I agree Brian and it's the same here, these sell really fast. No one up here was expecting series VIII though, we only saw a couple of cases of VII, at TRU mostly. Lots of VI though and it was even better distributed in other parts of Canada.
I think this one retailer here (Superstore) actually pays attention to what sells. Toys are a very small section of their huge store (two short aisles, one for boys, one for girls) so it seems they watch what moves and what sits. They brought in case after case of ML VI and they all sold through, even the Movie Punisher so lo and behold they have in ML VIII. And they did carry a very small amount of ML VII as well. Pretty cool.