ScottyP wrote:jay5 wrote:Cobotron wrote:Masterpiece Skywarp for $19.99, thank you very much.
That's amazing!
I must start checking my local Target from time to time if things like that can happen, lol.
Don't get too excited. That had consequences - here's the short version of what happened:
1) Walmart carries a US release of MP Starscream (the first version), it sells like hotcakes
2) Walmart then decides to carry MP Skywarp, ordering a massive ton of them since Starscream did so well
3) Skywarp sits at Walmart for a year or so en masse
4) Walmart marks them down to insanely low prices to get rid of them
5) A lot of the unsold Skywarps ended up at discount retailers (TJ Maxx et. al.) for even lower, sometimes as low as $6 iirc
6) Masterpiece toys were never carried at US retail by anyone besides Toys R Us ever again
He's right ya know.
Here's another side effect of ScottyP's a fore mentioned fall out.
1) Cobotron sees MP Thundercracker at TRU for $79.99.
2) Cobotron thinks, oh that will totaly go on sale just like MP Skywarp.
3) Cobotron waits..........no sale. Then gone.
4) Cobotron now has no Thundercracker.
But other than Masterpieces, the Clearance isles, from time to time, can yield some nice treasures.