You guys started out great this year , considering you lost the starting QB a few weeks before the season started it was absolutely amazing . No one maintains that pace with the injuries you ' ve had , feels the same for the Packers , it ' s a race to the bottom . <| sep |> Erm . what I am about to say it terrible , but I also feel that it is the truth . I believe that it is strictly and wholly market manipulation . By letting a few out , and then restricting if they can go onto the shelves prior to Black Friday , they have created a buzz about them . Kids want them , because other kids want them , and it becomes a popularity thing of who got one and who didn ' t . I am not the most Christmas ' ie person in the world , and the gross commercialization of it is why I burned out on Christmas . The manipulation of the market is another reason why . This is one of those trends that will burn out a month after Christmas , when there are a thousand on the shelf , and they lose their desirability when everyone can have one . I think I am probably grumpy about it , because how the kids that think they want one and can ' t get one , yet the kids next door did , and how badly the kids that didn ' t get one are going to feel . Anything that makes the kids feel like Santa likes someone else better than them hurts my heart . I am so tickled that your mom managed to get them , before all of this happened . And I know your girls are going to be thrilled . I just carry a lot of grump for the manufacturers and retailers about stuff like this , though . Never the parent ' s good intention , when trying to make their children happy .