So both Street Fighter II sets have been found at multiple Target stores in the US...
![Street Fighter Optimus Megatron Target 1.jpg Street Fighter Optimus Megatron Target 1.jpg](https://www.allspark.com/forums/data/attachments/10/10487-92e130c908ab377d8b96b1d1b10e60d6.jpg)
![Street Fighter Optimus Megatron Target 2.jpg Street Fighter Optimus Megatron Target 2.jpg](https://www.allspark.com/forums/data/attachments/10/10488-a061fc4f74e57848ed5b2895c8ed932c.jpg)
![Street Fighter Hot Rod Arcee Target 1.jpg Street Fighter Hot Rod Arcee Target 1.jpg](https://www.allspark.com/forums/data/attachments/10/10484-9a44bda4e55a5cedb988f97032df63b3.jpg)
Despite the ridiculously steep price, someone bought one of the sets and discovered something weird:
![Street Fighter Hot Rod Arcee sleeve 1.jpeg Street Fighter Hot Rod Arcee sleeve 1.jpeg](https://www.allspark.com/forums/data/attachments/10/10482-6909e82f5131202cdf07e920c4ade4f7.jpg)
That's a Takara box, complete with Takara instructions... inside an outer Hasbro box!
So did Hasbro just take existing Takara stock and shove it into a new box?
On the other hand, that's very similar to how Takara Masterpiece, Selects and Premium Finish figures are shipping when purchased via Hasbro Pulse: A Takara box inside a back Hasbro sleeve. And yet,
those figures are separate production runs specifically for Hasbro, complete with Hasbro product codes stamped onto them.
So... what are these, then?
Someone in the TFWiki Discord provided this photo:
That's not only a Hasbro product code etched (not stamped) into the figure, but also a manufacturing date code.
I don't remember how I am supposed to read those, but I'm pretty sure this indicates that this figure was made in either 2021 or 2022. The Takara figures were released in 2018.
So... why
did Hasbro produce extra Takara packaging, then?