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I did everyone's search this morning... and probably for the whole week. If you are wondering what's at these stores just keep referring to this thread and look at these images and save yourself a trip because most likely this is what you'll see (any of it familiar to you?):

Here's what's at Target!


And Walmart!



That's right! Every other toy in the department seemed to be stocked really well. However Hasbro yet again fails to deliver the goods for the 4th week.

I DID find a couple toys though worth noting if any of you are into the real gear line:

I picked these up at Walmart and never really heard of them before. Perhaps part of the new wave coming?



Well that was my exciting day. Another lame day of Hasbro not meeting demand. Well... except those real gear ones, but I'm more wanting the new Voyagers/leader and upcoming deluxe stuff like final battle Jazz.

I hate that they havent restocked yet. I really want blackout but all they have is real gear and a cell phone that becomes a knife

That Target actually has more than all the stores in my area combined Wal-Mart looks familiar though.

looks like mine cept my wallys a little more empty

The good thing about this is that it's forcing Walmart to empty out all their old stock which meant that I got to find an Alternators Rumble new on the shelf.

If anybody wants a Classics Devastator just let me know since Walmart had more than a dozen of him and the Voyager Prime. Both are still selling at $29.97 though. I'm hoping they go onto clearance soon.

wow so that what they look like i mean we dont have empty pegs here but flooded by protoforms and swindel! what's that poster like looking thing?

I'm pretty sure it's a protective cover for your school books and such.

I was at Wal-Mart the other day and they had another Real Gear I'd never seen before, some Brain Scrambler thing. If I didn't think the Real Gears weren't worth the money, I might've snagged it.

But yeah, now that there's no real movie toys to be found, I think I'm just going to go hunt for Classics toys that I missed out on.

upther wrote:I'm pretty sure it's a protective cover for your school books and such.

oh i see... i thought it's a poster of some sort too bad im working already...

That poster looking thing is called flypaper; it's a reuseable wall graphic. Like a fathead for TF.

you mean like a recycable wall paper?

softimus_prime wrote:you mean like a recycable wall paper?

No you can take it off again and put it on somewhere else. ReUSEable.

softimus_prime wrote:you mean like a recycable wall paper?

Something like that. Kind of like the plastic window clings that you can use over and over.

the target looks familiar but the wal mart doesnt. my wal mart actually has the TF toys in the center of the action figure aisle. also your TF toys are situated toward the end of the aisle where the rest of the store can be seen.... at my wal mart the rest of the store is situated opposite than that of the picture. also the real gear single packs would be on the left side, the real gear two packs would be at the end caps, there would be no heroes of cybertron, the blasters that are at the endcaps in the pic would instead be at the bottom shelves, and the prime voice helmets would be at the endcaps where the blasters are in the pic .

on my way home i stopped by a target, tru, and k-mart and same old, same old. did manage to find a gi joe 25th annv cobra 5-pack which was a nice surprise. everyone should just save some gas and chill for a few weeks.

What do the notes on the wall in the Walmart pic say?

wow that sounds cool reusable posters!!! (giggling in a silly manner) we didn't haave those actually...

Woooowwww....at least your target and walmart have some....mines dont have anything!! NO TF toys at all at Target and only a few real gears at walmart. I did find one 2-pack real gear at walmart, but im not into them. The guy at target told me to come back on thrus. or fri. then the shelves will be filled.

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Hello everyone. I am new to the message boards and I just got some good news. I called Target merchandise with the UPC number for '08 Bumblebee I got off the forum. The rep informed me that the item was available at my local Target in Alexandria, La. The best news is that I know someone at the store who says they are restocking toys in the morning. Hopefully this is true since I have hunted nonstop for the figure. If you have the time, you can follow this same step for your local store. Good luck. [/b]

PGBot wrote:Hello everyone. I am new to the message boards and I just got some good news. I called Target merchandise with the UPC number for '08 Bumblebee I got off the forum. The rep informed me that the item was available at my local Target in Alexandria, La. The best news is that I know someone at the store who says they are restocking toys in the morning. Hopefully this is true since I have hunted nonstop for the figure. If you have the time, you can follow this same step for your local store. Good luck. [/b]

report back to see if you got the BB.... i hope it was from a recnet shipment, unless it was a case that they got from a shipment a month back, but never restocked until now.

PGBot wrote:Hello everyone. I am new to the message boards and I just got some good news. I called Target merchandise with the UPC number for '08 Bumblebee I got off the forum. The rep informed me that the item was available at my local Target in Alexandria, La. The best news is that I know someone at the store who says they are restocking toys in the morning. Hopefully this is true since I have hunted nonstop for the figure. If you have the time, you can follow this same step for your local store. Good luck. [/b]

what do u mean by target merchandise? did u call a regular target store or something different?

Dude, that High Score 100 actually looks pretty cool. If my stores ever get anything in, I'll go looking for it.

I feel like this id gonna be my week to find a BB 08!!! I know it!!

I checked the target website for item/merchandise info. The number is 1-800-440-0680. The option will be merchandise info.; if you give the rep the UPC they should help you out. Can't promise the response will be good, but it is worth a shot.

PGBot wrote:I checked the target website for item/merchandise info. The number is 1-800-440-0680. The option will be merchandise info.; if you give the rep the UPC they should help you out. Can't promise the response will be good, but it is worth a shot.

Did you use the actual Bumblebee UPC code (which is unlikely) or did you use the DPCI code? (Which is more likely, and doesn't help much.)

The DPCI covers the entire assortment, from Preview Figures, to presently available. Also, calling in the UPC will make the DPCI info come up, seeing as they share all that information for the entire case.

You might just be heading to Target for nothing.

EDIT: I stand corrected. Their automated service does say "The code underneath the barcode on the packaging" which is layman's term for UPC.

Can anyone (who owns the figure) give us fellow board members, the UPC? Thanks!