Mosaic Target has had nothing but a single Chromia for a while now for deluxes.

Figure they gotta be getting something in sooner or later but it's been more than a couple of days now.

 

Target = WTF happened!?

South Independence Target this afternoon:

• SS helo Drift x 1
• SS car Dropkick x 2
• SS Hightower x 1
• SS Bonecrusher x 1
• WFC Rainmakers x 3
• WFC Chromias
• WFC Sixgun x 1
• WFC Rescue Patrol x 2
• WFC Micromaster 10 pack x 2
• WFC Shockwaves
• WFC Starscream x 2
• WFC Thundercracker x 1
• WFC Megatron x 1
• WFC Mirage x 1(paint knicked off corner of 1 eye)
• SS leaders... IT DOESN'T MATTER AS THEY PULL UP AS "DO NOT SELL UNTIL 1/1/2020"! How this happened even since SS Megatron has been sold from Target since like January of this year is beyond me. From what I heard, all the SS leader figures will be pulled from shelves.

Whoever organizes Target's inventory database or whatever at the corporate level is screwing up. Reminds me of the WFC Starscreams people tried to buy a few weeks back but got denied because of the same issue.

How the hell do you put a block on sales for something that was already being sold earlier this year?

 

Posted the details of the @ToyDojo Pre-TFcon BBQ in my neighborhood here: Toy Dojo Pre-TFcon BBQ

It'll be Thursday Oct 24 from 4-7PM. If you have any special requests for items that you would like to buy from Toy Dojo, please PM me. They obviously don't bring their entire inventory but they are sending stuff this week, so I can get items added to their shipment. You can pick up at the BBQ, at the Con, or arrange a time to meet me some other time.

~Paik

 

Victory Comics has one of the fancy Refraktor sets, one Siege Jetfire, and a couple of the Flame Toys SG Optimus models.

 

Midlothian Walmart has like three G1 Soundwaves, thats all note worthy Transformers wise.

Barnes and Noble at Chesterfield Town Center Mall has like two Flametoys Bumblebee and the Skywarp kit I mentioned last time was actually the Nemesis Prime which they only have one of and it's in the front by the door.

 

Roanoke/Clearbrook Wal-Mart: about a half dozen G1 Soundwaves (note: I was there about a week ago and they only had one that someone had opened - apparently stole the stickers/instructions?). No G1 cassettes, and no shelf tags for them, either.

 

This happened to me yesterday when I tried to buy Leader OP. Even the manager couldn’t sell it to me. They pulled all the leaders from the shelf

 

That's some bullshit man, sorry to hear. Target's probably going to get some pissed off parents this shopping season, I doubt Transformers are the only toys affected by this garbage.

 

Got my 3A Bumblebee from Amazon today. This figure is fantastic! I cannot recommend it enough. I will definitely be getting the OP when it is released too.

 

Burke Walmart is mostly just the Wave 2 repacks for Siege. (Lots of Shockwave, Chromia, Prowl and Hound.)
There a Cyberverse Warrior Bumblebee in clearance for 8 bucks though.

 

driving from portsmouth to richmond today, any signs of ratchet along that path yet?

 

Has Ratchet been spotted in any Walgreens yet?

 

Ratchet has not been sighted anywhere yet.

 

If you spot one make sure to take a picture. I am tired of seeing California get the first finds.

 

According to Brickseek, there are more Target stores listed around me with zero deluxes in stock than stocked.  

 

I'm kinda wondering if this BS with Target pulling stuff from the shelves has anything to do with them selling stuff on their new TRU online store thing. Like, they're hoarding a bunch of stuff to sell during the holidays (and, incidentally, creating an artificial scarcity). If that turns out to be the case, I'm gonna be pissed. I just want a nice Siege Barricade figure in a timely manner. I hope Walmart will start getting that Deluxe wave soon...

 

No way. Logistically it doesn't make sense. They wouldn't ship single toys back just to sell them online when they sell literally 10,000 or more SKUs in stores/online. If an item sells in store they make money, if it sells online, they make money. Its just a computer error.

 

Walmart typically lags behind Target on new stock by 3-4 weeks. We should start seeing local Walmarts with the new wave by the second week of November.

 

What's killing me is that toys from previous waves are getting caught up in this. Out of curiosity, I price-checked SS Leader Megatron and it was coming up as unsellable.

They need to get this sorted out before the holidays, or its gonna get nasty.

 

*TINFOIL HAT GOES ON* What if it's all part of a Target reset where they pull the deluxes, thus artificially creating added demand in the market, and then reintroduces them all before the holidays at the special low price of $24.99?