Bronzewolf wrote:As some Peg Tags at a North Carolina Walmart have revealed, we have a more than slight indication that a Deluxe Shockwave is in our future.
I would like to emphatically and unequivocably dispel this rumor.
The way the Walmart computer inventory is set up, you have your generic description of an assortment (like TRA DLX TITANS RETURN) and then you have your specific, individual toys in the assortment, which are all linked to that main UPC. The generic description usually shows up on the shipping labels, and the shelf tags, but the computer can also identify individual items so that the receipt you get at the cash register can be more specific about what you bought.
When you print off all the shelf tags at once, on a big sheet of perforated paper, it will always show you the generic description. If you scan an individual toy, though, and it calls up the description of that specific toy, it's possible to print a shelf tag with that character's name on it. This, in and of itself, doesn't mean anything.
Walmart tends to fold new toys into existing computer assortments. The current Deluxe-class toys from the Titans Return line, for example, share a computer file with Combiner Wars toys and Deluxe toys from Age of Extinction and even a few stragglers from Fall of Cybertron. Walmart just isn't in the habit of purging old computer data.
The only thing proven by this shelf tag with Shockwave's name on it is that somebody scanned an old Shockwave toy and printed a label. It does not indicate that there is a new toy coming.
Source: Walmart employee since 2003, toy department manager since 2013.
Zob