Toys"R"Us Stores Offer "First Chance" to Buy Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Toys

A Walmart in my area is doing this at 5 pm that same day

It was posted here

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So does that mean less stock for the day they are supposed to come out?

Arg. I used to live 5 minutes from the only Chicago TRU that's doing this, good old Western Ave next to my old high school. Guess I'll wait until Sat. morning, unless there are more Walmarts doing the 5pm thing as seen elsewhere.

FWIW, what is TRU's pricing going to be like, do we know? From what I've seen, Target and Walmart are going to be roughly equal to each other.

EDIT- the TRU notice quoted seems to mention all the figures we know about and possibly more (24 deluxes!), including the 3 Leaders, one of which is supposed to be Wave 2 (Jetfire from what I've read). Is this just marketing amok or are they going to have 3 Leaders to choose from?

It says you'll be able to get a first LOOK and that they'll be ON DISPLAY. It doesn't say anywhere that you'll be able to BUY them early.

Edit: Oops, I just read it again, and noticed it DOES say "first chance to purchase". I guess I have plans for Friday night now!

GuyIncognito wrote:It says you'll be able to get a first LOOK and that they'll be ON DISPLAY. It doesn't say anywhere that you'll be able to BUY them early.

Maybe if you ask nicely you can also caress them a little.

I'm going for the Leaders and Human Alliance figures. Everything else will have a big question mark.

The reference of how many figure they have listed is just in regards to how many figures are planned for the line so far. There's now way TRU is going to have something like 24 different Deluxes there that day - do you know how many cases that would equal! Hasbro doesn't work that fast - they would have to have been spending the last six months or more producing nothing but ROTF stuff. Hasbro does put out teaser style assortments, but I doubt we'll see all the movie figures before the movie even hits - that's ridiculous.

The blurb about how many figures is just an advertising piece, we're only going to see Wave 1 and possibly some Wave 2.

This is just like a Star Wars "Midnight Madness" style event. They'll put out half of what they have for the event and then reload for the next day. Every MM event people always ask if there will be more stock for people the next day and the answer always ends up being "yes". Even if for some reason, TRU sells out of a given item, this release will be huge like last time and you'll all be able to find tons of this stuff everywhere.

Just kinda sucks for Target since they'll be the last to the party. They'll still sell alittle bit of stuff that day, but if WM drops ROTF at 5:00 and then TRU drops it at 9:00, that takes out alot of potential collectors/buyers for Target.

Just like i predicted none of the TRUs near me are doing this. So im going to have to brave the horrid traffic on saturday and hope to god all the little kids didnt have their parents buy them every thing. Yeah this is gonna suck.

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:Arg. I used to live 5 minutes from the only Chicago TRU that's doing this, good old Western Ave next to my old high school. Guess I'll wait until Sat. morning, unless there are more Walmarts doing the 5pm thing as seen elsewhere.

FWIW, what is TRU's pricing going to be like, do we know? From what I've seen, Target and Walmart are going to be roughly equal to each other.

EDIT- the TRU notice quoted seems to mention all the figures we know about and possibly more (24 deluxes!), including the 3 Leaders, one of which is supposed to be Wave 2 (Jetfire from what I've read). Is this just marketing amok or are they going to have 3 Leaders to choose from?

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Someone please help.

My computer won't load the page where it says what stores are participating in this. I live near the TRU in Mechanicsburg/Camp Hill Pa and the TRU in Harrisburg on Paxton Street.

Are any of these doing the preview?

I hate to break it to you, but according to the TRU list, no stores in PA are running this.

It really sucks that they make it like a SW Midnight Madness event, but with a fourth of the TRU stores participating. I have one store in my area running it the ROTF pre-release - during the SW Clone Wars Midnight event, there were something like three or four TRUs in my hunting area I had options to hit.

Cyberjet #7 wrote:I hate to break it to you, but according to the TRU list, no stores in PA are running this.

It really sucks that they make it like a SW Midnight Madness event, but with a fourth of the TRU stores participating. I have one store in my area running it the ROTF pre-release - during the SW Clone Wars Midnight event, there were something like three or four TRUs in my hunting area I had options to hit.

Thanks for checking for me. Greatly appreciated.

Oh yeah BOOOOOO TRU!

I will probably do the Harrisburg run tonight anyway. With 3 Targets, 2 TRU, and 3 Walmarts, one of them is bound to have them out.

Did anybody go to one of these? Back when Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was aboutto come out, I went to a midnight toy release at TRU. It was pretty crowded but orderly, if a little frantic.