Hasbro UK's distribution centre is about 5 minutes down the road from me. Their response to UK sales is that there was insufficient retailer interest to bring any of the new product in after the movie line (well, even some of the movie line figures didn't make it to some of the retailers).
I have managed to get a trade address out of them, which can only be written to (they don't have e-mail, apparently...!)
Would any of the UK buyers on here be interested in finding out if we could bulk-buy stuff and split it between us?