well i went to walmart today for no real reason, and im SO glad i did because i found one of the best WM win/fails. i guess after the holiday season they have to go to the way back of the back room. well it speaks for itself 3 year old TFs at a walmart that was just put up 8 months ago. . this ever happened to any of you guys?
stores tend to have a lot of old stock in the back, that they put up if they run out of room or what ever, and once they gain room back, they put it out again. that is what we did when i worked at toys r us after all. at least.
idk why i put the epic there. i thought the funiest part was the walmart is 8 months old. the very end of movie stuff had been out. a year after classics had ended. well mayabe thats just me. sorry for the epic thing
Actually, this has happened to me. Last year around Christmas, I found a Marvel Legends Wonderman at a Walmart. And, as an added bonus, he was only $7.
A few months after the movie just came out, my local TRU did a massive restock, but with nothing but Classics toys. It was heaven for me, as I'd only just gotten into TF collecting.
I dont get the "it must have been in the back this whole time" thing. I think its obvious that an employee facing a ton of Christmas returns didn't care/have time to analyze what he/she was taking back.
it happens a lot. K*B here had a reputation for "spring cleaning" the backstock; me and my friends could find old SW, Gundam and those carded TF:U figure sets like Superion, Devy and Defensor on the cheap. And we bought a lot of it. I think the epic here is how poorly a store manages its backstock considering that at inventory time, having all of this outdated, out of the loop product counts against the store. but had you just put that mirage in your cart as you hiked over to the pet aisle, it woulda been epic win for you.
I don't care what you guys say, that shit is cooool. I love walmart stock-men being frigg'n lazzzzy. I tell you I was going crazy for Mirage when he came out in 2006!, and then to hear that he was found 3 years later is...well... not epic, but crazy coool.
this just happened at my walmart, which is only about 6 months old, they just got a 10th anniversary Waspinator.
I think I'd feel the same way about the fact that the stock just gets recycled that badly, but still, it's good to know that somewhere, there's still probably pallets of Alternators just waiting for the shelves. One can hold out hope.
something similar happened to me this past july 4th. right there in plain view amongst all the usual animated and universe shelfwarmers and some movie toys, i found classics voyager megs. needless to say, he was in my buggy before anyone else could snag him up in all his nerf glory.
I got alternators skids about 4 months ago at a walmart. It was very dusty and on a high shelf in the clearance section that had a sticker that said $11. I couldn't pass it up.
Right after Christmas I saw a lone Ironhide FAB at Target. Packaged was damaged and stained to hell with who knows what. :/ I picked it up by the corner 'Monk' style and price checked it and it said "item not found." I didn't want to go through the hassle so I left it there.
