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Thought I would start a topic for Ohioans looking for figures. I've been to 2 Wal-marts, 1 Target and 2 Toys r Us in Columbus and none have the new wave of figures as of yesterday. Anyone else have any luck?

I live north of Dayton. I've been to Troy, Piqua, Huber Heights, and Beavercreek Walmarts. Nothing but the original stuff. Checked Target in Huber, nothing. Toys R Us in Beavercreek was the same.



What they do have on the shelves are Voyager Ironhide, Ratchet, the occassional Blackout, quite a few Leader Primes and Megatrons, Deluxe Jazz, Swindle, Wreckage, some Bonecrushers, and the occasional Brawl. Then all the other stuff like the real gear, cyber stompers, and the normal line of FAB's.

It's impossible to find a 74 Bumblebee here at this point. Barricade seems to have disappeared after I got mine last week or so.

Just checked the Wal-Mart, Target and Toys R' Us near me. Still no luck. They have pretty much what you said.

Although I did see a few 74 BB's at Toys R Us and Target had Arcee. TRU had several of the protoform primes and SC's as well.

Nothing new in Toledo yet. I've checked all 3 TRUs, 2 out of 3 WalMarts, and 2 out of 3 Targets.

OSU SUCKS!

GO BLUE!

*runs back to the The Michiganders *Compliants*Acquisitions*Chat*Sightings*But mainly COMPLAINTS* Thread*

Well, I did find my 08 BB today actually. At a Walmart that my gf worked at. She's an assistant manager at one, so she was out today to talk to the company market manager (think Personnel dpt.) and just happened to check for me. There were about 6 or so visible, she grabbed two, one for her and one to leave with me. Unfortunetly, I didn't have a good experience with mine at all. It was a horribly loose mess compared to hers. We couldn't transform him without a body part falling off. He wouldn't stand because the waist joint was so loose he just kept collapsing on himself, and these yellow shoulder pad things kept falling off to top it all off.

So we took him back. I've never taken one back, but this thing was a mess, and hers was working so well. By the time I got back to the store and returned him, there was a guy a little younger then me holding one in his hand and taking a picture of the last one on the shelf with his camera phone. So when he got his pic, I got my BB. We're pretty sure it was the last one there. And it's loads better then the first. I have no idea why every ball joint on that first one was such a mess, but it was. This one nothing has fallen off. He stands and can be posed very well. Felt bad about taking the last one because of my return, but hey, I paid money and it didn't work worth a damn.

My gf started to modify hers to look more like the movie. She grabbed one of my silver sharpies and loaded a movie pic of him and proceded to go to town. Then added the black to the rear clip (see the concept car or pics of the movie car, the rear clip is black around the exhaust pipes but the toy is yellow, which is inaccurate). She's going to completely repaint him with some liquitex cadmium yellow because both of ours paint quality is kinda bad, as was the returned one.

He transforms pretty nice, and looks pretty cool.

Later we went to another *closer* Walmart and they still didn't have anything new.

My local Wal*Mart had about 20 Leader Optimus Prime today and only 2 Leader Megatron until I got mine. Meijer has bad selection probably because they're remodeling. TRU I frequent has way too many Voyager Starscreams and Ironhides; like 3 shelves full. Another Wal*Mart still has a lot of Bonecrushers and Swindles. Local K-Mart has had the worst selection and their prices are higher than every other store. One Target mainly has all their exclusives. Deluxes and Voyagers are getting scarce at most stores. Real Gear, Fast Action Battlers, Cyber Slammers and Stompers, OP and SS nerf guns--all seem to be shelf warmers. Haven't seen new voyagers or deluxes yet. Most likely will hit Wal*Mart over the weekend, hopefully they have '08 BB, only figure I need to complete my movie collection. I only go to stores close to home or on the way from work due to these outrageous gas prices.

JTKranix wrote:OSU SUCKS!

GO BLUE!

*runs back to the The Michiganders *Compliants*Acquisitions*Chat*Sightings*But mainly COMPLAINTS* Thread*

Aww man, he had to start that didn't he?

Cool that you guys got your own thread going. It's been quite helpful for us, and very good for meeting people in your area.

I agree that this thread has been a long time coming!

Anyone else in the Columbus area, the Wal-Mart on Georgesville Rd. on the SW side had 2 '08 Bumblebees, 2 Arcees, and a few Dreadwings on their shelves today (7/18) as of 4 PM. Got myself a couple of '08s just because!

Anyone who's interested--I also have about 3 (soon to be 4) Targets, a TRU, and 3-4 other Wal-Marts around me (5-6 if I really try)...I'd be happy to check around for people, as I've never run into a figure that I couldn't find SOMEWHERE.



My dad was a Michigan alum...and I've lived in Ohio my whole life. Where do I fit in?

TFBuyer wrote:

My dad was a Michigan alum...and I've lived in Ohio my whole life. Where do I fit in?

Both places until the American League Playoffs, the Pistons play the Cavs, or OSU takes on U of M...then you have to decide.