After all the worrying and Hasbro UK hate resurfacing it seems we UK fans need to take a step back (again). it seems hasbro UK haven’t been very clear with their output. Wave 4.5 of Transformers: Animated, consisting of 2x Swoop, 2x Sentinal Prime, 1x Jazz, 2x Elite Guard Bumblebee, 1x Prowl, has NOT been cancelled but will probably turn up nearer to Christmas. The reasoning behind this is likely that due to wave 4 already containing Swoop and Sentinal Prime and jazz and Prowl alreading being out, there is a need to try and avoiding flooding the stores with the same figures.
Wave 4 (Wave 4 (834621483) – 4x Swoop, 4x Sentinal Prime) should be hitting the UK later this month.
Hooray! Thats good news. Quite a sensible course of action. One wonders if they may have learnt something from the Movie G1 deco Ratchet and Thundercracker debacle that saw many toy shelves stuffed with those figures and nowhere to go.
I hope Hasbro UK will continue to look at their case assortments for the UK market. I can understand why they have shifted to the US case packing (multiples of two chracters per case) to satisfy the demands of the ‘big 5′ UK retailers, but this doesn’t always leave the consumer with a great deal of choice – as my local Woolworths is a testament to having only multiples of one or two characters available on different occasions.
Comment by Skyquake87 — October 8, 2008 @ 10:38 am