Hey, yeah! I hate that one! There are too many of him\her\it! They should have made\sent fewer!

At my local stores--mind you I've been collecting a little less than 1 year--It has been SS DOTM Triplets, the Target Spike+Bumblebee set, Cyberverse Ultra Class Shockwave, Kingdom Arcee, Cyberverse Arcee, and the entire RED line that have done larger than typical amounts of shelfwarming.

But even among this group, nothing sticks around forever. Eventually someone shows up and buys everything to take to a swap meet. 2 weeks ago I finally witnessed it, an older gentleman walking out of Walmart with 3-4 bags full of TFs in each hand. Mostly Netflix deluxes and voyagers. When I got inside, the store had absolutely nothing left, not even Cyberverse junk that usually shelfwarms everywhere. I am sure he was on the way to donate them to his EBay charity...?

 

I always saw the motley TLK crew of Berserker, Slug, the RC Sqweeks, the big chunky Dragonstorm figure for months. I remember getting an email from Target for holiday 2018 and the big huge image for toys was poor Sqweeks.

Berserker isn’t bad, he’s a solid enough update of the Crankcase/Berserker mould. Slug isn’t the worst either, he just suffers from being too small as a deluxe and having an inaccurate paint job. Neither character did anything in the movie either, so it’s no surprise they didn’t sell.

Ah, and ROTF Tuner Mudflap and Wheelie. Poor suckers.

 

The thread specifically asks "that we've ever seen." We can't see the mainline shelfwarmers at the places we don't shop.

 

Beast Machines Ultra (or whatever the really giant one was called) Cheetor shelfwarmed so hard at Walmart when I was a kid that they ended up putting him on clearance for like $7 and he still sat around for months.

These days, I see Paleotrex a lot at the Targets around town. They're wiped out of basically everything else Generations & Studio Series, but those guys sit there.

 

yeah, the only Kingdom figures I'm seeing locally is the repacks (Arcee/Wheeljack) and the Fossilizers... they still move eventually (Arcee the slowest), but everything else seems to sell as soon as it's put out (I don't think I've seen a Kingdom Voyager or Leader on shelf, and Core only a handful of times)

 

He's still that cheap? Man.. I'll have to find one eventually. I have one but it's broken and doesn't like to stay together because of springs

 

CW Leader Skywarp, Siege Shockwave, and Earthrise Grapple. The local Target couldn't sell any of those guys.

 

I'm very surprised no one at least to my knowledge yet has mentioned those 07 Payloads.

 

BW Scavenger for sure. Armada Smokescreen. Beast Machines Buzzsaw.

The one I still have nightmares about: Beast Machines Mega Tankor. It just would not sell. It felt like they grew in numbers overt time.

Scoops stuck around forever. For sure these days I’m long tired of Kingdom Blackarachnia.

 

Probably Armada Smokescreen or Tuner Mudflap.

 

One I could give is a Star Wars crossover figure that I got about 5 years ago ???... on a peg in a store (and they had a few others). Overpriced and not a common store, but I would guess that it counts.

So that would be about a 10 year span of it sitting there if my math is correct.

 

Seige Shockwave lasted 2 years at my Walmart. I finally scanned it(I already had one at full price)
$5.00 I said it out loud set it down and the dude next to me snatched him up and left.

 

Found this today in a store...

does that count?  

 

Currently it's Kingdom Ractonite. There are 8 sitting at my mall's Target & even more than that at my local toy store. I think there's atleast 14, no joke. It's obsurd.

 

You guys aren't thinking long term enough there's lots of figures that last 6 months or a year. A true peg warmer will be hanging around still a couple lines later. Beast wars transquito, injector, or retrax still around by the time Armada was out

 

I can confirm. In 2004 I bought MISB Transquito and Inferno.

 

So here in the philippines most of siege wave 1 and wave 5 ended up shelfwarming so much that they had to put them in plastic bags and sell them 80% off and most of the filipino fans started saying these molds where underrated like wtf? Spinister is the best deluxe in the wfc toyline how can these be so oblivious.

But right now the biggest shelf warmer is the beast wars part of kingdom last mall i checked there was a wall of dinobots and blackarachnias with a sprinkle of rhinox and t wrecks. It gotten bad so much that inferno became a rare figure.

 

its still satellite soundwave, a year after his release

 

Action Masters.

 

Man, I remember the G2 Power Master (no, not those ones) Ironhide from 1995 shelfwarming so badly at the Warrington Toys R’ Us near me that he was actually available into the noughties, I still remember him being there in 2002, possibly even 2004 (all of Beast Wars / Beast Machines had come & gone since!)

Just seen on TFWiki he was from the very end of G2 and only released in Europe & Australia / New Zealand so I’m a little sad I didn’t get him now, he actually had a decent Hummer mode but my word it was a bad toy. Just like the Battlechargers, but 10 years on toys have moved on from those sort of things!