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JBPrime wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

JBPrime wrote:

casacrespo wrote:Anybody out there who hasn't got an Animated Arcee check out the Toys'r'us on Western and Addison. The one next to Lane High School. I just got from there and they still had 5 left! Also looks that they have a restock of other TF Animated figures like Oil Slick, Cybertronian Optimus and they had 2 of the exclusive Cybertronian Ratchet figures. So I recommened to head up there and fill out your TF Animated ranks!!!

Hey is there anyone that can maybe hide that Cybertronian Optimus for me?

I probably won't be able to get over there until later in the week. Any help would be awesome!!

The new Target on Broadway that just opened last week north of Montrose probably had twenty of those Primes as of last Friday. I'd recommend just going there or waiting for your Target to get them in stock. They'll be plenty!

Are you refering to the WFC one? Because I'm talking about the TF:Animated one.

doh!

How about I can beat that for you! Here he is on toysrus.com for under $6 with free shipping.

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... Id=2888891

doh! x 2

didn't see he was sold out.

If you miss out on the one at TRU, you might want to check your local Kmarts and Meijer ... they're always good for older stock. The Meijer in Rolling Meadows a week ago had TFA Bumblebee and Jazz (the first versions) still.

Seibertron wrote:If you miss out on the one at TRU, you might want to check your local Kmarts and Meijer ... they're always good for older stock. The Meijer in Rolling Meadows a week ago had TFA Bumblebee and Jazz (the first versions) still.

Haha, thanks for the above help! I'll try to make it over today, depending how the rest of my afternoon goes. It's a little out of my way now, I used to live around that TRU, but now live on the southside.

Well, I was able to make it over there and pick-up the figure, so that made my day. In terms of other findings it was pretty much all the same stuff as mentioned above. Was hoping to maybe find non-TF wise was the Neca Predators figures, but they haven't got those in yet.

Well, I stopped by the Schaumburg TRU since I was passing through and they finally got the Generations line in stock. They had half a dozen Primes, three BB's, a couple of Thrusts and two Drifts. I picked up a Drift and a BB. The also had three Battle Ops BB's on the bottom shelf with no price tag.

With the mess that someone made of that aisle, they also could have had some vintage G1 toys in there and no one would have noticed (someone, I'm guessing kids, wrecked the TF and GI Joe side of the aisle and there were toys all over the damn place).

Stopped by the Target on E. State in Rockford today and discovered they had changed their mods...jackpot! Everything you could ever want was there...Drift, Thrust, Prime, BO BB, PCCs...the shelves were full.

One very interesting thing I discovered was the new "Marvel Crossovers"...an Iron Man and a War Machine...but they were packaged in the Iron Man 2 line under "Iron Man 2 Concept Collection". Hadn't seen that before so thought I'd let everyone know.

First-Aid wrote:Stopped by the Target on E. State in Rockford today and discovered they had changed their mods...jackpot! Everything you could ever want was there...Drift, Thrust, Prime, BO BB, PCCs...the shelves were full.

One very interesting thing I discovered was the new "Marvel Crossovers"...an Iron Man and a War Machine...but they were packaged in the Iron Man 2 line under "Iron Man 2 Concept Collection". Hadn't seen that before so thought I'd let everyone know.

Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully all of the targets will switch over in the next few days.

Target in West Dundee had most of the new wave of deluxes, voyagers, PCC's and Generations. Also had Marvel Crossovers Iron Man (jet) and Human Torch on clearance for $3.84 I believe!

Jaybo997 wrote:Target in West Dundee had most of the new wave of deluxes, voyagers, PCC's and Generations. Also had Marvel Crossovers Iron Man (jet) and Human Torch on clearance for $3.84 I believe!

Thanks for sharing with us.

Anyone stop by any of the Targets in the northwest burbs (rosemont, arlington heights, schaumburg, etc)? Do they have theirs out yet?

As of last night, Target Rosemont has NO Tfs- literaly, nothing on the shelves. Freaks me out, man...

target in the southwest side, Damen and I55 had a bunch of goodies.
One battle ops BB. i think that was the only other leader they had.
They had 2 or 3 drifts.
5 Thrusts. (bought one)
5 wfc bumblebees.
4 wfc primes (bought another)
2 seasprays
1 payload.
3 or 4 battle blade bb (i bought one)
some pcc combiner full sets and 2 packs or whatever.
they had those 2 pack deluxes.
Arcee with Tailwhip, tailwhip looks terrible, i don't get why the sets are 30 dollars( i might be incorrect on this). i can't spend that much for one toy that's mediocre.
sideways with....i forget who, but sideways looked nice. but not for me.

I'm actually up in the air on the color of that Arcee in the 2-pack. Not sure on it & definitely don't want tailwhip

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:As of last night, Target Rosemont has NO Tfs- literaly, nothing on the shelves. Freaks me out, man...

I was thinking they might've reset since some of the stores in the area already did but nope! They did not.

Target - Schaumburg off Higgins had a bunch of new stuff
Target - Schaumburg off Barrington had a bunch of new stuff
Target - off Higgins and Streamwood had nothing but I did buy 5 ROTF Rampages on clearance for $2.52 a piece.
Target - Streamwood had a bunch of new stuff
Walmart - Rolling Meadows and Schaumburg off Barrington had nothing except the latter had the PCC 5 packs.
TRU - Schaumburg had the usual stuff that has been there for the past month or so. Tons of TRU TF exclusives on clearnace. Go get your Whirl and Bludgeon now ... only $24.99 a piece.

Seibertron wrote:

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:As of last night, Target Rosemont has NO Tfs- literaly, nothing on the shelves. Freaks me out, man...

I was thinking they might've reset since some of the stores in the area already did but nope! They did not.

Target - Schaumburg off Higgins had a bunch of new stuff
Target - Schaumburg off Barrington had a bunch of new stuff
Target - off Higgins and Streamwood had nothing but I did buy 5 ROTF Rampages on clearance
Target - Streamwood had a bunch of new stuff
Walmart - Rolling Meadows and Schaumburg off Barrington had nothing except the latter had the PCC 5 packs.
TRU - Schaumburg had the usual stuff that has been there for the past month or so. Tons of TRU TF exclusives on clearnace. Go get your Whirl and Bludgeon now ... only $24.99 a piece.

Dude, FIVE Rampages? You gonna kitbash a Rampage combiner? LOL

I hope you get to write those off on your taxes...

Job interview on Wedns out in Schaumburg for a dealer they are opening out my way.

But I stopped at the TRU on Golf Mill Rd. and had WFC Prime and Bumblebee in my hands but put them back because of the job situation

They had Thrust and Drift there as well.

Well, just wasted 1.5 to 2 hours of my life that I won't get back toy hunting this morning. Hopefully I can save some of you time today.

Golf Mill TRU - typical stuff that's been at TRU for the past month. No wave 2 stuff yet. I did see the Speedstars here.

Golf Mill Target - nothing

Golf Mill Wal-Mart - HFTD Legends class and 1 lone Sea Spray

Highland Park Target - lots of new stuff but no Target exclusives and no Human Alliance figures. I did see the Speedstars here.

Highland Park TRU - typical stuff that's been at TRU for the past month. No wave 2 stuff yet. I did see the Speedstars here.

Wheeling Target - absolutely nothing

Wheeling Walmart - all ROTF except for Power Core Combiners on the side of one end cap a couple of aisles over from TFs

Arlington Heights Target - lots of new stuff but no Target exclusives and no Human Alliance figures.

I gave up after that. No HFTD HA Bumblebee or HFTD Banzai-Tron for me today. I've got galleries to be working on!

Seibertron wrote:Well, just wasted 1.5 to 2 hours of my life that I won't get back toy hunting this morning. Hopefully I can save some of you time today.

Golf Mill TRU - typical stuff that's been at TRU for the past month. No wave 2 stuff yet. I did see the Speedstars here.

Golf Mill Target - nothing

Golf Mill Wal-Mart - HFTD Legends class and 1 lone Sea Spray

Highland Park Target - lots of new stuff but no Target exclusives and no Human Alliance figures. I did see the Speedstars here.

Highland Park TRU - typical stuff that's been at TRU for the past month. No wave 2 stuff yet. I did see the Speedstars here.

Wheeling Target - absolutely nothing

Wheeling Walmart - all ROTF except for Power Core Combiners on the side of one end cap a couple of aisles over from TFs

Arlington Heights Target - lots of new stuff but no Target exclusives and no Human Alliance figures.

I gave up after that. No HFTD HA Bumblebee or HFTD Banzai-Tron for me today. I've got galleries to be working on!

Ryan, last i heard Banzaitron was at the TRU on Western Ave. in the City. voyager prime was also found there but someone picked him up.
also, which one is HFTD HA Bumblebee ? do you mean battle blades and not human alliance?

marshall dusty wrote:Ryan, last i heard Banzaitron was at the TRU on Western Ave. in the City. voyager prime was also found there but someone picked him up.

Thanks for the tips. I'm good without him for the time being. I have 1 loose one left, was just hoping to get some picks of one MISB for the galleries. I love this repaint for some reason. I think I just really like the mold. Bludgeon was one of my favorites as well.



I've got the Voyager Prime as well. Working on his gallery later today.

marshall dusty wrote:also, which one is HFTD HA Bumblebee ? do you mean battle blades and not human alliance?

HFTD HA Bumblebee is the same toy as the ROTF HA version, but Sam Witwicky has different paint apps. Not a big deal, but I'd like to get it since I'm working on the Human Alliance Jazz gallery right now.

Also are the forums a little easier for you to read now that I darkened the background on one of the alternating posts and added the little Autobot and Decepticon dividers?

Toys R Us on 84th & Cicero had Wave 1 Generations Thrust and Drift, 2 each, plus all the other usual Yellow box voyagers from wave 1, also had 3 Battle Ops BB's. Crestwood Walmart had Voyager Heavyload, and Bonzaitron, which means I just missed Voyager Prime damn!!!!

Algonquin Target hasn't done its reset yet. Only thing Transformers related was a few Bumblebee helmets. Sad, really...

Going by a tip from TFW, I was able to get HFTD Human Alliance Bumblebee (which has the Sam Witwicky variant I wanted) from the HIP Target. I also needed a new HA Jazz because two pegs on the one I got earlier this week from Walmart.com were snapped off. Really frustrating to transform a brand new figure and discover this. I'm going to return the one to Wally world. That's at least my 3rd Transformer in the past year with broken or missing parts. I've held onto the others but enough is enough. The other two were HA Sideswipe (his "battle mask" snapped off the 1st time I transformed him) and the ROTF battleship scout was missing part of his leg. I never returned them because I hate returning stuff but I'm done having this happen to me.

Sadly, the "repackager" has oddly already struck the HIP. There was a silver concept Corvette (just a regular toy that's about the size of a deluxe figure) packaged in a HA Jazz box. I don't understand how someone could've already bought a brand new figure that just started showing up in stores during the past couple of days, swapped it, returned it, and it's already out on the shelf with the first sighting at that store. I wish they'd catch this guy or these guys. I hate seeing someone do that - it screws over the store and/or an unfortunate customer if a parent doesn't know better. Whoever's doing that has to have a mental disorder of some sort or a screwed up conscience.

HIP Target also had the other stuff that Target has had, minus the Target exclusive 2 packs. No wave 2 stuff yet.

nilocomic wrote:Algonquin Target hasn't done its reset yet. Only thing Transformers related was a few Bumblebee helmets. Sad, really...

I almost drove out that way yesterday morning. Glad I didn't!

Nice ...

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Because I answered someone's question about Seibertron.com in the Illinois sightings thread? I can't read the Illinois sightings thread there any more but I can read the others.

Seibertron wrote:Nice ...

TFW2005.com wrote:You have been removed from this discussion.

Because I answered someone's question about Seibertron.com in the Illinois sightings thread? I can't read the Illinois sightings thread there any more but I can read the others.

What? Did you get banned from the ILL thread?

dahpadre wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Nice ...

TFW2005.com wrote:You have been removed from this discussion.

Because I answered someone's question about Seibertron.com in the Illinois sightings thread? I can't read the Illinois sightings thread there any more but I can read the others.

What? Did you get banned from the ILL thread?

Yeah I did. Did I really overstep my bounds there? I swear I do my best not to try to openly recruit you guys there out of respect for Tony and the guys that work really hard on that site. We all have a mutual respect I believe.

I sent a message to my counterpart Tony_Bacala to see if he can look into it since I didn't get a message from anyone. I'm assuming Tim Formas banned me because he's the only one of you that I don't have contact with and if I recall correctly he's the one who Paul butted heads with. I'll see what Tony says when he has a chance to respond.