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Massive price hikes at Canadian Toys R Us for Transformers in just a few months.

Posted by -Kanrabat- Dec 22, 2021 at 10:04pm CST 82,327 views
Bad news for Canadians who shop at Toys R Us. The prices for Transformers have just significantly increased. The current Covid panic mixed with the shortage of workers and so many other factors are to blame. Most Transformers are now way more expensive than before. Here's some examples:

Deluxes like Origin Bumblebee are now 37$can. Formerly 33$can, formerly 30$can.

Transformers News: Massive price hikes at Canadian Toys R Us for Transformers in just a few months.

Leaders like the overproduced SS Scavenger and Overload are now 80$can. Formerly 75$can, formerly 70$can.

Transformers News: Massive price hikes at Canadian Toys R Us for Transformers in just a few months.

The recent Draculus now jumped to 80$can. formerly 75$can.

Transformers News: Massive price hikes at Canadian Toys R Us for Transformers in just a few months.

Ectotron and X-Pense had their price increased again in such a short while. Now a whopping 100$can. Formerly 95$can, formerly 90$can.

Transformers News: Massive price hikes at Canadian Toys R Us for Transformers in just a few months.

Not pictured, the Buzzworthy Bumblebee 4 pack that is the "Transformers starter pack for kids" that have the Warrior Optimus, Megatron, Bumblebee, and Starscream, has jumped from 80$can to 90$cn. Oddly enough, the highly collectible Buzzworthy Bumblebee 4 pack containing Nemesis Primal, Fangry, Bumblebee, and Blackarachnia remains at the highly affordable 120$can without having it's price even increased. Also, it's still in stock on the shelves.
Edit: That 4 pack too, had it's price increased twice. Originally 110$can, then 115$can, now 120$can. Ironically, it's still a reasonable price for what we get.

All these price increases on such a short notice are very concerning. The inflation is getting out of control.

Are the prices in your corner of the world going up as if they want to launch into space too? Let us know!

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Comment by Solrac333 Dec 22, 2021
Simple. Don't buy them.
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Comment by cloudballoon Dec 22, 2021
During this ongoing pandemic, I can count on one hand how many times I entered a TRU store, same with buying TF stuff at its website. Before the pandemic, 90% of my stuff I got at TRU. The other 10% at Walmart. EB Games (GameStop) was only for exclusives.

Not so now.

I always prefered TRU than other stores, so it's not for a lack of wants to buy my TF there, and I don't mind the price hike too much just to support them to get through the pandemic, but the problem TRU has now is nothing is ever in stock before the other guys! No pre-order on the vast majority mainline figures online either. So what can I do? Risk missing TF toys I want to wait for a chance the toys might show up at TRU's systems?
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Comment by TOO MUCH ENERGON! Dec 23, 2021
Boy am I glad I found Tigatron at Toys R Us on sale for $31 a couple weeks ago.
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Comment by william-james88 Dec 23, 2021
-Kanrabat- wrote:Oddly enough, the highly collectible Buzzworthy Bumblebee 4 pack containing Nemesis Primal, Fangry, Bumblebee, and Blackarachnia remains at the highly affordable 120$can without having it's price even increased.


That is also a price increase. It was originally 110, then 115, now 120

Solrac333 wrote:Simple. Don't buy them.


Not so simple when your hobby is collecting Transformers
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Comment by Blackstreak Dec 23, 2021
Eventually, if people do not already feel this way, no one will consider these things worth spending their hard earned cash on. For the cheap quality some of these action figures have I'm not long for leaving this hobby.
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Comment by -Kanrabat- Dec 23, 2021
william-james88 wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:Oddly enough, the highly collectible Buzzworthy Bumblebee 4 pack containing Nemesis Primal, Fangry, Bumblebee, and Blackarachnia remains at the highly affordable 120$can without having it's price even increased.


That is also a price increase. It was originally 110, then 115, now 120


Oh yeah, you're right.
If I didn't notice it's because 120$can for that 4 pack is still a great price.
Especially compared to that 100 dollars Ectotron.
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Comment by MeGrimlock78 Dec 23, 2021
Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but Toys R Us was recently purchased by the owner of Everest Toys, Sunrise Records, HMV in the UK, and FYE in the US.

I wonder if the new owners also have higher margin goals? The real test would be if other retailers (I'm looking at you Walmart) follow suit.
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Comment by optimeow Dec 23, 2021
If they stay on the shelves long, retailers will have to slash prices.
Then we can buy them.

All Hasbro merchandise have hiked prices in my country too. Some up to 10%. Most items have hiked between 2-3%. However, shelf warmers have been slashed 50% off retail prices.
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Comment by BLIX007 Dec 23, 2021
Don't worry they will come back down in price once Canada TRU starts their going out of business sale for making the same stupid decisions that the US TRU did. :KREMZEEK:
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Comment by DeathReviews Dec 24, 2021
But WAIT - they told us that there is no inflation, nor is there any supply line crisis! Why, how can this BE?
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Comment by -Kanrabat- Dec 24, 2021
DeathReviews wrote:But WAIT - they told us that there is no inflation, nor is there any supply line crisis! Why, how can this BE?


No no no.

They told that inflation is GOOD.
Of course, they didn't specify for who.
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Comment by william-james88 Dec 24, 2021
DeathReviews wrote:But WAIT - they told us that there is no inflation, nor is there any supply line crisis! Why, how can this BE?


This is unrelated to inflation. For one, this isn't in the US. And it's not general, it's just at Toysrus which was recently purchased in what seems to be a bad deal, and it follows other recent new admin practices.

I would not read more into this than one store wanting more.
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Comment by -Kanrabat- Dec 24, 2021
william-james88 wrote:I would not read more into this than one store wanting more.


I'm not sure about that. Walmart had increased the price of it's Movie voyagers way before TrU by 5$.
Plus to buy the toys at "normal" prices at Gamestop, you must pay a Platinum membership.

I just hope that TrU will not start a trend and the other stores would follow. As for the supply chain, small independents like my local geek store struggle to have new stock from Hasbro. Things can be late by months.
There's also that Select Black Zarak delay, not unlike the one that plagued the Scorponok reissue.

This is not just a "USA" thing for sure. And it worries me.


Also, TrU. Please STAHP.

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Comment by william-james88 Dec 29, 2021
Just writing it here since this has 3 new sighitngs
this Tigatron as well as wave 2 of the Cyberverse Roll and Combine figures, and the Studio Series wave 14 deluxes. That's the wave where the only new figure is ROTF Sideswipe. All at Walmart

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Comment by -Kanrabat- Dec 29, 2021
Irony that I may be able to get the "Vintage" Tigatron before the Kingdom one.
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Comment by Matrix_Holder Dec 30, 2021
Ebgames Canada/gamestop in burlington Ontario canada has shattered glass voyager Megatron and Starscream, kingdom deluxe pipes and slammer in stock in store.
Skus for Pipes 767467. Slammer 767468
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Comment by -Kanrabat- Dec 30, 2021
Greetings Seibertronians!

Matrix_Holder is reporting a sighting of Shattered Glass voyager Megatron and Starscream at GameStop in Burlington, Ontario, in Canada! They came out to $40 CAD with use of the platinum edge card.

So this means that this exclusive line from Hasbro Pulse in the USA will be in Canadian GameStop just like for the Kingdom Ravage set! The Shattered Glass deluxes are then likely to appear too.

If the trend continues, Canadians may be able to get most of their Pulse exclusives at GameStop instead of importing them at very high cost. Ordering anything from Pulse costs between 22$US to 30$US plus they charge ALL the Canadian taxes. So being able to get it locally is a boon for Canadians.

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To all Canadians out there, happy hunting!
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Comment by Matrix_Holder Dec 30, 2021
Ebgames Canada also had the Unicron galvatron up for preorder in store in the spring/summer
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Comment by Rodimus Prime Dec 30, 2021
Do they come with the comics?
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Comment by Matrix_Holder Dec 30, 2021
Unfortunately not. I think the comics are the exclusive part for hasbro pulse.
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