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Hey guys
Im wondering what your local walmarts are looking like in terms of T.F.stock?
I have 5 walmarts here, all super, and all 5 are completely barren of T.F. figures. I crossed the bridge into jeffville and hit two more super walmarts to find the same thing.
Now, I have also noticed that all 7 of those walmarts are also missing bey blades and avenger toys. Barren of all those lines as well.
While I cant tell you how long the stores across the bridge have been bare, I ca say that my walmarts have been empty of T.F. for nearly 2 months and I noticed the absents of the bey blades and avenger toys about 4 weeks ago. Ofcourse not one employee at any of the stores can tell me whats going on. They all say "theyve been ordered for a long while now. Should be here any day now." Theyve given me that line for 8 weeks.
So, Does anyone know if those 3 product lines are shipped to walmart from the same place? Perhaps their warehouses are having some problem? It would have to be a different place than the one that ships to all the other stores, because my target, T.R.U. and meijers have had these toys for a while now.
Im lucky enough to have procured half of the figures I need, but have seen
not a single combaticon thus far. Im hoping that my walmarts will all get flooded with the new line at the same time making it relatively simple for my to procure all combaticons.
I also hate that my fellow collectors are having trouble getting awesome figures like FOC grim and blaster, starscream and magnus, the combaticons because of a shipping problem.
Can anyone shed light on this issue?
Thanks guys n gals!

My local Walmarts and Targets have been terrible about stocking TFs for the past several months. Lately I only find new figures at TRU.

Same, but Im capped at 4 months.

Meijer has been good to me lately too. Not sure if you have them in your neck of the woods.

I don't shop at walmart- person choice. crappy selection, WAY too crowded, and bottom of the barrel customer service. Target has been keeping TFs in stock from Beast Hunters, but FoC has been a bit behind.

GuyIncognito wrote:My local Walmarts and Targets have been terrible about stocking TFs for the past several months. Lately I only find new figures at TRU.

In the UK our shop problems are the other way round lol.
Supermarkets seem to be the best place to find the new/newer stuff. TRU UK stores (local to me) mostly have really, really old stock, bar the FOC line as its exclusive to TRU here.

Same. I did find FOC kickback and his entire wave the day after there delivery happened. Id say hit them the day after they get there delivery. I found it at one that is open 24 hours and got it before I left for work that day. Like 6:15 am. I have noticed if I don't get in right after that, it seems pretty empty.

Toys R us seems to be your best bet, or online.

Yeah, TRU is my best bet. Found the whole fourth wave of PRiD figures (Deluxes and Voyagers) there, as well as the first wave of Beast Hunters toys. Also the first wave of FoC Voyagers and the data disks.

Just be patient. Wal-Marts in my area were barren from November until about two weeks ago. Now there is new FOC stuff, Beast hunters wave 1 (voyagers and deluxe) and more grimlocks and soundwaves than you can shake a stick at. It's coming. I started just checking one WM per week. When I noticed new stuff at one, I checked them all and every one had stocked up seemingly on the same day. My wallet hates me right now.

After about 2 months of nothingness, my Walmart stocked up on multiples of Bruticus parts and Beast Hunters. Of those, only 1 Predaking remained as of this morning. My Walmart sux at restocking speed, but when they eventually get around to it, it's always the newest stuff.

Meijers and TRU are bad but better than the rest.
Walmart, K-Mart, Target, those have been horrible around here since well before Christmas, and have only gotten worse.

My walmarts have been amazing lately. Multiple Foc grimlock's, blasters, botshots, beasthunters all sizes, and most recent Foc deluxe waves.

Walmart's been pretty sucky near me since the PRID line started. Most of the figures I bought from the line came from Target, but even they have been sluggish since October or so, but at least they had the 5 figurtes for Bruticus within a month (or so) of them hitting the west coast. Target only started bringing in Beast Hunters two or three weeks ago near me. Walmart only just got a shipment last week.