Bandai UK targetting UK importers of US stock, will Hasbro follow suit?

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I think companies are missing a trick on this one. If the demand is there, as it obviously is by the number of import toy websites, then companies should listen and sell the toys people want. Ordering stock in large orders may be a daft idea but order limited numbers from your own foreign branch and sell through a website.

For example Hasbro toy shop used to have its own web site in the UK. On the web site it could have figures that they have no plans to release en masse in the UK (such as Voyager Longhaul) in limited numbers. This would mean that fans and collectors, who in the main the import web sites are aimed at, could get the figures they want from an official source without competing prices.

This would probably mean that import stores such as Kapow and Toyz and Gamez have to change business plans and work with import items that cannot be obtained such as Japanese figures.

I know this is all speculation but it is all about supply and demand. Consumers want figures that aren't available in their country and so the demand is there to obtain them, be it by import site or otherwise.