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I live in NY but im currently in VA for personal reasons, but while im here im gonna check out local toy stores out here see if I get lucky.

I believe it is quite true. Today, my brother picked up Bumblebee & Jazz at Target. When we went back though, they removed what they put out. Probably figured out they put 'em out too early. Anyways, I got Jazz & Bumblebee.

Wonder when my area will even see the Preview figs?! Damn, I hate Kansas!

cool

I think we just have some over zealous department managers at some of the stores, who after setting out some of the back stock figures, or all... are getting reamed a little from their managers...ofcourse, hasbro doesn't have a secret police that can really view if they are selling them or not, but then again, i think the genreal rule is one per customer and only set out a few releases early to entice buyers and collectors.. its seen as common place, with the big drop midnight open doors thing still to come, remember this is sort of Steven Speilberg's star wars epic trilogy, so he can get his face on the perverbial Mt Producermore next to george Lucas...Plus Hasbro likes the midnight madness drop the bomb date sales too, the publicity is enormous, and heightens the sales of their toys, they know, they did it with star wars plenty of times... so i highly doubt the ban was lifted.. I'll confer with my sources...

D Banks wrote:I live in NY but im currently in VA for personal reasons, but while im here im gonna check out local toy stores out here see if I get lucky.

Dude I live in VA, your gonna be really disappointed, we sometimes miss stuff completely here.. that or our jerkoff comic store owners hord the good shite, and sell it for highass prices on their online store...comicbook a$$wipes!!!!

Don't get me wrong, i like comiccs and comic stores, its the jerks that do stuff like that i really hate!

Oh please let this be true. But then again, the stores by me suck, still no Classic Devastator yet.

None of the stores around me have broken the date, other than for the Protoforms.

I'd have been all over 'em if they had.

guess i need to get off my bum and start searching

Gaijin wrote:Wonder when my area will even see the Preview figs?! Damn, I hate Kansas!

If by the preview figs you mean the protoforms then they are already here...scoot on over to the wichita walmarts/targets and you will find pegs full.

no luck on the rest of them though

Chocks away!!!

As someone who has worked at both Best Buy and EB Games and dealt with a LOT of street dated product, I am gonna call this rumor possible...but EXTREMELY unlikely. Sometimes, with a game or movie, if a store breaks a street date the company will lift it for everyone. This isn't usually true of HUGE releases though. Usually when they have events planned like midnight openings the date sticks and the offending stores are severely penalized by the manufacturer (loss of product...delated product etc.)and the corporate offices of the offending company (usually termination of the associate and store manager). It depends on what the mfr. decides to do with the date.

D-340 wrote:Oh please let this be true. But then again, the stores by me suck, still no Classic Devastator yet.

Ain't that the truth! I've been to numerous store in Chicago and the outlying, but haven't seen Devastator or the Alts. Anywhere. My local Target had the Skywarp/Magnus pack for three days and then pulled them. I did find one TRU that had millions of protoforms, but I already got them online, which I had to do for the Walmart Alts and Devastator as well.

Then again, it is curious that Target has Classics on clearance so soon after they were released......

Leader class Prime will be mine.

I wonder when they'll hit UK shores...

skywarp-2 wrote:I think we just have some over zealous department managers at some of the stores, who after setting out some of the back stock figures, or all... are getting reamed a little from their managers...ofcourse, hasbro doesn't have a secret police that can really view if they are selling them or not, but then again, i think the genreal rule is one per customer and only set out a few releases early to entice buyers and collectors.. its seen as common place, with the big drop midnight open doors thing still to come, remember this is sort of Steven Speilberg's star wars epic trilogy, so he can get his face on the perverbial Mt Producermore next to george Lucas...Plus Hasbro likes the midnight madness drop the bomb date sales too, the publicity is enormous, and heightens the sales of their toys, they know, they did it with star wars plenty of times... so i highly doubt the ban was lifted.. I'll confer with my sources...

Bingo. The releases we have seen are nothing more than employees and managers breaking street date to help get a few extra sales at this slow time in between lines. Nothing more. Sure your store might be one of the few that decides to pop out a case early, but don't bet on it.

"hasbro doesn't have a secret police that can really view if they are selling them or not"

Actually, in a way, they do. Hasbro has reps that go to some stores, mainly TRU to make sure that product is set up, being promoted, and stocked correctly. Sometimes they also help the store employees in these efforts. If these people were in the know when they visited a store selling figures early I'm sure that they could request them to be removed for the time being.

I know this because we would get these people in my TRU when I worked there a few years ago. Hasbro was one of the companies that had people out there from time to time.

I wish theyd hit sooner than the street date around here...all the stores have been clear of transformers anything for about a month now.

I really want a Bumblebee!

So I was just poking around on eBay to see how widely available these toys already were and there's like 8 pages of listings going for insane prices. It would be cool if Hasbro did lift the date and then these prices would look even more rediculous.

mattyc1007 wrote:please be argos or tesco!

I wouldnt hold my breath any Argos would have a photo of them in either a small booklet or store catalogue`s on the counters at the stock checking machines

Just saw almost the entire line (besides the basic figs)Theres a mom and pop shop in NJ that has , forgive me for getting line names mixed up

-Ratchet/Blackout
-Talking Optimus
-Unleased BB
-The entire FB line
-Barricade/BB Cyber Slammers (??)
-_____ Stompin BB (The face on this looked like an old man, not like the rest of the toys)
-The entire Legends line
-Some kinda Starscream blaster

Also they had the "Galactic Heros" mini figs (These were not movie related) and two new Titaniums Sunfire and ???

Got Ratchet, blackout and I found some Optimus Prime blasters and a bunch of legend class toys in wall mart in gatineau, next to Ottawa today.

DarkZero wrote:Got Ratchet, blackout and I found some Optimus Prime blasters and a bunch of legend class toys in wall mart today.

Which Wal-Mart?

Oops fixed it.

can't wait for jazz bb and barricade.