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Hotrodimust wrote:Target and Walmart want the figures kids know BB and prime so hasbro puts more of those figure in case. Now it's obvious kids arnt buying the BB and primes cuz they sit on the pegs the only figures missing are the figures collectors want. I have 2 sons and they don't give a crap about TF and neither do their friends all they play is beyblade even at school all their friends trade parts with them. Now this is in my area maybe more kids like TF in yours.

It's your area. Not only are Beyblades shelfwarming here, I've seen tons of kids walk up to the TF Prime section, look through the figures, and walk away sad because it's all BB and CJ. Everyone of their parents I've talked to says they want Arcee(since, y'know, the show tends to be heavily about her and Jack at times). Kids DO want the figures for characters they're familiar with, which tends to mean the main characters for their shows.

Hasbro and stores seem to assume because BB was popular with kids in one franchise that it would carry through, but kids tend to be fickle creatures over the long term.

Midnight_Fox wrote:

Hotrodimust wrote:Target and Walmart want the figures kids know BB and prime so hasbro puts more of those figure in case. Now it's obvious kids arnt buying the BB and primes cuz they sit on the pegs the only figures missing are the figures collectors want. I have 2 sons and they don't give a crap about TF and neither do their friends all they play is beyblade even at school all their friends trade parts with them. Now this is in my area maybe more kids like TF in yours.

It's your area. Not only are Beyblades shelfwarming here, I've seen tons of kids walk up to the TF Prime section, look through the figures, and walk away sad because it's all BB and CJ. Everyone of their parents I've talked to says they want Arcee(since, y'know, the show tends to be heavily about her and Jack at times). Kids DO want the figures for characters they're familiar with, which tends to mean the main characters for their shows.

Hasbro and stores seem to assume because BB was popular with kids in one franchise that it would carry through, but kids tend to be fickle creatures over the long term.

I just wanna say thank you at least you know that hasbro and stores assume that these are the figures kids want. Everyone else that has commented on what I'm trying to explain acts like I'm a complete idiot lol. I know my writing skills arnt the best or maybe the way I try to say things idk i can explain things better in person. I also like what you said when you said ( I've seen tons of kids walk up to TF prime ) meaning you actually go to stores and see what's going on not just reading about it on a website. This whole conversation started because I was just simply saying toy companies don't ship toys like they used to. I remember being a kid and going to childworld or tru and seeing walls of toys and whole series of TF figures. It's like they aired a show and them every character they made a toy for released all at the same time no stupid waves and only putting on kind of figure in a case of 8 with only 4 different figures. They way they do it drives up the value of the single figure and the people who can't find it in stores has to buy it on eBay over priced. And it's not like hasbro makes any extra money from shorting a figure in a case and making people buy it on eBay unless they would assume the person would try hasbro.com first or what ever their toy site is and buy from there cutting out the middle man like Walmart and target that way they make more money on each figure sold on their site.

I wonder if everyone passing on stealth bb and kup will
ironically make them rarer in the future.

I'm probably going to get them all as I try to collect the
full lines myself.

I do see some of the points both sides are making. The truth
probably lies somewhere in between.

Kids do like the show and are looking for the figures. The
targets in my area are mostly bare. I was lucky enough to
catch a voyager ss today at target and was talking to the
sales rep for a bit. There was a mother and child who stopped
me as I was walking by with ss asking what figure it was.
Luckily it wasn't the one he wanted or I would have had to hand it over .
He wanted the big guy cliffjumper. I told her the big
guy was bulkhead and went over to the sales rep again and got the
bulky for him. Thank goodness.


parts

Well since the avengers movie game out all the stores I'm my area about 10 of them are flush out of the figures kids have been going nuts over them. I'm unemployed right now so after I put in my job search time every day I go hunting I hit about 8 stores every day me and my daughter she's 2 she likes TFs she steals mine all the time even if I get her own lol. But any ways the 8 stores I go to are a mix of targets walmarts TRU and I have 1 Kmart and to be honest the only store I get lucky at is target. I've found the 3 new deluxe hotshot,vehicon and knockout and the 2 new voyagers SS and bulkhead. I actually found 2 of each when I comes to the voyagers and I found 1 set of the 4 cyberverse and 2 sets of wave 2 bot shots. The cyberverse and bot shots I found at Walmart. Other than that nothing and i have friends in some of the stores and I'm cool with employies at other stores so I know when trucks come in and what type of delivery they get. I go looking at targets as soon as they open because they stock their selves b4 they open and you can scan to see what's in back TRU and Walmart it's when ever they get around to stocking the shelves so it's luck finding stuff there unless its a 24 hour store then you go at 11pm. But this I hunt for toys a lot because it how I make money finding the hard to find stuff and right now prime figures are htf marvel legends and dcuc. But b4 the prime line TF were easy to find I could go to any store any time and get the figure I was looking for.

This is a terribly wild tangent from the original topic. Please get back on the road of discussion of what was originally meant to be discussed - the handful of Prime Deluxe releases - or continue your off topic discussion in a private message or in a new topic altogether. Thank you.

Def want to get Airrachnid and Rumble. I was hoping A would be more like the TF Animated Deluxe Blackarachnia. A Decepticon that turns into a spider is far more unique than one with a flying vehicle alt mode.

Drift082111 wrote:Def want to get Airrachnid and Rumble. I was hoping A would be more like the TF Animated Deluxe Blackarachnia. A Decepticon that turns into a spider is far more unique than one with a flying vehicle alt mode.

yeah she should have been a voyager like a lot of people have said. a real triplechanger would have been nice....what was the last triple, was it classics astrotrain?

njb902 wrote:

Drift082111 wrote:Def want to get Airrachnid and Rumble. I was hoping A would be more like the TF Animated Deluxe Blackarachnia. A Decepticon that turns into a spider is far more unique than one with a flying vehicle alt mode.

yeah she should have been a voyager like a lot of people have said. a real triplechanger would have been nice....what was the last triple, was it classics astrotrain?

I believe it was animated blitz wing but if we are talking classics then yes it is astrotrain

njb902 wrote:

Drift082111 wrote:Def want to get Airrachnid and Rumble. I was hoping A would be more like the TF Animated Deluxe Blackarachnia. A Decepticon that turns into a spider is far more unique than one with a flying vehicle alt mode.

yeah she should have been a voyager like a lot of people have said. a real triplechanger would have been nice....what was the last triple, was it classics astrotrain?

The last new mold seems to be Animated Blitzwing, but if we're talking chronologically by release, Henkei Henkei Astrotrain was released the same year as TFA Blitzwing (2008).

no I ment in general, just completely forgot about blizwing.

still though it sucks if people are having qc problems with their figures.

Air is just the right size, IMO. And deluxe triple changers have happened before. There was no usual reason not to. They must have needed to cut costs for some reason.

njb902 wrote:no I ment in general, just completely forgot about blizwing.

Don't forget Animated Shockwave. He was a quad-changer.

Sabrblade wrote:

njb902 wrote:no I ment in general, just completely forgot about blizwing.

Don't forget Animated Shockwave. He was a quad-changer.

Yup, just like Optimal Optimus... >.>; Yeah, much as I like Optimal Optimus, "quad-changers" seem to be universally fail at actually having four separate modes.

Sabrblade wrote:

njb902 wrote:no I ment in general, just completely forgot about blizwing.

Don't forget Animated Shockwave. He was a quad-changer.

I didn't really buy many animated toys so I wasn't aware he was a quad changer.

njb902 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

njb902 wrote:no I ment in general, just completely forgot about blizwing.

Don't forget Animated Shockwave. He was a quad-changer.

I didn't really buy many animated toys so I wasn't aware he was a quad changer.