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^ Pretty sure the best bet for ordering those will be through Robot Kingdom. So apparently on TFW2005, someone found Dark of the Moon Deluxes being sold for $30, leading some people to think to themselves, "Ha ha, oh Target. Your particular branch sure did screw up big time." Apparently this error (At least I reaaaaally hope this is an error) is bigger than just one branch. (Target product listing linked) It's okay though, if you buy two of them (and only on certain ones), you are eligible for free shipping. secretcode fucked around with this message at May 24, 2012 around 17:13 |
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Zellers has been selling Prime deluxes for 25 bucks for MONTHS. The pricing schemes have been getting a little wonky.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 17:20 |
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Are you removing his hand from the socket to do that? If not, how in the world are you doing that?
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| # ? May 24, 2012 17:24 |
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secretcode posted:^ Pretty sure the best bet for ordering those will be through Robot Kingdom. I was in the store and thought it was odd that DOTM voyagers were priced at $30, deluxe at $30 is like twice MSRP. The Target website has always been kinda broken, I hope they sell out.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 19:12 |
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When my local Target moved DOTM deluxes to $17 each I laughed. $30 is loving crazy.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 19:21 |
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secretcode posted:^ Pretty sure the best bet for ordering those will be through Robot Kingdom.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 19:25 |
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The Rage posted:When my local Target moved DOTM deluxes to $17 each I laughed. $30 is loving crazy. I was getting these ugly things at Wal-Mart for about $4 with a coupon. I should have made a Mudflap army.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 19:39 |
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strangehamster posted:I was getting these ugly things at Wal-Mart for about $4 with a coupon. I should have made a Mudflap army. Its a sad day when Walmart has the exact same figures for 7.96 and Target apparently in a bid to win customers, marks theirs up $9. What happened to you Target, you used to be cool.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 20:05 |
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Target took over a whole bunch of Zellers, they're just adopting chainwide Canadian Pricing in solidarity with their new aqcuisitions
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| # ? May 24, 2012 20:36 |
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I also have to question what TRU is thinking sometimes, as they have tons of ROTF figures that are still there, and cost $3-5 more than deluxes at other stores. It's almost like they're trying to copy K-Mart's business model. Speaking about that, how is it possible that K-Mart is still in business? I still shop primarily at Target though, because my little lovely redneck Wal-Mart barely even has a toy department. It's like one isle and still has wave 1 DOTM figures.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 20:52 |
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Gammatron 64 posted:Speaking about that, how is it possible that K-Mart is still in business?
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| # ? May 24, 2012 22:05 |
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1. Only have stores in high crime areas. 2. Mark up the prices real high. 3. Watch it walk out the door. 4. Insurance. 5. Profit.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 22:16 |
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Huzzah! A full set of shots of the MP Sideswipe prototype.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 22:28 |
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U.T. Raptor posted:I don't even loving know, and I work for them. I'm so sorry, man. I'm so sorry. I thought my job was awful. At least I don't work at K-Mart. And I envy garbage collectors, guys cleaning sewers and people in retail. I might have to live through call center hell, but I'm a least a few inches above rock bottom. A few.
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| # ? May 24, 2012 22:43 |
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Sentinel Red posted:Huzzah! A full set of shots of the MP Sideswipe prototype. This thing looks small... like Super Robot Chogokin size, which is fine... but at 130+ bucks? 
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| # ? May 24, 2012 23:57 |
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Dre2Dee2 posted:This thing looks small... like Super Robot Chogokin size, which is fine... but at 130+ bucks? Yeah, next thing you know, is they're gonna be charging $45 for a pipe cleaner.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 00:22 |
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Dre2Dee2 posted:This thing looks small... like Super Robot Chogokin size, which is fine... but at 130+ bucks? The size of a Binaltech for three times the price. Ain't progress somethin'? But at least people are finally going to get the MP Soundwave they asked for, judging by that silhouette.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 01:47 |
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Sentinel Red posted:Huzzah! A full set of shots of the MP Sideswipe prototype. Who or what is that Inferno/Grapple repaint in the bottom right corner? Anyone read that?
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The Rage posted:Who or what is that Inferno/Grapple repaint in the bottom right corner? Anyone read that? Exclusive Artfire that comes with the new TF Generations book, much like the exclusive Stepper they did a while back. He's cool, but not $150 cool. That Stepper looks insanely nice, but goddamn he's $120 so gently caress no. I'm just really hoping that TFC will do a Stepper\Riccochet for their subscription thing. Yes, amazingly there is someone out there who really wants another Stepper after the reissue and the Alternator clogged shelves and bombed horribly. Hasbro is never gonna want to ever do another Stepper again. If only they would do that for Bumblebee...
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| # ? May 25, 2012 03:33 |
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My nearest TRU just started selling GI Joe 3 3/4" single packs for $11.99. That's for a single GI Joe. Not even half a Transformers in size. I... I just don't even... 
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| # ? May 25, 2012 04:28 |
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LightsGameraAction posted:My nearest TRU just started selling GI Joe 3 3/4" single packs for $11.99. That's for a single GI Joe. Not even half a Transformers in size. Holy poo poo. Those were floating around the $5 mark for a while, weren't they? I remember having to force myself not to pick them all up on a few occasions. Guess it won't be such a hard restraint anymore.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 04:54 |
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GrimGypsy posted:Holy poo poo. Those were floating around the $5 mark for a while, weren't they? I remember having to force myself not to pick them all up on a few occasions. Every walmart by me was selling the same exact figures for $6.79. The nearest one just got the new movie (Retaliation) figures in, and now any pre-Retaliation figures are marked down to $5(which is pretty much just Renegades Firefly, CC, and Scarlett), and the Retaliation figures are marked up to $8.99. Prime deluxes by me are 12 at walmart, 13 at target, and a whopping 15 at TRU. This seriously sucks. Edit: I mean, I get that prices are going up and poo poo, but a 3 dollar discrepancy between two retail chains is just very... odd to me. LightsGameraAction fucked around with this message at May 25, 2012 around 05:16 |
| # ? May 25, 2012 05:02 |
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Welcome to Australian prices, guys.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 05:53 |
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GrimGypsy posted:Holy poo poo. Those were floating around the $5 mark for a while, weren't they? I remember having to force myself not to pick them all up on a few occasions. They're probably shooting up in price because of the upcoming GI Joe 2 movie.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 08:04 |
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Revolver Bunker posted:They're probably shooting up in price because of the upcoming GI Joe 2 movie. Which got pushed back to March 2013. So good luck toy line I guess.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 08:24 |
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SpikeMcclane posted:1. Only have stores in high crime areas. I have no idea if that's correct or not but I desperately want it to be.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 14:01 |
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Why cookie Rocket posted:I have no idea if that's correct or not but I desperately want it to be. Going by my purely anecdotal, totally unscientific evidence, it is. There was this awesome thread about old poo poo people found in K-Mart a few months back. It's not unlikely that you'll find merchandise from the 80's sitting around. A local K-Mart had an old Final Fight cabinet sitting around in their abandoned arcade, but later it finally disappeared. I really regret not offering them like $100 to buy it.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Going by my purely anecdotal, totally unscientific evidence, it is. That business model makes perfect sense for the Penn Station Kmart, given the amount of stolen merch I could find just wandering around the place for ten minutes waiting for my train to arrive. Unfortunately pretty much all the Kmarts by me totally re-designed themselves a few years ago to be more Target-y so there's no possibility of finding crazy crap from years long gone on the shelves anymore. I remember when KB Toys was going out of business a few years back and the one by me was closing down I walked in and they suddenly had a bunch of old Super Nintendo and NES games sitting in their video game cabinets. Got WWF Royal Rumble for 99 cents.
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LightsGameraAction posted:Unfortunately pretty much all the Kmarts by me totally re-designed themselves a few years ago to be more Target-y so there's no possibility of finding crazy crap from years long gone on the shelves anymore. Those are the newer K-Marts. The two nearest K-Marts to me still look like a DMZ. Old VHS tapes, half open merchandise just sitting there on the floor, shelves that go bare for months, crackheads outside the store... as I always say, walking into K-Mart is like walking into a war-torn third world country. Of course, I live in North Carolina and the southern USA practically IS a third world country, although NC is probably the nicest southern state to live in and has some pretty decent metropolitan areas with sane people in the center of the state. I can only imagine what a K-Mart looks like in Alabama or Mississippi.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 15:33 |
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Hey, this is surprisingly good news http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans...ation-tfcc.html
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| # ? May 25, 2012 16:21 |
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GD_American posted:Hey, this is surprisingly good news I am going to guess that e-Hobby is going to sell the OTFCC subscription figures.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 16:32 |
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What's the fastest way to tell a Bay-hater to shut the gently caress up about the movies already, I've got a buddy who's starting to become annoying.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 16:35 |
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Ka0 posted:What's the fastest way to tell a Bay-hater to shut the gently caress up about the movies already, I've got a buddy who's starting to become annoying. That he's late and because he can't travel through time can't do poo poo about it.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 16:57 |
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Too late he's pulling the "Hasbro isn't making any money" defense. I'm off to make myself a drink and then sleep.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 17:17 |
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Without the bay movies we'd still be talking about Beast Wars and G1. I mean, it would be ALL WE HAVE
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| # ? May 25, 2012 17:28 |
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To be fair, movies 2 and 3 did, really, really suck. Though to be fair, I stopped caring a while back. After ROTF I'm all outta nerdrage.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 20:45 |
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Gammatron 64 posted:I'm so sorry, man. I'm so sorry. I thought my job was awful. At least I don't work at K-Mart. And I envy garbage collectors, guys cleaning sewers and people in retail. I might have to live through call center hell, but I'm a least a few inches above rock bottom. A few.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 22:03 |
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Movie 2 was it's own whole kind of amazing, and Movie 3 just wasn't bad enough to warrant any sort of feelings.
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| # ? May 25, 2012 22:28 |
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U.T. Raptor posted:I work for one of their distribution centers, not a store (which are mostly just sort of... vaguely decrepit around here), so it's not quite as bad as that. I was halfway joking. Kinda sorta. Although I've had a few ex-K-Mart employees tell me that they basically have no inventory system whatsoever, which explains how their stores can have Top Gun VHS tapes from 1987 at full price, and completely miss out on product out in other stores, and never receive things like Grand Theft Auto 3 or Halo during the height of their popularity.
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Rei_ posted:Movie 2 was it's own whole kind of amazing, and Movie 3 just wasn't bad enough to warrant any sort of feelings. I mean we can amass which or whatever perspective towards the toyline distribution of late but that's always going to be such a shame.
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