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I'm almost positive of this. There was a thread somewhere about deluxes not being sold anymore, and i got scared. Well I've been visitng both Target and Walmarts everyday (literally) trying to find 08 BB, and they still have not restocked.

Well i went today and Walmart restocked Transformers movie toys... but no deluxes, only Cyberstompers. Then I go to the rack where Deluxes usually area, and the rack is not even labeled for Movie Deluxes anymore! They've taken the racks used before for deluxes, and relabled them for some starwars toys or something...

Then i go to a different walmart, and their racks weere relabled as well. I guess this is goodbye to deluxes?

TRU by me still gets them. But WalMart and Target sure don't.

Go to TFW2005.com forum. They have the whole thread there

This is not true. These stores are just waiting for Hasbro to ship them. The sales of these figures have been better than predicted.

I know how you feel, I've been looking for '08 Bumblebee for weeks with no sign of him, luckily the stores in the charlotte area are still selling Deluxes, though not the one I want!

The Movie line has been one of the most successful for Hasbro in ages. If they dropped the Deluxes, being the most cheapest and profitable size, then that be the most idiotic thing they could do. Deluxes won't be gone for another 3-4 months.

ummmmmmmm,
no.
went to walmart today.. they were bare for a week, and then they restocked wave 1-2 from the movie line.
alot of stores are restocking for x-mas, and we likely won't see anything new for a few more weeks. some cases have arrived early and been stocked, but target, wallyworld, will be redoing the toy section to sale more in the next few months.
this is from the head hasbro distributor of the southwest.

I also have to say your wrong on this to...I just got back from Walmart and there full of deluxes,(just not what you or I want or that I all ready have) FAB's and now the T.E.C.H. toys are now showing up here in NY. They have some kool sounds but I pass in them.


blkbitcloud1

I think your Wal-Mart is resetting the toy section. I went to a Wal-Mart this weekend and they changed the place where they kept Transformers, moved it closer to the front

One walmart i went to was completely sold out, another had a few swindles and bonecrushers.

My local Walmart was still sold out as of yesterday but you can tell they are resetting soon. All of the Back to School stuff has taken over the old TF displays in the aisles and all the action figures are moving a few rows down.

Yeah, I checked out my Targets and Wal-Marts today, and most of them are bare, but have little charts taped to the walls where the TFs should be. If it's the same as when I used to work at Circuit City, they're just resetting and possibly moving the section to somewhere else, probably tomorrow or Wednesday.

Hotrod wrote:I think your Wal-Mart is resetting the toy section. I went to a Wal-Mart this weekend and they changed the place where they kept Transformers, moved it closer to the front

Nope, no reset...new deluxes(well not so new except the FABS) and TECh toys. And we have two spots for TF toys. One with the deluxes and FABS and Helmets and one wtih the RH and Rear Gear and them Blaster thingies...


blkbitcloud1

my walmarts still has a few but will not be getting anymore in until they " flip there mod ", which means they are changing the whole store around for the holiday season!! i used to work for walmart and been through this before!!

blkbitcloud1 wrote:

Hotrod wrote:I think your Wal-Mart is resetting the toy section. I went to a Wal-Mart this weekend and they changed the place where they kept Transformers, moved it closer to the front

Nope, no reset...new deluxes(well not so new except the FABS) and TECh toys. And we have two spots for TF toys. One with the deluxes and FABS and Helmets and one wtih the RH and Rear Gear and them Blaster thingies...


blkbitcloud1

ooohhh gosh i wish someone would have told me this earlier... now i have to go check again!
how far from the tech toys/blaster thingies are the deluxes?

DvDqNoC wrote:

blkbitcloud1 wrote:

Hotrod wrote:I think your Wal-Mart is resetting the toy section. I went to a Wal-Mart this weekend and they changed the place where they kept Transformers, moved it closer to the front

Nope, no reset...new deluxes(well not so new except the FABS) and TECh toys. And we have two spots for TF toys. One with the deluxes and FABS and Helmets and one wtih the RH and Rear Gear and them Blaster thingies...


blkbitcloud1

ooohhh gosh i wish someone would have told me this earlier... now i have to go check again!
how far from the tech toys/blaster thingies are the deluxes?

if your in upstate ny...(monroe area) just in the front of the toys section and one asile over toward's the back are the RH and Blasters.

blkbitcloud1

Wal Mart reset is this weekend. There are cases of TF in the backroom waiting for the reset. I've seen them.

Loki41872 wrote:Wal Mart reset is this weekend. There are cases of TF in the backroom waiting for the reset. I've seen them.

This weekend, as in the weekend of the 4th and 5th?

My Walmart and Target are empty except FABs and my TRU won't order anymore until the shelves are empty, problem being they won't be because they are full of Protoforms.

So looks like I'll be saving up some money for a Movie Cliffjumper

Sales for the Movie toys has been excellent this side of the Pacific too.
All the large chain stores have toy sales in July (laybuy till Christmas etc etc), and most have been completely wiped out, all the bots featured in the movie are next to extinct, and even Swindle and Dreadwing only having a few of each figure on the shelves rather than the dozens that were around before the sales.

If Hasbro has not made many a $ Million profit for their 3rd quarter, then they really made some bad investments elsewhere.

I heard from the dept. manager of toys that we have a new mod coming in, but we're so behind that we haven't had time to set it up yet. We have plenty of Movie Leaders and crap loads of Swindle and Bonecrusher.

All I know is I'm getting pissed. I live really close to two Wal-Marts and two Targets. I check at least two a day (sometimes all 4 in a day) and they've ALL been completely out of deluxes for two weeks now.

I've never worked retail so I don't know how it works but I always assumed that when they run out of stock and they don't have anymore in the stockroom (which really they should) that they place an order with the distributor and get more on the next shipment. So it's been two weeks, wtf are they waiting for?

Bugbite wrote:My Walmart and Target are empty except FABs and my TRU won't order anymore until the shelves are empty, problem being they won't be because they are full of Protoforms.

So looks like I'll be saving up some money for a Movie Cliffjumper

LOL, same here. The TRU that I visit have dozens of movie protoforms and TONS of Beast War leaders 2 pack(what?), along with many reissue Soundwave, classics, and a few Titaniums on the shelves (a bit suprise). Anyway, stuff that you've seen before.

I don't know. I feel like I'm seeing more stuff at Big Lots (new Knock-offs).

All i want is blackout!!!

Tankman wrote:All i want is blackout!!!

i havent been seeing him.... all the new voyager case assortments have megatron instead of blackout.... the case assortment is 4 voyagers per case, in the latest wave it has been ironhide, ratchet, starscream, and megs. i hope he doesnt become HTF.