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So for two weeks now I've been waiting to hit this one walmart where I was told by an employee (stocking employee) that tonight would be the night??? Yeah, she said we have a big pallet of TF toys marked, "do not open until the 6th" but we can't put them out until the then. So then I repeated what she said...so if I come back on the 6th around 11pm you'll putting them out? Yup she says.

So a couple days later I started thinking about it more. On the 6th?....does that mean put out on the 5th so it will be ready for the 6th?

So my idea was to visit on the 5th at 10pm just in case, which was last night. Sure enough when I got there employees were resetting but the unopened boxes they had out in the aisle said nothing about transformers???

I then figured, screw it!! I'm off to the next walmart super center. At the next one I also found next to nothing except real gear high score and meantime...which I did purchase.

So do you think tonight is the night? When the lady told me the 6th, did she really mean the night of the 6th? Or did I already witness all that would be put out last night???

It's great to have you guys here to pull me up by my collar to slap me straight before I waste a bunch of gas.

Should I bomb down the highway around 11pm tonight going 160mph or not?...and if I do get pulled over I'll just start making transformer noises when the cop gets to my window.

thanks!!!

Quoted: Yeah, she said we have a big pallet of TF toys marked, "do not open until the 6th" but we can't put them out until the then.

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Personally if a Walmart employee told me the above, I will deifintely go, just think of it as "gas advance" from tomorrow's trip. If nothing's there, then you know...
1) You didn't miss out the "BIG ONE"
2) You don't need to go the next day
3) You can't trust those people in blue vests.

Good luck bro! My heart's with ya!

thanks man, I appreciate it!! I really hope they have something. Lately, like everyone else, I grown tired up empty pegs.

tell us how it goes! good luck

If this is true, I might just have to make an early morning trip to the local Wal-Marts tomorrow.

Ive been told by a manager at walmart to check thursday or friday night. I plan to do so.

First off coolpop and tom brokaw, I owe this one to you guys. You are the ones who initially gave me the encouragement early on when I posted this thread. Thanks for telling me to go for it!!

Oh man that was a DOOZIE!!! It's now 8:07am and I still have not gone to bed. I stayed up all night long. I began my night around 12:30am and hit three walmart super centers. Looks as though the lady from a couple weeks back was right. At the first store they were indeed putting out new stuff. I asked one employee if she would be so kind as to let me look inside some of the boxes labeled TRANSFORMERS DELUXE??!! We ripped them open and nothing but proto starscreams and proto megatrons. The side of the box read, do not put out before May 1st?? What? All 8 of them said this so I figured I was screwed. YES!! eight of them.? I did however managed to pick up a voyager megatron which I have not yet seen on any of my outings. Then hit the next store and the next store, same story as the last ...more deluxe boxes marked do not open before may 1?? At this point (1:45 am) I decided to simply head home in order let employees at all of the stores do their jobs and come back at 4:30am. One informed me that they would be done by 5am. Fair enough. So I grab a starbucks cold coffee and prepare for an all-nighter. So I head home real quick, got on the forums and tried my darnedest to stay the heck awake. 3:50am, off again. First store nothing, but the second store, oh man!!! First thing I see is an Arcee and we all know what comes in the same box with Arcee right? BAMMMM!!! BB08!!! Weird...no Dreadwing though? Where did he go? He is supposed to be in with them right? So I snagged Arcee and BB08 and sort of went home. I had to hit a couple non super centers at their 7am openings but no luck.

Guys, you can all get one too if just go mid evil like I did. Obviously, I know a lot of you don't have the time but if you can find some on maybe a Friday night?? Do it!! You won't be sorry. I was so determined before I left, I brought my camera just in case.

Boy, you must've been the luckiest Trans Fan of the night, congratulations.

wow skyblast that's the most inspiring story i ever heard about toy collecting... as they said there is a mystical bond between a man and machine... and bb 08 picked you as his owner...

skyblast wrote:First off coolpop, I owe this one to you. You are the one who initially gave me the encouragement early on when I posted this thread. Thanks for telling me to go for it!!

Oh man that was a DOOZIE!!! It's now 8:07am and I still have not gone to bed. I stayed up all night long. I began my night around 12:30am and hit three walmart super centers. Looks as though the lady from a couple weeks back was right. At the first store they were indeed putting out new stuff. I asked one employee if she would be so kind as to let me look inside some of the boxes labeled TRANSFORMERS DELUXE??!! We ripped them open and nothing but proto starscreams and proto megatrons. The side of the box read, do not put out before May 1st?? What? All 8 of them said this so I figured I was screwed. YES!! eight of them.? I did however managed to pick up a voyager megatron which I have not yet seen on any of my outings. Then hit the next store and the next store, same story as the last ...more deluxe boxes marked do not open before may 1?? At this point (1:45 am) I decided to simply head home in order let employees at all of the stores do their jobs and come back at 4:30am. One informed me that they would be done by 5am. Fair enough. So I grab a starbucks cold coffee and prepare for an all-nighter. So I head home real quick, got on the forums and tried my darnedest to stay the heck awake. 3:50am, off again. First store nothing, but the second store, oh man!!! First thing I see is an Arcee and we all know what comes in the same box with Arcee right? BAMMMM!!! BB08!!! Weird...no Dreadwing though? Where did he go? He is supposed to be in with them right? So I snagged Arcee and BB08 and sort of went home. I had to hit a couple non super centers at their 7am openings but no luck.

Guys, you can all get one too if just go mid evil like I did. Obviously, I know a lot of you don't have the time but if you can find some on maybe a Friday night?? Do it!! You won't be sorry. I was so determined before I left, I brought my camera just in case.

Oh Skyblast! I live right here in Renton with you and you didn't even snag one for me, a fellow local neighborhood fan? Where's the loyalty? Where's the "I'm lookin out for my fellow TF fan? All kidding aside, great snag and congrats! Maybe when we get a chance to meet you'll share with me the store that was lucky enough to have him, perhaps?

skyblast wrote:First off coolpop, I owe this one to you. You are the one who initially gave me the encouragement early on when I posted this thread. Thanks for telling me to go for it!!

Oh man that was a DOOZIE!!! It's now 8:07am and I still have not gone to bed. I stayed up all night long. I began my night around 12:30am and hit three walmart super centers. Looks as though the lady from a couple weeks back was right. At the first store they were indeed putting out new stuff. I asked one employee if she would be so kind as to let me look inside some of the boxes labeled TRANSFORMERS DELUXE??!! We ripped them open and nothing but proto starscreams and proto megatrons. The side of the box read, do not put out before May 1st?? What? All 8 of them said this so I figured I was screwed. YES!! eight of them.? I did however managed to pick up a voyager megatron which I have not yet seen on any of my outings. Then hit the next store and the next store, same story as the last ...more deluxe boxes marked do not open before may 1?? At this point (1:45 am) I decided to simply head home in order let employees at all of the stores do their jobs and come back at 4:30am. One informed me that they would be done by 5am. Fair enough. So I grab a starbucks cold coffee and prepare for an all-nighter. So I head home real quick, got on the forums and tried my darnedest to stay the heck awake. 3:50am, off again. First store nothing, but the second store, oh man!!! First thing I see is an Arcee and we all know what comes in the same box with Arcee right? BAMMMM!!! BB08!!! Weird...no Dreadwing though? Where did he go? He is supposed to be in with them right? So I snagged Arcee and BB08 and sort of went home. I had to hit a couple non super centers at their 7am openings but no luck.

Guys, you can all get one too if just go mid evil like I did. Obviously, I know a lot of you don't have the time but if you can find some on maybe a Friday night?? Do it!! You won't be sorry. I was so determined before I left, I brought my camera just in case.

SO... BEAUTIFUL...

nice^
but it looks like they got 8 cases of the protoforms again, but only one case of the deluxes. nice find for sure though!

That shelf stocked full of TF toys brings a tear to my eye

its awesome u finally found one but if it takes this much to get this damn figure then i should just give up now.

kimmer wrote:its awesome u finally found one but if it takes this much to get this damn figure then i should just give up now.

i know, im jealous now , just kidding. but it just seems that my wal mart will not be getting that kind of shipment for a while. i just want to give up the search too.

this bumblebee is really a pain in the a$$! anyway im still happy i got one though... and congrats again my fellow seibertronian ally!

wooooooooooooooaaahh!
a great story indeed.
how i wish i can do that in aregular toys store here in our country!
im happy for you fellow seibertronian!

Nice. Looks like I know where I'm going this morning.

Nice. Has anyone else found that thier Wal-Mart has restocked?

skyblast wrote:First off coolpop, I owe this one to you. You are the one who initially gave me the encouragement early on when I posted this thread. Thanks for telling me to go for it!!

WTG Sky, I'm so happy for you. It's not just luck, persistence also paid off. CONGRATS MAN!!!

Ragnorok64 wrote:Nice. Has anyone else found that thier Wal-Mart has restocked?

Mine got a stack of Voyagers this morning, nothing else. Finally saw a Voyager Megs up close and personal. No offense to anyone that likes it, but that thing is ugly.

Barrelass wrote:

Ragnorok64 wrote:Nice. Has anyone else found that thier Wal-Mart has restocked?

Mine got a stack of Voyagers this morning, nothing else. Finally saw a Voyager Megs up close and personal. No offense to anyone that likes it, but that thing is ugly.

amen brudda.

Barrelass wrote:

Ragnorok64 wrote:Nice. Has anyone else found that thier Wal-Mart has restocked?

Mine got a stack of Voyagers this morning, nothing else. Finally saw a Voyager Megs up close and personal. No offense to anyone that likes it, but that thing is ugly.

lol!! it's ok i prefer getting it because i dont have any megatron figs and i prefer getting than the leader clas...

softimus_prime wrote:

Barrelass wrote:

Ragnorok64 wrote:Nice. Has anyone else found that thier Wal-Mart has restocked?

Mine got a stack of Voyagers this morning, nothing else. Finally saw a Voyager Megs up close and personal. No offense to anyone that likes it, but that thing is ugly.

lol!! it's ok i prefer getting it because i dont have any megatron figs and i prefer getting than the leader clas...

imo, i say voyager megs is better than leader megs, 1. because it looks better, and 2. its half the price. but he is still an ugly figure, just better looking than leader. and also hes not in scale with the rest.

i agree, we just dont have a choice sometimes...