I made my last run today before the holiday. I went to Target and Walmart at the Coolidge and Maple area (Royal Oak & Troy).
Target has 1 WFC Soundwave and Cliffjumper, and 1 Thunderwing. They have marked Generations down to $8.49 for a short time. If you have your own reusable bag one item will cost $8.95 post discount and tax.
Walmart had 1 Soundwave.
I have not seen Blurr or the Dinobots anywhere. I looked for other stacks in Walmart and found nothing. Both stores seem to almost be picked clean but amazingly some of the cooler stuff is still there, like the above and Skullgrin (don't remember how many I saw, and I only remember seeing him at Target). If you want Elita-1 or Tuner Skids, now's the time to grab them. I did see Dirge (at Target, I think), but it's the original paint, so if you want the corrected
I don't think you'll find it there until they restock. Maybe.
I get the feeling that like Nest Mindwipe, Generations Blurr will see mass shelving after we see the first wave or two of RTS. I don't know why that is, but I have confidence we will not miss out entirely, we just need to hit the right store at the right time or be patient and wait for those boxes to be shipped once holiday stocks are done.
Not surprisingly I still saw Tuner Mudflap at Walmart. If I liked the characters, and if they didn't have the faces they have, I'd pick up the Tuner Twins. But they are just plain old ugly, and outside of maybe getting the ice cream truck at some point to add Reprolabels, I have no interest. Yet I strangely did not mind them so much in ROTF, and I did laugh at them. Not with them, at them. And I don't think they are racist, nor are they meant to be. I think they are a poor attempt at Boondocks humor, with ugly faces. Now, if they had cool faces, and if the were the TF versions of Ed Wuncler III (voiced by Charlie Murphy) and Gin Rummy (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson), I think the characters would have worked, and the Tuner Twins would not be shelf warmers. I'd have preferred the real Autobot Twins (Sideswipe and Sunstreaker) in the movie, but these twins could have worked if done right, and a missed opportunity became the most hated product of the line because they take up space that prevents new characters from hitting shelves in many stores.
I did finally breakdown (yet again) and pick up WFC Soundwave and Thunderwing. If the redeco looks nice I may pick up TW's mold again. I just really wish it was voyager because then the nose drone would have been a Minicon and the arms would have been better incorporated into the fuselage. As is, I see a pair of Terradives and Thunderwings as my four seeker unit of Skyscorchers, even though that's not what they are. It's nice to have a good set of
's in the air to go up against the
's on the ground. And to have Starscream lead the Coneheads with Acid Storm as a fifth deluxe Seeker is a nice touch, especially since each Conehead looks different.
I am happy now.
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