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Stopped in to the Exton TRU, and snagged the only Scourge and Kup on the pegs (and for 7.99 on sale to boot).

I'm gonna go out on a limb and just say impatient for now.

im just incredibly impatient.I have ben scouring Ebay all the time for the like of Wheeljack and Thundercracker.Taiwan sellers have them up real quick usually

--B-- wrote:Stopped in to the Exton TRU, and snagged the only Scourge and Kup on the pegs (and for 7.99 on sale to boot).

I'm gonna go out on a limb and just say impatient for now.

Lucky...

I will say that after my post on the first page of this thread, the next day I found Perceptor, Wreck-Gar and G2 Optimus in my local Toys R Us. Other Toys R Us still had nothing new. I'm starting to see a few newer figures, slowly and rarely.

Reveal the Shield Voyager and Scout are still nowhere to be found. Same for Scourge, Grimstone, Skyhammer and Heavytread.

I've been checking my bubble of stores available to my area (8 Wal-mart's, 2 TRU's, a Target, 2 K-Mart's, and 2 Kohl's)and I find that between all of them I can do a decent job of getting Generations figures at Wal-Mart, but RTS is improbable. I found Wave 1 at the K-Mart's and Kohl's, and I'm expecting the same will be true with Wave 2...until the Kohl's I work at suddenly got Wave 1 of HFTD.

I'm thinking this: Generations is sticking around until DOTM, and that the HFTD line was intended to have been phased out & replaced on the shelves by the Reveal the Shield line (think about it--both of these lines have Legends, Scouts, Deluxes, and Voyagers; Generations doesn't). But since HFTD isn't budging, especially at Wal-Mart (thanks a lot for those shipper displays of like 40 figures that no one bought, Hasbro!), they're cluttering shelf space and not moving, so no one orders the RTS figures. But I've noticed that my Wal-Mart here in town is doing inventory, so I'm holding out hope for resetting the Transformer selection & clearancing the HFTD figures. Bear in mind, this is all just me speculating.

Right now, if you're going to go look for RTS Deluxes, I'd say the safe money's on Kohl's and K-Mart. That's where I've lucked out with them before, and if I see Wave 2 turn up at the Kohl's in town I'll spread the word.

Holy cow! I finally ran across highbrow! After searching for months I ran accross him at a Target.

Now if I can find an Axor I'll have my HFTD line complete.

Holy cow! I finally ran across highbrow! After searching for months I ran accross him at a Target.

Now if I can find an Axor I'll have my HFTD line complete.

dirk2243 wrote:Holy cow! I finally ran across highbrow! After searching for months I ran accross him at a Target.

Now if I can find an Axor I'll have my HFTD line complete.

*points to this*

Distribution. Plain and simple.

Autobot032 wrote:

dirk2243 wrote:Holy cow! I finally ran across highbrow! After searching for months I ran accross him at a Target.

Now if I can find an Axor I'll have my HFTD line complete.

*points to this*

Distribution. Plain and simple.

Serious. Considering I'm in San Diego, and visit multiple stores throughout the week

Autobot032 wrote:

dirk2243 wrote:Holy cow! I finally ran across highbrow! After searching for months I ran accross him at a Target.

Now if I can find an Axor I'll have my HFTD line complete.

*points to this*

Distribution. Plain and simple.

Serious. Considering I'm in San Diego, and visit multiple stores throughout the week

dirk2243 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

dirk2243 wrote:Holy cow! I finally ran across highbrow! After searching for months I ran accross him at a Target.

Now if I can find an Axor I'll have my HFTD line complete.

*points to this*

Distribution. Plain and simple.

Serious. Considering I'm in San Diego, and visit multiple stores throughout the week

Whoa. You're in Cali and it's that bad?

At this point, if people have to question whether or not it's distribution, then they're just not reading up on it.

Impatience has nothing to do with it at this point. If California residents aren't finding these, then it's a distribution problem.

I can shut up now since RtS wave 2 is showing up. I still think there is a patience problem here.
But really, the TF demand is way down this time of year considering:

1. Christmas has passed. It came around months ago.

2. There is no movie coming up in a month or one playing right now...nor is there a new DVD release. In summary, no movie to advertise the brand.

3. There are no toys to represent the current TV show presently.

So really, the kids aren't buying them, so there is no huge demand to get these things pumping out of the factories and onto pegs/shelves. The collectors are still a minority of the sales. These are toys, after all.

I think we'll be seeing all those classics we were looking for at retail. DOTM wont take up all the shelves.

sancho's revenge wrote:I think we'll be seeing all those classics we were looking for at retail. DOTM wont take up all the shelves.

Yes, because the classics are likely to come around too late and end up on clearance warming the shelves for a while...
except for TRU. They'll let then rot for a while without any sales.

Im sticking with poor distribution. My local targets just recently started getting the FIRST RTS wave...i picked those up in December at a Kmart, only never to be seen again. Never was there a Grimstone sighting here and forget any of the RTS legends or Windcharger, but he seems to be all over Europe and Canada.

Something got really screwed up w/ these two lines and its not our imaginations or "gotta have it now" mentality. I really dont see it getting much better for the final waves and I kick myself now for not preordering Warpath and Frenzy/Rumble. I have only gotten all the newer stuff from the likes of BBTS and HTS of which I will be doing from now on. Sure its kind of an empty bittersweet feeling getting all the figures in a wave at once, from a thrill of the hunt POV. But the rising cost of gasoline has made it a no brainer.

I think "toy hunting" for me and for many others will evolve away from driving store to store to clicking site to site to see who has what available.

Fistful of Energon wrote:I have only gotten all the newer stuff from the likes of BBTS and HTS of which I will be doing from now on. Sure its kind of an empty bittersweet feeling getting all the figures in a wave at once, from a thrill of the hunt POV. But the rising cost of gasoline has made it a no brainer.

I think "toy hunting" for me and for many others will evolve away from driving store to store to clicking site to site to see who has what available.

I'm slowly turning to this same path. Gas is getting a little too crazy.