No more Generations toys for 2015 in Australia?

[5FDP]

My local Kmart has not stocked anything of significance since last Xmas. The place literally has tumbleweeds blowing through the toy aisles. I'm not surprised by this news at all. Thankfully we are getting Devastator cause that sucker would have been expensive to import.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Wow - my tiny town has always been pretty crap at getting TF's in - now it sounds like the whole country is going to follow suit - welcome to hell fellas

Guess I'll be looking for my second Blackjack online after all

My local Kmart has not stocked anything of significance since last Xmas. The place literally has tumbleweeds blowing through the toy aisles. I'm not surprised by this news at all. Thankfully we are getting Devastator cause that sucker would have been expensive to import.

Really? Literally? I'd like to see that
(sorry man - couldn't help myself )

[Zommael]

Over my years of collecting, I've come to realise that statements from Hasbro regional offices can mean anything from what they seem to say, the exact opposite, something else entirely, or nothing at all. Hasbro Australia seem a lot better than Hasbro UK, but still, until we've heard from somebody other than a customer service representative, and more likely via Griffin or GoktimusPrime who have contact with Hasbro pretty regularly, I'd take anything at all with a grain of salt. No offence intended to BidoofDude of course!

Really? Literally? I'd like to see that
(sorry man - couldn't help myself )

Literally now means figuratively.

[griffin]

Sounds like UK Hasbro have had something similar occur, but in their case they missed wave 2... which often happens when stores over-order on the first wave of a series.
After all, we've seen it here every year since 2011 (TF3), we didn't see much after wave one of TF3 toys (2011), we didn't see anything beyond wave one of TFPrime (2012), or Beast Hunters (2013), or much past wave one of TF4 toys (2014)... and this year we've had 5 months of wave 1 RID toys sitting in storeswhile other countries are up to wave 3 and 4... so it would be more surprising to have a consistent, regular release of all the waves here.

Wouldn't it be great to have the marketing model of Japan or Asia, where they have actual release dates that are almost always reliable, and stores aren't clogging their shelves with first wave stock, just to maintain a stupid corporate policy of not being the first store-chain to run out of stock.... as if losing lots of money on discounting stock somehow makes more capitalistic sense than ongoing sales/profit by rotating stock and keeping the shelves "fresh" with new stock.
This corporate model needs to change if they don't want to keep losing more customers to online purchases, just to find something that isn't dead stock in the Retailer's store.