QLD Transformers Sightings.

[Ravagecat]

There was only four crackers in at the service desk, and myself and another forum member got one each. the prime are in transit (4 on their way) and should be here within the week. And the manager's taking names for those, i've reserved two of them. I'm glad there's four coming otherwise i'd feel bad!

good luck everyone!

Called GC TRU at 9:00am and the guy told me they had no OP or TC. Who the hell is running this place Pretty poor management from whatever level at TRU (store, state, aus wide) for not at least having stock for an advertised item Why is it that the rest of Aus has these but not my local. Not happy TRU ..I'm pretty sure I'm not going to bother wasting anymore of my time chasing these damb things from a retail level. Online shopping FTW!!

[Shirokaze]

I called Toys R Us Garden City this morning too, and I was put on a waiting/to call list for Thundercracker. Lets see how we go....

[Kapryiath]

called the gold coast this morning they dont have TC in stock yet and wont put any on hold until they physically have them -.- FML

[Defcon]

I was in Garden city toys r us at 930am Wednesday. Yeah no stock on Masterpiece transformers. I did ask how many they would be getting in. They don't sound to confident in many coming in. The demand is so great for these I'm afraid quite afew people will miss out.

On the bright side of things, they are sure getting alot of enquiries. So if the feedback is passed onto head office, in the future they may take the masterpiece line more seriously. But IMO alot of people are going to lose trust in any future releases, and will just pay more and pre-order and import.

[griffin]

All this (positive) interaction with their stores over Transformers can be a good thing, as TRU will put more faith in the brand in future, and maybe even consult with fan-groups (like they did once before) to see where to focus their efforts. (and not listen to Hasbro, who just wants to sell massive amounts of first wave stuff, that shelf-warms and prevents restocking)

Just refrain from abusing the staff though, as frustrating as this is right now, they should get more stock in... and negative behaviour will just hurt you and us in the long run. (they may just choose to avoid the brand to prevent future hostilities)

[Cat]

Got my TC this morning. They were all sold within 10 minutes of opening. That's a quicker sellout than Prime! They had 8 at opening, I was told.

GC didn't sound confident of even getting them, and I'm not surprised seeing Aspley has had their stock since Friday.

Also went to Toyworld Carindale. If you want Generations deluxes, they're your place. They had a dozen cases (literally twelve cases). I only saw wave 1 out, but don't know if all the cases are the same.

They had the single minicons - Dualor, Catilla, and the Swoop one - Grindor? A dozen cases of those too. $6.99 each. Too much for one minicon IMO.

They had a heap of cases of Prime figures of various kinds.

No Gen Soundwave/Soundblasters, if anyone was wondering.

[jozaeh]

All this (positive) interaction with their stores over Transformers can be a good thing, as TRU will put more faith in the brand in future, and maybe even consult with fan-groups (like they did once before) to see where to focus their efforts. (and not listen to Hasbro, who just wants to sell massive amounts of first wave stuff, that shelf-warms and prevents restocking)

Just refrain from abusing the staff though, as frustrating as this is right now, they should get more stock in... and negative behaviour will just hurt you and us in the long run. (they may just choose to avoid the brand to prevent future hostilities)

I like your angle Griffin, that's totally what I was thinking. I know that I can't expect the Toys R Us staff to care anywhere near as much about these releases as I do, and hopefully the snapping up and majillion calls we all give them, will do what you said. Consult fan groups, heck even tweet about stock arrivals?! Ha!

And I agree, if I was a store manager, any yuckiness of a figure's release would sour me to the whole product and not even make me want to stock it again.

I bought my Toys R Us a bunch of flowers, and I'm taking them out to a nice french restaurant tonight to say thanks.

Ha just kidding. It's so hard to fight back at the frustration gremlin, but I like your thinking Griffin.

[Cat]

Find the best contact at TRU head office.

Send them a list of names (real names, not screen names) of people who wanted to buy each MP but couldn't due to lack of supply.

Emphasise for Optimus that its Especiallt disappointing as he was a catalogue item, and insufficient supply is even more disappointing (you could mention its also frowned upon to have little-to-no stock on advertised items, but we want to keep them onside).

Also mention this is just collectors of one board, not representative of the total collector base, and not even beginning to take parents into account.

If the list is big enough include the dollar figure at the end, ie they missed out on $XXXX of sales due to low/non-existent stock. Can't argue with the dollars.

[christalcase]

Target in the city finally have FOC Wave 2 Deluxes, but only Onslaught, Vortex and Brawl left for $28 each.

The Movie Trilogy Prime with Trailer is marked down to $29.88.

[reillyd]

If you're after Thundercracker and miss out, TRU has them on sale for only $74.99 (reduced from $99.99) on their US website, which comes to $93.71 with shipping to Australia.

The days of TRU monopolies may be over, if you can stand the wait. Don't know what shipping time will be like.