Walmart takes BIG chance, cutting toy prices NOW!

Doesn't help much when they have nothing on the shelves to begin with.

And that's what they were talking about with Walmart's sales in December being horrible last year. They sold so much in Oct/Nov that they had no inventory left to sell in Dec.

hopefully anime mp screamer will be affected by this and it might be time to get a dvd anniversary prime too.

Alright!

Now if only they'd restock!

The Transformers problem seems to not be limited to Wal-Mart. Everywhere I go, Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, they are all out of Transformers merchandise. It seems to me like it's Hasbro and not Wal-Mart that dropped the ball on their Transformers stock. It'd be odd that all three of the major toy retailing chains conveniently forgot to reorder the hottest selling property of the summer.

Now if Walmart could just do something about the smell of feces that wafts through the air in the store. I swear, it's like going to the zoo in there sometimes. Large, waddling mammals and strange unexplainable smells.

Autobot032 wrote:...how on Earth can they say that Spider-Man 3 toys are in the top 12 figures? They have them in stock and *can't* sell them.

No clue. I can only take a guess as to why Spider-Man 3 toys aren't selling: I'd bet it's because people are every bit as interested as I am in buying them. Assuming this is true, it means they're not interested at all.

Autobot032 wrote:TransFormers are never in stock (until recently) but *can* sell, quite well, in fact. (3 million figures sold, wasn't it??)

Tranformers are in stock in your area?

Autobot032 wrote:Speaking of TFs being in stock...it was like Christmas time tonight. I almost cried. It was beautiful. Concept Camaro Bumblebees as far as the eye could see. (Alright not really, but he's becoming a shelfwarme
r like someone on here had thought.)

Apparent sarcasm aside, Bumblebee shelfwarming the way Spider-Man does requires that Bumblebee actually be in stock and available for purchase. Haven't been to wal-mart since last weekend, but at that time all they had was ultimate bumblebee and 20th anniversary prime.

Blozor wrote:The Transformers problem seems to not be limited to Wal-Mart. Everywhere I go, Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, they are all out of Transformers merchandise. It seems to me like it's Hasbro and not Wal-Mart that dropped the ball on their Transformers stock. It'd be odd that all three of the major toy retailing chains conveniently forgot to reorder the hottest selling property of the summer.

Haven't been into Target or TRU in ages. If you were wrong here, though, I'd think hasbrotoyshop.com would be doing better than they are at having TF merchandise up as well.

And if they had anything current last few times I went looking, odds are it wouldn't be an issue with me because I'd already have all the figures I really want.

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:...how on Earth can they say that Spider-Man 3 toys are in the top 12 figures? They have them in stock and *can't* sell them.

No clue. I can only take a guess as to why Spider-Man 3 toys aren't selling: I'd bet it's because people are every bit as interested as I am in buying them. Assuming this is true, it means they're not interested at all.

You'd be right. I've seen people buy Star Wars, TransFormers, Elmo, etc. I have yet to see a single person (other than myself) buy anything Spider-Man. That's not to say none of it's sold, I've just never witnessed anyone with a single item at the register. (I've seen a couple of unopened items returned.)

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:TransFormers are never in stock (until recently) but *can* sell, quite well, in fact. (3 million figures sold, wasn't it??)

Tranformers are in stock in your area?

Finally. Cases and cases and cases of Deluxe Class and Real Gears.

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Speaking of TFs being in stock...it was like Christmas time tonight. I almost cried. It was beautiful. Concept Camaro Bumblebees as far as the eye could see. (Alright not really, but he's becoming a shelfwarme
r like someone on here had thought.)

Apparent sarcasm aside, Bumblebee shelfwarming the way Spider-Man does requires that Bumblebee actually be in stock and available for purchase. Haven't been to wal-mart since last weekend, but at that time all they had was ultimate bumblebee and 20th anniversary prime.

I've seen ten Concept Camaro Bumblebees since they opened these cases. Six of them remain, along with loads of the rest of 'em. (I think Dropkick will definitely be a huge shelfwarmer. He just doesn't move at all. Even Recon Barricade and Payload sell better. =\)

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

Blozor wrote:The Transformers problem seems to not be limited to Wal-Mart. Everywhere I go, Target, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, they are all out of Transformers merchandise. It seems to me like it's Hasbro and not Wal-Mart that dropped the ball on their Transformers stock. It'd be odd that all three of the major toy retailing chains conveniently forgot to reorder the hottest selling property of the summer.

Haven't been into Target or TRU in ages. If you were wrong here, though, I'd think hasbrotoyshop.com would be doing better than they are at having TF merchandise up as well.

And if they had anything current last few times I went looking, odds are it wouldn't be an issue with me because I'd already have all the figures I really want.

Oh Hasbro admitted (through Target and other places) that there was a shortage on the production end. Basically they never expected demand to hit as hard as it did. They're catching up now, though. Oh my goodness are they catching up. I think I counted about eight or nine cases worth of Deluxe figures on the pegs and pallet display shelf.

Bumblebee-otch wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:...how on Earth can they say that Spider-Man 3 toys are in the top 12 figures? They have them in stock and *can't* sell them.

TransFormers are never in stock (until recently) but *can* sell, quite well, in fact. (3 million figures sold, wasn't it??)

they are trying to hype up the crappy toys to clear them out!

They're gonna have to do a lot more than just hype. lol 'Cuz they ain't gettin' it moved. lol