I got my set from HTS a few weeks ago - they came in great shape (even the plastic j-hooks at the top) and were packed in bubble wrap.  HTS even used the correct sized box, which is more than I can say about some other on-line places.

At SDCC, Hasbro said they were shooting for:

#44-52 = Sep/Oct
#53-62 = Oct/Nov
#63-69 = Nov/Dec
#70-74 = Nov Dec

So yeah, Thanksgiving/Christmas time...

To all you folks who haven't seen the pictures yet...

Spinning Padme Head

Everyone should have the equal opportunity to have their Q asked/forwarded..if there was something in the Q that could be worked/edited than that should be worked with the poster to get his/her Q in.

Um... it is an impossibility to have every question that is posted get forwarded for an answer from Hasbro.  We only get to submit 3 questions per week, and our back-log (not counting all those questions you just dumped in there tonight) is up to 50+ questions.

Everyone has equal opportunity to have their question considered, all they have to do is post it in the thread.  Like I said earlier, ALL questions posted in that other thread are copied and pasted into my back-log file.  From there, it is up to us (the Staff) to select the 3 questions for the week. 

Once again, we try to pick 3 questions that we think the majority of our JD readers will enjoy and will have a good shot at getting answered.  I know we don't know 100% what Hasbro will or won't answer, but after 8 weeks, we've got a pretty good idea when a question will get a "no plans for that right now" type answer.


And the questions that we don't pick?  They stay in the back-log file.  Just because we didn't use your beast pack question last week (or this week) doesn't mean that we will never use it....

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So, am I getting this right? We DID send Q's on the 11th that won't be answered until Friday?

Yes, the questions we submitted on 8/11 will be answered by Hasbro on Friday (8/25).  They skipped last week due to the Holiday in RI.

One more Q for JD staff only then? Since Hasbro took a 'week off' from us are Q's backdating to the 9th of August going to be considered for the next QandA submittal?

I looked and only saw 2 Q's that I asked on the 9th(for between the 5th and the 11th)-- were you able to pull more older q's so we could have enough for that week's round?<asked under the assumption that my Q's won't make the cut because we couldn't really ask a Q from that guy >

We don't just look at the recent questions asked when we plan out our submission, any questions in that whole thread (that haven't been asked by us or another site) are fair game.

I copy each question out of there and have a running back-log list of questions from both from the staff and from the forums.  That is where we draw our questions from on a weekly basis.  As Jesse said, we try try to weight the questions to find the most "bang for the buck" from Hasbro.


And since, you asked, I can tell you right now that your two questions were NOT part of the 3 that were sent to Hasbro last week.  It has nothing to do with "who" they came from, but rather other reasons why we did not choose them yet...

 - Your first question was WAY too long for Hasbro to answer.  Hasbro has asked that the questions are a few lines long max and we want to honor their request.  Not only that, but it was a question that involved sales data and Hasbro has shown in previous weeks that they don't really answer those.  Add in the whole "I think you're doing something wrong" aspect of the question and Hasbro won't take it seriously.

 - Your second question involved Beast Packs.  Questions about the beasts have been asked by other sites, and the answer is always something like "Though we understand that beast/creature assortments are desirable, at this time it appears that new vehicle assortments are in higher demand."  As Jesse said in his post above, we try to avoid duplication so we tend to skip questions if the topic has already come up.

I see that VCD Yoda is up on Medicom's site today!