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Originally Posted by justprime
I am betting on a no show,.. still waiting for buster magnus and atomic lug nut.. etc to show up......walmart has a terrible rep for not getting there own exclusives here,..with exception of overstock from the states that they try and flog here months after the release south...long after most have bought it in the U.S. figuring it will never show here  ... face it people were a dumping ground...Toys r us isn't bad however most times the exclusives are in short supply but they usally get a few in I am waiting to see how the Arcee thing plays out,fingers crossed |
Sorry boy-o, but that's not how it works. We don't get the leftovers from the US. Our economy would go to shit if that was the way it worked.
Hasbro, or in our case, Hasbro Canada places an order much like we place an order from BBTS, only they do it from the plants themselves. Then big box stores (walmart, TRU, Zellers, Sears, ect) place their order with Hasbro. Hasbro in turn buys space from them to market their product based on each line. You ever wonder why sometimes the TF section is huge and the GI Joe section (just as an example) is so small? That's because of how many units of space Hasbro has bought from the company.
Another thing to consider is the packaging. Our packaging is tri-lingual because we share costs with Mexico. In that respect we shouldn't get "left overs" from the states.
However, with that being said on more then one occasion between the start of Universe (Blaster and Heavy Load) and now (Wave 4-6 deluxe figures) we've seen US packaging show up at Canadian retail. Hmmm, that might be a good question to ask at the next Q & A...
Now I may be missing some details, but that's the gist of it off the top of my head.
