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Originally Posted by Nyax78
Boy, these aren't available for very long. Does anyone know what time Rokkon sold out? When I checked at around quarter to 3 it was already sold out.
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Toytubers report anywhere from 1 hour to 2 hours as the time it sold out.
I forgot about it while I was out running errands and when I got home I was able to still order one around 12:50pm. So it was at least close to an hour.
It probably lasted that long for two reasons. One - It is a popular, but I wouldn't say essential, character so the demand may not have been as high as some of the previous Mattel Creations releases.
Two - Limiting international orders probably lowered the number of potential buyers. There were only nine countries that could buy Rokkon (US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, UK). So that left out all of South America, Africa, Middle East and almost all of Asia??!! So who knows exactly how many collectors were left out in the cold, but I would hazard a guess it was, at minimum, a couple hundred.
I get that these manufacturer exclusive items (including Haslabs, etc. etc.) are difficult to sell because they have to ship them all to one or two locations and then ship them to customers from there. That increases costs on the back end, but Mattel is an International Corporation that sells its products around the world (mostly). To have these restrictions is not good enough in my opinion. But hey it sold out in less than a day so it is another win for Mattel Creations.
