Texas Transformers Sightings

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  1. JasonPrime

    JasonPrime Well-Known Member

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    hey guys,
    at the target at 290 and mopac I found Dreadwind and Smokejumper. still had a tone left friday 4/25 around 1:00. also went by the walmart across the street searching for dinobots, but there were none to be found...
     
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    290 and mopac? Don't think I've been to that one often, doesn't ring a bell but that's sweet! Now if only they'd hit the 183 and Peyton Gin one.....
    I may make a small trek out there!
    THanks man! we had another thread going below... me contessa and some other people in austin were frequenting it
     
  3. JasonPrime

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    Yeah I saw that but saw it was titled for searching for a specific toy and thought maybe we should start a general austin sighting thread for us all co compare notes in, so this is my attempt. anyway, someone please post if you see the dinos. later.
     
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    Hey, has anyone else been to Target lately? I was on my way to Georgetown and stopped at some stores on the way.
    So, the Target off 183, near 620 had a sale- $4.99 on Gobots. Price is absurdly low, but they didn't have any of the few Gobots I'm thinking of buying. Could somebody see if that sale is valid anywhere else? That Target had a couple of the G1 playing card sets as well, not many, on an endcap among Spiderman cards. The Transformers cards actually come up on the scanners as "Spiderman playing cards". Armada figure selection was pretty common.
    And, one last thing, skip the 183 and 620 Walmart. Had nothing except minicons, and only the street speed and boating team or whatever at that.
    Hope this helps.
     
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    $4.99 PER gobot/spychanger? DANG!! is that supposed to be a sale? what's the normal price??


    OH WAIT duh... GOBOT.. little kids..
    duh
    my bad

    Still, I haven't been around anywhere this weekend... *sigh*
     
  6. Xabungle

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    Okay, what we've all been waiting for lately. Stopped by the ghetto Target at Research and Ohlen (off 183 if you've not familiar with the area), saw the Dreadwind and Smokejumper pack. Finally! Counted seven units on the shelves of the endcap. Lots of Galvatron bonus packs too. Yay!
     
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    HEY! that's MY target! and it ain't ghetto you foo!
    jk
    :D 

    SWEET! I need to go there now! BYE
     
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    :)  lol
    That's my Target too. Friends of mine work there, I go there all the time... that's how I know it's ghetto....
     
  9. JasonPrime

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    plenty of Dreadwind, galvatron/minicon packs, jetfire, sideswipe, blurr, supercon optimus at the Target at 35 and 1325. that was today 5/3/03 at noon.
     
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    Dinobots found at Walmart - 290 and mopac. Had lots left but they are on the top shelf so you'll have to look up :) 
     
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    NICE!!! so how much were they afterall? 10 or 15???
    (hope 10 hope 10 hope 10)
     
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    yes, ten. i made out with the three sets for 32 bucks and change.
     
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    Yippy yippy! I'm moving houses and happened to need boxes... so I head over to the norwood (i-35 & 183) walmart at around 12:00 am or so and what have we here????

    A case of wave 5 supercons!! YESSS!

    Well I'm here to announce, Rhinox and terrorsaur have hit Austin! WOOT!

    And they are short packed btw.... only one per case of each!

    There were two cases there, and I got one set sooo....

    And I'm still needing the Grimlock, swoop, and the sludge set for the dinobots.....
     
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    5/21/03

    WHOO HOO

    Walmart @ 290 & 183

    They got osme dinobots in and the later waves of transformers armada!! NO SWOOP/TERANOTRON sets!! WTF!! that's seriously being done by a collector, because the other two sets were there!!!

    KayBee Toys @ Lakeline

    They had a case of the destructicons just lying there!!! So I had to get me a set :) 

    28....... and some cents for those two freakin' repaints!! OUCH!! :mad 

    DAMN kaybee toys prices!!
     
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    If anyone needs Heroes of Cybertron Megatron, they had a lot at the Walgreens on 620 in Round Rock. 620 and Wyoming Springs.
    If anyone needs Dreadwind/Smokejumper, there's still a good amount on the Target at I-35 and 1325 (Louis Henna) again in Round Rock. They also have a -ton- of Galvatrons. And Supercon Primes. ANd that's about it there.
     
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    The KB Toys at Lakeline no longer has any Destructicons. Unless they got some more in the back after I got the last set of two.
     
  17. JasonPrime

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    anyone find any heroes of cybertron in austin other than the first series?
     
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    Gees I need to get out of the house more often, I haven't seen anything new lately. However I did go to the valley this past weekend to help my mom pack up her classroom and what not. Went to the Wal-mart in McAllen on North 23rd and saw tons of DinoBots and a huge endcap of Armada I was really surprized but all those little rich mexican kids were snagging them up and I wondered if they even knew what they were buying?? Or was it just because there were so many and they felt they needed to buy them!!!??? Well the other Wal-Mart in Edinburg didn't have anything!! I will take a toy run later tonight....
     
  19. JasonPrime

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    got the novel TF Book1 Hard Wired at B&N in Round Rock so it's out. I think I got their last copy tonight, but check around and keep an eye out ya'll!
     
  20. Big_Truk_Convoy

    Big_Truk_Convoy Transforming is the gimik

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    Shit guys, did you hear about Unicron being spotted in Alvin.TX??? We have to start looking for Uni now and Overload and Skywarp!!