TheTF.Net received an e-mail today saying that Hasbro UK want to know what the UK market is like in terms of Transformers releases. Do we want them? Well, do we? Check out this article now and let Hasbro know how much we want Transformers toys in the UK

Draven a UKer form the TFW2005 boards of transfandom.com contacted Hasbrow UK recently and got a reply, Hasbro UK wants to know how large the UK TF market is! We finally have a chance to convince them that there are enough of us to warrent full releases of TF lines! Please read on and then I would ask you to please send out a note in your newsletter so that we can get all the UK Transfans filling out the form asking Hasbro UK questions so that they understand that there are infact enough of us to warrent releasing loads of TF’s over here so that we don’t have to pay stupid import prices anymore!!!!

Quoted from Draven of TFW

OK. As most of you UK guys & gals know, a couple of days ago I sent this message to hasbro UK (via the feedback form on their website) regarding the lack of Transformers releases in the UK:

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Dear Hasbro,
When are we in the UK going to get:
Transformers Armada
Transformers PVC figures
Transformers Robots In Disguise wave 2
Transformers Generation 1 re-releases
Anything new Transformers related at all?
It seems that the only things we get reach us anything up to a year or so after the US, and even then only in small quantities and even then NOT the entire line. People are paying a small fortune to get hold of some of these toys on import, especially the US Toys R Us exclusives. We have Toys R Us as well, you know, and if you think there’s no market for transformers in the UK, you’re VERY wrong, believe me.
PLEASE give us a break. If people will pay a lot for imported Transformers, they’d definitely pay YOU if you release them here…
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I posted earlier on today that I’d had no reply and I really wasn’t surprised. Well, about 10 minutes ago, I received a telephone call from a very nice young lady from HASBRO, regarding my questions. I explained all about the situation here (US market getting G1 rereleases, PVC, exclusives, possibly Fort max, and Armada whilst we have RID wave 1 and nothing else at all). She said they saw the message and were concerned about it, as it was (believe it or not) among only a handful they have had. And she wanted to know exactly how big the market for Transformers is here. So I told here, and she seemd genuinely surprised by the answer. In fact, I got the distinct impression that Hasbro UK actually have NO IDEA how many of us want these things. I explained to her about how a large amount of Transfans have collected for a VERY long time, and how a lot of us are rampant completists. I explained to her that many of us pay overinflated prices for imports, and pointed out to her that Hasbro don’t get any of that markup themselves.
Then I asked her whether it would be a good idea for others to do what I did, and contact them using the feedback form on the website. She said yes; apparently, your words are far more likely to be seen and noticed if you use that form, rather than email them.

So there you have it, Brits; go to http://www.hasbro.co.uk/template/no_menu_askhasbro.asp
and ask away. Keep it polite, well worded and civil though. If you start calling them all the names under the sun in your messages, they’ll just delete them. We have nothing to lose here, people, and a HELL of a lot to gain. We have to convince Hasbro UK that there is a demand for Transformers over here,
or they’ll keep dribbling out US overstock to us forever.

So, to paraphrase BM Megatron:
And now, UK Transfans…

IT’S YOUR TURN.

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– Jon Hudson
– Vector Sigma of the TFW2005 and TFGEN3.com boards