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you too? my targets have been cleared out for weeks now.

They are making room for generations and rid

hey hey! just got home from TRU in west edmonton alberta, and looky what i found!
platinum AOE dinobots unleashed 5-pack!

to my knowledge this is the first retail sighting anywhere right?

That's 10$ more than normal retail price if you had to buy the normal ones separately. Not too shabby for some premium products. A shame it's not the entire team for say, 150$.

-Kanrabat- wrote:That's 10$ more than normal retail price if you had to buy the normal ones separately. Not too shabby for some premium products. A shame it's not the entire team for say, 150$.

i just double checked BBTS cause i was curious, their price is 120 american! that makes our 130 canadian look pretty damn good!

shajaki wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:That's 10$ more than normal retail price if you had to buy the normal ones separately. Not too shabby for some premium products. A shame it's not the entire team for say, 150$.

i just double checked BBTS cause i was curious, their price is 120 american! that makes our 130 canadian look pretty damn good!

Yeah, but then I was thinking of tax and saw your gorgeous lack of provincial tax. You lucky ba$tard, you.

This is what they had at winners. Like Kanrabat says, these are sets we never spotted at retail:

i was gonna ask, hows your local stores doing at post christmas restocking? my TRU's arent bad (they have stock, but nothing new) but my walmarts and targets are barren wastelands....

shajaki wrote:i was gonna ask, hows your local stores doing at post christmas restocking? my TRU's arent bad (they have stock, but nothing new) but my walmarts and targets are barren wastelands....

They are all barren wastelands. Except for the last wave of beast hunter deluxes for some inexplicable reason.

william-james88 wrote:

shajaki wrote:i was gonna ask, hows your local stores doing at post christmas restocking? my TRU's arent bad (they have stock, but nothing new) but my walmarts and targets are barren wastelands....

They are all barren wastelands. Except for the last wave of beast hunter deluxes for some inexplicable reason.

*sigh*
ive now checked everywhere in edmonton worth checking, and its a pretty sad state. but if i were a bettin man id put my money on CW showing up at the underdog, target. i found the windblade assortment months ago from there and still havent seen them since.

for any of us canadians who have yet to get that assortment, i highly suggest hitting up TRu.ca as they have them in stock, and shipping is free after $25 (while in the states its $50, go canada!).

http://www.toysrus.ca/family/viewall/index.jsp?sort=ProductAge-A&categoryId=21839216&overrideStore=TRUSCA

I found this at the big dollar store chain called Dollarama at 3$ a piece:






It's RID Landfill KO.

LAWL!

Sigh.

Anyone wanna buy mine? It's the all yellow version. Not cheap KO, of course.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Sigh.

Anyone wanna buy mine? It's the all yellow version. Not cheap KO, of course.

Sorry, a mutual friend gave me his multicolor version for 20$. Apparently it was a deal I shouldnt pass up. He's apparently a popular gestalt, I am sure you will sell him one day.

Hey guys, I dont know about you but I’ve got the feeling we wont be getting combiner wars for a loooooooooooooooong time here in Canada, especially TRU. I went yesterday (for my awesome reporter scoop) and stopped to see if the TF shelves had anything new. At first I thought they didn’t but in reality they did: they had finally gotten voyager Slog and Drift. I had gotten them online when there was a 33% off sale so I totally forgot that they never showed up at retail. Well, they finally did. And that tells me we wont see combiner wars before summer. I have no clue about brainstorm though.

i hate to break it to ya WJ, but it might just be where you live.

i got slog/drift in my TRU's, and windblade/roadbuster boxes at target, both around november or earlier. im confident ill see some CW in late jan / early feb.

shajaki wrote:i hate to break it to ya WJ, but it might just be where you live.

i got slog/drift in my TRU's, and windblade/roadbuster boxes at target, both around november or earlier. im confident ill see some CW in late jan / early feb.

Oh no. And as I recall, it was the same with the armada starscream generations wave, right? We got them super late. I guess its just quebec. But at least you get them

It's not just Quebec.

In Fact when I had a chance to visit the TRU in Laval I saw the last wave of Kreo blind packs (the one true series of blind packs) in mid-September. The first I found them local here in BC was just before Black Friday.

Between that and the KREO Combiners wave 3 showing up last month at Save-on-Foods, I've learned to just roll with it when we don't see things, If i really want it i'll pay extra for getting them from the US & shipping, or wait and take my chances. So far I still end up getting most of the ones I want.

Target has announced that it will be swiftly leaving Canada once the court authorizes this business decision (since there are contracts at play and the sort).

Many people will lose their jobs (they will all be given 16 weeks salary though) and it's terrible but all I can think is:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, we are losing a bunch of possible Transformers exclusives.

Of all three retailers (them, Walmart and TRU), Target was the best in Quebec. Their exclusives were not amazing, BUT they were present. TRU still doesnt bother putting English on their boxes for platinum and MP releases so Quebec doesnt get them. Walmart was good to me this year with Predaking BUT we canadians didnt get most of their AOE exclsuives such as the beast wars and energon toy reissues.

Target was the only place that gave us all their exclusives and did the extra step of having the right language on the box so that even Quebec could get them. And for the value, nothing this year in Canada beat that two pack silver optimus and G1 colour foc grimlock pack for 16.99$.

But thats over now, too bad.

kinda shocking how quickly target is jumping ship.... that genuinly sucks.
but that many renovated stores cant go to waste. who'll take the mast?

I am rather pissed off by the callousness of this move.

Target rammed their way in with their acquisition of Zellers, and pulling out nowcould cause a number of ripple effects in the Canadian market beyond our personal needs as TF collectors.

Less competition results in retailers doing less to get your business. Forget exclusives, that's one less store TRU & Walmart needs to price match.

Personally I'm bitter as the Target that opened 2 blocks from me has been quite good, not just for toys but food and cloths as well.

Too bad HBC doesn't have the balls to buy back some of their locations and give us an improved Zellers.

Editor wrote:I am rather pissed off by the callousness of this move.

Target rammed their way in with their acquisition of Zellers, and pulling out nowcould cause a number of ripple effects in the Canadian market beyond our personal needs as TF collectors.

Less competition results in retailers doing less to get your business. Forget exclusives, that's one less store TRU & Walmart needs to price match.

Personally I'm bitter as the Target that opened 2 blocks from me has been quite good, not just for toys but food and cloths as well.

Too bad HBC doesn't have the balls to buy back some of their locations and give us an improved Zellers.

And plus you have these shopping malls which depended on a Target to attract a crowd. I have no clue how they will resolve that and who will take over all that space.

And I had not thought of that price match, that is a real bummer. However, I must admit that I usually made Target match their price with Walmart instead of the other way around.

I expect we'll all be hearing people asking for Zellers, Woolco, and our other lost chains to return but that likely just won't happen. Even if HBC revised Zellers, I doubt they would buy back more that a dozen or so leases. Wal-Mart, Canadian Tire and maybe Home Depot/Lowes may look at some, but I expect a number of malls are looking at breaking the footprints down for smaller shops.

I know that the TRU near me is possibly going to need a new location as the land is speculated to become an office tower soon, so they could take a chunk of the Target floorplan much in the same way the Sears that was there is now split between a Future Shop/Winners/T&T/Shoppers and a Medical clinic. But honestly who knows.

Looking at comments online from a lot of people, I guess I'm a minority, as the Target was a vast improvement over the Zellers it took over. The staff were decent and most shelves weren't as bare as other places people are complaining about. Was the Toy department smaller with less stuff than Zellers? Absolutely, but at least 50% wasn't "stocked" with years of dead product no one wanted. Just how much Avatar Movie crap did the bring in?

Well Target, thanks for what you did provide. Death's Head, about a dozen TF's, a few Lego sets, a bunch of Disney Infinity figures on sale, cheap deals on a bunch of food (never bothered with Zellers for food) a couple belts, a ton of discounted Christmas stuff last year, and mostly the convenience of being spiting distance away. Back to the half-hour trek to Walmart & Superstore.

There's an idea, Loblaws should look at grabbing a couple to be the reverse of one of their superstores, 20-30% food, 70%-80% everything else they sell. Toy prices would still likely be crap, but at least they have the potential capital to give it a whirl.

Aw, come on, that's total bullshit! It's not only the TF exclusives that were good and available at Target. It was the MLP exclusives too! Also, when they put toys on clearance, they were on clearance for REAL! I just bought the MLP Equestria Girls stage, normally sold for 40-50$ at only 15$!

Shiiiiiiit.... Centre Laval will take quite a hit because they renovated the ENTIRE shopping mall just for Target. Sigh... One less convenient store to go, less competition, more exclusive to miss and pay a premium for on Ebay.

God fawking dammit.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Aw, come on, that's total bullshit! It's not only the TF exclusives that were good and available at Target. It was the MLP exclusives too! Also, when they put toys on clearance, they were on clearance for REAL! I just bought the MLP Equestria Girls stage, normally sold for 40-50$ at only 15$!

Shiiiiiiit.... Centre Laval will take quite a hit because they renovated the ENTIRE shopping mall just for Target. Sigh... One less convenient store to go, less competition, more exclusive to miss and pay a premium for on Ebay.

God fawking dammit.

As you know, i am juat as devistated as you. I have no clue how centre laval will deal with this. The only thing i could think of was lablaws. But this really sucks!