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News Credits: 1235 · Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:56 pm

Kinda funny that Windcharger is showing up at stores that are nowhere near where I live. I guess that just means I don't have to kick myself for overpaying for him then.

News Credits: 32 · Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:41 am

Man, I really should take a trip down to the US for Black Friday. Some really great deals going on. I'd love to be able to get a Windcharger for $5 as opposed to the stupid scalper prices of $25-50.

Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:02 pm

I just picked up Windcharger at 5 Below. The had a whole wheelbarrow full of them. $5!

News Credits: 9 · Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:21 pm

looks like i might be stopping here between my two black friday shifts

News Credits: 5749 · Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:53 am

As you already know one of the upcoming Black Friday specials will be $10.00 Power Core Combiner five-pack plus a two-pack combo for $10.00 at Wal-Mart, now we are happy to report these combos will feature some of those hard to come by later wave figures. Apparently some Wal-Marts have jumped the gun and already started stocking the sets. TFW2005's Magnus1701 found and purchased the combos seen below, which include Salvage, Undertow, and Skyhammer. The Allspark's ShinRa also reports finding a combo with Heavytread. Great news for those who never were able to track down the later wave Commander two-packs.

Image courtesy of Magnus1701:

News Credits: 8 · Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:54 am

son of a bitch now i might just have to go out on black friday

News Credits: 668 · Sat Nov 19, 2011 5:26 am

Apparently Ultimate Optimus desire is HUGE. He was mentioned on Yahoo/CNN Money.

http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance ... =ad0035&nc

Clamoring for Ultimate Optimus Prime? At Toys R Us the same deals and discounts, including 40% off the popular transformer figure, will also be available on Toysrus.com starting at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving night. The toy giant is also offering free shipping on everything except furniture, video game consoles and gift cards.

Wow.

Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:23 am

I don't think I've ever actually bought anything on Black Friday. One year I checked it out super early...and it was ridiculous, so I left. Last year I went the night before...and the line at Toys R Us, where the police were directing to keep the flow of people down to two at once, went all the way around the block, so I left. Saving a few dollars on anything is just not worth the hours-long waiting time to get into stores and check out. Unless there's something I'd save literally hundreds or thousands of dollars on by buying that day, it's just a huge waste of time.

That said, I will be hitting Five Below and Wal-mart tomorrow to see if they have stocked these things. If not, I'll just check the day after. Five Below is not exactly shopper central for Black Friday, and the PCCs aren't that important to me. The new molds are kinda neat, but the whole PCC concept is pretty lame. Who wants non-transforming "drones"? And giant blue squares on every limb?

News Credits: 5 · Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:40 am

El Duque wrote:As you already know one of the upcoming Black Friday specials will be $10.00 Power Core Combiner five-pack plus a two-pack combo for $10.00 at Wal-Mart, now we are happy to report these combos will feature some of those hard to come by later wave figures. Apparently some Wal-Marts have jumped the gun and already started stocking the sets. TFW2005's Magnus1701 found and purchased the combos seen below, which include Salvage, Undertow, and Skyhammer. The Allspark's ShinRa also reports finding a combo with Heavytread. Great news for those who never were able to track down the later wave Commander two-packs.

Image courtesy of Magnus1701:

I already plan on going to Target to get something for the boys, but I will stop into my Walmart to see if they have any of these sets left. It's a great deal.

Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:35 pm

Found 6 WindCharger at Five and Below in Boardman Ohio today for $5.00 each, Bought them out for my collection a to give to a few friends here too.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Nov 19, 2011 5:37 pm

now they have my attention. All I need is Heavytread and Over-run, and it looks like it's autobot bundled with decepticon.

News Credits: 5 · Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:25 pm

Stopped into 5 below, and they had all of the scouts, sans Windcharger, someone had already swooped in and scored them all. I was just there on Tuesday night, so they were not there for long. There was about 5 Chopsaws, which were 2 to a case just like Windcharger, so they only had 6 from the beginning.

Damn. The Exton scapler strikes again. At least he/she didn't steal these, or buy and return with something else in it's place. I only wanted to snag one or two.

Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:32 pm

For all those interested in the Walmart deal:

In my store, there won't be a line for the Transformers (or so they think) mainly because they don't see it as a hot item, so I believe they will just put out they toys in the toy section instead of lined off in their own stack, and apparently my Walmart has about 100 of these packs.... Also an employee told me about a Black Friday floor map. Hope this info helps, I'll try to find out more. :ic$:

News Credits: 11 · Tue Nov 22, 2011 4:29 pm

Some BBTS stuff has been listed:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=8007

Pretty lame so far though, I'm assuming there will be more widespread discounts as the weekend approaches.

Sneaky buggers raised the price on the ONE item I wanted though, 2010 Primus, now $129.99 instead of $109.99. I only hope this is in anticipation of further price reduction, otherwise I may need to take my purchase elsewhere...

News Credits: 1235 · Tue Nov 22, 2011 5:05 pm

I think BBTS will soon be giving away those Piranacon sets.

Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:05 pm

So on the way home from my parents' house last night I stopped by Wal-Mart and such to see what was going on. The parking lot was crowded, lines were forming nearby at Target, Best Buy's line was so long that people were playing football in the parking lot to pass the time. I toured Wal-Mart to see if they had PCC Undertow, and indeed they did. I left without bothering because the lines were so long.

This morning I happened to wake up early, as I went to sleep early last night. I figured what the hay, I might as well swing by Five Below in Laurel, MD to see if they have Windcharger.

Indeed they did--about 6 or 7 of them. They weren't in the normal toy aisle, though, but rather by the counter--had I not asked an employee where to find Transformers I wouldn't have seen them. I also bought Chopsaw for kicks.

Wal-Mart in Laurel was also not very crowded, and most of the registers, unlike usual, were staffed. I found PCC Grimstone packaged with Undertow and bought that. The combinations vary so you could find any 5-pack with any 2-pack, and you'll need to sort through them to find what you want.

I then hit Target in Columbia and found Voyager Cannon Force Ironhide, Megatron, and Sentinel Prime for $10 each, so I bought those. Don't think I'll be keeping Sentinel but I figured I could trade for something later.

I also hit Wal-Mart in Columbia, and found nothing of interest there, except a leftover ROTF Long Haul, which I bought. It was clearance-priced on the tag, but not in the system, so I had to wait a few minutes for the clerk to get approval from a manager to give me the clearance price.

I stopped at Toys R Us and saw they had DOTM Ultimate Optimus for $47.99--best price I've seen anywhere so far--but I passed on that since I really don't dig it.

And somewhere in there I hit Ross and bought RTS Wreck-Gar and Tracks and HFTD Leader Starscream.

All in all, not a bad haul.

And I was pleasantly surprised to find traffic was light and parking was easy. You'd never know there were lines the night before. So that says to me that as retailers have responded to the Black Friday rush by opening earlier and earlier and now Thanksgiving night, the best time to go is really early Friday morning, so you don't have to deal with the madhouse. Yes, you might miss some deals, but I've noticed that most of the really marked down stuff is crap no one wanted before anyway. So it's just a way for the retailers to make people think they're getting a good deal and get rid of all the stuff they couldn't sell before.

News Credits: 5 · Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:30 pm

Out of 4 Walmarts, with about 100 of each of the 10$ deal PCC packs, I found one heavy tread.
So I don't think he's become less hard to find.

Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:39 pm

RodimalToyota wrote:Out of 4 Walmarts, with about 100 of each of the 10$ deal PCC packs, I found one heavy tread.
So I don't think he's become less hard to find.

Good point. I completely forget Heavy Tread existed--never seen him once anywhere, and today I didn't see him at either Wal-Mart I visited.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:08 pm

Yeah, HeavyTread didn't show up at ours either. I managed to pick up a Steamhammer/Icepick 2-pack, and gave Icepick away in the toys-for-tots Bin.

One of the best win-wins of my day.

Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:15 pm

I got a Grimstone and Icepick 2-pack, and a steamhammer sledge 2-pack, and an over-run and salvage(meh) 2-pack.

Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:08 pm

I picked up a Grimstone with Icepick today, myself. Oh, and a little off topic- anyone looking for the DOTM Darksteel and Air Raid should check their local Kohl's. Finally got me an Air Raid.........

News Credits: 11 · Fri Nov 25, 2011 7:36 pm

I'm really surprised BBTS didn't offer more. Maybe on Monday?

News Credits: 1 · Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:27 pm

Grabbed Grimstone with Leadfoot at Walmart. That toy was totally waiting for me. Lol. Had the "not for sale" sticker on it, likely because it was meant to advertise the promo during the crazy hours, but because it was 8:30pm they let me buy it. Score! xD

I don't really own it yet though <.< Handed it off to my folks to give me for x-mas after I got home. Figured $10 would be two gifts for me. Saves them some money and saves my mum some hassle. She never really knows what to get any of us young-ins anymore now that we're all grown up (it's much easier when you're a little kid... in fact I found it much more difficult deciding what *not* to buy my 2 year old niece. Lol). And I finally found out why she refuses to buy me Transformers, so aptly said by my dad - "I don't know what Former-Trans to buy you, you have them all." Lol. If only I did own them all xD

Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:00 pm

I know, I actually really enjoy the PCCs, so have fun! But just now, I picked up the DOTM Voyager Megatron from Target, going to have fun with this figure. :grin: