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News Credits: 194 · Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:48 pm

Westland TRU and Target didn't have anything new. Actually, Target had the legends 2 packs. No new voyagers anywhere. TRU has about 5 each of Long Haul and Grindor. Target had about 6 voyagers.. quick mix, long haul and that was about it. Target does have BSG season 4.5 for $16.99. picked that up.. still gotta get season 4.0 :grin:

News Credits: 194 · Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:37 pm

nothing again at AA TRU. they said they've been getting calls about them, but haven't seen them yet. Ann Arbor/Saline road had a Bludgeon. grabbed it for tfpredaking. Still two recon ironhides there.

Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:06 pm

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Novi apparently got Arcee and Ratchet. still not down here yet though.

I picked up the last Cybertron Mode Ratchet at Novi TRU after work. Just some empty pegs where Arcee used to be, sadly.

Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:11 am

Ahh... they changed the thread titles! Michigan blends in with the rest now.
[shudder]

News Credits: 3 · Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:51 pm

Vapes wrote:Ahh... they changed the thread titles! Michigan blends in with the rest now.
[shudder]

Aw, but I liked our group being different..

News Credits: 3646 · Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:36 pm

Highbeam wrote:
Vapes wrote:Ahh... they changed the thread titles! Michigan blends in with the rest now.
[shudder]

Aw, but I liked our group being different..

Sorry guys! Just doing a little SEO work for the site. I changed just about every single topic title in the Sightings forum to make all of them consistent to make them be found a little easier via search engines. I've been making a lot of minor changes this past week to the forums with the hope that we can get some more people to start contributing to the sightings forum, which in turn means it will be easier to find Transformers for all of you.

News Credits: 194 · Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:02 am

Well, I hit a bunch of stores in Grand Rapids this weekend. Saw a few Bludgeons and the Comstock Park Walmart had some of the new basics. That was about it though. For those Seibertronians in Grand Rapids, is there a Walmart on 29th street just off of Broadmoor? Google Maps on my iPhone says there was, but I couldn't find it. Ended up at the Cascade Walmart out by the Meijer at 96. What a dump that Walmart is...:-/

Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:50 pm

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Well, I hit a bunch of stores in Grand Rapids this weekend. Saw a few Bludgeons and the Comstock Park Walmart had some of the new basics. That was about it though. For those Seibertronians in Grand Rapids, is there a Walmart on 29th street just off of Broadmoor? Google Maps on my iPhone says there was, but I couldn't find it. Ended up at the Cascade Walmart out by the Meijer at 96. What a dump that Walmart is...:-/

Yeah, it's a complete dump and no, there isn't a Walmart on 29th. The Alpine Ave. store is by far the best in the area.

News Credits: 194 · Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:52 pm

Veritas Prime wrote:
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Well, I hit a bunch of stores in Grand Rapids this weekend. Saw a few Bludgeons and the Comstock Park Walmart had some of the new basics. That was about it though. For those Seibertronians in Grand Rapids, is there a Walmart on 29th street just off of Broadmoor? Google Maps on my iPhone says there was, but I couldn't find it. Ended up at the Cascade Walmart out by the Meijer at 96. What a dump that Walmart is...:-/

Yeah, it's a complete dump and no, there isn't a Walmart on 29th. The Alpine Ave. store is by far the best in the area.

weird. I don't understand how Google maps can be so far off sometimes. It's too bad you have to take your life into your own hands on Alpine Ave. The traffic up there is terrible! :grin:

News Credits: 3646 · Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:48 pm

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:
Veritas Prime wrote:
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Well, I hit a bunch of stores in Grand Rapids this weekend. Saw a few Bludgeons and the Comstock Park Walmart had some of the new basics. That was about it though. For those Seibertronians in Grand Rapids, is there a Walmart on 29th street just off of Broadmoor? Google Maps on my iPhone says there was, but I couldn't find it. Ended up at the Cascade Walmart out by the Meijer at 96. What a dump that Walmart is...:-/

Yeah, it's a complete dump and no, there isn't a Walmart on 29th. The Alpine Ave. store is by far the best in the area.

weird. I don't understand how Google maps can be so far off sometimes. It's too bad you have to take your life into your own hands on Alpine Ave. The traffic up there is terrible!

I think Google maps takes in old data and data users submit. I had this happen last weekend with a TRU in Chicago, or rather, not in Chicago. However, the building that was there definitely looks like the TRU stores from back in the day so I imagine that there was actually a store there at one point but left and another business took its place.

Google Maps also says there's a Walmart a mile away from my house that doesn't exist, however there is a Sam's Club right near there so I think somehow Google got the address from Walmart and Sam's Club somehow and now lists a Walmart at the same location as Sam's Club.

If you logon to Google Maps, there are some ways that you can mark it as a bad location or at least put in the reviews that the Walmart location on 29th doesn't exist.

I'm originally from the Flint area. I used to live over in Grandville off 44th near the Walmart over there and some of my family live over in Holland still (that's where Seibertron.com was born). Grand Rapids used to be my old stomping grounds about ten years ago. I got started programming websites for a living back in 2000 by becoming the "Internet Content Manager" for WSNX, i96, WOOD-FM (Star 105.7), WOOD-AM, 101 The Fox, and WTKG. Before that I sold cars at Classic Chevrolet on 28th and the Serra Chevrolet dealership in Hudsonville. That job eventually lead me to Chicago in 2002.

Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:43 pm

I have the solution to all your problems:

"MapQuest".

News Credits: 194 · Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:46 pm

Vapes wrote:I have the solution to all your problems:

"MapQuest".

Yeah, well, talk with Apple. The Google Maps app is built into my phone :grin:

News Credits: 3646 · Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:47 pm

Vapes wrote:I have the solution to all your problems:

"MapQuest".

Wow. I totally forgot about mapquest since Google Maps came out a few years back. Their site has changed dramatically. Looks nice.

News Credits: 3646 · Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:48 pm

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:
Vapes wrote:I have the solution to all your problems:

"MapQuest".

Yeah, well, talk with Apple. The Google Maps app is built into my phone

Same here with my Google HTC Hero Android phone. The other navigation system on my phone, Sprint Navigation, has its own issues as well.

Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:38 pm

Do what I do. Plan ahead.
Print the directions from home, then go.

Rocket science this is not.

News Credits: 194 · Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:41 pm

Vapes wrote:Do what I do. Plan ahead.
Print the directions from home, then go.

Rocket science this is not.

Well, when you're out of town, visiting friends who aren't yet home and you have some time to kill, looking up directions and printing them out isn't an option. Not only that, even if I had looked them up and printed them out, as you suggest. They still would have been wrong.

Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:29 pm

Now you're just being difficult. =P
So what you SHOULD do, knowing well in advance you are going to visit these friends, is have a 'just-in-case' list of nearby stores should you have spare time(which let's face it, you'll make time) to go searching.

lol.

News Credits: 3646 · Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:58 am

Vapes wrote:Now you're just being difficult. =P
So what you SHOULD do, knowing well in advance you are going to visit these friends, is have a 'just-in-case' list of nearby stores should you have spare time(which let's face it, you'll make time) to go searching.

lol.

Yeah but isn't that what our mobile devices are for so that we don't have to carry around lists of store locations?

Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:14 am

Seibertron wrote:I think Google maps takes in old data and data users submit. I had this happen last weekend with a TRU in Chicago, or rather, not in Chicago. However, the building that was there definitely looks like the TRU stores from back in the day so I imagine that there was actually a store there at one point but left and another business took its place.

Google Maps also says there's a Walmart a mile away from my house that doesn't exist, however there is a Sam's Club right near there so I think somehow Google got the address from Walmart and Sam's Club somehow and now lists a Walmart at the same location as Sam's Club.

If you logon to Google Maps, there are some ways that you can mark it as a bad location or at least put in the reviews that the Walmart location on 29th doesn't exist.

I'm originally from the Flint area. I used to live over in Grandville off 44th near the Walmart over there and some of my family live over in Holland still (that's where Seibertron.com was born). Grand Rapids used to be my old stomping grounds about ten years ago. I got started programming websites for a living back in 2000 by becoming the "Internet Content Manager" for WSNX, i96, WOOD-FM (Star 105.7), WOOD-AM, 101 The Fox, and WTKG. Before that I sold cars at Classic Chevrolet on 28th and the Serra Chevrolet dealership in Hudsonville. That job eventually lead me to Chicago in 2002.

I grew up in Grandville and now live in Wyoming. That's cool to hear about the local connection.

Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:17 am

Vapes wrote:Now you're just being difficult. =P
So what you SHOULD do, knowing well in advance you are going to visit these friends, is have a 'just-in-case' list of nearby stores should you have spare time(which let's face it, you'll make time) to go searching.

lol.

...and the "just in case list" would still have the wrong address.

Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:58 pm

This is a little late, but our internet's been down all day and I just installed an old wireless adapter to, uh, borrow some internets. Anyway, I was finally able to procure Animated Arcee and Cybertron Ratchet over at the Ann Arbor TRU. They had about three sets of each left. Other than that, there wasn't much of interest. About effing time...

Also the Target on Carpenter has the legends 2 packs, but they're not too exciting.

News Credits: 194 · Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:01 pm

megrimlockverbnoun wrote:This is a little late, but our internet's been down all day and I just installed an old wireless adapter to, uh, borrow some internets. Anyway, I was finally able to procure Animated Arcee and Cybertron Ratchet over at the Ann Arbor TRU. They had about three sets of each left. Other than that, there wasn't much of interest. About effing time...

Also the Target on Carpenter has the legends 2 packs, but they're not too exciting.

gods dammit! I didn't stop by there after work today because I figured it was pointless. I hope they'll still have them at my lunch time tomorrow. :BANG_HEAD:

Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:44 pm

Seibertron wrote:Yeah but isn't that what our mobile devices are for so that we don't have to carry around lists of store locations?

But... this discussion was based on the fact that they don't do it right!

Oh, my head is going to explode. lol.

News Credits: 194 · Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:48 pm

Vapes wrote:
Seibertron wrote:Yeah but isn't that what our mobile devices are for so that we don't have to carry around lists of store locations?

But... this discussion was based on the fact that they don't do it right!

Oh, my head is going to explode. lol.

You're not getting our point. No matter how you access the information, computer or mobile device, google maps thinks there is a Walmart supercenter on 29th and broadmoor and there isn't.