It's your fault for not buying enough of it. ...but do tell us more about your experiences working in both retail and toy industries.
I do find it amusing that Target is still carrying the DOTM Deluxes and Voyagers. If they were going to do that, why didn't they order the Que/Soundwave wave?
Because the stuff on the shelves are the earlier waves they couldn't sell which caused them to turn down the later waves.
Walmart should've only order some movie Transformers instead of a lot. If they sell out, then Walmart could just order more the next day. It would work a lot better than trying to order a ton of Transformers. They ended up with more toys on their plate than they can get rid of. If Walmart doesn't have any shelf space to stock up on the newer waves, they should order cardboard boxes from Hasbro like they've done in the past. It will help promote their clearance sales and clear their main shelves for Prime toys
They couldn't sell Human Alliances, Cyberverse Playsets or Leaders either, but those they discontinued and clearanced out. Deluxes and Voyagers are still listing as active.
I suspect the situation changes depending on where you live. In my area each of the four Walmarts have lots of empty pegs in the TF section. A few DOTM items were on sale in one of them, but the majority of the figures are sporting normal prices. Target is also sparsely stocked with zero items marked down. At least I can still get a nice Bumblebee for $46.
My wal-mart is still getting cases of DOTM deluxes in, even after the pegs just overflowing. its a sad sight indeed
Just you wait, soon our shelves will soon be like this: Full shelves of different lines, released at different times.
Las Vegas Walmarts are pricing DOTM Voyagers at 15.00 and deluxes at 10. Target and Toys R Us are listing deluxes at 12-13 dollars still.
I wish stores were like this nowdays especially since I don't have Cybertron Mudflap. Nowadays, it's just the crummy movie Mudflap hanging on store shelves.
I'd sooner think it's because people are still buying them, and because it's the most recent main line that's actually past the introduction stages. Like, the Prime line is cool, but it's not only very small & has a rather small audience in terms of marketing, but its also just beginning. Retailers know they're better off going with at least 50 or 70% movie stuff right now, so that's what they do. There'll definitely be a shift at some point, but with the 4th movie slated, I doubt we'll see it go away for sure until like a year after that movie dries up. Well, not the movie stuff in general. DOTM shit will probably stop coming once wave 1 of movie 4 shit is in full swing.
It seems quite stupid that retailers are still ordering the earlier waves to fill up the DOTM space, though. They could have conceivably ordered more of the upcoming waves and then we wouldn't be dealing with cancelled waves. Oh well!
Yeah, but from their perspective, there's little difference from wave 1 & wave 5, so they'll just go for whatever's got the better price & availability from their suppliers, which is often the early stuff. Plus, a lot of the people involved with procurement are dealing with a LOT of different products instead of just transformers or even just toys, and the other half of the process is often computerized. Combine this with the fact that the only people who even care either way (let alone to the level that we do) are fans like us, so it's a wonder that we even get current shit at all haha. Sad, but...
They're not. They're STILL PUTTING OUT what they have in their stock room from the first few waves THUS not ordering the newer (and now canceled) waves. This is the whole problem, they ordered WAY TOO MANY of the first 3 waves from the get-go!
Bingo. I think they sold well enough initially but after the first month or so they just stopped moving in my area. Hell TRU has had them on sale every week since November and still no one is buying them.
