I feel that too. I am still fairly new to collecting (started with siege) and remember never having a problem finding anything and also seeing a ton of Star Wars black series stuff when I wasn’t even collecting them. Now that I collect black series and kingdom, there’s nothing.
It’s been an odd 12 months...lol. I think we’re still digging out from that. It’s also possible that retailers are simply ordering less these days. I remember back in the early 2000s you could pick up tons more figures on clearance after the holiday season compared to modern times. The last time I really remember there being a glut of clearance figures was at the end of Titans Return in late 2017/early 2018. You couldn’t hardly swing a dead cat without knocking over a peg full of $7 Highbrow figures. Haha. AND, we’re still at the early stages of Kingdom and SS86. They’ll soon be everywhere and we’ll be tired of seeing them. There have certainly been exceptions to this over the years wherein a certain wave didn’t seem to get wide distribution...but that’s pretty much never going to happen to wave 1. We just gotta wait until the “new” wears off and everyone has had their fill.
Kidforce Collectibles in Berea has been getting ss86. What I have is thanks to them. Give them a call. Target and Walmart are a joke here.
Walmart on Brookpark road on the west side of Cleveland has 4 optimus primals and had one cyclonus hiding behind them. Cyclonus left with me.
Powell target had 1 ss86 grimlock in a very beat up box about an hour ago. Looks like everything is still inside.
georgesville Walmart has three Optimus primals, one rattrap, one leader Optimus Prime, and a case of Netflix deluxes including Bumblebee and elita one
Milford Wal Mart has the 4 Kingdom deluxes. Also, 2 Netflix Primes. Have they had those or did I just miss out on Soundwave?
Walmart in Middletown has a lone Primal and Brainstorm in the retro packaging as of about 1:30 pm today.
Thanks so much for posting this, was able to grab the messed up Grimlock earlier! Went to the checkout and asked the cashier half jokingly "since it's messed up is there a little discount with that?" And she went "Oh yeah for sure, im surprised its on the shelf" and she knocked off 50%, so snagged him half off! Was bummed cuz I like the display things with them but that's a worthy sacrifice
