Clone Wars AT-TE

[ctonra]

I BELEIVE HASBRO STATED IN THEIR SLIDE SHOW THAT IT WOULD BE RELEASE 7/26.    I MAY BE WRONG BUT I WOULD THINK IF THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE A MOVIE RELEASE IN AUGUST THE STORES WOULD NEED TO BE PACKED WITH TOYS FOR ALL THE KIDDIES COMING OUT OF THE MOVIES AND WANTING THE TOYS.   I SMELL MIDNIGHT MADNESS COMING THIS SUMMER.   AND EACH STORE GETTING TWO AT-TE IN.  AND FIVE HUNDRED YODA PEG WARMERS.   

[Jayson]

And here

[JACKOFTRADZE]

I can see this being in short supply and cleaned out for midnight madness, it's the first thing people will go for with most buying two.

Man, it's like they are printing Benjamins with the AT-TE!

[jedi_master_sal]

I can see this being in short supply and cleaned out for midnight madness, it's the first thing people will go for with most buying two.

Man, it's like they are printing Benjamins with the AT-TE!

Agreed.

I'm wondering if they'll actually put a limit on these things.

I plan on hitting every and any store that does a midnight madness that night, in my area.

I'm hoping to at least score 3 of the 5 I want. But, my mission is at the least 1 for me and my fiancee will pick up another, plus 2-4 Homing Spider droids. The figures can wait. I expect them to be easy to find. I'm not getting the animated stuff, so it would just be the realistic figs. I dn't see wave 3 selling all that fast. Yes, maybe for midnight madness, but in a week or two they'll be replenished.

[CHEWIE]

I'm pretty sure that 7/26 is the release date...

Hey Chewie - where did you hear that? A couple of other sites are indicating that Hasbro said the AT-TE was coming out more towards the holiday shopping season, so I wouldn't expect it until September/October.

I don't know, I could have sworn I've seen in posted in a few places?  Maybe forums, so it could be incorrect information.

As for getting this sucker, starting in early July, I'll be hitting Target customer service with the DPCI...

[JediJman]

As for getting this sucker, starting in early July, I'll be hitting Target customer service with the DPCI...

EXACTLY.  With 40 Targets around the Mpls metro, I'm hoping this is not much trouble to track down, especially with the DPCI trick.

[JACKOFTRADZE]

DCPI is right! I almost forgot because I hate Target so much. However, I hate crowds more, so I will do the same just to get it out of the way. I plan on getting 2 AT-TE's and x4 Homing spiders. I am not to juiced about the Torrent so I will only picking up one of those.

[Jayson]

I'm pretty sure that 7/26 is the release date...

Hey Chewie - where did you hear that? A couple of other sites are indicating that Hasbro said the AT-TE was coming out more towards the holiday shopping season, so I wouldn't expect it until September/October.

I don't know, I could have sworn I've seen in posted in a few places?  Maybe forums, so it could be incorrect information.

As for getting this sucker, starting in early July, I'll be hitting Target customer service with the DPCI...

The price and release date were announced in Hasbro's press release. 7.26.08

[Darth_Anton]

People really think there will be a midnight madness? I donno.

[Nicklab]

There may or may not be a midnight madness.  But it does appear to be a hard street date.  That date showed up in almost all of the Hasbro presentation slides.  There are a good number of movie licensed toy lines out there that launch on a specific date, and usually the cases have the street date stamped in red.

[Jayson]

The 26th is also a Saturday, which increases the potential for having an Midnight sale.

[jedi_master_sal]

It might be good to start petitions to the big three (Wal*Mart, Target, TRU) to have midnight madness events.
Be nice if we could get fellow SW collecting sites participation in this as well.

At the least I know I'm going to be asking often of my local stores to have an event, ESPECIALLY TRU. I REALLY want them to succeed. This will in all likelyhood be the LAST hurrah for the SW line as far as BIG releases go. So TRU (or one or both of the others) should try to capitalize on this.

Even if you folks don't want to do a petition nationally, hit up you local stores. It's possible we might create enough buzz there for the Corp HQs to take notice.

-Sal

[JACKOFTRADZE]

This will in all likelyhood be the LAST hurrah for the SW line as far as BIG releases go.

Sal is right, we should ask TRU to plant the seeds. I am sure they are already planning it, but I think it will be up to the store to decides and may not see as much support as the movies.

Sal my friend, you did forgot the one other SW major project the Flanneled Bearded one has on tap. Maybe you should revise your quote to this:

This will in all likelyhood be the LAST hurrah for the SW line as far as BIG releases go until the live action TV show.

[ruiner]

There will be more movies.  There's too much money involved.

[jedi_master_sal]

This will in all likelyhood be the LAST hurrah for the SW line as far as BIG releases go.

Sal is right, we should ask TRU to plant the seeds. I am sure they are already planning it, but I think it will be up to the store to decides and may not see as much support as the movies.

Sal my friend, you did forgot the one other SW major project the Flanneled Bearded one has on tap. Maybe you should revise your quote to this:

This will in all likelyhood be the LAST hurrah for the SW line as far as BIG releases go until the live action TV show.

Oh I didn't forget it, but since as of this moment there are no talks of a movie being released along side it to kickstart sales of action figures, then I'd be surprised if there would be another midnight madness for the live show.

Also, the live action show hasn't even really started production. So who knows if that will ever even really get off the ground. I think the success of the cartoon AND toys for the cartoon are going to play into the live show being done or not and for how long.

So I chose to actively omit the live show as a reference point to a midnight madness. heh heh