Activision’s action figure-driven Skylanders: Sypro’s Adventure was a huge holiday hit last year, with parents buying up starter kits in droves. Now, with hundreds of thousands of children demanding additional figures, empty Skylanders displays have become an all-too-frequent frustration for haggard parents.
It looks like even Apple was caught off guard by the success of the iPad, citing its runaway success in the US as the primary reason everyone else has to wait another month for it.