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Wow, man. Don’t steal Star Wars toys. Not right and think how ridiculous you’d look on the news.

I wonder if they’ll get cases of 6″ since most Walmarts are swamped with Jyn and Cassians still. They might just get shipper displays with the new 6″ stuff.

I’ll attest to the fact that they aren’t paid to care

Many of these store workers probably haven’t been told. And there are lots of other product every day that must be shelved and reported, which is on their mind. And they’re probably not paid enough to care.

Wow, that’s a lot of TLJ product!

So far at Walmart I’ve only seen Hot Wheels off road character cars. However, at Fred Meyer, in addition to the off roaders, I’ve also seen the new TLJ character cars and carships and Hasbro’s 12″ electronic figures (Praetorian & Death Trooper).

So what does it matter who is dictating the sales date? A street date is a street date. Is it a matter of Disney being more strict about the street dates whereas LucasFilm just gave a date, but didn’t do anything to ensure it was adhered to? I really don’t think Disney can mandate that retailers put a sale lockout on their registers. They just issue the date and it’s up to the retails to abide by it by whatever means possible. Perhaps the retailers have wised up to the fact that they can’t control what happens at the individual store level when it comes to stocking product as much as they’d like, so they’ve implemented the register lockout as a safety net.

Of course the mandate to not sell a product thereby revealing characters, vehicles, etc. from an upcoming film prior to a specified date comes from the top down, from the licensor at the time, LucasFilm then, Disney now. I just meant that it is my opinion that Hasbro, being the major licensee of Star Wars toys is a willing participant in these release events. Ultimately, even though Disney can wield its power over the release date, I doubt they have any control over retailers actually having any sort of “event”.

LOL! I don’t condone eSclaping, but you are totally right.