Wow. I'll have to keep an eye out for those. I didn't want to pay full price for them so this would work out nicely.
Wal-Mart on Sunshine in Sprungfeld has FOC and the big Weaponizer's in. They have also raised the price of deluxes to 15.45!!! Holy Cow, thats crazy!!! I was kinda used to 9.99 at most. Well, in talking to an employee at a different WM he scanned the tag and there is a 60% markup on the deluxe sizes. Thanks a lot economy. I did buy a Universe Blaster on EBAY MIB for 13.45 yesterday. I know, big woop, but I missed him when he was out...there was a lot of other figures out back then.
Thanks, you saved me a trip. I hope that does not become a lost wave like some many of the RTS and PCC figures did.
Lees Summit Target had 3 x FoC Shockwave and several Jazz and Optimus approx an hour ago when I was there. They also had the newest wave of Botshots.
Fairview TRU had 2 FOC Shockwave, as well as Prime and Jazz. THey also had Kreo Devs. The FOC stuff is further to the right.
I've seen one vehicon at retail. Luckily later waves should have vehicon... but with distribution so shoddy who knows if we will see them for sure. I'm hoping more stuff appears on the shelf the closer we get to the holidays.
I wonder if distribution would be so bad if hasbro decided to not make so many bumblebees. I looked at stores across 4 states and there is one constant. Tons of bb, even from dark of the moon are still floating around.
Same here, I've only seen one vehicon, and I'd love to army build them. At this point, I think I'd be happy just getting a couple more. Yup, he's the scourge (No, not that Scourge) of all Transformers lines these days. I've seen some stores with close to 10 TF: Prime BBs. I can't believe Hasbro thought they'd sell that many BBs.
Did a little shopping tonight with Docbot89. Found all the new botshots at Target in Columbia. All three walmarts in town were setting up their toy dept. Conley Rd wasn't finished, Grindstone still the same, but Broadway was done. Nothing new to note other than they raised the price of the cyberverse vehicles to 21.99
Grabbed FOC Shockwave and Jazz from Sunset Hills Tru. Only had one shockwave and nothing else new there. It'll be nice having a ross that's semi close if some good figures show up there during the holidays.
High Ridge and Kirkwood Walmart are doing toy resets. Kind of disappointing to hear that nothing new is appearing.
Coldiron, here is the deal. After talking to a Wal-Mart employee about the Bumblebee glut he told me, as I suspected, that Prime Deluxes only have one SKU#. The system will not order anymore until they can put out a case of them. The Wal-Mart on Campbell in Springfield has 12 Bumblebees on the pegs, so the system thinks there are 12 figures, thats enough, not knowing that these will NEVER sell. It probably looks like the line is failing, at least in the computer. If they were to do a different SKU for each character, it would show the truth! My local TRU is the same way, the pegs are full of Bumblebee's and it sucks! Unless they increase the Prime deluxe area (and they didn't according to all of the plan-o-grams that I have seen with the new toy reset) we are NEVER going to see anymore deluxe figures. I guess we could all buy up the Bumblebee's and just wait and return them all!\ P.S. Got Cyberverse Flamewar at the Wal-Mart on Independance (Springfield), also got the black BB, and Hyperspeed Wheeljack because there is nothing else new to get.
Signals, maybe we should somehow present this data to Hasbro. They obviously do not have a proper logistics in their distribution and data collection. They have banked on the first couple of movies success with bumblebee yet they were lazy with the evolution of the figure, and assumed more of the same would keep selling. People got bored, and cooler characters were introduced via the movie and other lines. Hasbro has not gotten the hint that the taste of the fans can change. This figure may have been originally to target kids, but those kids have has five years of their taste in toys and characters to develop.
Looking at future TFP deluxe waves, I think Hasbro has noticed and is backing off of Bumblebee, at least a bit. While he is still in some upcoming waves he's not overpacked like he was in past waves. If you haven't seen the case assortments, you can go to entertainmentearth.com and search for "transformers prime deluxe wave". That'll show you waves 1-6. So it seems to me that while Bumblebee will still be present, he's not getting remolded/repainted/new mold in every wave and causing other figures to be left out. Though there's not that many new figures to release. Kup/Ironhide and Rumble are the only ones not released. Vehicon, Airachnid, Knockout, and Deadend haven't been widely available but they will be in the next few waves. If retailers would clearance what they have now or pass them on to discount stores, they could get the new waves and sell them pretty easily. Anyway, Toys R Us in Springfield has Buy One Get One Half Off on all Transformers. Though the only thing worth noting is 4 Gen. Shockwaves. They also reset the action figure section. Tfs are in the same isle but on the opposite side after the Star Wars stuff.
Saw the shelf tag for MP Thundercracker at TRU today, hopefully it means they will be hitting shelves soon. Ill try calling late this week/early next to see if they received any.
