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Just thought I'd tip everyone off. If you missed 25th Anniversary Optimus Prime for $34.99 at Target, don't feel too bad. I just got home from Walmart and they had there's in the clearance aisle. I was expecting them to still be full price, but when I scanned them on a price scanner, they came up for only $10!

I picked up the 3 of the last 4, 1 for me and 2 for First Gen.

So be sure to check out your local Walmart and see if you can get a $70 figure for the price of a new deluxe!

Walmart's crazy! =O


If anyone can hook up their bestest buddy at this price, that'd be sooper-dooper!



Heck, at that price, the shipping is pretty much a moot point!

Wow, if I see it at that price, I might just buy it.

He should be $10...pink piece of crap.

I kid, I kid...

or do I?

I'll have to stop at Walmart on they way home from work and check, but last time I was in there (just a few days ago) it was still $69.99.

Counterpunch wrote:He should be $10...pink piece of crap.

I kid, I kid...

or do I?

I figure, I paid $3.33 for the voice box, $3.33 for the comic, $3.34 for the DVD, and got a free lackluster Optimus Prime figure included.

It should be noted that before everyone runs out to check their local WalMarts that unlike Target Walmart clearance items and prices vary from store to store.
Case in point - last week my son picked up TFA Swindle and Blurr at one Walmart on "clearance" at $5 each (clearance in terms of the aisle reset at this particular store). Other Walmarts still had TFA at full price ($9.96 or whatever).

That price is worth me buying one to keep MISB.

Hyper-Chicken wrote:It should be noted that before everyone runs out to check their local WalMarts that unlike Target Walmart clearance items and prices vary from store to store.
Case in point - last week my son picked up TFA Swindle and Blurr at one Walmart on "clearance" at $5 each (clearance in terms of the aisle reset at this particular store). Other Walmarts still had TFA at full price ($9.96 or whatever).

I would have to concur. Happy for the OP who got a great deal, but I probably won't hold my breath for these to get discounted like this nationwide. I'll keep an eye out, but I probably won't hunt them down unless a lot more sightings are found at this price. Does help, though, that my interest is mild at best either way...

Yeah, each store is different. But hopefully they all realize this thing won't sell at such a high price. And, maybe they learned their lesson with 20th Anniversary Prime, which they never reduced below $50 (at least in my area).

Sad thing is, Wal-Mart trashes whatever doesn't sell on clearance. They mark items down to their decided minimum, add a timeframe, and then off to the dumpster.

I suppose regular inventory may be different, but I know for a fact that this is the case with all holiday products.

The 25th reissue is definately crap...But yeah, for 10 bucks I'd buy it...

Damn!!! I was just there yesterday and I had OP in my bloody hands!! I thought he was a good price @ $45 but $10?

I'm gonna hit 2 or 3 Walmarts today, I'll jump on this guy at $10.

Might pick it up for 10.00 just for the extras. This is off topic, but something I've been wondering. What does WM or any retailer do for that matter, when they simply cannot sell an item even after it has been marked down? Do they send it back? I ask because back around Christmas when WM got those huge TF isle units with Ultimate BB, my WM could not sell them. They eventually got moved to a flex area, but never marked down. I figured they would eventually put him on clearance and then I would pick him up. Not the case one night they had 6 the next morning they were all gone. Where did they go?

Good luck to everyone at finding it for 10 bucks. I tried three Wal Marts around here and they were all charging 70 dollars. On an unrelated noted, and the only good news I have after driving all across the city, I found a lone Universe Dinobot. I had already ordered the Henkei one (along with Henkei Hotshot), but he just looked so damn good. I guess I'll keep the Henkei one MISB.

El Duque wrote:This is off topic, but something I've been wondering. What does WM or any retailer do for that matter, when they simply cannot sell an item even after it has been marked down? Do they send it back? I ask because back around Christmas when WM got those huge TF isle units with Ultimate BB, my WM could not sell them. They eventually got moved to a flex area, but never marked down. I figured they would eventually put him on clearance and then I would pick him up. Not the case one night they had 6 the next morning they were all gone. Where did they go?

As I said in my previous post in this thread:

Sad thing is, Wal-Mart trashes whatever doesn't sell on clearance. They mark items down to their decided minimum, add a timeframe, and then off to the dumpster.

I suppose regular inventory may be different, but I know for a fact that this is the case with all holiday products.

I don't know about other retailers, but Wal-Mart's leftover holiday themed merchandise (Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, etc.) is marked down to 50%, then 75%....and then after a selected timeframe, whatever hasn't sold is trashed.

I know someone who saw 14 pallets of *new* wrapping paper being thrown away. Holiday candy, fresh flowers, new bikes with minor damage or scratches, all thrown into the garbage.

They can write it off as a loss if they trash it. Can't they donate it to charities? Can't they recycle? Nope; they can't write it off then.

I'm not certain, but I would assume it's the same with all other clearance items. Ridiculous, isn't it?

Gandalf wrote:
I don't know about other retailers, but Wal-Mart's leftover holiday themed merchandise (Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, etc.) is marked down to 50%, then 75%....and then after a selected timeframe, whatever hasn't sold is trashed.

I know someone who saw 14 pallets of *new* wrapping paper being thrown away. Holiday candy, fresh flowers, new bikes with minor damage or scratches, all thrown into the garbage.

They can write it off as a loss if they trash it. Can't they donate it to charities? Can't they recycle? Nope; they can't write it off then.

I'm not certain, but I would assume it's the same with all other clearance items. Ridiculous, isn't it?

i worked at sam goody a long time ago and they had the same prosses for things that didnt sell, but before throwing it away we had to destroy the items. pretty f-ing lame, but it was fun demolishing a karaoke machine with a hammer! i also took a bunch of DBZ toys out of the package and put them in a seperate garbage bag and put it next to the dumpster and got it after work

Whoa... what a deal!

travicon wrote:

Gandalf wrote:
I don't know about other retailers, but Wal-Mart's leftover holiday themed merchandise (Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, etc.) is marked down to 50%, then 75%....and then after a selected timeframe, whatever hasn't sold is trashed.

I know someone who saw 14 pallets of *new* wrapping paper being thrown away. Holiday candy, fresh flowers, new bikes with minor damage or scratches, all thrown into the garbage.

They can write it off as a loss if they trash it. Can't they donate it to charities? Can't they recycle? Nope; they can't write it off then.

I'm not certain, but I would assume it's the same with all other clearance items. Ridiculous, isn't it?

i worked at sam goody a long time ago and they had the same prosses for things that didnt sell, but before throwing it away we had to destroy the items. pretty f-ing lame, but it was fun demolishing a karaoke machine with a hammer! i also took a bunch of DBZ toys out of the package and put them in a seperate garbage bag and put it next to the dumpster and got it after work

That's awesome. Legal though?

uhh, yeeeah... 100%

Omega Charge wrote:

travicon wrote:

Gandalf wrote:
I don't know about other retailers, but Wal-Mart's leftover holiday themed merchandise (Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, etc.) is marked down to 50%, then 75%....and then after a selected timeframe, whatever hasn't sold is trashed.

I know someone who saw 14 pallets of *new* wrapping paper being thrown away. Holiday candy, fresh flowers, new bikes with minor damage or scratches, all thrown into the garbage.

They can write it off as a loss if they trash it. Can't they donate it to charities? Can't they recycle? Nope; they can't write it off then.

I'm not certain, but I would assume it's the same with all other clearance items. Ridiculous, isn't it?

i worked at sam goody a long time ago and they had the same prosses for things that didnt sell, but before throwing it away we had to destroy the items. pretty f-ing lame, but it was fun demolishing a karaoke machine with a hammer! i also took a bunch of DBZ toys out of the package and put them in a seperate garbage bag and put it next to the dumpster and got it after work

That's awesome. Legal though?

Maybe this is just a food service thing, but Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and Longhorn) have a strange policy. At the end of the night, any unused food is cooking, placed in bags, sealed, and frozen. It's picked up once a week by a local charity organization and distributed as they see fit. This is how these restaurants get out of reporting losses due to food waste. It's no longer waste, it's charity, and charitable donations are a tax write-off. Darden calls it "Harvest".

In other news, related to the thread topic, I stopped by my local WalMart today. They had several 25th Primes, but they were in the aisle beside the clearance aisle, along with several other beat-up toy items. Unfortunately, they still rang up at full price. I'm guessing they had been pulled from the toy section, but not repriced yet and placed in clearance. Maybe I'll go back in a few days.

OK, so I had to check my own local Walmart yesterday just in case. I couldn't find any 25th Ann. OPs, or any TFs of any kind, in the Toy Clearance area. BUT, I also couldn't find any of the 25th Ann. OPs on the shelf where they normally are, and an employee was rearranging the shelves in the clearance aisle. So I'll have to keep checking over the next few days and see if anything appears!

Yeah I popped into Walmart today just out of curiosity and I didn't see any 25th Primes at all...

No big loss though...

I didn't see any repriced at Wally World, but my Target has them on clearance for around $30 or $35.

If I can find them for $10 or $20, I could use a new trailer (even a white-ish one) for that price.

Lovely little rumor made me check my local Wal=MArt and yes there were optimus primes there... for $40.00. i checked with the scanner and everything.

mustve been a fluke at 1 location. idk.