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News Credits: 9 · Mon May 05, 2014 3:45 pm

Des Plaines KMart had 2 Rhinox and a Whirl last night, about $26.99 IIRC. No AoE stuff.

And Rosemont Target had a couple each of the new Rescue Bots mini things, Bee, Optimus, and Heatwave. I bought OP, he's Magnus now, and gave the little Trex fig to my daughter.

News Credits: 4 · Sun May 11, 2014 3:06 pm

Just picked up Swerve and Cosmos from the Target on Rt 83 in Willowbrook.

They had 3 left of each.

Sun May 11, 2014 7:59 pm

picked up evasion mode Optimus Prime from the walmart in Algonquin on Randall. Only one there, they had a few of the Power Attackers on the rack.

News Credits: 9 · Tue May 13, 2014 7:19 pm

Ugh, looked for Swerve and Cosmos at Golf Mill Target. None to be found, of course. Thanke Target, appreciate it.

On tje plus side, they had a single one of those upsized-Cyberverse BH Voyager Optimus Primes, $10. Fun to beat on or something.

News Credits: 9 · Thu May 15, 2014 8:45 am

Target at Yorktown Mall came through! Two each of Cosmos and Swerve as of 8:00 this morning, after I got mine. No AoE out yet.

News Credits: 4 · Fri May 16, 2014 10:22 am

North Riverside Toys R Us had several of the AoE Kreo building sets.

News Credits: 3642 · Sat May 17, 2014 12:47 pm

Gurnee toys r us near six flags has massive aoe selection. All wave 1 stuff. No leader class but has everything else.

News Credits: 9 · Sat May 17, 2014 2:15 pm

Any TRU coupons around? Has anyone seen any wave 2 stuff? How about Voy Hound and Galvatron?

News Credits: 9 · Sun May 18, 2014 2:40 pm

Holy crap, no AoE at ALL at Rosemont Target, not even in the back. WTH, Target, I thought we were cool?

News Credits: 4 · Sun May 18, 2014 3:50 pm

The target in Lombard near Yorktown had hardly any transformers. Especially no AoE.

News Credits: 3642 · Sun May 18, 2014 8:31 pm

Gurnee Walmart and Target had nothing as of yesterday around 2pm.

News Credits: 3642 · Sun May 18, 2014 8:31 pm

Walmart near Harvard, IL had the Construct-Bots Dinobots and a lone Fall of Cybertron Jazz.

News Credits: 3642 · Sun May 18, 2014 8:34 pm

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:Holy crap, no AoE at ALL at Rosemont Target, not even in the back. WTH, Target, I thought we were cool?

That sucks that the retailers didn't have their act together with the street date. At least TRU seemed to be on the ball and at least the retailers were on the ball with Cybertron Monday.

News Credits: 9 · Mon May 19, 2014 11:17 am

Walmarts in Addison and Glen Ellyn, only the Sparkers, 1-Steps, and Power Battlers in stock, a couple Leader OP as well.

Wed May 21, 2014 1:10 pm

Any spottings of MP-03 Grimlock? Facebook groups blowing up about finding them in the wild today. TX, CA and other states. Price is 59.99, ~64 with tax. Called TRU in Niles and Schaumburg already and they have no stock. will call around a few more and keep yall updated.

News Credits: 4 · Wed May 21, 2014 9:50 pm

Downers Grove Toys R Us by Yorktown had a whole slew of new AoE figures. Most of them were the more kid friendly stuff like the spark racers, Titans, and the power attack figures.

They did have 2 of Voyager Grimlock. I grabbed 1 for myself.

Tried to use a coupon I had, but the check out girl said my coupon wasn't working on it, and neither were any of the coupons codes she had access to.

Fri May 23, 2014 11:58 pm

Hey I'm alive..................

Still working tons, but light is at the end of the tunnel, I will gain free time and lose income...

Anything I have hit in Nw In area has been about useless. Only bright spot was a rogue Whirl at Highland Target a few weeks ago. Everywhere has been pretty much no/low stock in my area.

News Credits: 4 · Sat May 24, 2014 11:29 am

North Riverside Toys R US had the new AoE Kreo Micro changers.

Here are the codes:

45 Skrapnel
46 Fangwolf
47 Misfire (labeled as an autobot?)
48 Trypticon
49 Mindswipe
50 Nightbeat
51 Highbrow
52 Jarugar
53 Jetwash
54 Wingspan Hawk
55 Torosaur
56 Silversnout

Sat May 24, 2014 1:15 pm

Golf mill TRU had four. Two are remaining.

News Credits: 3642 · Fri May 30, 2014 3:58 pm

Golf mill tru had evolution grimlock and strafe sets. Also had pop! Vinyl figures and new kreo microchangers as well as the hexbug sets. I got last pop drift. Rescue bots optimus primal and dinobot heatwave and blades in preschool aisle. Lots of tf stuff here.

News Credits: 3642 · Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:45 am

The Toys R Us in Schaumburg, IL recently put up their full Age of Extinction display in the past few days. Looks pretty impressive and it's great to see the Transformers back as the main focus at Toys R Us again.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

I cleared out the wave 5 Micro-Changers at Golf Mill and at Schaumburg. Hopefully between the two stores I'll end up with two full sets so that I can make the alt mode and a robot mode for each one. Fingers crossed!

The only thing new that I saw that I haven't reported on yet was the Mr Potato Head Starscream and Optimus Prime sets. Fun little guys if you've got an extra $7 each sitting around somewhere. Excellent desk fodder for work or home.

News Credits: 9 · Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:15 am

The Downers Grove TRU on Butterfield also has their display up, such great art! There's a lot of non-AoE stuff in there, but like you said, it's nice to see TFs front and center again.

They had a couple Grimlock evolution sets and one Strafe set. And those Potato Heads, so cool!

News Credits: 3642 · Wed Jun 04, 2014 5:15 pm

Rosemont Target had 1 Cosmos left and 4 Swerve sets. Lots of AOE toys but the only thing new was the Target exclusive Silver Knight Optimus Prime Smash and Change figure. All of the remaining boxes were damaged ... great if you plan on opening them, not so great if you're a sealed collector.

Des Plaines Kmart had nothing new but had a decent endcap and regular section of products.