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News Credits: 656 · Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:30 pm

No sign of anything AOE or the new Rescue Bots stuff at the Walmarts around north Raleigh. Just the same sad assortment of stuff that's been there for a year+

News Credits: 2 · Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:10 pm

ScottyP wrote:No sign of anything AOE or the new Rescue Bots stuff at the Walmarts around north Raleigh. Just the same sad assortment of stuff that's been there for a year+

Not sure what you mean by "new Rescue Bots stuff," (the dino-bot versions?) but the Walmart in Brier Creek has the new monster truck OP, motorcycle BB, and Heatwave the Fire-boat. It's on the main aisle on the home furnishing sides of the building sitting with all the other cheap goodies put out for Easter, I guess. There's even a whole load of those crappy TF Titan figures as well. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 656 · Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:16 pm

Goggle Convoy wrote:
ScottyP wrote:No sign of anything AOE or the new Rescue Bots stuff at the Walmarts around north Raleigh. Just the same sad assortment of stuff that's been there for a year+

Not sure what you mean by "new Rescue Bots stuff," (the dino-bot versions?) but the Walmart in Brier Creek has the new monster truck OP, motorcycle BB, and Heatwave the Fire-boat. It's on the main aisle on the home furnishing sides of the building sitting with all the other cheap goodies put out for Easter, I guess. There's even a whole load of those crappy TF Titan figures as well.

Yep, those are the ones. I'll check that out later, thanks for the heads up!

News Credits: 2 · Sat Apr 12, 2014 11:11 am

Well, after checking the TRUs in Raleigh and Cary yesterday, and only finding Whirl and Doubledealer plus last year's this year's Gen. Voy. shelfwarmers, I took a trip to the Durham TRU this morning and found them stocking a Generation Voyager W2R2 case, which had two Whirls... and two Rhinox! Just to save any of you the trouble of wasting gas going there, unless you still need Whirl, I picked up both Rhinox, one to open, the other as a backup in case something is wrong with the first. Yes, I'm am just that paranoid and OCD about such things.

News Credits: 656 · Sat Apr 12, 2014 3:08 pm

^ Actually not a bad idea on Rhinox, I had to do some "customization" involving a knife on mine to get it to transform properly.

Picked up the latest 3 Rescue Bots at Brier Creek Walmart.

For the last few days I've checked a few Walmarts for AOE stuff. Done now, not gonna go around any more. To possibly save someone time, the following Walmart stores in the Raleigh area do NOT have any AOE product on shelves:

- Triangle Town Center
- New Hope Church Road
- New Bern Ave
- Cary (Tryon Rd)
- Brier Creek
- Morrisville (Hwy 54)

Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:11 pm

Any sightings in Rockingham county for AOE generations stuff or anything close to them.

News Credits: 656 · Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:29 am

JDD SEALAB wrote:Any sightings in Rockingham county for AOE generations stuff or anything close to them.

To the best of my knowledge, no AOE Generations product has been sighted in the US. They are out in Canada, which is how people are getting them and why there are so many on ebay.

NC has only seen the Grimlock and Prime smash/change bots so far, and I've heard of sightings for those two in Lenoir, Hickory, and Winston Salem.

Some of the simplified movie deluxes have been found in Los Angeles, but nowhere else so far.

Hope that helps! My best advice on AOE stuff is to be patient, give it a month and once the street date hits this stuff will be everywhere for the rest of the year.

Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:50 am

ScottyP wrote:
JDD SEALAB wrote:Any sightings in Rockingham county for AOE generations stuff or anything close to them.

To the best of my knowledge, no AOE Generations product has been sighted in the US. They are out in Canada, which is how people are getting them and why there are so many on ebay.

NC has only seen the Grimlock and Prime smash/change bots so far, and I've heard of sightings for those two in Lenoir, Hickory, and Winston Salem.

Some of the simplified movie deluxes have been found in Los Angeles, but nowhere else so far.

Hope that helps! My best advice on AOE stuff is to be patient, give it a month and once the street date hits this stuff will be everywhere for the rest of the year.

Thanx ScottyP

News Credits: 656 · Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:51 pm

Triangle Town TRU had 1 Whirl left as of a few hours ago. Also had some Constructbot Blitzwings marked down to $9.99.

The Target across the plaza had nothing worth note.

News Credits: 656 · Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:24 pm

North Hills Target - nothing exciting item-wise, but some stuff is on clearance. Constructbots and Predacons Rising Voyagers were half off, PR Abominus and the deluxes are 30% off.

News Credits: 656 · Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:28 am

Warning: Non-TF Sighting post.

Barnes and Noble at Triangle Town Center has Gundam kits! I picked up a MG Wing Zero, only a tiny bit overpriced at $65 (no really, that's more than online retailers but not by much). They also have MG Deathscythe Hell Custom, MG Heavyarms, MG something-something Astray (the one from Build Fighters), RG Destiny, HG of that some Astray, and HG Wing Fenice. Also some little PVC guys but I wasn't interested in those. Apparently the assortment is very similar at most B&Ns.

I know a lot of TF fans also like those kits, so hope that helps someone. As expected, unfortunately, no modeling supplies are being distributed with these kits.

Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:48 am

ScottyP,is the meetup in May still happening? I was just wondering because now it's unlikely I can make something on the 17th, but I would still like to hang out at some point.

News Credits: 656 · Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:15 pm

Yeah it's probably dead. I just wanted to link to here and keep everything here and organized in one spot, but the TFW mods (who outside of SQ7 pick on me, I truly believe) said I was trying to self-promote my own website or something by linking back to here. Right. So anyway, basically no one on TFW, which is most all of the locals, knows it's going on, so I'm inclined to just jettison the whole idea.

Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:19 pm

Like I said, I want to hang out again (it's been too long)..the thing is there is probably going to be a work conflict for me on the 17th (end of school year stuff). I guess we can reconvene another day.

News Credits: 656 · Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:21 pm

For sure, I definitely want to try to get something together during the summer. I'll let you know by text or something since the boards don't seem to be a good viable option

Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:26 pm

That sounds good..you know how to reach me!!

Staying on the topic of toys, I have narrowed down my list to what I want to get from our first wave offerings:

Voyagers-Evasion mode Optimus (might get 2 of him in case I decide to be brave and add some paint), Grimlock (don't want the leaders)
Deluxes-Crosshairs (maybe), Scorn (although I could see myself getting all the deluxe dinobots)

Construct-bots: Grimlock and the mini-Optimus

That's all I want really until Drift and Lockdown show up.

News Credits: 656 · Thu May 01, 2014 12:46 pm

^ I don't think you'll be waiting long on Drift.

Six Forks K-mart does NOT have AOE toys, but the pegs are up. SOON.

Mon May 05, 2014 9:27 am

I was in Rocky Mount over the weekend and decided to see what the Kmart there had. They had the wave 1 voyagers, deluxes, 1 step change figures, and construct-bots. I grabbed 3 things that I wanted (Evasion Optimus, deluxe Scorn, and the Construct-bot Grimlock) and headed to the register. I didn't expect any of it to ring up, but out of those 3 items the Evasion Optimus did. The lady at the register was nice enough to let me buy it, but I had to leave the other stuff. I was completely ok with that, since out of those 3 items the Optimus was the main one I wanted.

News Credits: 656 · Mon May 05, 2014 12:24 pm

^ Cool stuff! Hasn't been even a hint of AOE product here in the city. Stores here are, sometimes unfortunately, very good about street dates.

News Credits: 251 · Mon May 05, 2014 12:46 pm

I really ought to stop by a store sometime. It's been literal months since I've been to one. :oops:

News Credits: 656 · Tue May 06, 2014 1:10 pm

Mindmaster wrote:I really ought to stop by a store sometime. It's been literal months since I've been to one.

If you want a Whirl, I think your window is right about now.

Speaking of that, 2 Whirls and 2 Rhinox at Six Forks Rd. K-mart in Raleigh. I also saw a RTS Optimus at the Rite Aid in the same plaza. No, that is not a typo.

News Credits: 251 · Tue May 06, 2014 1:27 pm

ScottyP wrote:If you want a Whirl, I think your window is right about now.

I've thought about it. Just don't have the funds for right now. Maybe for my birthday coming up in about two months. :-?

Speaking of that, 2 Whirls and 2 Rhinox at Six Forks Rd. K-mart in Raleigh. I also saw a RTS Optimus at the Rite Aid in the same plaza. No, that is not a typo.

Dammit, and I was just thinking about getting that figure to add to my Optimus Prime vs. Megatron display along with the Classics Deluxe Megatron. :BANG_HEAD:

Any chance that any old Rite Aid will have it? And would you happen to know what they asked for him in price?

News Credits: 656 · Tue May 06, 2014 1:36 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
Dammit, and I was just thinking about getting that figure to add to my Optimus Prime vs. Megatron display along with the Classics Deluxe Megatron. Any chance that any old Rite Aid will have it? And would you happen to know what they asked for him in price?

Dude, out your way Rite Aid will probably have Universe '08 figures. At least when I went to one in Washington a couple years ago they did :lol:

It was 17.99. I'd be happy to pick it up and ship it to you and charge exact cost, but it'd probably be close to $30 after tax and shipping.

News Credits: 251 · Tue May 06, 2014 1:47 pm

ScottyP wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
Dammit, and I was just thinking about getting that figure to add to my Optimus Prime vs. Megatron display along with the Classics Deluxe Megatron. Any chance that any old Rite Aid will have it? And would you happen to know what they asked for him in price?

Dude, out your way Rite Aid will probably have Universe '08 figures. At least when I went to one in Washington a couple years ago they did

It was 17.99. I'd be happy to pick it up and ship it to you and charge exact cost, but it'd probably be close to $30 after tax and shipping.

If my Rite Aid had Universe (2008) figures, I'd be a happy man. I missed out on Sunstreaker, and Sideswipe sure could use a buddy. I also have a vague recollection of getting Octane and Galvatron there... :-?

I'll have to stop by my local Rite Aid and see what they have. They're literally across the street from my school.

Yikes, close to twenty bucks for a Deluxe. Though to be fair, it's about as much as I'd pay if I found it online, so I guess it can be justified. Like I said, funds are tight, so for now I'm going to have to decline that offer. However, I'll keep it in mind.

Wed May 07, 2014 7:59 am

ScottyP wrote:^ Cool stuff! Hasn't been even a hint of AOE product here in the city. Stores here are, sometimes unfortunately, very good about street dates.

I read online that some Walmarts are starting to put out the aoe voyagers. Not sure if any around here will do that, but still something to keep in mind. Of course, we don't have too long to wait now anyway.

I'm thinking about picking up Rhinox. I'm not really into Beast Wars, but most reviews I see on him are fairly positive.