>>7733109>The only place that constantly held all their expensive items were TRUYou're ignoring online shops and physical specialty stores which did carry the large items.
>right but then you hit this cagey issue of what cause some KS to fail which is people going "oh I'll buy it if it makes it's goal" tIf retailers get in on the act, it only bolsters the numbers.
>cant side line. One of the biggest mistakes. Go see 4H's business model vs other kickstarter lines that are able to produce shit without asking for interest free loans, because side liners make up a greater portion of collectors than unquestioning preorder tards.
>we are not that big a group otherwise I wouldn't have found all those 25th anniversary BATs, CGs, etc clogging Ross/TJMaxx in trovesThat's some mighty fine anecdotal evidence, because i WISH the 30 or so local discount outlets that would carry that shit had that in stock.
Anyway, who's claiming we're a large group? I'm not, and Hasbro isn't expecting that either, hence needing only 8000 backers. That's SDCC exclusive numbers which targets a tiny portion of fans who LUCK into getting into the convention (note: Hasbro's stuff that sells out in the convention still makes it to the online store sales) that's hundreds of miles away from where they live.
Also, that 25th stuff you found are remainders from stores ordering 200k-1million units every quarter. The fact that a lot of that shit sold for scalper $$$ on ebay because other people can't find that shit locally says a lot.
>they have to be expensiveThis is understood and a lot of us have no problem paying that premium just to own it. You're trying to ignore a far larger market, people who have the money to buy the Unicron/Barge but don't have the space (like me) and want to see other CANNOTs be produced
BTW, those TRU sets you're talking about? The exclusive versions sold out at Comic Con. TRU orders shit to sell to children, so they're ordering 10-10000x more than what collector stores do.
