Had a short day at work today, so I went to every place in my area but one Walgreen's for being tired and, as you'll see, expecting the same figures. D: Still, it was a nice drive, and a beautiful day, and I did find & buy the Nefarious TPB (I like the movie-verse TPBs), and, sue me, the sixth Harry Potter film on BD (because I missed it and it was $10).
So, I'll put up the walmarts first.
#1
This was the one that was full to bursting the last time I was there. It looks like it's not quite so plump now (at least some of the preview packs have sold ~:( )
You can see a Battle Blades Bumblebee (there were 2), even. This store just really took in more stock than it could handle, it seems like.
They had:
Jolt x 11 (not even all were "Electrostatic" jolt)
Tuner Mudflap x 10
Darkmount x 7
Elita x 5
and then a few of others, like Ironhide, aforementioned BB, Skullgrin, Ravage, and they've had one Tomahawk and one Terradive for a while now. Cliffjumper, SW, Megs, etc. No tracks or Jazz or any of them.
#2
Pretty much same as above. Plus sidearm Sideswipe, Blurr, a Battle in Space, and a HA Jazz.
#3
See above, again.
edit: By the by, this is Walmart HQ walmart. It's right across the street from their office building and such. Just down the road is logistics.
#4
Same old, same old...
Good news this is the section nextdoor in this store - it looks like they may actually be getting ready for Dotm? Maybe they can have it and RtS, Gen running at the same time.
Walgreens
(top right, and bottom left) Yes. that is a Sideways you see there. They do also have Tracks, and I think Mindset though....Lots of Ejector's too...
I didn't go to the other Walgreens, which I normally do, because I was tired and they had the same stuff as this one, last visit I made there.
Kohls
Apparently that box I found last week was them reassembling the Transformers for this little display here. Short of Jazz, pretty much each of the figures you can see has at least a whole peg to themselves (IE 4+ of that figure - more like 8 for Skids and the RtS blue guy whom I can never remember the name of - oh! Mindset)
JC Penny's
I went to a lot of places just to see who might carry figures. Found a boy's shirt that came with this keychain (apparently all of the child boy's clothing came with a toy or accessory of some sort).
Neat.
It looks shadowy because I covered the top to remove some of the plastic glare. :S
B- something place (lol)
I've only ever been to this place once before, and that was to fill out an application - this was another place I just decided to pop in and see what, if anything, they had. I was surprised.
Yeah, that's an opened 2007-8 megs unleashed figure for $12, and a Desert Tracker Ratchet. :S
>_<;
Btw, if you guys see anything here you want (like Jazz or Tracks, or Terradive or anyone else I mentioned you may have missed, or ask if you're looking for a specific figure I may not have mentioned), I'll be happy to pick them up for you. If you're going to Botcon we can cut shipping (because I have empty space in a box getting shipped to the con [for the boxed set to be sent back in, plus everything else I decide to buy]).
As I mentioned in an older posts, still no new Voyagers, ANYWHERE, ever. At least I know that Jazz and co are all out there, even if I kept missing them early on and only seeing their lonely casemates for a while, but man, it's the voyagers I'm keeping my out out for. Please Lugnut, please...
And for anyone who missed it/forgot, I have seen Perceptor and Wreck-gar, etc. once at the earlier posted Target, but that was it. Once.
So, in short, wayyyy too much RoTF left here in NW AR (SW Missouri for Walmart #4; less sales tax, when they actually have anything to buy), in addition to the PCCs and sad Skullgrins, Mindsets, Darkmounts, Cliffjumpers, etc. etc, and that's just Deluxe....Tons of Banzaitrons and Payloads, with Seaspray filling in any gaps for voyager.
It used to be I went to the two Walmart's closest me and they had everything between the two - it seemed they swapped back and forth between waves (walmart 1 would get wave 1, walmart 2 got wave 2 walmart 1 got wave 3, etc.) but now everybody has the same stuff! All clogging at once!
It's a nightmare!!