Hasbro Made-to-Order Figures

RichardSimmonsRobot said:
Hasbro Pulse has the 97 Sentinel up for order as In Stock presently. Showing 3,100 of them on hand. If anyone was confused about what Hasbro needs us to fund before they'll make it.
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Nobody funded anything before they made it - these were not paid in advance, and orders were completely free to cancel.
 
What I would hope they would consider is bringing back the Haslab Sentinel as a Made To Order. The ones listed on eBay are stupidly overpriced and including shipping prices. It don't cost over $100 to ship one.
 
hmmberto said:
Nobody funded anything before they made it - these were not paid in advance, and orders were completely free to cancel.
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They were pretty clear about "this is what we make and then that's it" from the outset of their Made to Order model. Let's not pretend that obvious scarcity mindset wasn't tickled and employed as they DID blatantly say it was a limited run production model. Not "...and then there will be other rounds of production later."

Effectively saying "You're paying us to make these. Get one or else you'll be left out." We can also pretend like they don't photoshop out pins on figures for press releases and reveals and then quite clearly produce them pinned on the back end.

I don't have a problem with them making an expanded run so that more people can have them. My issue is with the blatant misportrayal of products that Hasbro seems to only be leaning further into.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
They were pretty clear about "this is what we make and then that's it" from the outset of their Made to Order model. Let's not pretend that obvious scarcity mindset wasn't tickled and employed as they DID blatantly say it was a limited run production model. Not "...and then there will be other rounds of production later."

Effectively saying "You're paying us to make these. Get one or else you'll be left out." We can also pretend like they don't photoshop out pins on figures for press releases and reveals and then quite clearly produce them pinned on the back end.

I don't have a problem with them making an expanded run so that more people can have them. My issue is with the blatant misportrayal of products that Hasbro seems to only be leaning further into.
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That's all well and good - I was responding to the thing you actually said in the post about the Sentinel being funded up front, not these other points.

That said - if there were 30,000 orders placed in the preorder window, is producing an extra 10% on top of that a misrepresentation of it as a limited production run? That seems to me like a very reasonable overage amount. And like altcunningham said, we have no idea how much of this extra inventory was actually overproduction as opposed to canceled orders.

There's plenty I'm annoyed at Hasbro about, like inaccurate promo photos and their stubborn insistence to not adopt double ball torso articulation despite it objectively being the smartest thing they could ever do. I just don't see anything to complain about here.
 
jayjonah said:
What I would hope they would consider is bringing back the Haslab Sentinel as a Made To Order. The ones listed on eBay are stupidly overpriced and including shipping prices. It don't cost over $100 to ship one.
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I have my doubts, but given the Hiss Tank it's at least possible. I would assume it would come with fewer heads, no extra figures, and maybe no internal electronics. It's hard to say where they'd go with Haslab rereleases.
Goldbug said:
I assume there is also a percent to make as possible "replacement" stock in case any of the others have problems?
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Yeah there would definitely be a percentage ordered for factory flaws, ones damaged in transit from the factory, and lost packages (especially considering they're going out around the holidays). There will always be some of these sold on the day.

Though i do expect a fair number of these were cancelled orders.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
I placed a '97 Apocalypse order without any intention to follow through on the purchase. Better to get your foot in the door early than to regret it later. Guessing a lot of folks feel similarly.
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I definitely made my Apocalypse order as a hedged bet. After seeing the Sentinel, I'm glad I did. I think I'm really going to like him when he comes in. I'd been waffling on the BAF single-card for a while and just never quite liking its proportions. This one might be a bit bigger than I'd like, but he looks real good in the prototype phase.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
I placed a '97 Apocalypse order without any intention to follow through on the purchase. Better to get your foot in the door early than to regret it later. Guessing a lot of folks feel similarly.
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Yeah I ordered 3 Sentinels last year with the intention of likely canceling at least one but more likely all 3. I even did them in 3 separate orders to make cancellation easier. Guess whose X-Men are now quaking in fear because a 3-Sentinel extermination squad is now inbound...
 
I'd be curious to know if preorder models like this help or hurt companies in so far as cancellations go. I can see a lot of people cancelling because it's a lot of money, and in this case, it's also Christmas time. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people who place a "Maybe" preorder and end up keeping it vastly outnumber the cancellations. Of course, there's no way to measure that exactly, but I bet a lot of these companies have market studies that give them an idea for how that goes.
 
I even ordered mine with a card that was going to expire before they shipped so that I didn't get suddenly hit with a huge charge if I forgot to cancel. Then work came in clutch with a VISA gift card for Christmas and I went ahead and set that as the payment method for 2 of them which pretty much used up the card so I really only bought one with my own money. At least that's my justification in my warped plastic-addicted mind. Now to figure out where to put them...
 
I have both X-Men '97 Sentinels in hand now and am happy to have them. I don't like them quite as much as I like my four HasLab Sentinels but I tend to buy any and all Sentinels that get released in just about any scale.

I'm one of those that entered a placeholder order for the MTO X-Men'97 Apocalypse that I have no intentions of keeping and will almost certainly cancel before release. I've never cancelled any HasLab or any MTO to this point, but fully expect to cancel that one.
 
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