I'm glad I never heard the 1pm piece- I assumed 3am or something so started checking as soon as I was up.

I started at 9am eastern. I checked every few minutes until I saw your post then I gave up.

You didn't want to use the official NECA store and pay retail? They're shipping internationally

👏 👏 good job neca! You keep giving exclusives to the worst retailer for toys in general! Wonder if I’ll ever be able to find this one!

This was posted by one of the Walmart buyers. Looks like he just left his post, but he was great in different forums and had a great handle on the toys for Walmart. He was great with getting more Star Wars jabba sets and a host of other exclusives and product.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f3f5caff_z.jpgB0B9D7AC-5272-4342-B5DF-7D9B4A0D7B88 by Comedian Horseman, on Flickr

Sounds like neca owns this fail, not Walmart.

It'll be interesting if I find these at Walmart, actually was able to find the Netflix Transformers that I wanted, which is a first, I usually never find the Walmart exclusives.

Yeah I started refreshing about 9am too. Stopped about noon. I really hope they are plentiful in stores and this isn't a sign of what's to come regarding Neca walmart exclusives.

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I was so Walmart on the brain didn't even think to look at the store thinking why would they do this? They don't put the Target exclusives on the their store page. But behold there it is. Wonder how long it stayed in stock on their own NECA store front?

I'll be driving 40 mins to the nearest Walmart that stocks NECA everyday for the next week. Just so NECA can break my heart once again

So you found one?

No I meant the NECA store. NECA always puts their SDCC exclusives on their store. I have been to several Walmarts and no new NECA stuff. Still trying to find the Green Lantern/Predator pack but I think that ship sailed weeks ago. Most stores looked like they restocked about that time maybe a month to 3 weeks ago with nothing happening since. Not sure if a NECA rep stocks the area at Walmart like they did with Toys R Us when they were in the US or if Walmart employees do.

A Walmart employee told me they stock themselves the NECA stuff

What section of Walmart do you find the figures? I have never seen any Neca products at any of the Walmarts in my area. Of course, their toy sections are never stocked anyway. I even checked the collectibles area and they usually just have old Pop figures.

They're supposed to be in the collectibles section over in the electronics department. That being said neither of my stores have shit in that section anyway, just those garbage Funko pops that nobody is buying. I'm really hoping that maybe with the next big seasonal store reset at least one of my stores will actually start getting some collectibles in.

Got the set at walmart store today.

Lucky you. What state?

California. They got the sets earlier for some reason. Yes, very lucky. Thank you.

I’m still hunting like crazy I’m in Texas. How many did they have? Is it only 2 per store

Yea, correct, only two per store. The store only received 1 thin neca brown box and there’re only 2 inside. I really hope neca will ship a lot more like they do with target exclusives. I only have 1 walmart store which stocks very few neca toys. My other walmart only has funkos. Just lucky. Walmart is almost impossible to get anything. Out of topic, I still haven’t seen any real ghostbuster retro action figure nor blue variant macfarlane Batman.

Someone over on Fwoosh posted what looks like an Instagram conversation with Elias Koteas in which he said he agreed to let Neca use his likeness. Here's a link to the thread:

NECA Movie TMNT - The Fwoosh Forums

May I ask what area of California? I live in CA as well.

Just attempted to order it from the NECA store since it's available, but their site can't calculate shipping. Does Neca not ship to the United States?

Nevermind, apparently the website is only for international customers and the rest of us have to order it from Walmart. What kind of &$!# is that?

Their US license for TMNT requires the movie and cartoon figures be exclusives. That doesn't pertain to international orders.

That is so weird. NECA has sooooo many hoops to jump through to get their items.