Screwed on Voyager Long Haul Release

thenatureboywoo · 07-17-2009, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by squareball

Wow. I don't know where all this "fault", "blaming" stuff came from. I am still perfectly content with getting the toy before saturation. I was just wondering if anyone else felt the same as me about the release/information process.

Don't complain and then you won't hear people's negative responses.

And as far as release dates, I get my info when i go to my Walmart and it's there for me to buy.

Wheeljack_Prime · 07-17-2009, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by squareball

Wow. I don't know where all this "fault", "blaming" stuff came from. I am still perfectly content with getting the toy before saturation. I was just wondering if anyone else felt the same as me about the release/information process.

It's not your fault, so to speak. You simply screwed yourself over by paying however much extra (at least twice, if not thrice MSRP, by my guess) you did to get it now versus getting it a month from now.

squareball · 07-17-2009, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by thenatureboywoo

Don't complain and then you won't hear people's negative responses.

And as far as release dates, I get my info when i go to my Walmart and it's there for me to buy.

Once again, I'm not complaining. I am just posting my experience and creating a discussion (it is in the boards name) about an observation.

Cosbydaf · 07-17-2009, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

Hasbro shouldn't HAVE to post their release dates. They make and sell toys for little kids. Little kids don't care about the technicals, just as long as they come out.

Yeah, letting your customers know in advance when you're going to release a certain product is just stupid!

barrelks · 07-17-2009, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by squareball

Once again, I'm not complaining. I am just posting my experience and creating a discussion (it is in the boards name) about an observation.

maybe if the title of your thread had to do with Hasbro release dates and not, "Screwed on Voyager Long Haul Release" people wouldn't think you were complaining, but when you say you got screwed, you kind of sound like you may be complaining. Make title match question/statement.

Laser_Optimus · 07-17-2009, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by barrelks

maybe if the title of your thread had to do with Hasbro release dates and not, "Screwed on Voyager Long Haul Release" people wouldn't think you were complaining, but when you say you got screwed, you kind of sound like you may be complaining. Make title match question/statement.

Exactly. I believed he was complaining about what happened and blaming Hasbro by saying that he was screwed. Thus my comments earlier in the thread. A little classification goes a long way here I think.

Scantron · 07-17-2009, 07:07 PM

It's not Hasbro's fault that you lacked the patience to wait until the toy came out in the US for normal retail price, regardless of the difference between the scheduled release date and the actual release date.

Justden · 07-17-2009, 07:08 PM

Just started collecting (again), so I'm not exactly sure how distribution works. Would it be safe to assume that seeing unreleased toys from China, expected to come out in the near future, were America bound when they happened to fall off a truck enroute to a port where they would have been loaded into shipping containers, transported overseas, passed through customs, and placed back onto trucks so they could have been delivered to your preferred retailer? If that's the case, seeing unreleased toys on Ebay might be a good barometer to use for predicting when to expect that they will be readily available.

Seawing · 07-17-2009, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Justden

Just started collecting (again), so I'm not exactly sure how distribution works. Would it be safe to assume that seeing unreleased toys from China, expected to come out in the near future, were America bound when they happened to fall off a truck enroute to a port where they would have been loaded into shipping containers, transported overseas, passed through customs, and placed back onto trucks so they could have been delivered to your preferred retailer? If that's the case, seeing unreleased toys on Ebay might be a good barometer to use for predicting when to expect that they will be readily available.

Welcome to the boards Justden. To answer your question, generally the toys you get from China like this are either extra copies of figures (production samples) that the Chinese manufacturer sends to Hasbro for quality checks to make sure Hasbro is happy with them, or are stolen during manufacturing (lunchtime specials). So in a way it can be a gauge as to what figures may be coming soon but it isn't exact as saying "as soon as this hits eBay it will definately be in stores in 2 months".