Wal-Mart Black Friday PCC Combos Feature Hard to Find Later Wave Commanders

son of a bitch now i might just have to go out on black friday

I don't think I've ever actually bought anything on Black Friday. One year I checked it out super early...and it was ridiculous, so I left. Last year I went the night before...and the line at Toys R Us, where the police were directing to keep the flow of people down to two at once, went all the way around the block, so I left. Saving a few dollars on anything is just not worth the hours-long waiting time to get into stores and check out. Unless there's something I'd save literally hundreds or thousands of dollars on by buying that day, it's just a huge waste of time.

That said, I will be hitting Five Below and Wal-mart tomorrow to see if they have stocked these things. If not, I'll just check the day after. Five Below is not exactly shopper central for Black Friday, and the PCCs aren't that important to me. The new molds are kinda neat, but the whole PCC concept is pretty lame. Who wants non-transforming "drones"? And giant blue squares on every limb?

Found 6 WindCharger at Five and Below in Boardman Ohio today for $5.00 each, Bought them out for my collection a to give to a few friends here too.

Stopped into 5 below, and they had all of the scouts, sans Windcharger, someone had already swooped in and scored them all. I was just there on Tuesday night, so they were not there for long. There was about 5 Chopsaws, which were 2 to a case just like Windcharger, so they only had 6 from the beginning.

Damn. The Exton scapler strikes again. At least he/she didn't steal these, or buy and return with something else in it's place. I only wanted to snag one or two.

Some BBTS stuff has been listed:

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/list.aspx?list=8007

Pretty lame so far though, I'm assuming there will be more widespread discounts as the weekend approaches.

Sneaky buggers raised the price on the ONE item I wanted though, 2010 Primus, now $129.99 instead of $109.99. I only hope this is in anticipation of further price reduction, otherwise I may need to take my purchase elsewhere...

So on the way home from my parents' house last night I stopped by Wal-Mart and such to see what was going on. The parking lot was crowded, lines were forming nearby at Target, Best Buy's line was so long that people were playing football in the parking lot to pass the time. I toured Wal-Mart to see if they had PCC Undertow, and indeed they did. I left without bothering because the lines were so long.

This morning I happened to wake up early, as I went to sleep early last night. I figured what the hay, I might as well swing by Five Below in Laurel, MD to see if they have Windcharger.

Indeed they did--about 6 or 7 of them. They weren't in the normal toy aisle, though, but rather by the counter--had I not asked an employee where to find Transformers I wouldn't have seen them. I also bought Chopsaw for kicks.

Wal-Mart in Laurel was also not very crowded, and most of the registers, unlike usual, were staffed. I found PCC Grimstone packaged with Undertow and bought that. The combinations vary so you could find any 5-pack with any 2-pack, and you'll need to sort through them to find what you want.

I then hit Target in Columbia and found Voyager Cannon Force Ironhide, Megatron, and Sentinel Prime for $10 each, so I bought those. Don't think I'll be keeping Sentinel but I figured I could trade for something later.

I also hit Wal-Mart in Columbia, and found nothing of interest there, except a leftover ROTF Long Haul, which I bought. It was clearance-priced on the tag, but not in the system, so I had to wait a few minutes for the clerk to get approval from a manager to give me the clearance price.

I stopped at Toys R Us and saw they had DOTM Ultimate Optimus for $47.99--best price I've seen anywhere so far--but I passed on that since I really don't dig it.

And somewhere in there I hit Ross and bought RTS Wreck-Gar and Tracks and HFTD Leader Starscream.

All in all, not a bad haul.

And I was pleasantly surprised to find traffic was light and parking was easy. You'd never know there were lines the night before. So that says to me that as retailers have responded to the Black Friday rush by opening earlier and earlier and now Thanksgiving night, the best time to go is really early Friday morning, so you don't have to deal with the madhouse. Yes, you might miss some deals, but I've noticed that most of the really marked down stuff is crap no one wanted before anyway. So it's just a way for the retailers to make people think they're getting a good deal and get rid of all the stuff they couldn't sell before.

RodimalToyota wrote:Out of 4 Walmarts, with about 100 of each of the 10$ deal PCC packs, I found one heavy tread.
So I don't think he's become less hard to find.

Good point. I completely forget Heavy Tread existed--never seen him once anywhere, and today I didn't see him at either Wal-Mart I visited.

I got a Grimstone and Icepick 2-pack, and a steamhammer sledge 2-pack, and an over-run and salvage(meh) 2-pack.

I'm really surprised BBTS didn't offer more. Maybe on Monday?

I know, I actually really enjoy the PCCs, so have fun! But just now, I picked up the DOTM Voyager Megatron from Target, going to have fun with this figure.