I wonder if he is responsible for the toy swapping i saw in TF packaging awhile back. I probably won't be checking the main stores as much now as i have everything i wanted now, since i broke down and ordered Air-Raid from Hasbro Toy Shop.
Went to Target in Southridge last night and saw that the restocked the shelves with 3 Sky Shadows and 3 Junkheaps. I bought a Sky Shadow.
Hit Martinsburg today. Target didn't have anything cool unless you still want an HA Leadfoot. 5Below was all out of Windchargers. TJ Maxx had an RTS Wreck-Gar which I picked up to trade for a Generations Blurr if anyone has an extra. Walmart had zero Generations figures. Kmart was a waste of time.
Jack the Toy Ripper, seriously his name is Jack. lol Same circle o'filth. Glasses, tall,creeper vibe goin strong. I scored Prime SS and Arcee with Stretch Strike Venom @ TRU today. Yes, it's took me that long to find that Venom. lol
I have hit the Martinsburg Target twice this week and they still have not restocked Transformers yet. They had a bunch of boxes out in the toy section, but we didn't see any Transformers cases. Walmart had some Cannon Force Ironhides and I was tempted, but I left them for someone else. Just opened the HFTD deluxe version and he is good enough for us right now.
Martinsburg Target restocked deluxes for the first time since the Christmas Eve sale. An old case of DOTMs and the Junkheap/Sky Shadow Generations case if anyone needs one.
I have 2 WalMarts, a K-Mart, a Target, and a Toys-R-Us...and no car. Believe me, hunting for toys by bus sucks eggs.
Spring Mills Walmart has a good selection of DOTM deluxes, Voyagers, Leaders, and Cyberverse stuff. Didn't see any Generations though.
Had to mail some Transformers for a trade, so I hit the stores around Martinsburg. Skipped Walmart because I haven't seen anything good there for a while. Checked Kmart, Big Lots, TJ Maxx, and Target. Nothing new to report except Target had a Warpath if anyone is still looking for him.
Charlestown Walmart had 3 Generations Kups in the clearance section. In the toy aisle you will find 50 deluxe Optimus Primes. First version and lunarfire version. A bunch of Orange Roadbusters too.
RiD WAS @ Target in Charleston, I got all the voyagers. Someone else took the deluxes, don't believe the product locater.
Went Toys R Us today in Charleston. Found 2x RiD Deluxe Bumblebee and a RiD Deluxe Cliffjumper. Also found I bunch of Prime cyberverse figs. I picked up the deluxe cliffjumper and a bumblebee.
Hit TRU in Huntington, walked away with 2 RID Wheeljack and one Soundwave for the grand total of 36.97. That's right, 10.99 a piece.
Found the Rid deluxes at Target in Charleston by entering the dpci. Out of sheer good sportsmanship, I gave the other fan waiting there the Soundwave. In exchange for what I thought was a pretty benevolent act, I was rewarded with a grunt of denial when I later asked if I could buy one of the 2 Cliffjumpers he picked out of the box they pulled out of the backroom at my request. The other thing I noticed in this thread... WHO is the hoarder who buys up every single new figure, even if he owns them at least 3 or 4 x in this area, and then returns all of the packages with swapped out old figures? I need info because I am investigating this in the area and we are close to catching him. He cost one store hundreds of dollars last Christmas season, and ensured that kids whose parents shopped the toy section in the area got the WRONG voyager class Transformers. I can be Pm'd on this subject if you don't want to share the info publicly. Every Walmart, Target, and Kmart between Charleston and Nitro have suffered these losses at his hand and fans are being cheated and children have been stolen from each holiday season because of this FREAK.
Jack something is his name=toy swapper, ERMON CLINE IS the hoarder=bearded dirty looking guy who grunted at you I'd say. You answered your questions by posting, tip of the hat. I have all the info you'd ever need but I know that's who you are talking about by the volume he takes. He is a POS. If you have a timeline of sightings on him we can work it out. He ripped me off some money so.....
Thanks for the info. You have been pm'd. I just wanted to add to the above that when I used the dpci at Target, the toys were not yet set on the shelf, yet someone had already bought the Soundwave, 1 WJ and 1 CJ out of one of the cases in the Backroom. When the guy brought the toys out he told me that the 5 uncased figures "came that way". I worked at Target for 6 years and I can tell you without a doubt that they never, ever receive brand new Tfs outside of the casepacks. Looks like someone buys em right out of the Backroom. Which explains a lot of the frustration people around here have trying to find new stuff there.
SirPwntALot got those, he'll post in other threads usually whe gets things. Most collectors here don't post finding because, well you can pretty much guess besides the shitty distro here.
