Eh I'm just gonna wait it out until May 16th. No way am I running to my local stores just to see if I can score a Transformer that will be out on the shelves May 16th with no troubles buying him  .

 

Since the broke the street date won't other stores follow suit?

 

Not if they value not getting in trouble.

 

Usually if someone breaks the street date, the company will allow all stores to begin selling...but I think it usually only happens with SEVERAL broken street dates.

 

It all varies by the store, I remember the chaos with ROTF toys. Some Wal-Marts would put them out early and let you buy them no problem, others would tell you no, but keep them on the pegs. Some people got smart and scanned a animated figure that was the same price but walked out with a ROTF figure and the employees were too stupid to know any better. The only place where I lived that broke the street date was fred meyer, but that was only a week earlier. Ironically though I never saw the prveiw figs anywhere till MONTHS after though.

 

Good find but pft, DOTM toys. I'm in no hurry. I'll get the ones I want when they hit street date. They aren't good enough for me to consider getting early.

 

Sentinel Prime and Shockwave are the only two I was planning on getting. I was at Target to get TF isle to see what they had. One down one to go.

 

Sooooo.....RTS/Generations stuff that should've hit retail four months ago is nowhere to be found but DOTM stuff is hitting weeks ahead of time. God Bless retail

 

I've always found Target to be a great source of pre-street-date toys, particularly how they never seem to have any of the built-in restrictions at the register like Walmart & TRU usually have that prevent the toy from being sold. However, I've also found that Target stores often have fluctuating prices from store to store, so I'm not at all surprised to hear this SP was $45 there. I still expect TRU to charge a full $50 though, haha.

 

Outrageous. Next time I'm out I'll be checking the toy isles for sure.

 

Wow still no front page treatment??

 

I love that you got you some Boyardee while you were there.

 

Let the hunt begin!  

 

I kind of hate this thread as the OP was able to get a leader class Sentinel Prime before me  . Why can't May 16th get here any faster.

 

DOTM Street Date broken in Chicago

Chicago Target Breaks Transformers Dark of the Moon Embargo, Figures On Sale Transformers

 

Score one for Chicago!!!

 

No fair!

 

The toys have already been found in Wisc. posted here earlier this week

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans...96818-just-picked-up-dotm-sentinel-prime.html

As well as a couple more states I noticed while in the sightings forum. Looking for them now...

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-sightings/85669-illinois-transformers-sightings-2937.html

EDIT: There is one other state that I'm having trouble finding it now, still trying...

 

Where's my set Shane! What was the sales tax in Boston? I could have saved you 5% with my Target card!