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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Got a little lucky today, I ran into a little old lady today at Target today who needed some help picking out a Star Wars gift for her 7 year old grandson. After helping her pick out some of the new SW Mashers (which I think are incredible, and might be picking some up...) I was about to leave the aisle with my own disappointment of having not found what I was looking for when she told me that there was another display inside of Target with even more SW stuff. Curious...I went to go check it out, and lone behold, I found what I was looking for.


I saw her again as I walked to the check out line and thanked her for having pointed me in the right direction, because I otherwise would have missed out. Upon seeing Kylo, she asked if they had any more, and sure enough, I was able to find one (the last one no less) for her as well. So her grandson will get an awesome set of Mashers (Vader and the Stormtrooper) and a Black Series Kylo Ren for his birthday next week. It sure felt good to pay it forward.

That said...be sure to check the Seasonal/Halloween display at your local Target, as two of the stores I went to today had 2 separate displays in them, one in the toy aisle, and one by the Halloween costumes.

Yeah noticed that too when I was walking around my Target waiting for the wife, and that aisle sort of easily miss too.

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Originally Posted by Dreadnox

So finally got a pic of last nights haul...


Went to TRU first, was third in line and after 2 hours of waiting found to my dismay they only received one case of Black Series like many stores, so first two in line cleaned out all but the Finn I grabbed. Moved on to a Walmart on the way back home and luckily they had no clue what they were supposed to be doing. After helping an employee open cases, scored. The last pallet we opened had Black Series but by time we opened it at 1am the TRU crowd had arrived behind me. Was able to get first choice at the Black series though and quickly snagged the rest needed. Went back today and grabbed a few of the smaller scale to see they were cleaned out of almost everything. Tonight TRU, Target, and 2 Walmarts officially have no figures left except mashers and little in the die-casts. I would say this was a success for retailers here.

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Originally Posted by TimothyR

i would have to disagree. retailers may be cleaned out of the action figures.. but none of them seemed to have enough stock to please everyone.. hell, a lot of them only had enough to please 2 people. that's awful for such a big, heavily promoted event.

i read somewhere that hasbro wasn't prepared for this to be such a big deal and weren't able to supply retailers with enough stuff. if that's true, i think they and the retailers missed out on a much much bigger day.

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Originally Posted by Dreadnox

I was really speaking more to my specific area but I do agree that some were not prepared. For example, my local TRU only receiving one case of Black Series was a missed opportunity.

On the other side though, my local Target and multiple Walmarts started with huge supplies and now have nothing left, I think they would call that a success. Should some have bought more? Maybe so but then at some point they decide the risk of how many peg warmers or dead stock they want to discount and we know they have been burned before, slave Leia, Obi Wan.

Now with that said, I don't think Star Wars is a huge gamble for them and don't see it ending with stock like Phantom Menace did but when you think about how much they are buying for each store in a nationwide event for an unreleased movie I don't think we were going to get perfect. Trust me I am the guy frustrated every time we have an exclusive or event that employees don't seem to know enough about but I think overall Hasbro and most retailers are probably happy with the results from the figure sales and it should drive us getting more figures for the next year.

I do hate it for anyone that missed out especially those that because of location didn't have a participating local store. I had to deal with it for many years before I moved from a lower population area and even though online retailers had much of these figures and toys still stocked into early yesterday nothing is like finding it in the wild.

Just wondering they will restock wave 1 again? Or are they pretty much moving on to wave 2...

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Originally Posted by Falconhood

Friday + Saturday hauls by Tsak Knight, on Flickr
The Marvel Legends are NEW, but on Clearance at Wal-Mart!!! So, I got them all...Hulkbuster is MINE!
argh...Disney Infinity and Star Wars Force Friday in the same week...my wallet is in pain right now!

Dang clearanced out ML's already at Walmart the latest wave too, that's nice!