Canada Transformers Sightings Roundup with Galaxy Shuttle, Legacy Wave 3 and SS Crosshairs Wave

There's a few Black Friday deals at Amazon.ca that are "better than noting", but THE sale not to miss is Kingdom Leader T-Wrecks for CHEAPER THAN A DELUXE at Walmart.ca:

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/transforme ... FD91R3PHQR

I initially skipped that repaint but at that price? Gimme!

william-james88 wrote:That's cool, but by the time you posted it, it got sold out

ARGGH!
And there I was, browsing the website to find something else to add to my basket to have free shipping. Granted, I posted the news AFTER I completed my purchase but still, I played with fire then...

What's up with that mega dox above, Will?

william-james88 wrote:Thanks! Cleaned it up. Also, the best deals are gone

Speaking of best deals gone, Walmart.ca should clean up their pages and tell that the thing is sold out upfront instead of days after the fact. That T-Wrecks must have blue-balled many fans...

At least I could secure a Vintage Beast Wars Wolfang before it was gone.

william-james88 wrote:Was Wolfang on sale too?

No sale, full 36$ deluxe price with free shipping. But compared to buying it on eBay, that's still a win.

Soloing this thread again to report that the Joe Bee is at TrU. Of course, they sell it for 20$ more than the competition.

https://www.toysrus.ca/en/Transformers- ... 16B38.html

I had to create a new account on the fly to make sure I don't miss out on some of these deals. Classic deluxe prices are hard to resist, even on some that I planned to skip like Needlenose.

william-james88 wrote:Man, getting 3 deluxes for less than 75 shipped sure is sweet

It's like we went 10 years back in time.

We have two new sightings for Canadian Transformers fans. The Toysrus exclusive Buzzworthy Bumblebee Studio Series 44 leader class Dark of the Moon Optimus Prime (is that the longest name a Transformers release ever had?) has been spotted at multiple Toysrus stores across the country. The SKU is 652660 if you want to call ahead of time to check if it's there and not waste a trip.

We also have news that Generations Selects Magnificus has been found at Gamestops, also widespread amongst various provinces.

The various sightings were posted on the Cybertron.ca message boards.

Retail distribution for Transformers toys (and action figures in general) can be a little screwy at times. That's why online collectible retailers exist and many fans have since gravitated towards them. What is sad to see is situation like the one below where we see merchandise destined for either Walmart or Toys R Us in Canada that was never put on shelves and was instead dumped to a liquidator after rotting in a warehouse. This is of course dependent on retailer and geographic location but the final wave of Kingdom was never found on Walmart shelves in Canada. And believe it or not, Studio Series Junkheap was scarce as well and no voyager wave beyond wave 1 for the Legacy line was ever stocked in Walmarts either. Well low and behold, liquidator store locations in Canada (specifically Quebec in the example below) are now getting an influx of all those toys skipped by Walmart.

It used to be just one wave was skipped and we'd see some toys at liquidators but this is taking it to a whole other level. This is further aggravating because it shows that retailers did have new stock, which fans surely could have purchased, but never replenished shelves with it, either moving on to the next line or just leaving the shelves with the same stock all year round. The specific location below is Boom Liquidation but there are province specific liquidators all across Canada (like Treasure Hunt in Ontario) so if there is any Canadian who has missed out on the toys shown below, it could be time to visit your local liquidator chain/store as this influx shows Walmart has dumped all their old stock to make room for a lot of incoming toys like the movie line, Earthspark, ect.