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Someone on the Canadian TF message board I go on posted this image of an ontario Walmart.
Holy stocked shelves batman!

That's a lot of Cyberverse! Pretty sure US Walmarts have completely abandoned the line.

Emerje

Yeah walmart abandoned Cyberverse around Christmas. Target still has them though, and still getting stock and moving through it too

Went to my local Target today and was surprised at how well stocked it was. They had 3 Legacy Titan Metroplexes, 4 MPM Blackouts, Legacy wave 2 voyagers (2 soundwave, and 1 Jhiaxus) (first time seeing those), a whole peg of SS86 Wheelie & Ratchet, (first tie seeing those). One each of the newest SS deluxe assortment (with Bee and Sideways, my first time seeing those).

They also had one solitary Legacy Deluxe Knockout. This is very odd, but I think they got one case of wave 2 and just sort of "parsed" it out as they only have peg for legacy. Last week my daughter saw one Elita, when she asked for an employee to see if they had more in the back, they only brought her another Elita (probably had the rets of the case, but the request was lost in translation). Now I see just 1 Knockout.

I this time I had the guy scan the peg rather than the individual item. he said they had none in the back, but more were coming on the 15th, so we shall see. I just want Wildrider.

Additionally they had more of both the Beast 4 pack, and the Cyberverse 4 pack and plenty of Buzzworthy toy deco Terrorsaur and raw chicken Dinobot.

4 Leader SS86 Coronation Screamers' and 4 Leader Legacy Galvatrons. Those are going to clog up the shelves, so probably no chance of seeing Sludge or Blitzwing any time soon at that store at least (I did manage to see a Blitzwing at a Walmart about 2 weeks ago though.

Also I've seen all the Walmart Velocitron releases now in person except Cosmos...go figure.

o.supreme wrote:Went to my local Target today and was surprised at how well stocked it was.

Well it's a true reversal of fortune then, my friend. Remember me bragging about all the stock at my local TRU? Well that is long gone. The TF section which often took an entire row has been reduced to the same or less that you would see at a Walmart. And all the stock is old exclusives from last year. No current exclusives or anything new from the current lines. And it's all overpriced too, with deluxes being 10$ more at TRU than at Walmart. It's really sad.

The legacy beast wars redecos still havent been seen at my local walmart, that's how much things are lagging here (though we did get all the velocitron stuff, thankfully).

Also, Sludge is repacked with SS86 Starscream so either that's what wave you saw or you will be seeing even more SS86 Starscreams one day.

Hmmm sounds like TRU in Canada may be heading the same direction it went in many other.countries back in 2018. I know childhood, and even adult nostalgia was strong. Heck even when I was first married in the early 2000s it was still a great place to find toys. But now it may be circling the drain as it were in.Canada. Which is sad,but inevitable when you have mismanagement.

Yeah I've seen a ton of SS86 Starscream. 4 at that Target yesterday. But I've seen some with 6 or 8. Hasbro way overestimated the value of a chair and some accessories with ER Screamer. Legacy Galvatron is a shelfwarmer as well.

One would think, when you roll a toy over into the next line, you would produce less, knowing demand won't be as much. Kids don't know it has a slightly different paint app. Even the new packaging, kids know it's the same toy.

o.supreme wrote:One would think, when you roll a toy over into the next line, you would produce less, knowing demand won't be as much. Kids don't know it has a slightly different paint app. Even the new packaging, kids know it's the same toy.

I think it's just to have that product on the shelves, not necessarily for people to buy it again. He was a tail ender, so it's overcompensation in case the final wave of leaders was underordered.

And I went to my TRU today, it wasn't as empty as I thought. Nothing great and all old stock but still, not empty.

A lot of old items, but definitely still sought after such as The 4 pack with Fangry.

Also Draculus never showed up at retail that I'm aware of, even Kingdom Rodimus was something I never saw at retail either. But then again, if the prices at TRU are as bad as you say, I can see why they have so many still.

Even in it's last days in my area in 2018, they had tons of TLK toys sitting because they were over priced. I wonder whatever happened to those $150 Primus repaints....

o.supreme wrote:I wonder whatever happened to those $150 Primus repaints....

I bought one for $80 from a TRU, might have been one of the last TRU purchases I ever made too

Currently on Vacation in Southern California. The Targets here are nicely stocked. The stores near me should take note. I actually saw SS86 Ironhide. Wasn't expecting to see him for a while also full deluxe legacy wave 2 on shelf, what a nice surprise.

I think I will try again tomorrow but I've been by recently to the TRU sections at Macy's. What I saw mainly was early waves of Legacy and Studio '86. Anyone else gone by Macy's stores?

My TRU had some fun, albeit overpriced, stuff yesterday

Nemesis Destron wrote:I think I will try again tomorrow but I've been by recently to the TRU sections at Macy's. What I saw mainly was early waves of Legacy and Studio '86. Anyone else gone by Macy's stores?

I do, the TRU section had a bunch of cool stuff, I got the newest Marvel Legends wave at 30% off too

Took these pictures Friday morning after a fresh reset, the pegs were packed at Walmart.




Still no sign of Wave 2 or 3 Deluxe Legacy or wave 2 or 3 Core Legacy and SS. And probably wont be for a while, there's nowhere to put them. Well, aside from that big empty space that could easily fit a few more pegs under the Deluxes.

Who is actually buying those Buzz Lightyear toys? The movie tanked and they've already moved half of their stock to clearance.

Emerje

This was at a Mini-Target I call it and clearly better than Macy's.





So this was at Macy's and the section alone was sad looking.

My Target is abysmal. I've been popping in there once or twice a week for a month now and nothing new. Today I found one new thing, a lone Tonkanator set, and my jaw dropped when the clerk said it was $105 plus tax. It didn't even have a spot, it was just randomly sitting on a shelf in the TF section.

Got excited when I saw all these Legacy boxes on the top overflow shelf at Walmart this morning thinking they finally got wave 2 or even wave 3 in (I just need wave 3 myself). Nope, just more wave 1.



They did get another batch of Overrides in so that was nice to see.

Emerje

Yeah my Wal-Mart still has piles of repainted Beast Wars guys, So I don't expect them to get the next waves in until around Christmas.

They did finally get a couple of cases of Override in. Saw 4 of it on the shelf next to 6 Haulers and a couple of Scourges.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah my Wal-Mart still has piles of repainted Beast Wars guys, So I don't expect them to get the next waves in until around Christmas.

They did finally get a couple of cases of Override in. Saw 4 of it on the shelf next to 6 Haulers and a couple of Scourges.

Yeah, I went to another local Walmart Saturday evening and they also got a restock of Overrides and Haulers. This Walmart sounds like yours, there wasn't much else except a bunch of leftover Legacy Beasts and a few older figures.

Emerje

Just curious, has there been any confirmed sightings of Legacy Wave 2 Deluxes at a Walmart in the United States? I've only seen them at Target.

It's been a long time since I saw anything at a TJ Max worth my time, I'd guess as far back as Combiner Wars and I spotted this and only this for YOU Beast Wars fans.

Nemesis Destron wrote:

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It's been a long time since I saw anything at a TJ Max worth my time, I'd guess as far back as Combiner Wars and I spotted this and only this for YOU Beast Wars fans.

That's interesting, do you remember the price?

Emerje

@ Emerje

Nah unfortunately I didn't get a look at that. I guess it would have been helpful to others had I included the price.

My Walmart has sucked ALL YEAR. But I finally have that giddy feeling of finding loads of fun new stuff there.










That's a LOOOOT of Galaxy Shuttle and Sludge.

probably more Sludges right there than in all the Walmarts in California