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Not sure if Transformers are going to be on the holiday list, but Walmart is starting their holiday toy price reductions sooner than before (sounds like they announce new ones each week or something). Press release says "numerous, deep rollbacks on what the retailer considers to be the items on wish lists this year. Starting this week, Wal-Mart will announce rollbacks each week in this aggressive move to lead the market on holiday savings." Nothing listed on Transformers yet, but you would think that they would be considered items on 'wish lists' this christmas, so keep watching.

Here is the press release if anyone is interested in what toys they have announced thus far: http://www.walmartfacts.com/articles/5327.aspx

cool let's keep our fingers crossed!

Doesn't help much when they have nothing on the shelves to begin with.

Sounds like CNN and Walmart are teaming up to control the economy...

Will these price cuts affect prices in Canada, as well? (not that my local walmart has any TFs I'm looking for...)

And that's what they were talking about with Walmart's sales in December being horrible last year. They sold so much in Oct/Nov that they had no inventory left to sell in Dec.

When I saw this break today, I wondered what kind of effect it would have. Guess we'll have to see. I suspect no more than 10% on Transformers, except for maybe the older tech stuff and real gear.

hopefully anime mp screamer will be affected by this and it might be time to get a dvd anniversary prime too.

Caelus wrote:Doesn't help much when they have nothing on the shelves to begin with.

My thought exactly. Maybe This could help if people wanna go out to the Johnsohn's Ranch Wal-Mart here in AZ if they haven't picked the Classics-packaged 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime or the Ultimate Bumblebee yet and want them. I just saw both out there over the weekend. Otherwise, looking for Transformers at Wal-Mart is pointless around here. You'd have better luck at the Toy Liquidators in the outlet mall on Power and Baseline. Even then all I found that I wanted was Payload.

Fender Bender wrote:And that's what they were talking about with Walmart's sales in December being horrible last year. They sold so much in Oct/Nov that they had no inventory left to sell in Dec.

The problem here, in the case of Transformers, is that they can't run out of an inventory they just don't have to begin with.

Alright!

Now if only they'd restock!

sweet.

The Transformers problem seems to not be limited to Wal-Mart. Everywhere I go, Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, they are all out of Transformers merchandise. It seems to me like it's Hasbro and not Wal-Mart that dropped the ball on their Transformers stock. It'd be odd that all three of the major toy retailing chains conveniently forgot to reorder the hottest selling property of the summer.

F wally world.

Now if Walmart could just do something about the smell of feces that wafts through the air in the store. I swear, it's like going to the zoo in there sometimes. Large, waddling mammals and strange unexplainable smells.

...how on Earth can they say that Spider-Man 3 toys are in the top 12 figures? They have them in stock and *can't* sell them.

TransFormers are never in stock (until recently) but *can* sell, quite well, in fact. (3 million figures sold, wasn't it??)

But then again, all of corporate America has backwards thinking.

Speaking of TFs being in stock...it was like Christmas time tonight. I almost cried. It was beautiful. Concept Camaro Bumblebees as far as the eye could see. (Alright not really, but he's becoming a shelfwarmer like someone on here had thought.)

Autobot032 wrote:...how on Earth can they say that Spider-Man 3 toys are in the top 12 figures? They have them in stock and *can't* sell them.

No clue. I can only take a guess as to why Spider-Man 3 toys aren't selling: I'd bet it's because people are every bit as interested as I am in buying them. Assuming this is true, it means they're not interested at all.

Autobot032 wrote:TransFormers are never in stock (until recently) but *can* sell, quite well, in fact. (3 million figures sold, wasn't it??)

Tranformers are in stock in your area?

Autobot032 wrote:Speaking of TFs being in stock...it was like Christmas time tonight. I almost cried. It was beautiful. Concept Camaro Bumblebees as far as the eye could see. (Alright not really, but he's becoming a shelfwarme
r like someone on here had thought.)

Apparent sarcasm aside, Bumblebee shelfwarming the way Spider-Man does requires that Bumblebee actually be in stock and available for purchase. Haven't been to wal-mart since last weekend, but at that time all they had was ultimate bumblebee and 20th anniversary prime.

Blozor wrote:The Transformers problem seems to not be limited to Wal-Mart. Everywhere I go, Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, they are all out of Transformers merchandise. It seems to me like it's Hasbro and not Wal-Mart that dropped the ball on their Transformers stock. It'd be odd that all three of the major toy retailing chains conveniently forgot to reorder the hottest selling property of the summer.

Haven't been into Target or TRU in ages. If you were wrong here, though, I'd think hasbrotoyshop.com would be doing better than they are at having TF merchandise up as well.

And if they had anything current last few times I went looking, odds are it wouldn't be an issue with me because I'd already have all the figures I really want.

Autobot032 wrote:...how on Earth can they say that Spider-Man 3 toys are in the top 12 figures? They have them in stock and *can't* sell them.

TransFormers are never in stock (until recently) but *can* sell, quite well, in fact. (3 million figures sold, wasn't it??)

they are trying to hype up the crappy toys to clear them out!

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:...how on Earth can they say that Spider-Man 3 toys are in the top 12 figures? They have them in stock and *can't* sell them.

No clue. I can only take a guess as to why Spider-Man 3 toys aren't selling: I'd bet it's because people are every bit as interested as I am in buying them. Assuming this is true, it means they're not interested at all.

You'd be right. I've seen people buy Star Wars, TransFormers, Elmo, etc. I have yet to see a single person (other than myself) buy anything Spider-Man. That's not to say none of it's sold, I've just never witnessed anyone with a single item at the register. (I've seen a couple of unopened items returned.)

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:TransFormers are never in stock (until recently) but *can* sell, quite well, in fact. (3 million figures sold, wasn't it??)

Tranformers are in stock in your area?

Finally. Cases and cases and cases of Deluxe Class and Real Gears.

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Speaking of TFs being in stock...it was like Christmas time tonight. I almost cried. It was beautiful. Concept Camaro Bumblebees as far as the eye could see. (Alright not really, but he's becoming a shelfwarme
r like someone on here had thought.)

Apparent sarcasm aside, Bumblebee shelfwarming the way Spider-Man does requires that Bumblebee actually be in stock and available for purchase. Haven't been to wal-mart since last weekend, but at that time all they had was ultimate bumblebee and 20th anniversary prime.

I've seen ten Concept Camaro Bumblebees since they opened these cases. Six of them remain, along with loads of the rest of 'em. (I think Dropkick will definitely be a huge shelfwarmer. He just doesn't move at all. Even Recon Barricade and Payload sell better. =\)

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

Blozor wrote:The Transformers problem seems to not be limited to Wal-Mart. Everywhere I go, Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, they are all out of Transformers merchandise. It seems to me like it's Hasbro and not Wal-Mart that dropped the ball on their Transformers stock. It'd be odd that all three of the major toy retailing chains conveniently forgot to reorder the hottest selling property of the summer.

Haven't been into Target or TRU in ages. If you were wrong here, though, I'd think hasbrotoyshop.com would be doing better than they are at having TF merchandise up as well.

And if they had anything current last few times I went looking, odds are it wouldn't be an issue with me because I'd already have all the figures I really want.

Oh Hasbro admitted (through Target and other places) that there was a shortage on the production end. Basically they never expected demand to hit as hard as it did. They're catching up now, though. Oh my goodness are they catching up. I think I counted about eight or nine cases worth of Deluxe figures on the pegs and pallet display shelf.

Bumblebee-otch wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:...how on Earth can they say that Spider-Man 3 toys are in the top 12 figures? They have them in stock and *can't* sell them.

TransFormers are never in stock (until recently) but *can* sell, quite well, in fact. (3 million figures sold, wasn't it??)

they are trying to hype up the crappy toys to clear them out!

They're gonna have to do a lot more than just hype. lol 'Cuz they ain't gettin' it moved. lol

amazingly, two of my local wal-marts (i live in Vallejo, CA) were fully stocked of deluxe figures on tuesday. these were wal-marts in napa and american canyon. my friends and i were finally able to pick up 3 '08 bumblebees. i haven't seen so many deluxe figures since the movie came out! so if this price drop WILL truly happen in my area, and with the abundance of deluxe figures, i may have to get all the figures i haven't gotten since the movie came out, along with some classics and HOPEFULLY a re-issue of the 20th anniversary optimus prime.