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DeathReviews wrote:It's probably the only thing they could do to move the Voyager PotP Starscreams. Those are the only ones I ever see on the shelves. All the other ones are ones that people want to BUY

I've only seen Starscream twice in stores and that was back in early March, maybe even February. I got mine for $16 on Amazon which I think is fine, but I'm glad I wasn't enticed into paying full price. Now Grimlock, I sure would like to find him at retail price or less. I'm thinking I might just pass on Sludge and Snarl if I'm going to have to pay out the nose for Grimlock.

All Leaders are pretty much non-existent around me too.

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fenrir72 wrote:Hb must have over estimated 'screamer's worth/popularity. He's like PotP Bayfomrer's Bumblebee. The fig is like cluttering all the TRU stores I've been too!
It's either :

There are bands of scalpers gobbling up all the "we want figs" or Hb did another clusterfrack in distribution!

Or he's just another figure that's not selling as well as his wavemates - those happen all the time (Twinferno is probably a good recent example). I don't think there's really any way Hasbro could've reasonably packed less of him per case than they were already doing, and still actually distributed the toy.

Now as for whether it was a good call putting him in Wave 1 - the wave that almost certainly every store will get in large amounts - that's definitely up for debate, but I don't think this is exactly a distribution disaster on par with TLK or anything like that.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

worldsgreatest wrote:Clearance isn't a sale, right? It's clearance. As in they won't be carrying POtP Voyagers anymore.

That's not how it works, as far as I know. Clearance has always seemed like the Walmart word for sale

Actually, they very well might stop carrying that assortment, at that particular store. Clearances are done at the store's discretion, meaning it's not across the whole chain. Rollbacks or sales tend to be more coordinated, but some can be store-specific.

Remind me to ask my father-in-law who works there.

Clearance can mean many different things in retail. If anything is being discontinued (food clothes, toys, whatever...) it may be clearanced to get rid of what they have. Walmart has sales and clearance, though it can be odd at times. Some tings are chain wide, others are very selective. There are literally 10 Walmarts I can drive to at any given time. One of them had wave 1 PM's on clearance for $3.00, but then after those were gone, they got in more wave 1 PM's and kept them at regular price $4.98. Wave 2 PM's have yet to appear at any store (Target or Walmart) near me.

Wolfman Jake wrote:They are both labeled as "Transformers Generations" products and come in boxes with similar visual style and graphic design.

I assume you are referring to how the toys ship from the warehouse, not the packaging of the toys themselves?? -It could be, I don't know, but I do know that while some fans said there was nothing to be worried about with the Studio series taking up shelf space that could otherwise be used for PotP, I can say, this is NOW a legitimate concern of mine. I know this is supposed to be a *Best of the Best* from all 5 movies but...lets be honest, while I never collected any Movie based toys, the lines for the first 3 films seemingly sold fairly well, the last 2 however (AoE & TLK), were way overproduced and shelf warmed to near disgusting levels. Heck there are still some TLK toys clogging shelves of Targets, the only reason walmart got them out is because they clearance them out at up to 70% off. Hasbro should have taken a break with the movie line, I mean BB toys will probably start showing up around October. We could have enjoyed PotP until then. Of course I expect to see RiD15 toys on clearance next because those fugly Cyberverse toys I know are coming .

Studio series arrived way quicker, and in much greater quantities than I expected, and funny enough, they aren't moving.

Well I could see that perhaps with the Voyagers. But the Deluxes for SS are boxed while for PotP they are carded, its a pretty big difference. Also the Price Points are different, as is the SKU (even though they are both labeled as Generations). I would hope most retailers would know the difference.

o.supreme wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:They are both labeled as "Transformers Generations" products and come in boxes with similar visual style and graphic design.

I assume you are referring to how the toys ship from the warehouse, not the packaging of the toys themselves?? -It could be, I don't know, but I do know that while some fans said there was nothing to be worried about with the Studio series taking up shelf space that could otherwise be used for PotP, I can say, this is NOW a legitimate concern of mine. I know this is supposed to be a *Best of the Best* from all 5 movies but...lets be honest, while I never collected any Movie based toys, the lines for the first 3 films seemingly sold fairly well, the last 2 however (AoE & TLK), were way overproduced and shelf warmed to near disgusting levels. Heck there are still some TLK toys clogging shelves of Targets, the only reason walmart got them out is because they clearance them out at up to 70% off. Hasbro should have taken a break with the movie line, I mean BB toys will probably start showing up around October. We could have enjoyed PotP until then. Of course I expect to see RiD15 toys on clearance next because those fugly Cyberverse toys I know are coming .

Studio series arrived way quicker, and in much greater quantities than I expected, and funny enough, they aren't moving.

The previous films also sold terribly. They are notorious for still having stck from a previous movie line when the new movie rolls out, which did not happen with AOE and TLK.

Here are a few shelfwarmers for you





Also, FYI,the Bumblebee movie toys deluxes/voyagers/leaders will be part of the studio series line so there wont be an issue for shelfspace (if there is one).

I noticed that too. Most Studio series figures I saw at one time was 4 and wasn't even the full set. Of course I bought one though