Generations 2014 Figures Including Arcee and Chromia Arriving at Ollie's Bargain Outlet

DAMMIT! These don't exist in Canada? Could someone grab those two for me? I can pay for them and shipping! Preferably someone who lives somewhere were the shipping won't wreak havoc on the price! XD

Sabrblade wrote:My state doesn't have this store chain.

I guess it's a midwest and south kinda thing.

I just located one 30 minutes from my home. I will take a ride there tomorrow!

Man, I just checked Ollie's store locator. I'll save some of you all the trip.
There are no locations west of the Mississippi River.
Good luck to all you Easterlings.

Edit: and no Illinois or Wisconsin.

The closest Ollie's to me is 50+ miles away. Grrr.

Rated X wrote:BBTS still has them in stock as a pair for $31.99 which would be about walmarts price on current deluxes. Im shocked by the amount of people that would spend half a tank of gas and drive for an hour or more to find them in the wild in some obscure store. I just dont get the logic....

Indeed, I honestly can't believe that the 2 pack or legends arcee(?) are still in stock with all the belly achin' that went on 'round here.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rated X wrote:BBTS still has them in stock as a pair for $31.99 which would be about walmarts price on current deluxes. Im shocked by the amount of people that would spend half a tank of gas and drive for an hour or more to find them in the wild in some obscure store. I just dont get the logic....

Still works out cheaper with gas hovering at $2 a gallon

And since I just happen to work 1 mile north of one, I am so, SOOOOO happy that I remained patient and never caved in to inflated online prices! (Though I panicked and spent $50 on ebay for Takara's Arcee, but that's neither here nor there)

And besides, who can stop at just one? This almost-3-decades-overdue toy has a LOT of potential redecos that even the club will never tackle, and AFAIC Hasbro's initial announcement of it was an explicit promise that I'd be able to buy a crapload of them cheap; now, after a year of searching every TJMarshaxx, Tuesday Morning, and Kmart (not fair to lump them in with the other 3, but their Brainstorm got my hopes up) that promise has been fulfilled. What's one more year when I'd already waited 28?

Coincidentally, I'd only ever started going into Ollie's about this time last year. Their selection of boys' toys always kinda' sucked, except for that occasional diamond in the rough, like the Avengers helicarrier for $20 and some Joe: Retaliation
figures I've never seen elsewhere. Their TF selection had been borderline non-existent until they got AofE Power Attackers the same time as Five Below (and here I was shocked when the newest 5B got some Generations AofE deluxes). Until now, I'd honestly bought more girls' toys from Ollies, thanks to their huge stock of the smaller Winx club figures, though only the 6 common ones (hey, with the Jem movie bombin', they might be the closest we ever get to Jem figs scaled to interact with Joes).

My Ollies also had Windblade, Jhiaxus, Armadascream, Rattrap, Tankor, Scoop, Crosscut, and the Minicon trio, for the record.

hasbros incompetence knows no bounds, instead of shipping these to real outlet stores or putting them up on HTS they send them to some no name discount store that most people dont even have in their state let alone near them. Great job guys you really know how to get products to your customers. Worst part is now that this info is out there all the scalpers are going to be flocking to these places and buy every single one of them, ebays about to get flooded with over priced fembots.

Megatron Wolf wrote:hasbros incompetence knows no bounds, instead of shipping these to real outlet stores or putting them up on HTS they send them to some no name discount store that most people dont even have in their state let alone near them. Great job guys you really know how to get products to your customers. Worst part is now that this info is out there all the scalpers are going to be flocking to these places and buy every single one of them, ebays about to get flooded with over priced fembots.

Yes, because Hasbro gets to dictate what stores buy which products, and at what quantities.

This always happens with product slated at the end of a calendar year. Big box stores largely pass or diminish their orders due to saturated shelves, and the product finds its way to whatever discount retailers want it.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Rated X wrote:BBTS still has them in stock as a pair for $31.99 which would be about walmarts price on current deluxes. Im shocked by the amount of people that would spend half a tank of gas and drive for an hour or more to find them in the wild in some obscure store. I just dont get the logic....

Same reasons as these guys:



The trill of the hunt!

Im not sure I consider driving around looking for plastic toys the same adrenalin rush as facing a lion head on, blowing his brains out, and hanging his head on the wall.

Kind of reminds me of those people who spend 2 dollars in gas driving to a cheaper gas station where gas is 3 cents cheaper a gallon. And that doesn't even factor in the wear and tear on your vehicle.