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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby nilocomic » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:55 pm

Crystal Lake Walmart: Nothing

Crystal Lake Target: Nothing

Crystal Lake TRU: Nest 2-Pack, no Animated Exclusives...

Algonquin Target: 1 Mindwipe & 2 Defender Primes (got myself a Mindwipe, at least)

Algonquin TRU: Nothing

Algonquin Walmart: 1 HA Barricade

Man, I was hoping for Animated Exclusives and Legends Devastator. At least I got a Mindwipe out of it all, so it wasn't a complete wash.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Seibertron » Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:01 pm

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nilocomic wrote:Crystal Lake Walmart: Nothing

Crystal Lake Target: Nothing

Crystal Lake TRU: Nest 2-Pack, no Animated Exclusives...

Algonquin Target: 1 Mindwipe & 2 Defender Primes (got myself a Mindwipe, at least)

Algonquin TRU: Nothing

Algonquin Walmart: 1 HA Barricade

Man, I was hoping for Animated Exclusives and Legends Devastator. At least I got a Mindwipe out of it all, so it wasn't a complete wash.


It's so weird how the TFA exclusives showed up 2 weeks ago and then that was it. Generally TRU exclusives flood the stores or at the very least they show up on their website. Neither of which has happened. I'm heading to NYC for Toy Fair tomorrow ... the TRU in Times Square has always been good to me at this time of the year so perhaps I'll find some when they put out new stock this weekend.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby First-Aid » Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:31 pm

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Looking forward to the report Seibs. Enjoy the trip!

Found 1 WalMart Devastator in the store on State Street in Rockford yesterday too. I forgot to mention that before...was too excited about that fantastic Mindwipe figure.
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First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.


Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...


Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby nilocomic » Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:55 pm

Seibertron wrote:It's so weird how the TFA exclusives showed up 2 weeks ago and then that was it. Generally TRU exclusives flood the stores or at the very least they show up on their website. Neither of which has happened. I'm heading to NYC for Toy Fair tomorrow ... the TRU in Times Square has always been good to me at this time of the year so perhaps I'll find some when they put out new stock this weekend.

No kidding. Hope you have some luck with them in NY. Have a good trip, and looking forward to what you report from there!
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Seibertron » Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:56 pm

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First-Aid wrote:Looking forward to the report Seibs. Enjoy the trip!

Found 1 WalMart Devastator in the store on State Street in Rockford yesterday too. I forgot to mention that before...was too excited about that fantastic Mindwipe figure.


Mindwipe is a really great figure. Only thing that'd be better with him is if his blades were removable to be held the opposite way in his hands.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Seibertron » Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:58 pm

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nilocomic wrote:
Seibertron wrote:It's so weird how the TFA exclusives showed up 2 weeks ago and then that was it. Generally TRU exclusives flood the stores or at the very least they show up on their website. Neither of which has happened. I'm heading to NYC for Toy Fair tomorrow ... the TRU in Times Square has always been good to me at this time of the year so perhaps I'll find some when they put out new stock this weekend.

No kidding. Hope you have some luck with them in NY. Have a good trip, and looking forward to what you report from there!


Thanks guys! Can't wait to share what I see with all of you. I especially can't wait to see the Power Core Combiners stuff and to find out what exactly is going on with the Transformers brand for later this year. Perhaps we'll see something about the cartoon for later this year as well as info about the "Hub" channel.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Hip-Hoptimus Rime » Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:12 pm

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Seibertron wrote:Mindwipe is a really great figure. Only thing that'd be better with him is if his blades were removable to be held the opposite way in his hands.


That's the first thing I'm going to mod when I get him.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Dagon » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:17 pm

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Target at the HIP in Norrige had one Shadow Command Megatron, or whatever it is that follows "Shadow" in his name. It looked pretty nice in the black paint like that.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby nilocomic » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:28 pm

Oh, thought I'd mention that Crystal Lake TRU had 2 Animated Wreckgar's, in case anyone was looking for him. That figure came and went pretty quick back when he first came out.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Seibertron » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:44 pm

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And today's random sightings of the day ...

nilocomic wrote:Oh, thought I'd mention that Crystal Lake TRU had 2 Animated Wreckgar's, in case anyone was looking for him. That figure came and went pretty quick back when he first came out.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby First-Aid » Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:48 pm

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That's not that random. I don't remember even seeing a Wreck-Gar figure here in Rockford. I KNOW we never saw the Roadbuster Magnus and Bulkhead repaints here.
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First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.


Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...


Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby nilocomic » Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:12 pm

Seibertron wrote:And today's random sightings of the day ...

nilocomic wrote:Oh, thought I'd mention that Crystal Lake TRU had 2 Animated Wreckgar's, in case anyone was looking for him. That figure came and went pretty quick back when he first came out.

Hey, you never know who needs what! ;)
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Hip-Hoptimus Rime » Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:32 pm

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Target in Yorktown mall had a single ROTF Lockdown, which I bought. Awesome, his robot mode looks very pieced-together, he's somewhat asymmetrical but it looks great on him.

Target Wood Dale (Irving Park Rd.) had about 5 each of ROTF mindwipe and Defender Optimus Prime, I got Mindwipe. He is quite excellent, esp. his gorgeous alt mode. Looks great alongside ROTF Starscream (and Ransack, ha!).
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby First-Aid » Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:02 pm

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So is everyone getting together should the rumor of TF3 filming in Chicago be true? And will there be cookies?
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First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.


Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...


Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby clubkid74 » Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:08 am

target on lincoln highway in new lenox had a bunch of mindwipe's tonight and also the new optimus prime
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Seibertron » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:44 am

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Apparently I had to go to New York to get Arcee and Ratchet. Diablien and I grabbed a pair of Ratchets and Arcees yesterday at the Central Park Fao Schwarz. I wasn't expecting to find them there ... I somehow missed the news last year that TRU bought Fao Schwarz and didn't expect to find TRU exclusives at Fao.

Guess that leaves more for you guys to find here in Chicagoland once they start showing up again. :KREMZEEK: :D
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby nilocomic » Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:06 pm

Seibertron wrote:Apparently I had to go to New York to get Arcee and Ratchet. Diablien and I grabbed a pair of Ratchets and Arcees yesterday at the Central Park Fao Schwarz. I wasn't expecting to find them there ... I somehow missed the news last year that TRU bought Fao Schwarz and didn't expect to find TRU exclusives at Fao.

Guess that leaves more for you guys to find here in Chicagoland once they start showing up again. :KREMZEEK: :D

Lucky you! I'm starting to doubt if we'll ever see them around here.

Nice work on the Toy Fair reports. I'm looking forward to the Masterpiece Grimlock, but not much else. Maybe I'll snatch up Thrust or Darkmount, and I'm curious about the new Voyager Optimus Prime. Wish they would have talked about Animated and how things were looking for the remaining figures.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Seibertron » Mon Feb 15, 2010 4:56 pm

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Woo hoo! Just got Human Alliance Mudflap from BBTS. :)
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby clubkid74 » Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:20 am

orland park wal mart had 3 bludgeon 2 legends dev as of about midnight tonight
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Hip-Hoptimus Rime » Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:59 am

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Vila Park Walmart, Rt. 83, had one each of ROTF LEgends Jolt and Arcee, bought them. They also had about 5 MP Skywarps at $30 and several each of the Fearswoop packs, $12, and Super Tuner packs, $13. Any of those go down in price much more and I'll jump on them.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby First-Aid » Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:31 pm

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Wal Mart on E. State in Rockford: JACKPOT! A rack full of both waves of new deluxes including, Dirge, Brawn, Lockdown, Ratchet, and more. The new scouts were also there including Scattorshot, Skystalker, Brakedown and more. Literally a half dozen of each figure at least when i left. Enjoy!
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First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.


Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...


Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Seibertron » Thu Feb 18, 2010 2:35 pm

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First-Aid wrote:Wal Mart on E. State in Rockford: JACKPOT! A rack full of both waves of new deluxes including, Dirge, Brawn, Lockdown, Ratchet, and more. The new scouts were also there including Scattorshot, Skystalker, Brakedown and more. Literally a half dozen of each figure at least when i left. Enjoy!



Congrats! That's awesome.

I'm on the hunt now for the variant of Scattorshot.

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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby nilocomic » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:50 pm

Crystal Lake Walmart and Algonquin Walmart had a bunch of Brakedowns and Scattershots (darker variants at CL). Nothing new at Algonquin Target. And STILL no Exclusive Animated figures at Algonquin or Crystal Lake Toys R Us. This is driving me up the wall. Maybe I should go to New York too...
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby clubkid74 » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:04 pm

orland park toys r us had a bunch of arcee and ratchet as of about noon today
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Re: Illinois Transformers sightings

Postby Hip-Hoptimus Rime » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:23 pm

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Last night, Walmart in Bloomingdale, Army trail Rd., had several new Deluxes, including Brawn, Lockdown, and Ratchet. I got 2 Brawns, man this a great figure!

FWIW Target right next door had Deluxes at 9.99, but none of the above new ones.
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