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panorama and porter ranch wal marts have tons of real gear 2 packs, stevenson ranch wal mart have quite a bit of voyagers and a couple (about 5) voyager megs.... not sure how long those will be there.

fallbrook target, all the robot replicas and g-1 titanium optimus, rodimus, and starscream. all that is left is barricade and megs robo reps .

today at target, found a couple of leader primes.

Damn dude how much in gas do you use with all of your TF hunts? Must be getting expensive. All the same thanks for sharing and good luck w/the hunts.

San Diego--Took a trip around all the southbay walmarts, they are starting to get there shelves restocked...Lots of voyager class, 1st waves and Megatron, several deluxes (all the first waves, nothing new), and tons of real gear. Also, for those who are looking, the 25th anniversary GI Joe collection is starting to show up too. Targets will not probably have their stuff together until later toward the middle of next week. There resets all are happening, but they were alotted 80 work hours to complete the reset. which could very well take even longer...

Fortress_Maximus wrote:Damn dude how much in gas do you use with all of your TF hunts? Must be getting expensive. All the same thanks for sharing and good luck w/the hunts.

haha. well im on summer vacation so i have nothing else better to do than just go out to targets and wal marts.... and since theres no school i dont have to commute.... more gas for me to go about.... an im the valley, so the wal marts, trus, targets, sears, kohls, etc are in good proximity to each others. but yea, i should be doing something more productive than going out hunting for toys .

Nah you should do whatever makes you happy man. Seriously though if you find some extra movie figs see my sig I'd like to pick a few up from you, namely:

Deluxe Bumblebee wave 2 2008 Concept Camaro MOMSC
Deluxe Barracade MOMSC
Deluxe Arcee MOMSC

Thanks!

been seeing more and more of those robot replicas .

Oceanside Wal-Mart, off the 76 freeway: Alternators Ravage and Constructicons set.

pacoima target, the new t.e.c.h. toys. titanium optimus, rodimus, and starscream. and also if you're into the gi joe 25th anniversary, they did get all of them including the boxed set, however the collectors(maybe scalpers?) pretty much hoarded 'em. you'll probably find storm shadow and snake eyes, but all the cobras, flint, and the boxed sets are gone. i didnt really give a hoot about gi joe, so it was all good.

Oceanside Wal-Mart, off Marron: the usual plus a Voyager Megs

Oceanside TRU: surfer monkey Prime still heavily stocked, a Titanium Soundwave, and a crapload of WW Prime vs. Megatron two-packs.

Bunch of Robot Replicas, Bunch of Real Gear, Bunch of 2-Packs and 6 Prime Unleashed at So.Cal Eaglerock Target.

Carson Target: Well, on my way home from the X-Games, I decided to take a stop. They had some plush TFs, which I haven't seen in a while, picked up Slumblebee, still have a ton left. They also had 2 Unleashed Primes. Other than that, more nothing, and they were restocking at the moment. No Ultimate BB endcap either.

Dublin TRU - most figures I've ever seen. 4-5 of every Voyager, shelves full of all deluxes, and even had a few concept BB's even, which I have never seen before in store. If you are in the Bay Area and close to Dublin, hurry and check it out if you need that BB.

Wow Tallgeese, too bad you weren't able to pick up more of the Deluxe BB 08. Drat.

Yeah, I didnt get one though. I'm looking for Classics.

I shouldve bought 1 or 2 to sell or trade however. I'll keep checking.

Good news for OC people! Went to the Laguna Niguel Target today to buy a new TV (15-inch hi-def for 150, you just CAN'T f*cking pass that up. Bought the last one), and of course I looked in the TF aisle! The Ultimate Bumblebee endcap isn't up, meaning their "reset" hasn't been done, but that didn't stop them from restocking on some things that I haven't seen since early June. No "important" figures, sadly (still looking for that Jazz, praying for a BB Concept, looking for Ironhide, etc.), and nothing hiding like last time (thanks for the Voyager Starscream, stupid employee!), HOWEVER: they fully restocked their Target Exclusive Scouts/Basics/Energon and Cybertron Repaints, and I picked up Hardtop, unwilling to pick up Arcee in hopes of finding a Deluxe one in the future. I should've picked up Skyblast, as I have the Energon Skyblast and he happens to be one of my favorites, and this repaint looks GREAT with the military colors. However, they do have every Scout you could imagine, so if you wanted Arcee Basic, pick her up now, boys and girls!

Also, they had 2 Unleashed Primes - not bad at all! Didn't pick one up because I don't particularly want one. On top of that, they have several Robot Heroes, but not just Thundercracker/Jazz! They happen to have at least 10 to 11 Optimus Prime/Unicron left (!!!), and of course I grabbed one!

Surprisingly though... they had no Real Gear. I was hoping to find High Score 100 or maybe even Meantime or Booster X-10 (keep forgetting to pick that little guy up every time I see him... he IS Lazerbeak), but nope! Nothing!

Other than one Zoom Out 10x... in hiding. Hmm.... are we going to start seeing Real Gear shortages too?! Come on, Hasbro, get it in gear!

August 9, 2007: I was at the Pasadena, CA Target store this morning and I bought the Movie Jazz G1 repaint, there weren’t anymore left. The purpose of this was to let you guys know that it is out there. I would have posted this on the sighting page but it didn’t have a picture of this figure. Thanks for your time.

South Bay NorCal sighting:

Target (Hillsdale Ave.) Bunch of Transformer Robot Replicas Barricade & Unleashed Primes.

TRU (Blossom Hill Rd.) Had one Payload from the new 09 Bumblebee wave and that was it. I had them check in back and were all out.

TRU (Winchester) nothing; they put new stock out last night and all of it was gone.

I'm stopping by the Mission Viejo Toys R Us tomorrow, OCers! I'll tell you what they have - the news of the refresh has me all giddy.

According to a friend looking on my behalf...

Union City Target - standardly devoid of voyagers and deluxes
Union City WM - same, but has scattered realgear and tech stuff

and what I found

Fremont Target - Bought the last Titaniums, but there were a few deluxes. Didn't see 2nd wave stuff though

Friday 11:00 am.

Toys R Us (Puente Hills / City of Industry)
Nothing!! No voyager, no deluxe.

Target (Puente Hills / City of Industry)
Nothing!! No voyager, no deluxe.

Walmart (Puente Hills / City of Industry)
Nothing!! No voyager, no deluxe.

K-mart (La Puente / City of Industry)
Nothing!! No voyager, no deluxe.

Garrr. I'm tired of all the time and gas that I'm spending. I'm thinking I might just give up until the fall.

Edit: The Target in Puente Hills had 2 Ultimate Bumblebees. Almost forgot to mention that...

Hah, I used to live in Hacienda Heights, dude. Do the TRUs and Wal-Marts at least have any Classics leftovers in clearance? I'm gonna be up there tomorrow and I'm wondering if I should stop by those stores.


Oh, and yeah, I went to my local TRU, nothing noteworthy. They seem to have decreased shelf and peg space; the walls are completely full, but they're full of stuff like Real Gear and TECH Toys and Robot Replicas. Ugh.

Local Target, they haven't even stocked yet. I'll check after work to see if there's any new stuff.

I live in Hacienda Heights too
Hook it up!

-ed

You know, I'm going out hunting in a couple hours, but seriously, if I don't even find Wave 1 stuff (PLEASE JAZZ COME OUT OF HIDING!), I'm gonna start to get a mite pissed. Can't find anything.