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I still haven't seen sky Shadow in the wild.

neither have i

bodrock wrote:I see what ya mean, Rysquad.

I'm diggin' Nitro ZEUS -- even his default head. But I do believe he works best as a transtector for the Titan Masters...!

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I'm still trying to decide if I should buy Nitro Zeus and, if so, what I could use him for when it come to customization.

kurthy wrote:I still haven't seen sky Shadow in the wild.

Lots of them have still not been seen in many stores. Six Shot is only just now starting to wheeze and limp it's tired way into local Walmarts and such after nearly six months of being MIA after it's release. Still no sign of Misfire, Slugslinger, or many of the other later wave figures. I'm not sure how distribution is being managed - or if it's being 'managed' at all. Some parts of the country seem to get flooded with some figures, while some never see them at all. And other figures are never seen in that same location, but choking shelves at others. If there's a pattern to it, I'd like to see the math...

DeathReviews wrote:

kurthy wrote:I still haven't seen sky Shadow in the wild.

Lots of them have still not been seen in many stores. Six Shot is only just now starting to wheeze and limp it's tired way into local Walmarts and such after nearly six months of being MIA after it's release. Still no sign of Misfire, Slugslinger, or many of the other later wave figures. I'm not sure how distribution is being managed - or if it's being 'managed' at all. Some parts of the country seem to get flooded with some figures, while some never see them at all. And other figures are never seen in that same location, but choking shelves at others. If there's a pattern to it, I'd like to see the math...

could be skimming by store employees

Ultra Markus wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:

kurthy wrote:I still haven't seen sky Shadow in the wild.

Lots of them have still not been seen in many stores. Six Shot is only just now starting to wheeze and limp it's tired way into local Walmarts and such after nearly six months of being MIA after it's release. Still no sign of Misfire, Slugslinger, or many of the other later wave figures. I'm not sure how distribution is being managed - or if it's being 'managed' at all. Some parts of the country seem to get flooded with some figures, while some never see them at all. And other figures are never seen in that same location, but choking shelves at others. If there's a pattern to it, I'd like to see the math...

could be skimming by store employees

I know an employee at Walgreens that does helpful skimming. He hold collector stuff in the back as long as possible so any actual collectors can get them, and not scalpers. His method is how wave 3 TR revision restocks don’t clog the shelves for all of eternity, while also making it so cyber battalion won’t be available until Christmas shopping starts so scalping them won’t be as big of an issue.

DeathReviews wrote:

kurthy wrote:I still haven't seen sky Shadow in the wild.

Lots of them have still not been seen in many stores. Six Shot is only just now starting to wheeze and limp it's tired way into local Walmarts and such after nearly six months of being MIA after it's release. Still no sign of Misfire, Slugslinger, or many of the other later wave figures. I'm not sure how distribution is being managed - or if it's being 'managed' at all. Some parts of the country seem to get flooded with some figures, while some never see them at all. And other figures are never seen in that same location, but choking shelves at others. If there's a pattern to it, I'd like to see the math...

Got plenty of Sky Shadows. Only saw my first Six Shot, in town, yesterday. My Targets seem to have given up on Leaders, whereas Wal Marts are multiple waves behind.

So where's Ramhorn?

Was that ever available in a walmart , target or TRU?

Or just in some random hole in the wall store in middle America?

Rated X wrote:So where's Ramhorn?

Was that ever available in a walmart , target or TRU?

Or just in some random hole in the wall store in middle America?

He was found at Meijers.

I always thought my area was bad for having the latest transformers.

My local walmart and target are getting in the newer titan return waves.
I have seen a lot of octones and blitzwings. Even voyager optimus prime and megatron through out.
Another walmart i go to had about 4 six shots in last i checked.
The only one i an looking for though is the new windblade for titans return.
Cant seem to find her

kurthy wrote:I still haven't seen sky Shadow in the wild.

I picked him up a month or two ago. Since I grabbed him & went back to the same store, I've only been seeing Sixshots there now.

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DeathReviews wrote:

kurthy wrote:I still haven't seen sky Shadow in the wild.

Lots of them have still not been seen in many stores. Six Shot is only just now starting to wheeze and limp it's tired way into local Walmarts and such after nearly six months of being MIA after it's release. Still no sign of Misfire, Slugslinger, or many of the other later wave figures. I'm not sure how distribution is being managed - or if it's being 'managed' at all. Some parts of the country seem to get flooded with some figures, while some never see them at all. And other figures are never seen in that same location, but choking shelves at others. If there's a pattern to it, I'd like to see the math...

Got plenty of Sky Shadows. Only saw my first Six Shot, in town, yesterday. My Targets seem to have given up on Leaders, whereas Wal Marts are multiple waves behind.

The nearest Walmart, last year at Christmas, WAY over-stocked on wave1 TR deluxes. It is now October, and many of those same wave1 figures never sold and are still on the pegs. And of course, Walmart is not disposed to putting up new figures until the old ones have sold. So I don't think they've even ordered any newer TR deluxes. I wish they'd have a clearance sale for the wave 1s and make room for a restock of newer figures...

Skritz wrote:

bodrock wrote:I see what ya mean, Rysquad.

I'm diggin' Nitro ZEUS -- even his default head. But I do believe he works best as a transtector for the Titan Masters...!

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I'm still trying to decide if I should buy Nitro Zeus and, if so, what I could use him for when it come to customization.

From what I've seen, that Titan Master for Thunderwing looks pretty bad ass...but Terri-BULL looks good too.

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Ultra Markus wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:

kurthy wrote:I still haven't seen sky Shadow in the wild.

Lots of them have still not been seen in many stores. Six Shot is only just now starting to wheeze and limp it's tired way into local Walmarts and such after nearly six months of being MIA after it's release. Still no sign of Misfire, Slugslinger, or many of the other later wave figures. I'm not sure how distribution is being managed - or if it's being 'managed' at all. Some parts of the country seem to get flooded with some figures, while some never see them at all. And other figures are never seen in that same location, but choking shelves at others. If there's a pattern to it, I'd like to see the math...

could be skimming by store employees

I know an employee at Walgreens that does helpful skimming. He hold collector stuff in the back as long as possible so any actual collectors can get them, and not scalpers. His method is how wave 3 TR revision restocks don’t clog the shelves for all of eternity, while also making it so cyber battalion won’t be available until Christmas shopping starts so scalping them won’t be as big of an issue.

i wish toys r us, target, and walmart employees would do the same i have a feeling either they dont care whats on the shelf or they help themselves

Ultra Markus wrote:i wish toys r us, target, and walmart employees would do the same i have a feeling either they dont care whats on the shelf or they help themselves

I don't think most employees at mass retail stores with tens of thousands of items on their shelves are especially invested in or knowledgeable about our hobby.

When I interviewed with TRU they were super excited because I was as knowledgeable as I was about multiple hobbies and brands. They're a specialty store compared to WM or Target, yet I get the impression that most job applicants aren't toy collectors themselves.

A lot of people kinda just go for whatever pays the bills. You'll get a few who chose the job because they love TMNT or Transformers or Power Rangers; but most are naturally there because they need to pay the rent or feed little Billy.

I'm still looking for Twintwist and Slugslinger

ThunderThruster wrote:Apparently if you've got the cash to spare, you can forge a monstrous Trypticon combiner:

https://twitter.com/singgg4/status/911494702838333440

That is amazing...

I actually saw a walmart last Thursday when I went for an interview that had 8 Sixshots stocked up, and a single Sky shadow included on that shelf. Only the 2nd time I've seen either at retail.

Overlord, Ramhorn, Slugslinger, and the clones are the only figures left from the line to get. They may all need to be online orders. No joke, every leader from this line I own were either online purchases or were shipped from a friend

Blaster was from HTS (only saw him once 3 months later at retail)
Sixshot was from Will (didn't see him till almost 5 months later at retail)
Quickswitch was from o.supreme with the chaos set (never saw it)
Magnus Prime was BBTS, as was Godbomber
Sky Shadow was from TFsource

man, 5 different sources for 6 leaders...

william-james88 wrote:

Rated X wrote:So where's Ramhorn?

Was that ever available in a walmart , target or TRU?

Or just in some random hole in the wall store in middle America?

He was found at Meijers.

Is that a major chain? If so they don't exist in CA...has anyone reported seeing a Ramhorn at one of the BIG 3 - TRU Wal Mart or Target ?

Ramhorn & Overlord are the last two I need to complete my TR want list.

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william-james88 wrote:

Rated X wrote:So where's Ramhorn?

Was that ever available in a walmart , target or TRU?

Or just in some random hole in the wall store in middle America?

He was found at Meijers.

Is that a major chain? If so they don't exist in CA...has anyone reported seeing a Ramhorn at one of the BIG 3 - TRU Wal Mart or Target ?

Ramhorn & Overlord are the last two I need to complete my TR want list.

Meijer isn't nationwide, but it's a pretty major chain in the MidWest.

Still no wave 5ers for me - all I see is Fangry and Getaway....and TLK Grimlock.

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o.supreme wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Rated X wrote:So where's Ramhorn?

Was that ever available in a walmart , target or TRU?

Or just in some random hole in the wall store in middle America?

He was found at Meijers.

Is that a major chain? If so they don't exist in CA...has anyone reported seeing a Ramhorn at one of the BIG 3 - TRU Wal Mart or Target ?

Ramhorn & Overlord are the last two I need to complete my TR want list.

Meijer isn't nationwide, but it's a pretty major chain in the MidWest.

Midwest meaning IN, OH, KY, MI, and the Chicagoland area. MN, IA, NE, MO, KS, and most of IL and WI, none existent.

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Found Overlord at Walmart Monday morning which was a huge surprise, I never find stuff that quickly after a sighting. I was just at that Walmart Sunday morning where they had two Six Shots (which was a surprise in itself, I rarely find Leaders here) so Overlord had to have been stocked either sometime during the day Sunday or early Monday morning. I prefer the Japanese version so I didn't buy it, also forgot my phone at home so no proof.

That makes Leader the only class I've seen to its entirety.
Titan Masters: waves 1, 3, and 4 with revision wave 2 so I've never seen Clobber, got Skytread from wave 4
Legends: Everything through wave 4
Deluxe: Everything through wave 4, but only seen wave 4 once at a Target (and just Krok, Quake, and Kup)
Voyager: Everything through wave 4, but I've only seen wave 3 stocked twice at one Walmart and wave 4 stocked once at a Walmart and a Target

The only thing that gets any real consistent stock in my area is Deluxe, but it's basically been nothing but wave 3 for an entire year aside from that one wave 4 sighting and that one recent revision wave that showed up at a local Walmart with older figures in it. Otherwise most other pegs and shelf space is empty more often than not.

Oh well, Takara Tomy has been making their figures more interesting so I've been opting for many of those instead, but I would like a shot at Krok and Quake (and PM OP for under $60 and second Voyager Optimus for under $35).

Emerje