Permanent Pricing Changes

[jaydisc]

Pretty sure Kmart has reduced their deluxe price to $25.

[griffin]

Took note of as many prices as I could at the ten stores I checked out on the weekend, but lack of stock at most meant no shelf-tags or stock of a number of size classes. As the stores start to get in the new NEST toys, I'll try to fill the gaps (and update the toy-price comparisson post in the AUS news section).

(note - if a price is within 10 cents of the next dollar, I round it up)

Ones noted so far though:

Target - just about everything is still priced EXACTLY the same as mid last year, except:
Leader Class - $99 (was $100)
Star Wars TFs - $35 (was $30)
(Animated Leaders are obviously a lot cheaper at $20, but is likely to be just clearance stock from Hasbro)

Kmart - a number of changes, and each is cheaper than before.
Legends Class - $5 (was $9)
Scout Class - $15.75 (was $16)
Deluxe Class - $25 (was $29, as noted in the post above)
Robot Heroes - $9.75 (was $10)
RPMs Minivehicles single pack - $8 (was $10)

BigW - some minor reductions, but very hard to find stock to get price details.
Scout class - $15.64 (was $15.88)
Leader Class - $87.66 (was $88.73)
Star Wars TFs - $31.88 (was $34)
RPMs Minivehicles single pack - $9 (was $9.88)

Toys R Us - was able to check just about every size class, but only found 2 price changes.
FABs - $28 (was $30)
Robot Heroes - $10 (was $12)

Myer and DavidJones still had all the same prices.

Toyworld is a franchise chain that can vary prices between stores, but still found most of the Classes still priced the same as in the Price Comparisson listing. Exceptions at the store I checked on the weekend:
StarWars TFs - $30 (was $35 on the list)
RPMs Minivehicles 2-pack - $18 (was $19 on the list)
(Each of those could still be the old price at other stores though)

Back with more if I find them, as I'm filling the gaps.

[CryptiK]

I believ Uncle Petes are now selling Animated Voyages at $36 permanently

[jaydisc]

Legends Class - $5 (was $9)

I think this is just last week's sale price. And the old price was $7 (by my experience).

[griffin]

I'll double-check, as I looked at a lot of prices over the weekend, but I'm pretty sure it was a regular shelf tag (and I didn't think there was any sale on Friday when I was there).

[CryptiK]

I'll double-check, as I looked at a lot of prices over the weekend, but I'm pretty sure it was a regular shelf tag (and I didn't think there was any sale on Friday when I was there).

Animated Leaders at $20 would this be across all stores?

[griffin]

Only Target.

[griffin]

I'll double-check, as I looked at a lot of prices over the weekend, but I'm pretty sure it was a regular shelf tag (and I didn't think there was any sale on Friday when I was there).

Just noticed the kmart sale topic (and checked the catalogue online), so will recheck when the sale ends to see if these are new standard prices or temporary sale prices (nothing was noted on the shelves, and the catalogue doesn't mention any discount amount (other sale items in the catalogue say how much you are saving) or 'was' prices, suggesting it could be a permanent price change).

[CryptiK]

Only Target.

yeah thats what I meant all stores of Target.

[griffin]

I think this is just last week's sale price. And the old price was $7 (by my experience).

Checked another Kmart, and they had some old shelf tags still up, showing the regular price being $6.75. At least that's still some movement from the $7 price for Legends. And I checked the price comparisson posting, which had '$7', realising it was actually my bad handwriting that looked like a '9' instead of a '7'...

Other price changes that I noted today at Big W:
Deluxe - $24.66 (was $24.93)
FAB - $24.48 (was $24.66)