2019 Walmart Jabba's Palace Adventure Set

[Nicklab]

That looks awesome!

[P-Siddy]

I concur with nick.  That is a cool looking background

[P-Siddy]

Finally got some kind of communication from Walmart regarding this.

We're sorry.
Your items are on backorder.
Hello P-Siddy,
 
We're really sorry, but one or more items you purchased are currently on backorder and may be delayed. We'll be getting more inventory and will fill your order as soon as we can.

If we can't ship the items by 06/07, we'll cancel the items, begin processing your refund and let you know by email.

If you'd rather not wait for the items to come back in stock, you can cancel now them by following this link or signing in to your account.

If you have any questions, please visit our Help Center. Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is unmonitored.

So a little more than a week and I'll find out if I even get this.  And wasn't this up for order again over the past week??  Definitely not a smooth transaction.  Just... Hasbro Pulse needs to have all future exclusives.

[Muftak]

Don't despair yet! I got that same email hours after the initial pick-up time they had promised...and at just about the same moment they charged my card and I started being able to track the FedEx shipment to the store.

I can't for the life of me figure out how they are able to botch this up so badly, it apparently has something to do with miscommunication between a chainwide website and regional distribution centers, but it is something they need to streamline out of their system if they are going to persist in the online preorder model.

Not that the brick-and-mortar model of exclusive distribution has been great for the past 20 years, either, but at least they didn't yank your purchase out of your cart at checkout and sell it to the guy in line ahead of you...

[P-Siddy]

Still nothing and according to Walmart.com:

This item is no longer available
We're unable to show you buying options for this item.

Nice to hear that this was up for order a couple weeks ago and they got their orders fulfilled before the people that ordered right away. 

[Jeff]

Still nothing

If you head up to MN this summer, you can stop by my house and look at my two sets if you want... 


Joking aside, this is a pretty awesome set.  I have one set up with the carbonite block in place with the "I've come for the bounty on this wookiee" scene figures and the other one is block-less with with the "Sarlaac Sentencing" scene figures.

Looking forward to seeing what they do next (if anything) for playsets.

[Mister Skeezler]

I don't know why I find "Sarlaac Sentencing Scene" so funny. I kind of picture the sarlaac in a cheap suit standing before a judge, tentacles hanging out of it's pants and a mess of sand on the floor.

Hey Jeff, what's up with the front page? Are you switching over to a new layout? I'm not seeing any news content at all.

[Nicklab]

I am continuing to kick myself for not being able to get this while it was briefly available online.  Secondary market sellers are trying to get $150 for this set, and I haven't heard a peep about this playset turning up in any stores.

[P-Siddy]

I am continuing to kick myself for not being able to get this while it was briefly available online.  Secondary market sellers are trying to get $150 for this set, and I haven't heard a peep about this playset turning up in any stores.

Well, I had a preorder that they cancelled on me, even though they fulfilled orders when it popped up online again weeks after I did my preorder.    I've been checking online on their page and brickseek… nothing going on on their site, but "out of stock" statuses on stores near me appeared a week ago on brickseek when there was nothing before, so maybe these will start showing up in stores.

[Nicklab]

I sincerely hope so.  Could WalMart seriously be waiting to stock these until Triple Force Friday?

[Matt_Fury]

I think we're in luck.  I just pulled a Rob and ordered a Black Series Carbonite Han off of Amazon for my new skiff.

[P-Siddy]

Yakface reports that a guy in Chicago area found these in store

[Muftak]

I sincerely hope so.  Could WalMart seriously be waiting to stock these until Triple Force Friday?

I really think this is the case. The current Walmart planogram has 0 TVC presence, and includes the Solo Kessel Playset. I expect Jabba's Palace to show up in store (if at all) when the planogram revises for Triple Force Friday.

[Nicklab]

Yakface reports that a guy in Chicago area found these in store

Did Rob buy one of these on eBay?

[P-Siddy]

Yakface reports that a guy in Chicago area found these in store

Did Rob buy one of these on eBay?

Rob needs to visit St Louis.