Megs for pres wrote:Soooooo wheres the toys? I have went to all 6 walmarts, 3 toys r us, 5 targets, 2 k marts,even tried t.j. max and khols for the hell of it and all stores are barren of anything but beast wars and believe it or not a few dark of moon figures. I even went out of state to a few walmarts and a target and got the same results.
The resets have been completed for several weeks now. Actually its closer to a month. The mod sheets are sitting on the shelfs with the date that the resets were completed in most of the stores and two to three spots for the new waves but they just arent there.
Anyone else seeing this trend in their area? I need the new sky warp to round out my new seekers before my mania king arrives!!!
On another note, why are there so few spots alonted to t. formers when compared to other brands? Starwars, bey blades, all the comic book character figures (avengers, batman etc) and even ninja turtles have twice the space that transformers have been given.
Are transformer figures doing poorly in sales? Perhaps this is only the case for my area? I certainly hope they do not go the way of the m.o.t.u 2000 line.
I remember trying to collect those figures but near imposible chance to find the figures due to poor wave assortments and scalper influance kind of screwed that line up.
This is not the case for transformers is it? I myself have not had to hard of a time finding what I need but There hve been a few Figures I had to buy from ebay and even more that I never saw in stores and cannot afford to buy online.
Are other fans having a hard time procuring the figures they need or do you have a pretty easy time finding them?
warzon3 wrote:A few stores around me (Baltimore area) have the new wave... Scoop and Skywarp look great BTW...
Can't believe the Skids wave is just gone though...
GuyIncognito wrote:Do you think that in 1984 you could walk into a toy store and expect to find every Transformer that had been released? This is nothing new.
We now have the internet and access to a global marketplace. If you're expecting to find every figure at your local Walmart, then you're just limiting your options. You're not taking advantage of the tools you have. The figures aren't going to come to you; you have to seek them out and find them.
thedistinctroom wrote:warzon3 wrote:A few stores around me (Baltimore area) have the new wave... Scoop and Skywarp look great BTW...
Can't believe the Skids wave is just gone though...
Yeah, Skids is totally popular right now.
Henry921 wrote:You can always be counted on to listen to reason, Pryme.
Dead Metal wrote:Have you ever, and i mean ever seen/read/heard something that is completely original and does not copy/homage/pay tribute to something else? Here's a hint: Nope. You never have and you never will.
ScottyP wrote:GuyIncognito wrote:Do you think that in 1984 you could walk into a toy store and expect to find every Transformer that had been released? This is nothing new.
We now have the internet and access to a global marketplace. If you're expecting to find every figure at your local Walmart, then you're just limiting your options. You're not taking advantage of the tools you have. The figures aren't going to come to you; you have to seek them out and find them.
I wish we had upvote buttons, or something similar, so I could upvote this twice. Stone cold solid advice.
Cobalt Prime wrote:Looks like that's what it's gonna have to be. Internet purchasing. The slow death of brick and mortar and the accompanying loss of jobs slowly inches its way towards completion one toy (and one appliance in my case)at a time.
Another part of the problem with buying figures on the internet is losing the ability to choose your figure. At Target, or any other store, you many times have the ability to reject the figure with the huge scrape on it's face or the smeared insignia, or the obviously broken part rattling in the package, and dig for one in better condition. Internet sellers will throw anything at you as long as the name on the blister card or box is correct. Then it's the irritating and time consuming process of shipping it back and waiting even longer for the figure to arrive.
Internet makes for a lot of advantages in terms of convenience of purchasing and gas savings, but seriously lacks in service, and a convenient way to deal with defective or goofed up merchandise. And let's face it, this stuff happens more times than we would like to think given the level of QC nowdays.
Still, it looks like this is the only way I'm gonna be able to have a solid guarantee of getting this stuff without tearing my hair out looking for it locally anymore. It's a sad age.
thedistinctroom wrote:warzon3 wrote:A few stores around me (Baltimore area) have the new wave... Scoop and Skywarp look great BTW...
Can't believe the Skids wave is just gone though...
Yeah, Skids is totally popular right now.
Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
Cobalt Prime wrote:Looks like that's what it's gonna have to be. Internet purchasing. The slow death of brick and mortar and the accompanying loss of jobs slowly inches its way towards completion one toy (and one appliance in my case)at a time.
Another part of the problem with buying figures on the internet is losing the ability to choose your figure. At Target, or any other store, you many times have the ability to reject the figure with the huge scrape on it's face or the smeared insignia, or the obviously broken part rattling in the package, and dig for one in better condition. Internet sellers will throw anything at you as long as the name on the blister card or box is correct. Then it's the irritating and time consuming process of shipping it back and waiting even longer for the figure to arrive.
Internet makes for a lot of advantages in terms of convenience of purchasing and gas savings, but seriously lacks in service, and a convenient way to deal with defective or goofed up merchandise. And let's face it, this stuff happens more times than we would like to think given the level of QC nowdays.
Still, it looks like this is the only way I'm gonna be able to have a solid guarantee of getting this stuff without tearing my hair out looking for it locally anymore. It's a sad age.
GuyIncognito wrote:I don't think the Skids/Waspinator wave ever really made it to retail, at least not in significant numbers. I got mine through HTS.com, but have never seen them in any stores.
Autobot032 wrote:GuyIncognito wrote:I don't think the Skids/Waspinator wave ever really made it to retail, at least not in significant numbers. I got mine through HTS.com, but have never seen them in any stores.
I saw the wave about 3 times at retail. (TRU) I assure you, they were out there. The wave seems to be seriously shortpacked. I'm not seeing repacks of these figures either. I'm not sure why they shortchanged it so badly.
ScottyP wrote:GuyIncognito wrote:Do you think that in 1984 you could walk into a toy store and expect to find every Transformer that had been released? This is nothing new.
We now have the internet and access to a global marketplace. If you're expecting to find every figure at your local Walmart, then you're just limiting your options. You're not taking advantage of the tools you have. The figures aren't going to come to you; you have to seek them out and find them.
I wish we had upvote buttons, or something similar, so I could upvote this twice. Stone cold solid advice.
Seibertron wrote:ScottyP wrote:GuyIncognito wrote:Do you think that in 1984 you could walk into a toy store and expect to find every Transformer that had been released? This is nothing new.
We now have the internet and access to a global marketplace. If you're expecting to find every figure at your local Walmart, then you're just limiting your options. You're not taking advantage of the tools you have. The figures aren't going to come to you; you have to seek them out and find them.
I wish we had upvote buttons, or something similar, so I could upvote this twice. Stone cold solid advice.
Amen. Who cares where you get the figure from as long as you can get it. I don't think I pay any more for figures when I buy them online, especially when you consider the time hunting for figures and ga$ money. If your local big box store doesn't want to stock the latest waves of Transformers toys, screw 'em! Buy the figures from Amazon.com, BigBadToyStore.com, TFsource.com, RobotKingdom.com or any of the other slew of online retail options than enable you to get even that tail end wave of figures that often doesn't show up at retail (which has been a trend all the way back to 2001's Beast Machines tail end).
Flashwave wrote:Because trails of boxes on my doorstep is not a convienent thing for me.
Flashwave wrote:how I can be only 2-3 hours from Seibs and a seemingly abundant souce of B&M sightings in Chicago and yet the 15 stores I check in Indianapolis (about 8 fairly religiously) are all hung up on old stock.
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