WORLDWIDE SHORTAGE ON HENKEI ALERT!

[TheDirtyDigger]

I don't want to start a panic but if Hasbro aren't making a Classics Red Alert do you think TakTom will have the foresight and capacity to satisfy the demand for this figure?
Not only will TakTom have to produce enough for the needs of their traditional markets and usual importers but there will be massive extra demand from the largest consumer market, the U.S.

Am I being paranoid? Should I even care? Hasbro's not making a Red Alert right?

[GoktimusPrime]

Afaik Hasbro's not making Red Alert. But TakaraTOMY cannot produce extra figures to satisfy demands from importers living outside of their market region. This is due to a legal contract that exists between TakaraTOMY and Hasbro which forbids them from intruding onto each other's markets. TakaraTOMY cannot touch Hasbro's markets without permission from Hasbro and likewise Hasbro can't touch TakaraTOMY's market without permission from TakaraTOMY.

I learnt this in a telephone conversation I had with Takara in 2003.

[gamblor916]

Let the mad rush for Henkei Alert begin...
Scalpers are going to have a field day

[liegeprime]

Darn, a TFPH co-member living in Singapore already got his Henkei Red alert (he posted a pic in the site's Acqui thread. Mebbe we can ask doubledealer or another Singa based member to loot for us? Oor Kyle's friend mebbe?

[kurdt_the_goat]

Afaik Hasbro's not making Red Alert. But TakaraTOMY cannot produce extra figures to satisfy demands from importers living outside of their market region. This is due to a legal contract that exists between TakaraTOMY and Hasbro which forbids them from intruding onto each other's markets. TakaraTOMY cannot touch Hasbro's markets without permission from Hasbro and likewise Hasbro can't touch TakaraTOMY's market without permission from TakaraTOMY.

I learnt this in a telephone conversation I had with Takara in 2003.

This sounds to me like they can't *directly* intrude on the other's markets - ie actually releasing TT branded toys in the US. I bet there's nothing stopping TT assessing worldwide demand and releasing to Japan only, a shitload more figures than Japan would normally consume. Who's gonna ever know how many go outside the country anyway? That said, i doubt they've done that.. unless recent experience with Henkei seekers etc has enlightened them to the (i assume) high demand from overseas.

[roller]

drat

these 2 were some i was after

[Defcon]

I think its a possibility hasbro will do red alert at some stage next year. Purely speculative though! and they love repaints
I would get a henkei red alert just in case they don't. That is probably how all the collectors see it.

[kup]

I think its a possibility hasbro will do red alert at some stage next year. Purely speculative though! and they love repaints
I would get a henkei red alert just in case they don't. That is probably how all the collectors see it.

I think its possible that Hasbro will eventually release the mold as Red Alert even if not within Universe then some other future line, possibly movie as they did with Crasher (Fracture). Repaints is what Hasbro loves to do and with Red Alert, they don't have to think much as the color scheme is already mapped out and the retooling for the roof lights has already been done.

[Doubledealer]

It's a mold most of us have already bought twice already. Care factor zero.

[GoktimusPrime]

+1. I might get it if Hasbro releases it, otherwise I'm not gonna go out on a limb to import one.