I live in Tampa and have one TRU, four Walmarts, and three Targets near me, as well as another TRU, five other Targets, and four other Walmarts in areas that require further driving distance but aren't too unreasonably far away to get to. Yet, despite my living in a populated area filled with all of those stores, they don't always get the new stuff out when they're released to stores, and all of these stores are guilty of shelfwarming plenty of stuff. The nearest Walmart to me is still sitting on pegs and shelves full of Wave 1 and Wave 2 Titans Return Deluxes and has continued to not have any later wave Deluxes since none of the Wave 1-2 Deluxes are selling.Rated X wrote:Emerje wrote:Rated X wrote:How come every other country gets this set in brick and mortar retail bus the US has to go through BBTS and have it shipped? Thats messed up Hasbro...
You'd prefer the uncertainty of finding it in a store over the certainty of buying it online? And BBTS shipping is only $4, that's hardly a deal breaker when you're already spending $100. Granted, it sold out quickly, but it gives those of us without a nearby TRU a fighting chance.
Well you gotta understand I live in Miami, not some small town in the middle of nowhere. I have 3 toys r us fairly close to me and another 3 or 4 under 30 minutes away in clear traffic. Same thing with walmarts and targets.
I never saw the Chaos on Velocitron set at either of the two TRUs I can get to, never even saw an empty spot reserved for it on the shelves, it was as though the never carried it to begin with.
It doesn't matter that you and I both live in sizable cities (in the same state, no less) instead of "some small town in the middle of nowhere". What matters is the local distribution. Yours may sound nice but mine's terribly slipshod. It's why I used to refer to my profile location as "Florida, the Neglected State".