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Immortal Starscream wrote:ok, nobody likes bad news, but unfortunately I have some and I have to share it. Not only does my walmart not have the preview figs, but most here in austin apparently don't. So I researched Soundwaves UPC and item code, and heres what I found out:

The Transformers Movie Preview figs are currently in the Wal-mart computers listed as having THE SAME RELEASE DATE as the rest of the figs. Not only that, but according to our systems (I triple checked this with my telzan) the transformers movie toys sale lock out doesn't turn off until the May 31 instead of the 30 as marked on the boxes.

Ive been wondering WTF?! with wal marts toys lately. We never got the 25th anniversary turtles, when we were supposed to back in February, we only just now got terminator toys, which have been out in all other retail chains for over a month, we stopped receiving GI Joe way back in January, and many of the newer action figure lines that have come out in recent months have ever made it to the wal mart shelves. I've been meaning to talk to my regional director about this, but my emails have not been returned yet.

I will keep you guys and gals posted as I learn more.

hippymule wrote:i hate k mart and wallmart they're never in stock with tfs or anything good. go internet!

typh0id wrote:Well that IS pretty stupid...But I'm certainly not going to cry about because I pretty much stopped buying TFs from Walmart back when they suddenly became the most expensive place to get them...I was going to look at Target or Toys R Us anyway...

And I don't even really care if the preview figs come out with the rest or if everything comes out a day late because a) of the two previews, I only want Soundwave so it's just ONE more figure to wait for and b) even though I want a lot of the movie toys and I'm looking forward to them, I'm not at ALL worried about getting ahold of them because I know there will be absolutely no shortage of them...So I'm just not interested in killing myself trying to get everything the exact day it comes out...They won't be going anywhere for a long time...

That's just me though

Immortal Starscream wrote:Ive been wondering wtf with wal marts toys lately. We never got the 25th anniversery turtles, when we were supposed to back in february, we only just now got terminator toys, which have been out in all other retail chains for over a month, we stopped recieving g i joe way back in january, and many of the newer action figure lines that have come out in recent months have ever made it to the wal mart shelves. Ive been meaning to talk to my regional director about this, but my emails have not been returned yet.

Cyberjet #7 wrote:It's funny how much stores lose out when they do stuff like this.

For example, look at the TF Animated stuff last summer. Walmart was the first to put it out by about two weeks, and everyone in the community scrambled to go after them. Most Walmarts here were getting hit heavily and by the time Target and TRU put their TFA stuff out, Walmart had sold through a large part of there's. What's funny is that alot of the stuff that Target and TRU had at that point started to pegwarm - because Walmart cornered the market by those two weeks.

Same thing could happen here. If Walmart, TRU, and Target don't time this right, they could see another game of catch-up with each other. So many figures are getting leaked out early that is shows the timing should be more stream-lined.

Autobot032 wrote:Oh I'm still going to be at the store at midnight on the 30th of the month. I will buy those figures. The street date on the case says the 30th, so pony up.

That will be enough to get me to call a manager.

SNAPCASE wrote:is that release date for the US only because I picked up Soundwave yesterday at a local wal-mart and I’m in Canada