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I spoke with someone at Argos HQ today about the lack of TFP merchandise in my area, purely because other parts of England have received Powerizer Megatron and my area hasn't. They said that all incoming shipments are showing up as 'cancelled' until May 7th. All the stock replenishments up to this date have been cancelled with no explanation.

Who is to blame? Is it Hasbro or another company that goes between the two?

Will the May 7th shipment get cancelled as well?

Only time will tell... *sigh*

Nothing at my 10 most local stores apparently. May though? That's a very long time, I wonder if other stores will also be starved of stock until that time?

I live in America (Louisiana) and I've also noticed VERY poor distribution of PRID figures. I've yet to even seen a Powerizer Megatron or Legends class Vehicon. Usually, stores have a few of Cliffjumpers and Bumblebees, and that's really about it.

Ravage XK wrote:Nothing at my 10 most local stores apparently. May though? That's a very long time, I wonder if other stores will also be starved of stock until that time?

We're both in Kent so that isn't news to me! I wasn't speaking to a local rep though - this was the main office.

This just in from Hasbro UK:

I have run stockists reports for both the Prime Deluxe and Voyager ranges and can confirm that stockists are as follows -
Sainsburys
Argos
Asda
As we would distribute these items in bulk to their main warehouses, please contact your local stores to check when they will be receiving stock direct to stores.

So, as usual, they aren't much help.

My GF works at our local Argos store and since they hit the stores we have had 1 Wheejack and 12 Commander Primes which all 12 are still there.

Acording to the main line disribution at Manchester who deliver to County Durham they have the begining of march to may for release but all thats shown up as of last week is one Bumblebee

thats the first one to show up in about 3-4 weeks.

Have you tried any TRU store?

They are stocking most deluxe, voyager and cyberverse figures.

Va'al wrote:Have you tried any TRU store?

They are stocking most deluxe, voyager and cyberverse figures.

After the reply from Argos I decided to try TRU online but the Megatron had gone from in stock to out of stock.

(checks again)

It's back in stock! Time to place that order! I have loads of Argos vouchers so wanted to use them but that clearly isn't going to work.

Sainsburys have been very good round my way (I'm in Hertfordshire), so try them too.

My local was was putting out multiple cases.....

Just checked out one of our local sainsburys they had
8 deluxes CJ WJ SW,
4 voyagers Megatron,
5 commanders BH SS M, and it was 25% off so we picked up WJ .

EDIT. also picked up Commander BulkHead.