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Originally Posted by Kickback

Toys will release during the next big "phase" which is the "post-Christmas-phase" which is going to be March/April for most retailers. Samurai will be the big push through the holiday season.

What is your source for this? I have many threads of sightings on Rangerboard to reference, as well as personal experience of each wave's release for Samurai and you can ask Linear Ranger, a person more experienced in toy distribution than I am. However, looking back at Samurai:

We have had waves of releases in:

December 2010-March 2011 - Spring 2011 Wave

June 2011-August 2011 - Fall 2011 Wave

November 2011-March 2012 - Spring 2012 Wave

June 2012-September 2012 - Fall 2012 Wave

Each one coordinated with the next yearly seasonal wave of Spring and Fall. Power Rangers Samurai figures were reported as sighted in December 2010, in line with the Spring 2011 wave.

The regular figures, Octo Zord, Claw Zord, Gold Ranger, etc were lined up to be released in Summer 2011 for the Fall 2011 wave.

In November 2011, TRU pushed out a pallet containing a whole new set of Samurai figures, including Super Mode guys, Xandred, Super Mega 6.5" figures, and the Shark Zord. These figures continued to be released over the next months for the Spring 2012 wave starting in December 2011 at Wal-Mart.

In June/July 2012, we saw the release of the Super Mega Mode figures, starting the releases for the Fall 2012 wave.

This same trend has gone back at least 7 years, of the next yearly season's merchandise being pushed out a few months early. Christmas of this year will be a mix of pushing out the remainder of what's left at the warehouses of Samurai to avoid clearancing too many items and pushing out Megaforce merchandise. TRU is already trying to do that from seeing costumes and mockups of figures. They're trying to get Megaforce out for Christmas.

Power Rangers Megaforce is the Spring 2013 wave of Power Rangers merchandise for Bandai.

The only oddball in this scenario is the "Mystery Ranger" we saw on the back of the PMC Exclusive package. This still hasn't been released and many assume it to be the Female Samurai Ranger. However, a few people have confirmed speaking to TRU, and they said they had shipments coming in in the near future with a "Mystery Ranger" in the assortment.