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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 21:31:07 GMT -5
I've been collecting for about 6 months. Pretty much gobbled up every Mattel figure made via EBAY, Amazon & Ringside, but still enjoy the good old Retail hunt. I live in the Chicagoland area & basically struck out at Walmart, Target, TRU, Big Lots, & Meijer. TRU is the worst of all, been there twice in a week span & all they had was 4 D Bryan WM Heritage figs. They literally never get new stock. Just clueless if this is the retailers fault or Mattel just not shipping fast enough
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Post by LA Times on May 7, 2013 21:38:20 GMT -5
All the TRUs in my area are empty as well
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Post by Joejitsu22 on May 7, 2013 21:40:12 GMT -5
Lately stores have been sad around me.
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Post by 859approved on May 7, 2013 21:45:14 GMT -5
All my area Walmarts have completely emptied out their Elite pegs. Worries me as thats the main line I collect. All I see is a Daniel Bryan every once in awhile. I did find an Elite 20 Punk, it was the only Elite left on the shelf, I grabbed it, as I mainly collect Punk or Elite, and besides that, its been nothing.
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Post by skribbel24 on May 7, 2013 22:16:56 GMT -5
I thought i was the only one who noticed.
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Post by NameRedacted™ on May 7, 2013 22:24:56 GMT -5
'NoStockAnywhere'
Or spaces. In all seriousness though, TRU is the WORST right next to Target.
Target has been having a sale on basics for a month and a half and the 2 Target's in my have had ZERO basics, or elites for that matter.
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Post by lestial12 on May 7, 2013 22:29:59 GMT -5
My walmart keeps stocking Signature Series and B26. Had a few E18 Brodus for months and then we got a case of E20 last week, only a Cody remains.
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Post by anglefan80 on May 7, 2013 22:30:50 GMT -5
All my stores are very light. Mattel distribution strikes again!
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Post by Last Trent Barreta Fan on May 7, 2013 22:43:49 GMT -5
'NoStockAnywhere' Or spaces. In all seriousness though, TRU is the WORST right next to Target. Target has been having a sale on basics for a month and a half and the 2 Target's in my have had ZERO basics, or elites for that matter. Absolutely. Me too. One the sale started they put out one case of B28, I grabbed Sandow, Slater and Tensai and everybody else was soon quickly snatched up. Now the sale continues and all we have are a few older Miz, Brodus Clay and R Truths. Ugh, the R Truths... Not to mention the Flex Force two packs of Taker/Orton and Cena/Kane. Mine must've gotten 5 cases of them! What's the point of having a sale if a majority of the time there's going to be nothing on the shelves!
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Post by mmondrag96 on May 7, 2013 23:05:16 GMT -5
Mine keep getting old back stock in my walmart restocked around Christmas with a whole end cap of Summer slam heritage figures the still have all of them.
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Post by poindizzle on May 7, 2013 23:32:57 GMT -5
I never seem to have much trouble with Elites. Sooner or later they all show up. E20 had been at TRU back in March. Within the span of the last two nights Wal-marts all throughout Forsyth have gotten them finally. The Elite pegs were as empty as the basic pegs. I just went to the Hanes Mall Blvd. Wal-mart and they have 9 pegs for basics and 9 figures. Been that way for a while. The Elites have been scarce and the Basics non-existent. I bet as soon as June rolls around and the basic sale at Target ends, they'll have a restock, and it'll be some old set.
I have learned never to pass on basics that I want, they'll disappear in a hurry around here. I utilized the Target sale whenever it first started and just went ahead and bought all of Basic 28.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on May 8, 2013 0:05:31 GMT -5
My Target has like 8 of those FlexForce 2-packs, and a few of the WM Heritage John Cenas. That's seriously it. Not even a lousy Elite 12 Randy Orton or random Rey Mysterio!
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2013 0:29:25 GMT -5
Walmart has been the best of them all, as they normally have a few Elites at any time , but just boggles my mind how TRU - the biggest TOY store of them all, a store with the name TOY in its name could/does not ever have stock on what ESPN just called the most popular action figures out of all toys?? I heard from my brother that their was never this kind of issue in the Jakks days. So I guess it's a Mattel thing.
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Post by KeBen Owens on May 8, 2013 0:47:15 GMT -5
My Walmart put out a fresh case of Elite 20 yesterday. I grabbed Punk, Cody, & Jericho.
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Post by Figure kingdom on May 8, 2013 0:50:00 GMT -5
Even on the online retailers they're all out of stock. If you to Toys r us or Target websites on lines they're literally 85% sold out of stock. It sucks for people who are handicapped like myself and rely on online retailers. Maybe it'll get better next year? I'll be optimistic and hope for the best!
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2013 1:00:05 GMT -5
Kmart - Elite 17 Full Set plus a E12 Orton. They also have a bunch of the "global superstars" basic series plus about 10 RAW Entrance Stages.
Target - I literally counted and they have three rumblers, that is it. 12 empty pegs of NOTHING!
Meijer - Elite 16 Rock and Punk, thats it, plus a few basic Big Shows, Mysterios, and Cenas
Walmart - Battle Pack 20, 5 elite 19 Bryans, and about 7 basics.
Toysrus - Four elite Miz from the ricardo BAF set, WM Heritage Series Bryan, Undertaker, Henry, basic 27 (missing Ryback and Cesaro of course, but loads of cody and wade). They only got one shipment in of E20 about last month or maybe latter, they were gone in literally hours. I was able to grab Cena who of course was the only one left.
For me Kmart is the best one, but since I have had elite 17 for god knows how long, it is still a disappointment.
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Post by Flair Forever on May 8, 2013 3:35:27 GMT -5
Do the retailers get angry with Mattel that the pegs are always empty? There definitely seems to be some kind of distribution problem and someone is losing money - I always thought that was a huge problem in retail - having empty shelves = no cash sales.
I work in a different kind of retail, and I've severed ties with vendors who are unable to meet demand - it's just bad for business to always disappoint the customers. I realize they probably wouldn't get rid of the very popular line - but don't you think they'd take some sort of action with Mattel to increase the deliveries or something, and make more money? How do they just allow the pegs to be empty all the time?
Delaware is dry as a bone - I've been to Target twice this week (for other stuff, I would never go there just looking for figs) and there were 12 empty pegs both times. Wal Mart last night had nothing but a few random John Cena & Rey Mysterio Basics.... and TRU has appeared to be restocking somewhat but generally sells out of what they have within a day or two, and the pegs just sit empty again. I don't think Big Lots is getting figures anymore, they haven't had any in months (and there are three within driving distance for me). Of course, since Big Lots tends to get older figures that didn't sell - I can see how their supply would be gone now - there are no more figures that don't sell.
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Post by mikey1974 on May 8, 2013 5:53:07 GMT -5
my K-Mart is pretty full. sadly,it's all with older stuff:
2 cases of Basic 25,with some Basic 24 sprinkled in between. 3 cases of BP 20, with a few Brock/Trips on the pegs and a MASSIVE amount of Kofi/Truth 1 case of Elite 20,which was a surprise, but they haven't restocked it since. tons of the Del Rio/Truth/Miz 3-pack exclusive
Wal-Mart is SH*T!!!
6 or so Basic Mysterio's on the pegs. bunch of the exclusive 6-pack.
THAT'S IT! and it has been that way for over 6 weeks now! briefly they must of had Elite 20 cause I saw on Cena on the empty pegs a little over a week ago,but that's long gone now. just....pathetic.
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Post by TheChamp420 on May 8, 2013 6:26:04 GMT -5
Same here in NJ, yesterday I took a drive to a town, 30 miles away, found nothing but old stuff that warm the shelves, & very little if that too.
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Post by mikey1974 on May 8, 2013 8:08:32 GMT -5
this happens every year,though. well,it didn't in 2010,but 2011 and 2012 it did,and now seemingly 2013. from roughly March til august stores have very little new stuff,if anything at all. tons and tons of empty pegs. then starting in the fall things start to pick up,and by November pegs are filled to overflowing through Christmas. then New Year's brings a cube. then things are good til Feb/March,and start to die down again. by April/May,the full-on drought begins again.
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