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Title: Target Has New Items
Post by: Chris on June 18, 2003, 02:04 PM
I can't believe I actually just typed that in, but Target did indeed have a few new items! On the pegs were an Imperial Officer, Red Battle Droid, Yoda with Chair, and Padme Droid Factory Chase. I could not believe myself, I almost fell over. The Red Droiid and Imperial officer figures were so near mint, but the obsessive compulsive part of me kicked in and I didn't pick them up. Now that I think back, it was stupid of me. They were great looking, this was a great find especially on the birthday. Still only about 8 figures on the pegs including these so this must be because of the Target Clone Wars promotion. Stay tuned to JediDefender for the latest!
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: MisterPL on June 18, 2003, 02:29 PM
Were the pegs previously barren? Mine have been empty (and I mean EMPTY, ZERO, NADA) for weeks, presumably in preparation for new figures. Hopefully your situation is indicative of a chainwide change.

And while I'm looking forward to seeing the Clone Wars line finally hit the shelves, I'd still like to see more early 2003 stuph make its way out. (Dooku and Ani's speeder bikes, please.)
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: JediMAC on June 18, 2003, 02:54 PM
Target is where I've found 95% of my 2003 Saga stuff this year, with the other 5% coming from Walmart.  Nothing anywhere else.  Period.  TRU is completely out of the game.  I've had a couple pretty large scores at Target this year, along with probably 8-10 other smaller sitings...

The Targets around here all completely cleared out their pegs (supposedly a Hasbro rep stopped by) in the last month or two, a couple new cases momentarily hit in a few of those locations, and they've also just put out a handful of other older figures in the last couple days.  But I've got to assume the Target toy managers are aware of the empty pegs, and have new product ordered by now.  That's if they're not gearing up for a Clone Wars promotion of some type in the next month or so.

But yes - Target is THE place for the new Saga figures this year.  Those empty pegs in many stores may be annoying, but I'd keep checking back there if I were you...
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Chris on June 18, 2003, 02:58 PM
Yes, the pegs were just about empty. One or two Orn Free Taa's at the very most. I really am hoping for more Saga too, not just the Clone Wars.
Title: Re: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Morgbug on June 18, 2003, 03:27 PM
But yes - Target is THE place for the new Saga figures this year.  Those empty pegs in many stores may be annoying, but I'd keep checking back there if I were you...

Great, yay, woo-woo.  Oh yippee, go Target.  Figures.  No Targets in Canada :'(

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: DSJ™ on June 18, 2003, 03:30 PM
But yes - Target is THE place for the new Saga figures this year.  Those empty pegs in many stores may be annoying, but I'd keep checking back there if I were you...

Great, yay, woo-woo.  Oh yippee, go Target.  Figures.  No Targets in Canada :'(

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Target?   :'(
Title: Re: Re: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Jeff on June 18, 2003, 03:38 PM

Great, yay, woo-woo.  Oh yippee, go Target.  Figures.  No Targets in Canada :'(

I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Morgbug,

When are you just going to give up and join us down here in Minnesota?

It's so close to Canada and it's chocked full o' Targets!

You know you want to!
 ;)

Jeff
Title: Re: Re: Re: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: obi_robz on June 18, 2003, 03:48 PM
Target?   :'(

Ditto!  

Some good finds there, Chris. I’m glad stuff is finally starting to show up for you :). Personally, I wouldn’t have been able to pass on a near mint red-battle droid (the UK never gets the rehashes/variants brought over by Hasbro). The blonde IO I finally found online was only about C8.5, but I was just happy to get it.

I don’t know how people have the patience to wait for the ’03 figures to get to retail. Maybe Internet shopping is quite a bit more expensive than retail in the US? In the UK it costs about the same per figure, and everything is available as soon as it’s released.
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Vator on June 18, 2003, 03:55 PM
I must have been lucky,I found every figure up till Han Hoth(including Boba Fett)in Wal-mart,about 3 months ago(half at wal-mart the other half at a flea market that got them fom wal-mart)
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: chuckles on June 18, 2003, 03:59 PM
Yes Brent, join us here in the Twin Cities. Targets are about as plentiful as McDonalds around here. Heck, I have about 5 Targets all within 10 minutes of my house.

I just wish one of them had something new once in a while.  >:(
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Darth Broem on June 18, 2003, 04:37 PM
The Target here has had empty pegs for at least a month now.  Or so it seems.  I keep thinking they will fill it with 2003 figs.  Nope, not yet anyway.
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Vator on June 18, 2003, 04:40 PM
Gonna try target tonight
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Angry Ewok on June 18, 2003, 05:36 PM
We have a target in Alabama... nothing new since last year, though.  ::)
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: max_one on June 18, 2003, 07:14 PM
i wish i had some new stuff at a target near me, i don't care if i even have it already at least it will be new.
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Scott on June 18, 2003, 10:42 PM
Guess, what, went to two Targets today and picked up some Padawans and a couple of RBD's

I was looking for the newest MOTU

Guess what else they sell at Target every Halloween...

(http://theimaginaryworld.com/box247.jpg)

TARGET!
TARGET!
TARGET!
TARGET!

Give me a T!
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Morgbug on June 18, 2003, 11:46 PM
Mmmmmmmmffffffllllllllllrrrrrrrggggg.  Awwwwwwwwp.  Frankenberry. :-\

 :oHoney, pack the bags, we're moving in with Jim and the missus.  
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: CHEWIE on June 19, 2003, 01:30 AM
I've seen remnants of the newest wave a couple of times, but not all of it.  All I need are those elusive Padawan kiddos and I'll be caught up ...for now.

 :P
Title: Re: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: MetalJedi on June 19, 2003, 03:01 AM
Guess, what, went to two Targets today and picked up some Padawans and a couple of RBD's

I was looking for the newest MOTU

Guess what else they sell at Target every Halloween...

(http://theimaginaryworld.com/box247.jpg)

TARGET!
TARGET!
TARGET!
TARGET!

Give me a T!

Hey OCB my Walmart sells that all year round. You want some now I'll send it to ya!  ;D As for the Ashla Jempa wave I saw it today make that I saw all the new figures in my local scalpers hands as he was paying for them. It's people like that I wish they're atm or credit cards wouldn't go through and they didnt have cash <G>

Anyway enough of my rant, bring on Coleman Trebor!

Regards,
Robb aka MJ
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Darth Broem on June 19, 2003, 09:19 AM
Yep, I went to Target last night and they had 1 Ashla & Jempa, 1 Blonde Imp Officer, and 2 Red Battle Droids.  Then the usual glut of Destroyer Droids and Yoda Jedi Council Chair and unsold Accesory Sets.  Not many pegs for new figures but hey there is hope.  A new hope if you will :)

I checked Wal-Mart - nothing new there.  
K-Mart - nothing new.  
Kay-Bee - zilch.  
Wal-Mart #2 - zippo.
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: MisterPL on June 19, 2003, 01:19 PM
Went to Target this afternoon and found the Archive Droids. That's it. Obviously someone beat me to the rest of the case (whatever was in it), probably scalpers. It's ALWAYS the scalpers. They have such a foul odor they leave a vapor trail behind. I could almost make out the silhouette...

Anyway, it's here, just not in adequate quantities.  :P
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Scott on June 19, 2003, 04:19 PM
You could move in with me Brent but my Wife would be even more ticked with the increase in packages :-*
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: chuckles on June 19, 2003, 06:41 PM
Just came back from a Target that at first check, still had empty pegs. Then, I spot on the shelf hidden behind some old Action Fleet ships, one of the 2003 figs. I start getting excited as I see it's the Yoda and Chian figure that I still need. Then I held it up to inspect it. So much for getting excited over it. I'm guessing whoever went out of their way to hide the figure was also the one who took the tab that actually holds the fig on the peg and bent it all the backwards and making this a non-mint card which I have no interest in.  But in an effort to get even with this culprit, I hung the fig back on the pegs in hopes that someone else will buy it before the one who hid it returns.

Oh, and Brent, I'll have to check with the wife but I'm pretty sure that if you show up to move in and you don't have a Canada sweatshirt for her, you'll probably be sleeping on the patio.  ;)

Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Boba Binks on June 19, 2003, 07:00 PM
Target is full of it!! At least this one Target in my area. Check out this e-mail I got from a good friend of mine.

David,

Have you heard any news about Target and SW basic figs? I stopped at the
Target in Plainfield last night and they told me they would not carry
the basic figs until the Christmas reset? Have you heard anything about
this? I've not seen anything new since the Han & Chewie that you found
for me. Have you seen the Yoda/Padawan packs?

LMK!
Steve


I have to say this guy at this Target is FULL OF IT!!!!
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: jadesfire on June 19, 2003, 07:43 PM
Frankenberry!!!.    The Target around here only has it at Halloween also.  I stock pile it through Christmas.  :D
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Scott on June 19, 2003, 07:55 PM
Hey David is that Steve1138?  He is one of the cooler guys around if it is and I know he lives in Indy.  Just curious
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Nicklab on June 19, 2003, 09:02 PM
Went to a Target today, and finally got Yoda & Chian, along with Ashla & Jenpa.  NICE!
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Diddly on June 19, 2003, 09:15 PM
I'll have to check the Targets soon. Other than that, I have seen NOTHING NEW!!! :( >:( The newest figs I've seen are at GROCERY STORES, and that was just the High Council Yoda/DD wave. That's why I entered the Kebco $50 credit contest. I hope I win so I can buy something new for a change.
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Sith Lord Cosmo on June 19, 2003, 09:32 PM
How funny is this.  I go to Target before work and pick up

Yoda & Chian
Lama Su
Aayla Secura
Barriss Offee
Ashla & Jempa
Research Droids

Then I get to work, fire up JD and see the main story telling me to go to Target.  So far this year Target has been the only place I've found any new figures, all the other stores in my area suck
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Boba Binks on June 19, 2003, 09:59 PM
OCB - Yep it is Steve1138. He is a real nice guy. One of the better, more friendly collectors in the area.
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Nicklab on June 19, 2003, 10:38 PM
Let's not leave WalMart out of the mix.  Because I found the Throne Room Duel Luke & Vader, Snowtrooper, Mynock Hunt Chewy & pals tonight.
Title: Re: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Morgbug on June 19, 2003, 11:22 PM
You could move in with me Brent but my Wife would be even more ticked with the increase in packages :-*

Oh, that wouldn't be a problem, I get them delivered to work ;)  She'd never even know about it.  Really.

Quote
Oh, and Brent, I'll have to check with the wife but I'm pretty sure that if you show up to move in and you don't have a Canada sweatshirt for her, you'll probably be sleeping on the patio.  
Hmm, patio eh?  Warmer than it is up here, so that might be doable.   Where do I sleep if I bring the shirt?
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Ben on June 20, 2003, 01:57 PM
I think my local Target has already received and burned through their allotment of new stuff. Damn. They got in the Padawan case a week ago, but they haven't yet received the stuff with new cardbacks.
Title: Re: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: aka DaBigKahuna on June 20, 2003, 09:29 PM
Let's not leave WalMart out of the mix.  Because I found the Throne Room Duel Luke & Vader, Snowtrooper, Mynock Hunt Chewy & pals tonight.

Nice score Nicklab.  Target has been the place on the west coast.  I have found a few things at Walmart sparcatically.


Fish-
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: JediMAC on June 20, 2003, 09:59 PM
Collection 2 MOTHERLODE score at Target just now for me!!!   8)   8)   8)

My local Target just down the street from my office FINALLY filled up some of their empty pegs.  I was shocked when I turned the corner of the Star Wars aisle, glanced down to the usually bare pegs, and saw "stuff" hanging there!  Sprinted the whole 20 feet and started scooping stuff up!  Oddly enough, most of it was sitting on the shelf, with only a few actually up on the pegs themselves...  And to think that I almost just drove home, but bit the bullet at the very last second and turned the other way, "just in case"...  Good decision, I must say!   :D

Getting closer and closer to getting all caught up finally...   8)
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: dustrho on June 21, 2003, 08:35 PM
I tried my local Target yesterday, and found a Red Battle Droid.  It's the first '03 figure I've seen yet.  It was just a great feeling seeing something new in a store.
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Brian on June 23, 2003, 01:32 PM
My wife and I checked out our closest Target this weekend, and all they had was a few of the Deluxe sets/Accessory sets, and no pegs even out for basic figures anymore.  Their toy aisle was also rearranged since the last time I was there.  However, there was a decent sized bare space in their aisle (no pegs even)...perhaps reserved for this rumored Clone Wars launch?  I'm not sure, but I sure hope they put out some new stuff soon.  Congrats to all of you who have found something new!
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Jango Fettish on June 23, 2003, 06:55 PM
I don't what it is with Target, because I got these figures at my Super Target about 2 months ago?  ???
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Taminar on June 29, 2003, 07:31 PM
I haven't seen new toys anywhere in weeks.  I'm going crazy in Florida!!

Auriette
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Jango Fettish on June 29, 2003, 07:45 PM
Karma, in Daytona Beach, stumbled upon the new Unleashed about a week ago. She was also the first at Rebelscum to have the newer Boba Fett wave.

I think the entire East Coast is getting the shaft when it comes to stuff, cuz NC is vacant and always has been.
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Morgbug on June 29, 2003, 11:54 PM
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I think the entire East Coast is getting the shaft when it comes to stuff, cuz NC is vacant and always has been.

Again, I encourage you to come to Canada.  If only to see just how long the shaft can be. 8)
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Boba Binks on July 2, 2003, 12:03 PM
Finally I scored at Target!! Not in that way!  ;)
Anyways this morning I picked up X1 Jedi Luke, X1 Darth Vader, X1 Snowtrooper. They also had the repacks of X1 C-3P0 and X1 Jango Fett.
Also on the pegs was Boba Fett, Hoth Han (Blue), Chewbacca, R2-D2, and some Clone Pilots and Destroyer Droids.

Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Jango Fettish on July 3, 2003, 12:23 AM
Guys, please keep me in mind when you see those repacked Jango's. If there is one, MOMC, grab it for me. I'd be extremely happy, since 3 people in my very own NC thread have passed on them, totally forgetting about the biggest Jango Fett fan in the world.  ::)
Title: Re: Target Has New Items
Post by: Mister Skeezler on July 3, 2003, 11:58 AM
I'll grab him if I see him.