Ahhhh here it is. I was looking for this post.Originally Posted by jaydisc
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Ahhhh here it is. I was looking for this post.
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Toys R Us Mt Gravatt has no MP Bumblebeeonthe shelf, and some asshats for employees. Told me it was sold out, or never was in stock, but that they don't have any managers in the floor.... And they didn't know how to find one. And they didn't know the store number to ring for one, it was in their phone and they would have to go back to get it. I was polite and courteous, and they made me feel like crap just for asking.
Infuriating. Eventually found one who said that no more stock was arriving until January on the phone, but didn't have the time to look it up on the computer to find out if they had received any ready to put out on shelf.
I miss my old Gold Coast store, that actually had time to be helpful to customers. It would have been an awesome gift, and while it's in stock on TRU au website, wouldn't arrive in time.
On the lookout for MISB Headmaster Highbrow, Takara or Hasbro. I'm sure I could make you a sweet deal!
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Sorry to hear about your experience. I just got mine from the Sunshine Plaza store. There are 5 left and with the 20% of voucher makes it really reasonable.
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Midnight Garden City shopping.
I got there at 12.30am and there was still a healthy number of people, and very few shops were already closed. For the next hour, it looked and felt like it was just a regular day. The noticeable difference though was how stripped/trashed the toy sections were in each store. Particularly the Transformers sections.
Kmart, ToysRUs and BigW were an absolute mess with their Transformers sections, while Target and Myer were significantly stripped compared to a week ago when I was last there.
A good sign there, that most stores have had a big dent out of their Transformers inventory, to warrant new stock soon (like Generations and RID). It's one of the few times I was actually happy to see empty pegs or shelves, particularly at BigW which had been clogged with at least a hundred gimmick toys since the Movie in June.
TRU - Just like BigW, there was significant empty spots on the shelves, and NOTHING in the over-stock area. Even their Kreo/Construct-Bots section was half empty, which had been sitting untouched even when they were on sale. They still had several Leader Jetfires and heaps of the various Evolutions packs and Voyager Galvatrons though. No RID or Masterpiece anything. The only new things I noticed were the Flip&Change Drift, the final wave One-steps (Prowl/Rollbar/etc), and cheap little novelty disc-launchers by Tomy.
BigW - nothing new that I could see, but a lot of empty pegs and shelf space... so fingers crossed on new (non-movie) stock soon.
Target - ALL the One-Step 6-packs appear to be gone. They had about 10 a week ago, and now, none! I must admit that they'd look like a great "giftset", being quite a large box with 6 toys... so would have been the most tempting item to look like an expensive gift to their kid.
Myer - despite the prices and several cheaper options in the same shopping centre, there was a noticeable dent in their Transformers selection. Unfortunately, the expensive Platinum Editions appear to be "walking" now that they don't have security tags on them.They were missing two Autobot 5-packs and one Dinobot 5-pack, and probably missing some of the others as well, but those were the ones I asked about. I hope that they aren't losing too many of these things, as the Platinum series looks to be continuing after the Movie ones, and when they go on sale at Myer, the do become rather affordable compared to importing. (and even cheaper than importing when on clearance)
They still had a single Trailer/Sideswipe set, a single Breakout Battle set and four Leader 2-packs.
Kmart - the only store in the Centre that had more than one Deluxe (they had about a dozen, including a single Hotshot). HEAPS of Rescue Bots (way too many), as well as the newer items Flip&Change Drift and final wave One-steps.
Most stores had massive amounts of those Hero Mashers, either being restocked in huge amounts, or are just not being bought at all. Target had more TFs Hero Mashers than all the other TFs toys combined.
A couple of the independent novelty stores had the three Movie head wall-lights, as well as one near the Myer end having a variety of licensed mugs (including a giant "mega mug" that can hold 850ml - almost a full litre!!!)
Then there was one of the central kiosks selling radio control cars, selling a KO TF3 Ultimate Optimus, in the KO flame packaging that the oversized Leader toys had in some Asian countries a couple years ago.
A couple of signs I saw last night (this morning actually), worth noting, but both expire today... so not much time left to utilise them.
Target had signs up saying that they'll price-match competitor's catalogue prices until December 24th (they are the one store chain that doesn't have a consistent policy, but will have a policy during one or two sale periods each year).
Myer had a sign up, saying 30% off Transformers (not applying to sale prices).
I left at about 3.15am, and the numbers had dropped off a lot to look like a (non-christmas period) weekday morning crowd. The Myer end from BigW to the end was the most active, with a lot of the small stores and food outlets staying open and a decent number of people, but the TRU end, especially the lower level, was a lot quieter, with most of the smaller retailers closed after about 1am.
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BigW Calamvale was similarly almost stripped bare when I was there yesterday. Hardly anything larger than a Deluxe.
They must have restocked really recently though as they had the last four Deluxes (Hotshot, Snarl, Bumblebee, Lockdow) at $28, and an endcap of One-Steps at $19... at least 50 of them including the final wave, so it looked like you could probably get a complete set of all 17 of the general release figures.
They also still had a fair few of the christmas stocking and lunchboxes, but the lunchboxes were not discounted like christmas items, because they could sell at any time of year.
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n00b question -
Anyone know if the Combiner Wars single card figures will be @ retail in AUS?
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Legitimate question mate. I don't think anyone can answer that though. The likelihood is that the Australian majors will pass on Generations, and focus on RiD due to RiD's media backing with cartoons and games. Honestly, I'm waiting for the TakaraTomy releases coz tfidownunder have wholesale connections with them so it'd be cheaper than normal Hasbro Aus retail anyway. I know the dude from tfidownunder is trying to establish a wholesale link with Hasbro US, but apparently the main thing holding him back is his lack of a store front (being purely online right now)
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They will almost certainly be out in Feb/March. This has been confirmed by Hasbro AU to Griffin here: http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=19917 . The reason we didnt get the last two years of Generations is for the reasons you said above but since then Hasbro AU seem to be pushing the line harder.
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Sweeeeeet. Being as egocentric as I am, I rarely am happy to be proven wrong. Welp, Oberon happy.
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Thanks
Ooh cool!!!
Sweeeeeet. Being as egocentric as I am, I rarely am happy to be proven wrong. Welp, Oberon happy.
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