Re: Pre-order/Instock Online Sightings for Transformers Toys and Products
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2023 7:31 pmGrahf_ wrote:Has anyone else actually read what this Optimus Prime is best seller at?
It's number one for Wii games.
It's number one for PSP games.
And it's number eleven for all of video games, down from number eight yesterday.
The only actual video game to outsell Legacy Armada Optimus Prime is Zelda. Making it the number two best selling actual video game on all of Amazon. So that would also make it the number one XBox Series game, XBox One game, XBox 360 game, PS5 game, PS4 game, PS3 game, PS Vita game, Wii U game, 3DS game and DS game. That's rather impressive. Only a Switch game can outsell it and even then, only Zelda.
Is there a Webdiver or Daigunder feature to this release that hasn't been reported on yet to have it listed as a video game on Amazon? I mean, it's not that they took too long to get the listing up, it's just that I was checking in the action figure category and couldn't find it so I went to Pulse instead. If I had known to check the video games, I might have found it quicker. It's not on the featured Transformers search where it should be at the top above Cyber Commander Optimus Prime who's always up there for some reason along with Cyber Commander Bumblebee and the Cyber Battalion two packs and a bunch of Rescue Bots listings. Only the newest Generations figures make it up here like the newest wave of Armada Megatron, Devcon and the rest.
I just had a chuckle about it when I finally found the listing for it the other day and read what it was a best seller for. I realized why I hadn't found it before then after I read it.
I preordered not only due to the popularity of this figure but I watched a video from Nerdzoic the other day about a very unconfirmed rumor/speculation of Hasbro cutting back on production runs so as to not have so many figures left that go on sale. I mean, this was after a huge Black Friday sale and then still have so much old stock available after the warehouse sale only three months later. It's pretty crazy how many are still available for some figures after both those sales. So I wasn't taking chances with this one and snagged that preorder pretty quick.
It's not the first time, there were some Kingdom figures that were the best sellers in shoes. Amazon gets their wires crossed pretty badly sometimes.
Flashwave wrote:That rumor comes up ever so often, especially with the Titan Class figures. You have to remember though that "Hasbro Pulse" =/= "Hasbro". Pulse is a third party company working with Hasbro. They are basically the same as TFSource or BBTS just with a direct phone line. It is possible Hasbro Proper expected a Big Box retailer to make an additional order for stock that didn't pan out, or more likely that Meijer and Target are placing smaller orders based on previous sales numbers, but I wouldn't put a huge amount of stock into the rumor. At the end ofvthe day, I would stick with "does this look like a figurevthat is worth $89.99 to me? And if the answer is no wait for a sale
Not true, Hasbro owns Pulse. Hasbro hosts Pulsecon and owns the Pulse social media channels including the YouTube channel where they reveal new figures. It's even on the Hasbro corporate website as one of their brands.
I think the confusion comes from them using a Shopify store front, but Shopify is just a tool that anyone can pay to use, they don't actually own the store.
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