GameStop.ca (formerly EB Games) Transformers Sightings and discussion

[Sun Swipe Prime]

When your CEO is named C. Cocks, and when the President of your biggest money making division, WOTC, needed to read a wikipedia entry to learn what their biggest product (Magic) is, you kind of get the inkling that some not so good things are about to follow.

I wish I could say I'm surprised at these developments, but I'm not.

[Wheelwave]

I contacted DJC Collectibles and they confirmed Hasbro Canada will not distribute this wave, but they are getting their's from the US. So they are good.

[kirbenvost]

Yikes. Let's hope A3U still gets theirs.

SMH... huge, profitable company somehow can't distribute their own product. Such BS.

[RNSrobot]

Originally Posted by Wheelwave

I contacted DJC Collectibles and they confirmed Hasbro Canada will not distribute this wave, but they are getting their's from the US. So they are good.

When they say "this wave" is it just the deluxes or ALL toys in the wave???

[Banshee]

Originally Posted by RNSrobot

When they say "this wave" is it just the deluxes or ALL toys in the wave???

Gamestop has the voyagers and leader figs up for preorder, so we know they?re available to Canadian distributors.

[face]

Originally Posted by Wheelwave

I wonder if this will also effect A3U, Toysnowman or any other Canadian toy retailers.

I 'm gonna see some of the guys from A3U tomorrow, I'll ask them what they've heard

[Nyax78]

Epic fail by Hasbro Canada. I'm not interested in excuses. They dropped the ball big time here. They need to get their shit together. Being a toy collector in Canada is becoming more and more frustrating.

[timcrook]

Originally Posted by face

I 'm gonna see some of the guys from A3U tomorrow, I'll ask them what they've heard

Which wave? I picked up twincast and metalhawk from them today.

[RNSrobot]

Originally Posted by timcrook

Which wave? I picked up twincast and metalhawk from them today.

Next wave Voyager is dirge and dark Leo Prime

[JLvatron]

Originally Posted by General Tekno

Wave 3 is the Devcon wave .

As for D&D, the short version is "

Thanks Tekno.
I knew nothing about WOTC in modern times.

Originally Posted by RNSrobot

I don't like the Bay movies, but their success and toyline success (until AoE stuff and esp TLK stuff started warming) was good for all TF.

I wonder. Before Bayformers, Transformers seemed to be going strong. Armada was a surprising hit (still surprises me today!) and this carried fwd to the rest of the Unicron Trilogy.
Then late 2006 they came out with the Classics line.

While Bayformers certainly gave Transformers a boost, I think Hasbro was still fine before it.

Originally Posted by RNSrobot

But you gotta wonder when you see things like Devcon, AxleGreese, the more niche/esoteric things in mainline if that's gonna continue going forward if sales are dumping.

Yah, I find that weird.
I thought niche toys like Origins Bumblebee, Jazz, and Blue Bluestreak worked fine as store exclusives.
I always assumed that was a winning formula.

So I'm surprised Defcon is a mainline toy.
Then again, the mainline also includes 'new' characters too, and he's new to the non-G1ers.
Ah, who knows.