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20th June 2009, 01:55 PM
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BigW Carindale had an odd cardboard 'merchandiser' display, which had Wave 5 Deluxes packed with Wave 1 FABs (Op, Bbee, Megatron, Jolt) and both Power Bots. These pre-packaged displays are shipped out from the supplier fully stocked with toys (we have similar food-related merchandisers go through our warehouse), so it is odd to have such a big difference between the assortment waves.
The first attached photo below, has the merchandiser, which had the Deluxes and FABS on this side, and the Power Bots filling the other side. The cubicles go all the way to the centre, and only one toy variety fills each cubicle. So on the left hand side, those two cubicles with Mudflap, only had Mudflap - and several of each in the cubicles, which means they had about 15-20 of each (Mudflap, Ravage, Interrogator Barricade and Cannon Bumblebee).
In their regular section (second attached photo) they had wave 2 Voyagers (Ratchet and The Fallen), wave 2 FABs, Robot Heroes, wave 1 Scouts, Leaders, Gravity Bots and both Roleplay weapons.
Target had a lot of Movie figures, but most just wave 1. The only exception was Voyagers, with wave 3 (Megatron and Mixmaster). They had Legends, Scout, Deluxe, Voyagers, Leaders, FABs and both Roleplay items.
They also had a heap of merchandise items like the Bumblebee car torch, Optimus and Bbee alarm clocks, Projection torch and Bbee watch.
David Jones had a small selection - Legends wave 1, Scouts wave 1&2, Deluxe wave 1, FABs, Gravity Bots, Robot Heroes, Powerbots, Voyager wave 1. (prices added to the price comparisson listing).
Myer had 3 Movie assortments, and according to Myer CBD (who said they didn't have any when I called) all that are currently in stores is all they should have for another 6 or so weeks because of an upcoming toy sale that doesn't have any TFs items in it (and therefore are only stocking items in the sale).
The items at the Carindale store were Deluxe preview wave, Power Bots and Wave 1 Voyagers.
And the Toyworld at Carindale has been renamed 'Toyland', starting off its own franchise (of 2 whole stores so far), and with a logo that is coloured like Toyworld's...
Anyway, I was told that they weren't happy with the 'rules and restrictions' of the Toyworld franchise, and wanted to be more independant. As such, their prices are even worse than Toyworld. Things like Scouts for $20, Gravity Bots for $33, Power Bots for $57 and Roleplay for $90.
Funny though that they have signs all around the store saying that they will price beat by 5% of any competitor, to suggest that they have competitive prices, but are far from it.
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