Hasbro Made-to-Order Figures

fac said:
Does Hasbro claim anywhere that the MTO model is a one-time only production run? They don't disclose the number of orders, do they? I don't feel this is like a Haslab where you kind of think this is your only opportunity.

I think they are just using this to confirm that if they needed 5,000 orders to go into production, getting 7,000 preorders covers that and they can possibly make 10,000 and not lose money even if they have excess and it takes awhile to sell. And if they get 1,000 orders, they can always say "sorry, didn't get enough interest, your preorder is cancelled".
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I think you are right and I think it is great when an additional release of a limited production item can get product to those regretting not ordering during a first run. But I was salty when Hasbro started selling additional Dragon Man figures after they told me they didn't have inventory to replace my defective MTO Dragon Man.
 
bat said:
I think you are right and I think it is great when an additional release of a limited production item can get product to those regretting not ordering during a first run. But I was salty when Hasbro started selling additional Dragon Man figures after they told me they didn't have inventory to replace my defective MTO Dragon Man.
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That was nonsense no matter how they cut it.
 
I dunno... I kinda feel like the words "Made To Order" suggest that they're making the amount that's being ordered. So having like 6k of them sitting around after fulfilling those orders definitely feels like it is, in fact, not Made to Order and actually just like.. a regular pre-order.
 
I am surprised if the numbers are correct, they must have had a lot of cancelations or partial cancelations as that is a lot of extras. I think they will avoid having any big ticket item hit in mid-December again.

I also wonder if (and this is pure speculation) the overall total profit was cut to shreds due to tariffs that were not priced into the pre-order price. Maybe they decided to roll the dice and make a larger run to generate more revenue in order to get back to their expected total profit figure, by dropping the per unit cost a little and selling at a higher prices, getting an extra $500,000 or more in sales (if they sell).
 
bat said:
I think you are right and I think it is great when an additional release of a limited production item can get product to those regretting not ordering during a first run. But I was salty when Hasbro started selling additional Dragon Man figures after they told me they didn't have inventory to replace my defective MTO Dragon Man.
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Yeah, I understand being salty about that, that was a poor move on their part to be sure.
 
Damien said:
I dunno... I kinda feel like the words "Made To Order" suggest that they're making the amount that's being ordered. So having like 6k of them sitting around after fulfilling those orders definitely feels like it is, in fact, not Made to Order and actually just like.. a regular pre-order.
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I still believe it's a lot of waffling buyers or people who cancelled because Christmas/The Economy. I know a fair amount of people in the Toronto scene who all jumped off the tracks at the last minute with the payment chicken game.and exchange rates, as example.
 
Stoopid_Sandwich said:
This is kind of unprecedented for Hasbro’s standards for new releases. We see popular items sell out all the time but the fact that they have to keep restocking the sentinel tells me
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Since these are only just now hitting, I wouldn't really consider these "restocks" - this is just the inventory as it is arriving and being added to Pulse. These would all be from the same initial production run.
 
Didn't have to make any cuts on Sentinels... but I didnt have the excess cash on hand for the Ecto-1 last year. And boy did I pay for that on the secondary market.
 
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