So I'm going to ignore the fact that you think the rep is ignorant.
But, you are correct, if the box says 'due not put out until July 11th' then we are still at the mercy of the retailers.
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