Picked up $15 Octane yesterday.
It's definitely worth $15. If I'd spent more than that, I'd have some serious buyer's remorse. A loose, floppy, floppy mess.
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Picked up $15 Octane yesterday.
It's definitely worth $15. If I'd spent more than that, I'd have some serious buyer's remorse. A loose, floppy, floppy mess.
Big W Runaway Bay had several Octanes and Blitzwings $15, heaps of Cosmos and Seaspray (now in main tf isle) and one lone Hung-grr voyager which I took. No sign of elita 1. They still have a Shattered Glass Rodimus Leader as well
That's a shame, mine isn't loose at allQuote:
Originally Posted by kwanzaabot
Gold Coast
Tweed City
Kmart
POTP: 3x Inferno, 3x Grimlock, wave 2 prime masters, wave 3 legends, wave 1 deluxes
Studio Series: 1x Megatron, 1x Brawl, 1x Starscream, wave 1 deluxes
Big W
1x Dreadwind, 1x Studio Series Grimlock, 4x Blitzwing, 4x Octone
Tweed Mall
Target
Studio Series Starscream, Studio Series deluxes, POTP wave 1 deluxes
Pacific Fair
Big W
POTP wave 1 deluxes, Seaspray, Cosmos, 1x Triggerhappy, 1x Twinferno
Kmart
POTP: 4x Inferno, 4x Grimlock, wave 2 prime masters, wave 3 legends
Myer
POTP: 9x Elita-1, 8x Hun-gurr, 1x Starscream, wave 1 deluxes, wave 1 prime masters, wave 2 legends, Windcharger
Titans Return: Broadside, Megatron, Krok, Triggerhappy, Twinferno, Trypticon, Fortress Maximus, a few titan masters
Studio Series: 4x Grimlock, 4x Blackout, wave 1 deluxes
20% off Toys. Ends Sunday July 15th
Target
Kickback, POTP Starscream, wave 2 prime masters
Sunnybank Kmart had heaps of the POTP Outbacks and Cindersaurs, plus a couple of Voyager Infernos.
Reject Shop has the RID PEZ Optimus, Bumblebee and Grimlock for $2.50 each. (I've seen them in most major retailers now, with prices varying from $1.50 to $5)
Coles had 20% off their RID Legions and Tiny Changers until July 17th, but didn't have the big Authentics, so they might be 20% off as well.
Quite a find today, I don't know what it may signify, if anything, but this morning at bigw strathpine, I see a single octone for $15, fine. I then see the pop shelf below it, has a single toy there, the tag says $45, I then look at the toy, I then have to look again, freaking grimlock. Bought. :) I never saw it at all on first release, then here it is all by itself on the shelf.
If you're still chasing the statue, my wife mentioned that Aspley had a notice/add up that one was still available at North Lakes this morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
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Originally Posted by Stug
Considering the prices being asked for the ones down south, it's probably more than I'd be comfortable with.
I'm surprised that they were allowed to sell them, as I thought they would have been borrowed form the toy companies... unless they were actually bought from them.
Action figures at Toys R Us Garden City are 40% off now, down to just wave 1 deluxe potp, last knight deluxe and voyagers and Broadsides. There was 1 leader class Rodimus Prime but I grabbed him. They are not selling the baskets despite having a sign up saying they were, they gave me 2 reasons.
1. We can't sell them until we remove the label from them
2. Not selling fixtures until all stock is gone
Rather annoyed since they were advertising them at the front of the store.
Toyworld Australia Fair/Southport has Cogman (check behind front stock, and at the side). Also PotP Inferno but ouch the price. No cyberverse :(
If anyone sees Cyberverse in SE Qld desperate to get me some Starscream, any distance will do :)
Were the 2 MP Barricades still hiding on the top shelf?Quote:
Originally Posted by miles_prower
Didn't look like it, all the Studio Series was gone, and I did try finding Barricade, I found Rodimus at the price scanner, so unless they're in other aisles, seems they're gone.
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Originally Posted by miles_prower
Problem is, stores aren't going to stay open for very long when the toys are gone.... and some stores have been closing up before all the stock is gone, with the remaining stock being shipped to the nearest open store.... so telling us to wait could mean missing out if they suddenly close up due to being able to break out of their lease early. So we might not get much time to grab those sorts of things.
Want some? I saw a stack at I think it was the Aspley one. Saw two rodimus as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jellico
Nah. I don't do Movieverse. I was in at Garden City yesterday morning and was tossing up whether to post it here. In the end I figured it would just attract the scalpers without daytime jobs.
Yeah... it looks like all of the MP Barricades are now gone at the Garden City store, as I couldn't find any this morning.
Heaps at Aspley. I didn't get a price on them, I dunno what they cost. Heaps of the studio series things too.
Mr Toys Toyworld Burleigh
Heaps of The Last Knight toys on the left side of the store behind the big Optimus truck.
Drift, Steelbane, Sqweeks, Slug $25 each
Leader Megatron, Optimus $50 each
Studio Series: 2x Megatron, 2x Brawl, Optimus, Starscream
Titans Return: Galvatron, Astrotrain
Combiner Wars: 2x Scattershot, Onslaught
Toyworld Macgregor (Kessels Rd), had several cases in of the TF5 Movie Deluxe wave 3 and 4 toys (wave 4 is actually just Cogman with wave 3... so plenty of Strafe, Crosshairs and new Bumblebees)... and all on clearance for $25 each.
Plus, the Movie Leaders (only had Megatron at this store) are on sale for $49 until August 3rd (Mr Toys Toyworlds only).
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Heaps of Rescue Bots there now as well.
The TK Maxx next door didn't have any Ramhorns (which have been found at a store in NSW), but did have some cheap Rescue Bots toys (the animal "Minicons" and the T-rex Optimus Chomp trackset with the red Morbot).
Over 20 units of Studio Series Thundercracker at TRU Aspley. RRP was $49.99, so $30 at the 40% clearance price.
Mr Toys Toyworld Helensvale
The Last Knight:
Strafe, Barricade, Cogman, Berserker, Crosshairs, Bumblebee, Drift, Hound $25.00 each
Megatron, Optimus $49 each
I recommend getting Cogman if you like headmasters.
A) Did TRU Aspley restock?Quote:
Originally Posted by kovert
B) No Transformers fans in greater Aspley region
C) 20+ units case fresh found!
D) 'Damaged' / 'missing accessories' / 'defective' returned stock.
E) The CW Devastator scalper got lazy.
Same 20+ units from last week, probably. Along with the 20+ units of MPM-5 Barricade. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Galvatran
I think they just got the motherload! I must have been there the first day they went out about 2 weeks ago. I stopped counting after 60. Impossible to find any other figures for all the Thundercrackers. They must have had about 40-50 MP Barricades as well that night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Galvatran
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Originally Posted by Galvatran
F) Just like the fully stocked SW aisle, no one wants them.
Nabbed a PoTP Inferno from Target Strathphine
Thanks to Griffin I scored a Cogman and Crosshairs from Toyworld Macgregor. Had to ask for a peek in the boxes on top of the shelves, but as I was leaving they were putting more out.
Brisbane City Toyworld also has the Wave 3 and 4 TLK deluxes, and at least one SS Brawl. Didn't see Megatron, but also didn't look that hafd.
Robina/Burleigh Toyworld has heaps of Cogman Wave, but no Cyberverse :(
TLK voyagers Megatron and hound $25 at cbd toy world. TLK deluxes including Cogman are also $25.
Target Springwood had one SS Brawl, now gone.
Toyworld Springwood has one SS Brawl for $50; along with heaps of TLK Deluxes W3/4 for $25.
Toyworld Carindale also has one SS Brawl and the TLK Deluxes W3/4 for $25.
Target Garden City had the wave 3 Prime Masters and Inferno. So new, they weren't in the system yet, but were $10 and $49 respectively.
Nothing new at Myer, Kmart, BigW, Coles, Woolies or ToysRus (obviously).
As mentioned in the TRU news topic, the ToysRUs store was oddly empty (two-thirds of the store was cordoned off and empty), when it was still at about 75% stocked just last weekend... way too quickly for the stock to have suddenly been sold to customers, and the stuff that was left was older or obscure items (there was no Lego at all... not even obscure crappy sets - and there is no way every Transformers toy was sold off, because some of the gimmick stuff still wouldn't have sold at 50% off).
So I think they were able to get newer items returned to suppliers for partial credit, which would be better for the administrators than selling the stock above a certain discount.
No, they did indeed just sell it that quick. You weren't there with me at Aspley yesterday. I saw a few people with an odd lego set, the only ones I saw on the shelves left were a handful of those brickheadz things. It was a mad house. The check out line was from the registers, all the way to the back where the outdoors stuff is then around again towards the baby stuff, and all checkouts open.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Yeah, I'd second that! While I was lined up at Aspley Friday morning (thankfully it only went back as far as the Star Wars isle), we overheard one of the sales assistants say they had been moving some stock to Mt Gravatt as it was the busiest store... busiest of what, I'm not sure. Assume SEQ.Quote:
Originally Posted by MV75
My wife had also asked me to check out a couple of things she'd seen the day before. When I texted that part of the store was roped off she asked for photos... she was shocked, as it looked like they'd sold half to three quarters of the stock in that 24hrs.
Very well... I guess that's the strange mentality of humans. 40% wasn't enough, but 50% was the magic number.... not a huge difference, but psychologically, it probably felt like it was a significantly better deal. Strange though, was the large amount of old Star Wars toys still there, but no other action figure toyline.
If it cleared out so fast in the last two days, they probably won't be open for the full 9 days that it has on the front of the store.
This morning at the Mt Gravatt store, with the back two-thirds of the store roped off because it was empty, and not a single Lego item or Transformers toy left.
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This used to be where the Transformers were located...
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This was 7 days ago...
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The front of the store, noting the end is just 9 days away (Sunday 5th August)...
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Meanwhile, at Target, photo proof of the wave 3 Prime Masters and Voyager...
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And BigW still had quite a few of the $5 Seasprays and Cosmos... and the Tiny Changers are discounted to $2 (which is still cheaper than the ones would currently be at ToysRUs if they had any left at 50% off (which would be $2.50 each).
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TRU Maroochydore was similar... I hadn't been there in two weeks and now, half the store was closed off and most of all the Lego was gone (just a few expensive, boring Star Wars sets, e.g. Bomber, broken AT-ST). But, the Transformers has been relocated, and when I found them they still had a few POTP Voyagers and a deluxe and plenty of movie and smaller stuff.
My local TRU has "Not for sale" label on all the LEGO banners. About half a dozen or so. Shame really as there a some nice ones for novelty factor.
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Originally Posted by griffin
The 20% off toys at BigW must be having an impact on Transformers, or the stores I've been visiting were just under-stocked to begin with.
Checked out the Calamvale, Garden City and CBD stores and none had any Voyagers at all (SS and POTP), and only one or two POTP Deluxe toys.
The Kmart store at Garden City had restocked the first wave of POTP Legends (Beachcomber, Windcharger, Shrapnel) because it seems that the large number of wave 3 Legends toys (Cindersaur and Outback) were almost all gone. No POTP Voyagers left there either. It's almost like Australia was really unlucky with wave 2 of all size classes, as very few stores had any of them, and none had all of them.
They did have new since last week, the wave 2 Studio Series Voyagers Megatron and Brawl, plus the newest Rescue Bots Epic (12 inch non-transforming toy) Optimus Prime.
Oh, and ToysRUs didn't have anything new...
Sorry, too soon?
:p
This is great. Should hopefully mean we're going to get more of later waves.
Kmart at Australia Fair had in the first waves of both the new Cyberverse Legends and Warrior figures.