[Frank Richards]

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Originally Posted by Cyclopswc

I've never seen Skylynx in regular stores, so I was shocked to find him at Ross as well. I think the Skylynx wave suffered the same "last of the line" syndrome from Hasbro. Where as the last of the "Combiner Wars" line ever made it fully into stores before the next wave of "Headmasters"...eh, I mean "Titan Returns" started to flood stores.

With Hasbro's unpredictable distribution of Transformers over the past few years, discount stores like Ross, TJ Maxx, and Marshall's really have been a goldmine for Transformers.

A few years ago, I had been excited about the Reveal the Shield wave, but was disappointed that they never really hit stores, and then, shockingly, they all showed up at my local Ross and Marshall's for ridiculously low prices. I'm still kicking myself for never picking up Jazz.

Then, during the Prime era, I was able to pad my collection with inexpensive Deluxe figures (including the First Edition versions of Arcee and Bumblebee for under $8 ), and even found some of the tougher to find Voyagers class figures for less than half of what I would have payed at Target or TRU if those stores had actually stocked them.

Recently, I found Sky Byte and Brainstorm for about $12. Before that, I had only seen Brainstorm on one occasion, at Target.