Well here is a response from Hasbro Australia, I went ahead and emailed a couple of questions and got a very quick reply from them.
Hi Fraser
Once a year at Toyfair we present our product range to retailers, it is generally up to them as to what products we import into the country. If they (K-Mart Etc) do not wish to range the product, then we do not carry it for that year.
We are terribly sorry that it is sometimes not possible to bring the complete range of Transformer figures into Australia .
The situation to date has been that the small size of our market (from a global perspective) has prohibited us from bringing in the less desirable figures - from a regular consumer's point of view. This is particularly relevant to the figures which are made available later in the range - as most regular consumers have already bought all the Figures they intend to by now!
Our figures are imported in assortments, the makeup of these assortments is decided in the USA. So - instead of now ordering only the new figures, which we have not yet received, we may receive 2 new figures only in a case of 6 - which leaves 4 old figures on the shelf too.
I'd like to thank you for your correspondence, and assure you that we do take on board your concerns, understanding that this can be frustrating for a collector such as yourself.
Transformers Animation toys may be in Australia in June - July, but we have nothing definate yet.
As I said above it was a very quick response and as you can see helpful as well as very polite. I have no complaints with Hasbros communication because they more than covered the questions I put to them.
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Originally Posted by roller
No name attached Gok, just Hasbro service centre if I remember rightly
