Yay, someone in the region who likes Transformers AND FiM. I thought me and my pals were the only in South East Asia involved with this phenomenon!
Bro pls feel free check out this thread, lotsa fellow S'poreans & M'sians hang out & chit-chat here. lepak-melepak lah! :) The Singapore/Malaysia toy discussion thread http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-toy-discussion/283590-spore-malaysian-toy-discussion.html
As far as the Alphas go, the return rate of them has made a lot of dealers not want to stock them. The Betas, on the other hand, have sold fairly well as far as I can understand, so I'm not sure why stores wouldn't re-stock them. A lot of them are still available on robotech.com, toynami's official online retail outlet, though: ROBOTECH.COM - The Official Robotech Web Site! They ship internationally, as well.