Hasbro product and ratio release issues

[Demonac]

Which goes to show that both Hasbro and the retailers were asleep at the wheel. However I'm inclined to apportion more of the blame for that to Hasbro reps who should have been done a better job of pointing out how the line had done. The buyers might have been skittish, but the Japanese market research data combined with the fact that deluxes should have shelf-warmed should have been enough factors to push them over the line.

This makes no sense. What does Japanese market research have to do with us here in Australia? And what do Deluxe's have to do with Mega's?

Actually our problem has always been more that we typically miss out on, say, waves 2 and 3, we'll get wave 4, then miss out of 5 and 6 and then get wave 7 and miss wave 8.

Just looking at deluxe toys on the TF wiki, but it seems that we didn't miss much at all until the tail-end of a line. This is going back through to Armada. While some waves were harder to find, I bought pretty much everything locally at some point.

The only reason that the lack of toys is lower than it probably should be is that wave when the next order goes through, the wave that comes in is one which is comprised entirely of the figures in the gaps- meaning that generally the only gap missed is the last one.

That said, if it wasn't for BigW buying an entire wave of Voyagers, then we would have missed out on Soundwave in Cybertron, and that was a mid-line wave.

A major retailer did release it here. So what's the problem?