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Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:44 pm

Last night:

Northgate TRU had 1 each of the exclusives and 2 each of the Premium Leaders. Also picked up Henkei Grimlock form Kicks, the chrome looks good in person. The others they had also looked pretty good.

Today:

Totem Lake Fred Meyers: lots of useless deluxes. They had the Adventure Heroes (like robot heroes) Indian Jones figures out. Anyone doing Indy or Dark Knight stuff when it drops next week?

Woodinville Target: one each of the Leader Premiums. More TF exclusive tubes, including BB and Barricade. None on clearance yet.

Lynnwood Target: Just tube Jazz, also not on clearance. Deluxes were price reduced to $6.99, but they only had Payload. From what I hear the price is being temporarily reduced acroos the Target stores.

Lynnwood TRU: one each of the exclusive figures.

News Credits: 5 · Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:46 pm

RodimusTitan wrote:dudes! i just ordered premium barricade, premium jazz, salvage and stealth BB from HTS.com and used the code "HBRFF20" (20% off plus free shipping) the total came out to be $34.78!

no more wasting gas!

Thanks, for the info, I had to limit myself, cause funds are low, but I picked up another stealth (lets hope they don't mangle it since I opened my other one), and Robot Heroes Dispensor vs. Ironhide.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:24 am

The new RH's are out already. Oh well, at least I got to enjoy having a complete collection for just over a week. Time to jump back into it again. This means that I'm going to have to build a bigger bookcase or run the narrow display shelves mounted to the side floor to ceiling instead of the 2 ft high set that I made for the Titaniums.
Another year of this and I am going to have to sacrifice my bed.

T.

Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:06 pm

Lynnwood Target: nothing new. One Barricade and multiple Jazz and Brawl tubes

Woodinville Target: nothing new. Deluxes still not discounted. Barricade and BB tubes x2 each, plus tons of the other two.

BTW, I'm up for doing any kind of a meet-up thing. I know the Star Wars guys on Rebelscum.com meet up once a month for dinner at a Red Robin in the south. They do trading and talk about SW stuff. Maybe this TF forum could do something like that. I don't plan on going to the Emer. Comic thing, unless I find out there will be alot of toy vendors. But, anyway, just a thought...

Oh, anyone doing Indy or Dark Knight stuff? They're both dropping this Thurdsay.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:29 am

Had not planned on branching out into other line since Keeping up with the TF's has proven challenging enough, but no the thought is starting to intrigue me. I won't go past getting 1 or 2 Indy figures but if you know of or hear about any store exclusives that would make the 1 or 2 I do get seem just that much cooler. After seeing the pics. of the BotCon, it's safe to say that the bulk of my "toy" money will be going into Classics/Universe, the RH and Legends and the store exclusives. (especially since I was dumb enough to show my kids the BotCon pictures this morning. #-o

Santa's gonna need some deep freakin' pockets by the time Christmas rolls around)

T B-)

Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:54 am

Woodinville Target has there deluxes at $6.99. They have tons of Payload, a Scorponox, and a couple Arcees.

They also have about three complete sets of the tube exclusives, plus additional Brawls and Jazz.

Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:57 pm

Major score!

***Woodinville Target: found Premium Blackout and Ironhide! They also had a Salvage on the shelf and when I checked the scanner it read more deluxes in the back. I asked a stock worker and they pulled out a Stealth BB, Premium Barricade, and Jazz. All three at the $6.99 price! Needless to say I bought all but the Salvage.

I thought for sure that Target's would not put out new stock, since they were trying to sell down the old movie stuff, but I guess they're getting stuff in.

Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:05 pm

Nice score Cyberjet! Were the DPCIs the same as the rest of the deluxes?

Thanks.

News Credits: 9 · Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:20 pm

Not an actual WA sighting, but for anyone in the Bellingham & Whatcom County region that's willing to cross the border, the Animated basics are starting to show up at TRU's in the Metro Vancouver area.

Picked up Bumblebee as soon as I saw them.

News Credits: 5 · Thu May 01, 2008 12:10 am

Cyberjet #7 wrote:Major score!

***Woodinville Target: found Premium Blackout and Ironhide! They also had a Salvage on the shelf and when I checked the scanner it read more deluxes in the back. I asked a stock worker and they pulled out a Stealth BB, Premium Barricade, and Jazz. All three at the $6.99 price! Needless to say I bought all but the Salvage.

I thought for sure that Target's would not put out new stock, since they were trying to sell down the old movie stuff, but I guess they're getting stuff in.

Thanks again for the heads up Cyberjet#7! As soon as I got your PM I raced over to my local Target to see if they had the Premuim Voyagers. I made it there with 4 mins before close and they did have the Voyagers :grin:

No deluxe figs tho... I did order the set thru HTS.com and they should be here next week.

Thu May 01, 2008 1:18 am

Cyberjet #7 wrote:Lynnwood Target: nothing new. One Barricade and multiple Jazz and Brawl tubes

Woodinville Target: nothing new. Deluxes still not discounted. Barricade and BB tubes x2 each, plus tons of the other two.

BTW, I'm up for doing any kind of a meet-up thing. I know the Star Wars guys on Rebelscum.com meet up once a month for dinner at a Red Robin in the south. They do trading and talk about SW stuff. Maybe this TF forum could do something like that. I don't plan on going to the Emer. Comic thing, unless I find out there will be alot of toy vendors. But, anyway, just a thought...

Oh, anyone doing Indy or Dark Knight stuff? They're both dropping this Thurdsay.

There were a CRAP-TON of toy vendors there last year. I spent so much money I'm embarrassed.

News Credits: 5 · Thu May 01, 2008 9:55 am

BB.206 wrote:Nice score Cyberjet! Were the DPCIs the same as the rest of the deluxes?

Thanks.

I can confirm that the DCPI for the premium voyagers are the same as the regular voyagers.

Thu May 01, 2008 10:01 am

DCPI #'s for all the Premiums are the same as the regular stock at Target.

I hate to sound like a jerk, but you could technically buy some of the current $6.99 deluxes, wait for the Premiums to come in and then swap them out at that price if it's still valid. Target is horrible when it comes to ways they can get abused...

News Credits: 337 · Thu May 01, 2008 7:24 pm

Well thanks to CyberJets tip, I went to the woodinville Target this morning and snagged: Premium Ironhide and Premium Blackout, Stealth Bumblebee and Salvage. On the SW front I snagged another kashyyyk Trooper and Darth Maul.

News Credits: 1 · Thu May 01, 2008 10:34 pm

Editor, I don't recall having seen you on here before so I'll extend a hearty welcome. Not to say that you haven't popped on, but there have been a few times where I've been gone for short periods and may have missed seeing your posts. It's nice to see someone hunting further north than myself although some of the other guys have logged some serious miles in the pursuit of our common passion.

This one isn't so much a toy sighting as a satisfy T's curiosity thing...do any of you guys drive a newer model, full size, blue Chevy pick-up (Z71) with a decent sized red Decepticon Logo on the back window? If so, please let me know. I drove like hell to catch this truck on I-5 this afternoon but had to either give up the chase or pull a Mazda out of the grill of my wagon. Tough call but I didn't feel like cleaning up the Mazda splat so I gave up.

It's been a few days since I have checked out the stores in the boondocks, but I'll see what I can dig up on my way home tomorrow. They should be getting stuff in by now.

T. B-)

News Credits: 9 · Fri May 02, 2008 2:02 am

Thank you for the welcome, i keep an eye on this thread for when i head down to Seattle, but as my normal buying is up here, usually by the time we get things here, you have already had them in stores for a while. However for the Animated releases that we got early, I thought I would let WA fans close to the border know to get in on the new fun.

Picked up Prowl earlier, it's a pretty good release, great posability with a nifty transformation, i don't get the point of the traffic light weapon, but his throwing stars are done well.

Fri May 02, 2008 10:11 am

My Indy hunt yesterday wasn't so good, the only thing really out were the crummier items like Indy potato-head and the "Adventure Heroes" (like the TF robot hereos). Still waiting for just the basic figures.

For TF, though:

Lynnwood Target: one Premium Blackout
Lynnwood TRU: some of the exclusive Jetstorm and Wingblade
Woodinville Target: looks like they'll be quiet for awhile, seeing as Air Com SS and I seemed to have cleared them out. They still have some Premium Leaders, maybe 2 each.
Totem Lake Fred Meyers: all Allspark deluxes, some wave 1 movie deluxes. Dozens of Con BB's.

News Credits: 1 · Fri May 02, 2008 10:44 am

Seeing the Totem Lake Fred Meyer on the list sparked something gathering dust in my memeory. Has anyone checked out the Bellevue Fred Meyer lately? Quite a while back, when Alternator Prime came out, I tore all over the place trying to find one and that Fred Meyer was the only place that I was able to track one down. More than once both the Bellevue and Monroe Freddies have had stuff that the other more mainstream stores didn't have. Issaquah Target is often the same way. All 3 have been great places to look but are now in the complete opposite direction of where I've been working and with the gas prices still climbing, I seldom do distance hunting if I can't coordinate with some other errand. Those of you closer to those areas might give those a shot. CJ7 and ACS just need to make sure they leave something left for the rest of us.

T.

News Credits: 5 · Fri May 02, 2008 7:00 pm

Not much for sightings, Jetstorm and Wingblade, as well as all the GI Joe 3-packs got restocked at TRU down here.

Puyallup Target only got one case of the Premiums, and by the time I got there, Jazz and Barricade were gone. They had Premium Ironhide and Blackout as well. Bonnie Lake Target still had the tubes of Jazz and Brawl, and some starwars.

Bonnie Lake Walmart had about 4 Jolts, which was strange cause I didn't see him the last time I was there (but I still doubt it was from a restock).

Fred Meyers is about the same as everyone else has reported.

Mon May 05, 2008 9:59 am

Looks like I had the best weekend. On Friday I found all the Indy figures I was looking for and another Premium Barricade. Saturday I found some SW and another Premium Jazz and Stealth BB.

News Credits: 1 · Wed May 07, 2008 11:18 pm

Hey All...
It's not a sighting, it's more of a plea and possibly a questionable point in my own sanity, but here goes.
I started a thread over in the Cartoons and Comics forum. First one I've ever started on this site and I have to go and pull out the big guns. It's too long to explain, you'll just have to check it out. I promise it's worth the look, it'll probably shoot my bad-ass image all to hell but I think it is well worth the sacrifice. Of course, it may get me sued if I screw this up, so if that didn't get your curiosity before, it should now. I want as much feed-back as I can get before this weekend because if I can get a "green-light" on this, I can take this to EmCity Comic Con and talk to the Organizers of the event and see if they can help. (They like me and I already talked a tiny bit with them about part of it)
This could be a wonderful thing, it could fizzle into nothing, or it could turn into a real sh**-storm for me. One way or another, I'll make an impression. #-o

Thanks for checking it out and wish me luck.

T B-)

Thu May 08, 2008 12:52 pm

Hunt this morning:

Lynnwood Target: Prem. Blackout x1 and Salvage x2
Lynnwood TRU: Con. BB xlots, voyager movie SS x1
Everett TRU: nothing
Everett Walmart: even worse. Air Com SS they had the SW you were looking for in large quantities, check your PM.

News Credits: 1 · Thu May 08, 2008 10:18 pm

In an uprecedented stroke of luck (mine usually sucks) I'll be gatting paid a day early and therfore can afford the gas and admittance to EmCity Comic-Con. Can't afford much else but at least I'll be there. Just wondering who else may be attending. I know ACS plans on being there. If he brings my shirt *hint hint* anyone else attending will be able to spot us easily. (Yeah, I bribed him to score me a Seibertron.com shirt at the very last second. Between PM and Instant Messaging it worked out. Seemed like a good idea at the time, probably still is, will work out GREAT for him :BANG_HEAD:

)

Anyhow, hope to meet up with some of you there. One way or another, I should be easy to spot. If all else fails, look for the guy in the black leather jacket with the metal Autobot logo on the right side (my right, your left).

T. B-)

Fri May 09, 2008 12:27 pm

Hunt today:

Lynnwood Walmart: premium Leaders. Air Com SS, they also have a SW set of Saga

Lynnwood TRU: tons of Hot Wheelers and scalper jerks. When I was there yesterday, I saw was the only one there at opening; today there were about 15-20 people. At least one each of the TF exclusives. Premium Ironhide and Blackout x2 each. And Air Com SS, at least four sets of those SW Saga figures.

Lynnwood Target: still one Premium Blackout

News Credits: 1 · Sat May 10, 2008 8:23 pm

O...M...G!! I just got back from the Emerald City Comice Con. I had not intended to spend anything before outside of Admisssion and Parking, but I was alredy $50.00 down by the time Air Comm. Starscream met up with me down there and I proceeded to head back in and spend some more. All manner of TF stuff, I couldn't even begin to list (I scored a G1 Metroplex, incomplete, for 15 bucks inside of my first 20 minutes there). Henkei, Premiums, SDCC exclusives from last year, Re-issues, MP's, Binaltech. Like I texted to ACS shortly after I arrived...*Joygasm*. There was also more SW and GI Joe stuff than you could possibly carry out of there even with all of us working together. It was, believe it or not, my very first Comic Con.
All I can say is Un-Freaking-Believeable!

ACS will post the pic later of the both of us representing Seibertron.com with our shirts. Yeah, you finally get to see what I look like. Sorry about that but since it was for the good of the site I figured, what the hell. It beats the last picture taken of me that made it onto the 'Net.
Wish I could have met some of you down there. It would have been even more fun than it already was.

T. B-)