Toy Shortage or Toy Shortage Hoax?

A number of news stories have been running suggesting that the Toy Industry runs "Toy Shortage" stories every Xmas. Well it's true but there always is at least one Toy which disappears off the shelves for the last two years it was the Nintendo Wii where entire deliveries would hot-cake in minutes.

But this year the suggestion is that stores have under-ordered the whole range, that manufacturers have shortened their production-runs due to the immense pessimism of the last 12 months.

So what if it is hoax but you are fooled by it and go out and buy your children their toys a few weeks earlier, is that a PROBLEM or a BENEFIT? Or why not chill it out and have the pleasure of running round the stores at the last minute begging the sales assistants to see if there isn't just one Bakugan Dragonoid
left in the storeroom. As one wag suggested do you think your kids will mind if instead of a genuine Zhu Zhu
you just get them any old furry hamster, you bet they'll mind!