Tri-County Target has NECA Lasershot Predator...lots of TFs too...just not anything out of the ordinary
Saw that too but it won't let me checkout... It looks like it's trying to default me to Pickup but then it gives me an error at checkout. Man I don't want to miss this opportunity. Edit: Looks like the issue seems to be with my zipcode. I can checkout as a guest until it comes time for me to enter my address. Hope it gets sorted out soon.
The website is finicky in that it doesn’t pull up Bluestreak when searching from Walmart but does when searching from Google. Regardless, the page is linked below https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transfor...35th-Anniversary-WFC-S64-Bluestreak/292999151
Also related note but I hope that Hot Shot and Cromar go up on Hasbro Pulse as quickly as Shackwave and Lancer went up after SDCC. I need that Hot Shot and I love that we got updated Powerdashers
Target in Grove City had a rainmaker set and a Thundercracker on the shelf. I went to check out with TC and it wouldn't let me pay for it. The cashier yanked it from me and said street date was Oct 6 and they could be fined $10,000 for letting me buy it now. Needless to say i wasn't too pleased.
As someone who has worked his fair share of retail in the past, it tends to be a little of column A, a little of column B. Whilst the reasons the staff give for it might not be the same one they were given by their bosses (I mean, $10k fine? Really?), some places are pretty serious about the whole street date thing. 'Course, the bigger issue there (assuming street date is legit) is that whoever was overseeing stocking is the one that really messed up by saying it could go out on the shelves.
I’ve heard this too. Someone explained it to me reasonably well when I was hunting for the marvel legends iron man/iron spider two pack. Basically they can get fined that much. I doubt anyone would actually follow through on it, especially seeing as other stores don’t have a similar system. It’s basically to ensure that the store doesn’t go out of stock on an item before they’re technically allowed to sell it. You can blame pop collectors/scalpers for that. The system is in place because they’d buy pops before they were supposed to be able to be sold.
Same thing happened to a lot of people with Springer who didn’t really have a street date and his DPCI number is shardes with all voyager so something must be screwed up with his upc
TC technically IS Street Dated at Target. Their site says 10/6. While it is the same DPCI, i'm sure the UPC triggers it. Nothing the cashier can do, but yeah, that 10K fine is likely bull. As long as we get weirdly inspecific street dates for figures now that they are up for preorder online, stuff like this will happen off and on.
Being a Target employee there are certain items which are street dated that are legitimately street dated. In terms of toys its almost always Lego sets or movie tie in line (for example the Frozen 2 merch is street dated). However, Thundercracker is suffering the same issue as Springer. Target’s website has him as preorder releasing on the 6th. However, that ended up causing the store systems to put him on street date on the 6th when in actuality the 6th is intended to be a “Expected by” date
Hot Shot went up late last night, but hes on Pulse too. This I figured to be the case. Target integrated store and website systems enough that it does this automatically via the UPC it seems, not the corresponding DPCI.
What happened with the Battlemaster Smashdown? I haven’t seen him in stores or available online, except at a premium price.
