OMGS! The g1 TFs are here!

 

Holy crap, that's a Walmart? Look at all the fully-stocked pegs.

My craptastic Walmart has three Bumblebee "Energon Igniters Speed Series" figures, two of the $45 gimmick Bumblebee figures, a PotP Slug, 4 G1 Hot Rods and 2 G1 Starscreams.

MIKE
engledogg

 

Right?? I was shocked. I haven't seen those pegs that full in forever.

 

that's my local neighborhood Walmart, west side of Houston TX. i was at the same store over the wknd, still looks pretty much the same. just completely unorganized. shameful.

 

This

 

You should take pictures of the whole toy section and send them to corperate or post it on their social media. I know it’s walmart, but thats still unacceptable.

 

The Wal-Mart where I live and the Wal-Mart near my school have both restocked lately. Problem is, they're only carrying stuff I already have. The exception is that the Wal-Mart near my school started carrying the G1 reissues, of which I happily bought a Starscream!

 

Basically, my brick-and-mortar stores are filled with Cyberverse, Wave 2 Studio Series deluxes, and the repacked deluxes that were in Wave 4 of PotP. Everything else, unless it's Studio Series or PotP legends you're better off looking online.

 

Last I checked, my Walmart had POTP Legends, Deluxes and a couple Voyagers, in addition to Hot Rod reissues, Studio Series, and Cyberverse.
Oh, and a single Prime Master who had been marked down to half price, so I bought him.

 

After months of trickling down to a mere sliver, my local Walmart has exploded into an onslaught of Bumblebee Movie, G1 reissue, Power of the Primes Wave 3 (and some lingering Wave 1...), and Cyberverse. They even have the bath toys that look like G1 and Prime characters! Really, the only thing that was lacking was Studio Series (just Crowbar and Grimlock) and Prime Masters. No sign of lingering RID Windblades or TLK leftovers.

 

my walmart has just completely stopped selling studio series. their 2 crowbars are gone, and the price peg for them is gone.

 

The Transformers pegs at the Toys R Us and Toy Kingdom branches here are in a constant state of not being marked down on sale. There are wave 1 Prime Masters and Deluxes who remain at full price, even with the holidays approaching. Meanwhile, on a visit to Singapore I noticed the entire toys section being put on sale at least once a month and so I was able to happily army build Insecticons. In the Philippines it's a waiting game if one wants to make the best use of one's savings. I just don't understand it.

 

Full as hell!



Bee Hot Rod has a very weird, face. Still no repro mini bots. All the repros are gone.

 

My local Walmart has a bunch of random stuff. Cybercerse, SS, POTP, and G1 reissues. Except there's virtually nothing in any of those categories.

 

This is my Walmart's "Transformers section":

There's also another Moonracer, an Outback, and a beat-up G1 Hot Rod reissue on the shelf.

The space that is supposed to be occupied by Cyberverse and Bumblebee movie toys was never stocked and has been taken over by Hot Wheels.

"America's Best Toy Shop", my ass...

MIKE
engledogg

 

I'm shocked they still have power rangers toys. Then again I'm not surprised cuz no one bought those toys cuz they sucked.

My "bad" target looks similar to this. Instead of hot wheels though it's Ben 10 toys.

 

I would of taken a picture but do you care about empty pegs?

 

What gets me is that I think it's just laziness that they never put out any TF stock - I'm sure they are sitting in the stock room, but for whatever reason, they just don't put any out on the pegs with any regularity.

And it's not like this place is hurting for Hot Wheels - the Hot Wheels section of this Walmart is HUGE. It's half an aisle itself, plus any empty Pixar Cars pegs are filled with Hot Wheels, and there's also an endcap bin thing that's loaded with hundreds of them.

The turnover for Hot Wheels is high in this area, so I guess it's easier to load the pegs, any pegs, with what you're constantly stocking rather than bring new stuff out.

MIKE
engledogg

 

Well there's a reason I call it the bad target in my area. I have 2 targets. The bad one not only refuses to stock their shelves accordingly but when you ask the employees for help, they all answer the same way.

Me - hi I'd like to know if you have a toy in stock.
Employee - it's most likely sold out
Me - but I didn't even mention which toy
Employee - yeah well *walks away*

 

No pics, but as far as "local" goes. In town all I have is a "Shopko". Was there getting medicine today and looked at the toy section. Damn thing was 90% empty across the board. For transformers there was one. ONE transformer.

Sqweeks.