by axltk421 » Sat Aug 03, 2013 11:04 pm
The starter pack for Spyros Adventure sold out in Australia for about two weeks and was quickly restocked. Since then, both games for all platforms have been everywhere.
The figures are a different matter though. I have no idea how companies project sales of individual characters (for example, series one Cynder for Spyros Adventure are still available, whereas some of the figures came out and then vanished).
I've pre-ordered all of the figures. I purchased all of the first Spyro figures when they first came out. After Christmas (whilst chatting to friends about how things went), a lot of my friends were annoyed that they had bought a game for their kids and were unable to go into all areas of the game because certain figure types weren't available (and weren't restocked until a good couple of months after Christmas).
It would be an absolute no-brainer to preorder if we, like America, got a free character for doing so! Here in Australia, we get two packs of power discs from EB Games (Australian GameStop) if we preorder or, bizarrely, a not very impressive keying from Toys r Us, or storage bag/box from Target.
Remember, this all started with a Mouse.