Walmart WWE Superstars line

Walmart doesn’t set the prices though, the toy companies do. Also if you compare Superstars to MOTWWEU you are seeing a bit of where the price increase went. Compare Piper, Warrior, and Savage to their MOTU releases. A lot more accessories and soft goods are being included justifying the price bump. Plus inflation has affected everything. Elites, basics, and UE are more expensive now than pre-pandemic.

Loose Kurt and Rey at Paul’s Boutique $19.99

Exactly. I saw them twice on the same day. Thats it. Bottom line, buy these figures in lots when collectors give up. I am stuck on series 8 and they are teasing us with series 12. I will not spend 150x3=450$ for s9,10,11 (avg price 50 figure including shipping). I might have bare shelves for a year but i will catch up one day, without giving a penny to walmart or their online partners.

Btw, sultanofswat continues pouring out s6 perfects and bambam. So i decided to comprise a new list declaring which stores/dealers these figures are exclusive to:

S1: TIE - Ollies (flair/hogan) / Ringside (all 4)
-Walmart
-Walmart Canada
-Walmart.com
-Walmart.ca
-Ringside
-Ollies (

S2: Walmart.com sale (last spring)
-Walmart
-Walmart Canada
-Walmart.com
-Walmart.ca

S3: Walmart
-Walmart
-Walmart Canada
-Walmart.com *
-Walmart.ca

S4: Paulmart
-Paulmart
-Walmart
-Walmart.com *

S5: walmart
-Paulmart
-Walmart
-Walmart.com *
-Walmart.ca (earthquake/r.rude only)

S6: Sultan_of_swat_2
-Walmart (mainly west coast/texas)
-SULTAN_OF_SWAT_2 >>>
-Walmart.com (piper/hogan only)

S7: TIE: Sultan_of_swat_2 and Walmart
-Walmart
-SUlTAN_OF_SWAT_2 @ >>>
-Walmart.com (albano/vader)**

S8: no winner
-Walmart
-SULTAN_OF_SWAT_2 >>/
-WSI >>/
-toysboxfactory (mattel factory china...)

S9: Sultan_of_swat_2
-Walmart
-SULTAN_OF_SWAT_2 >>>
-WSI >>/
-toysboxfactory (mattel factory china...)

S10: Sultan_of_swat_2
-SULTAN_OF_SWAT_2 (before june 18) @ >>>
-WSI (july 10) >>>
-toysboxfactory
-walmart.ca
-Smyths (europe)

S11: Sultan_of_swat_2
-Paulmart
-SULTAN_OF_SWAT_2 (August 17) >>>
-WSI (August 5) >>>
-toysboxfactory
-smyths (europe)

S12: toysboxfactory (factory prototype)
-SULTAN_OF_SWAT_2
-WSI (any day now...)
-toysboxfactory
-smyths (europe)

S13
-mattel/mattel partners/walmart partners

Overall Winner? SULTAN_OF_SWAT_2 (UNLIMITED CASES OF S6,s7,S9,S10,S11 and has not sold out of s6/s7 in a half a year listing/selling them daily)

Honorable mention: smyths (great distribution)



LEGEND
* - Cancelled most preorders
** - Cancelled preorders
@ - tentative date / need to check (based on ebay sold listings which do not go back more than 3 months)
>>> cases still available
>>/ cases sold out/unavailable
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Links of interest
-MATTEL FACTORY CHINA
EBAY LINK NOT ALLOWED/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=toysbox.factory&store_cat=0&store_name=toysboxfactory&_oac=1&_nkw=superstars

-example of a lot of figures at less than 10$ each (near comolete set)
EBAY LINK NOT ALLOWED/itm/166964934934?itmmeta=01J7Y51W53GKRH43SW9JEJDNKH&hash=item26dfe2b916:g:icIAAOSwfHRm4JJh

-Smyths (272 stores in england, ireland, france, netherlands, austria, switzerland)
www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Smyths

I put rude/earthquake as series 6 but they are series 5 correct. Series 3 was put on american cards but technically they were available. (I have spoken to ebay sellers last year who told me s3 was available at retail (in abundance too)

I believe smyths will get the uk version cards for s11 as the displays at wrestlecon said so for the figures displayed (brutus/ramon greyscalw prototypes were shown). I know as i was there
forum.wrestlingfigs.com/thread/376639/mattel-crushed-reveals?page=3




They go by msrp, which walmart is currently not adhering to for several products (easy to tell when you compare prices at walmart and target). If you remember when k-mart and toysrus were still around you may recall hot wheels selling for .99$ at walmart when target had prices in the 84 cent range. Toysrus was selling them for 1.09$ (This was when hw were super hot). Star wars potf figures were 6.99$ at toysrus when they were just 4.99$ at target. Spawn figures were 9.99$ at k-mart and 7.99$ at toysrus. I have literally tbousands of receipts i can scan and post up vetween 1994 to today to prove that prices are not the same store to store and have spoken with mattel reps when i was in my 30s. They sell the product to these stores and then suggeat a price but stores do not have to stick with that price. They can raise it if a toy is hot (also called price gouging). Prices are also different regionally or in the case of k-mart and toysrus due to debt.

I will do a full analysis of that when i have a day off.

If soft goods is causing a 5$ price increase than that is just stupid on their part. We are fine with plastic capes. But its not the soft goods, it is just greed. Inflation has dropped almost in half since 2021 and i checked guru for historic raw materials pricing which has not increased year to year. So the jump for the superstars figures from 19.99$ to 20.99$ is just greed. Also walmart was selling yellow hogan for 27$ a few days ago ("sold by walmart.com". If they are using the ".com" to mask that they are selling it through a 3rd party to differentiate between "sold by walmart" and "sold by walmart.com(3rd party?) than that is shady as well because i found that by toggling for the "walmart retailer" filter.



They have jumped the shark and no longer acting like a retailer. They are just doing the same thing toybiz and now amazon have donw. Mark up their prices to take advantage of the aftermarket. I have preordered 1000s of items over the past 30 years and know exactly the game they are playing luring customers to their sites with exclusives the way wizard did in the late 90s where you end up paying more for a product with the guise of "ease of service" as the excuse for the higher prices.

For me all the signs are there that the 3rd parties selling them are getting them directly from mattel and have a license to sell them.

Just look at the usual suspects (paulmart/sultan/etc) They only sell mattel items (from barbies to legos to hot wheels) with the exception of sultan who also has a panini (topps) license. They are also all located generally close to headquarters...

So i dont believe that walmart is supplying them. They are instead "mattel partners"(officially licensed resellers with mattel" who also sell as "walmart partners" on wm.com (paulmart, sultan might be selling under another account name)

I think you have hit the nail on the head with something i have been saying for over a year, "walmart is no longer ordering the same quantities". S6 is a prime example. For more than 6 months sultan has been selling those figures with no end in sight. So someone else (multiple people) have to pick up the slack to meet the factory quota this is why we may also see retros arriving at retail since they are underperforming at creations. Walmart knows they are no longer walmart exclusives as they are not buying 100% of the stock anymore. Im glad people are waking up the facts.

most updated one.

You're right  Paulmart definitely doesn't sell Jada Street Fighter figures and definitely hasn't had a store exclusive figure. Definitely.