After a few months of unreliable restocking at stores like BigW and Target (and to a lesser extent, Kmart and ToysRUs), I was surprise to see today that my nearby Kmart and ToysRUs had been stripped of Transformers toys in just a week since I was last there... but other toylines were not as bare (maybe they were being restocked faster to keep up with demand).

So how have your local stores been this Christmas, or since the mid-year toy sales? Any stores near you showing empty pegs or shelves like the ones below?
(post up photos if you've been seeing empty or shrinking Transformers sections, during this time that should be capitalising on Christmas shopping)

This was ToysRUs Garden City... I've never seen it like this before, with almost nothing left.


Kmart Garden City... with half the pegs empty, and all the shelves below it filled with Dragon toys, but the Transformers shelf-tags are still left there for whenever they get a restock.


This was Kmart on November 26th, with pegs full to capacity and two shelves with Transformers...


In the last month though, Kmart have been so starved of supply, that they are putting up shelf tags to say that they aren't discontinued, but they can't get any more stock (which would be from the supplier, Hasbro).


Even Myer was looking emptier than usual (they are usually very slow to move stock), as most of the space was empty when I got there, but I moved some toys around so that the photo shows what was in stock.


Meanwhile, Target and BigW are like Kmart, in that they are struggling to get new stock, so their Transformers section keeps shrinking with every visit.
This is the time of year that more of your (toy) product needs to be in stores, not a reduction or completely bare pegs and shelves.
This is Target today with their entire Transformers Range for Christmas.


And this was BigW a few weeks ago, with their entire range, with 3/4 being Hero Mashers.