>>11577251
The way most distribution works is: china ships toys to east/west coast docks in shipping containers.
The shipping containers then get offloaded into temporary warehouses (usually third party logistics) to sort things out and/or shipped directly to distribution centers (Walmart, Target, Amazon, etc have their own distribution centers).
In the temporary warehouse, things get sorted and then shipped out to distributors/retailers. These temp warehouses don't want to hold shit for longer than a week, btw.

Almost no toy company has their own warehouses or distributors. Toy companies may have their own stores, so their own toys are shipped to them from the docks. They also get cases shipped to their headquarters, which is by no means a warehouse and whatever stock they get is usually equal to what a medium toy store gets (dozens of figures).

So basically, McFarlane Toys has almost no control over how fast or slow something gets to your stores, especially with Walmarts/Targets/Amazons, because these stores almost always get their products shipped directly from the docks to their own distribution centers.
Walmart/Targets are also the first to get their shipments too.