Bumblebee shelf-warming in stores photos needed

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  1. Squall42080

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    This was back from Dark of the Moon.
     

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    Lately I've noticed 2 things. One of my walmarts has DOTM figures clearanced at 7.27. they have lots of figures, laserbeak, armor topspin, specialist ratchet. they aren't moving.
    Then, almost every other store has prime toys, and MOST of them are bumblebee. I see soundwave, ratchet and arcee once in a while. Then I see voyager OP all over the place.
     
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    My gut tells me that your feeling about that hunch may not be true.
     
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    I was just thinking that... Hmmmm
     
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    The thread is only a day old. Give it time lad, give it time. lol.
     
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    This one looks staged, since I can see non-bumblebee figures behind the bumblebees.
     
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    Wow, you have great eyesight, I can only see one other behind the Deluxes.
     
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    Sorry to say this doomboy,but in order for every 3 or 4 Bee's sold they would have to have gotten 7 or 8 cases atleast for that many to be on the shelves,as bumblebee is packed plentifully of 3-4 figures in each case,so how could that many Bee's be on the shelves and 3x that many be sold to little boys and collectors.So I think you are dead wrong,I think its just the complete opposite.
     
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    Yeah, second from the left on the bottom row and that's it. My local has about that still left. Plus another 7-8 pegs full of BB and the other "popular" ones. Not staged a bit either. No one can say it isn't a problem really, unless they're in denial or just trolling.
     
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    There's some Nitro bees mixed in (which doesn't really help either side, unfortunately), but there's also another figure 3rd from the right and 2 rows up, and I think behind the Nitro bee in the bottom right corner. That, combined with the fact that the leader bee has been taken from a shelf with room to house it and placed in front of non-bee figures, and the fact you can't see into most of the rows like in the other Swarm pictures, makes me suspicious.
     
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    Not much Bumblebee at my place for now. This is all they have.
     

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    Hasbro is capable of making mistakes.

    How does one "set up" such a thing? They are either there or they aren't.
     
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    Exactly how Hasbro is thinking!
     
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    "How does one "set up" such a thing?"

    Front facing shot with the first pegs all loaded with a Bee.

    MUCH harder to fake (without photoshop) when shot from an angle like some are here.
     
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    Even a front facing shot is going to show a numerous amount if there are a substantial number of pegs.
     
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    Fixed that for you:

     
  18. Kaymac

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    Next time I go to town I may take a picture. Most stores around here are a hive.
     
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    And what is Hasbro going to do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs that have bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you?
     
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    For every 2 BB's on the peg, there's more Arcees, Ratchets, Soundwave's and Wheeljack's sold.

    Just sayin...