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Collectibles => Past Hasbro 3.75" Lines => Saga Collection '06 => Topic started by: Reid on March 6, 2006, 04:33 PM
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It seems like everytime I go to Target theres always bare basic figure pegs. The other pegs are overflowing with battle packs, titanium, GH, FB, but no basic figures. Why is this? Have the scalpers, after being extinct for a 1000 years, reared their ugly mugs in the collecting world? Am I the only one who is expericning this plague of bare pegs??
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"Am I the only one who is expericning this plague of bare pegs??"
Yes ;D
My take on it is that pegs are more bare now because of the switch back to OT characters and the vast improvement of sculpts in the past few years.
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Nope!
After two whole weeks of seeing bare pegs at 3 Targets I saw the 1st sign of life last night when I saw one Yoda and 7 bare pegs. I do not know what is happening at Target. TRU and WM have plenty of crap in their basic figure pegs.
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I think there is still a discrepency between what the store has pegs for and what they are ordering. This may be a local phenomena, but the Targets and Wal marts I check all have 4-5 pegs "set" for basic figures. These same stores generally have anywhere from 3-6 figures. All of them would easily fit on one peg. And the figures are not sitting in the back; I keep checking the scanner, and it insists the only figures are in the aisle. When I do run into a fresh restock, it is quite clearly a single case, usually with the clones missing. And like you have described, the unleashed, transormers, and force battler pegs are full, along with a full compliment of the choppers. So I would agree, bare pegs are definately a common sight for early 2006 hunters. I think it is a combination of timid ordering and a popular product. The scalpers will most definately be a problem come "Galactic Hunt" time, no question.
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My local TRUs are overflowing with Hoth Wave figures, but the Targets have (usually) a single Geonosian on the pegs and the Walmarts are still full of ROTS Mas Ameddas :(
KBs are hit or miss, half empty, half full of Hoth and Carkoon.
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Man, id be vying for position with either of you. Here in Iowa, i have yet to see most of the figures in any of TSC. Most of the pegs are more bare then.... [witty comment or pithy joke]. I figure this might rectify soon, but in the mean time I'm bideing my time.
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Hey Dhivael, where are you at in Iowa? Myself, Spuffy, and ruiner are in Waterloo, and we rarely find anything. Bare pegs everywhere. There's also Corman in Des Moines and Ames.
I don't know if you've checked the Mission Log section, but there's an Iowa thread that only gets updated by Corman there.
:)
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Between Target and WM, we seem to be getting a semi-regular flow of figures.
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So-Cal is stealling them from the rest of the country then. :-*
Pegs are bare everywhere here in CO. Even the "pegwarmers" are moving. Derline and Rieeken usually sit for the longest but they are slowly selling too. Wal-Mart gets 1 case about every 2 weeks. :-X
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My Target has had the same Riekkan and Derlin figure for over a month now. Two figs and thats it. Every time I ask an employee for more figs I get the same BS; sorry thats all we have at this time. They dont even bother checking inventory.
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If you take the figure to the price checker, it will give you the price, the aisle it should be located, and a yes or no on whether there are more in the stockroom. If your Target is anything like the ones near me, it will show that the figure or two on the pegs is all they have...
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I stopped at Wal-Mart this morning before work, and I was going to comment on the same thing. Our particular WM has been bare for probably a month now, and before that it was just a lone Derlin on the pegs for a couple of weeks. They actually have started putting some other junk (non SW) on the SW basic figure pegs there, probably since there isn't anything else for that open space. The last time I visited Target they continued to have a pegwarming trio of Derlin, Veers, and Rieekan. TRU is always bare as well, and I've only seen one TSC figure there at all this year, a Veers a few weeks back. Actually our WM in general seems fairly adverse to action figures...at least ones that collectors are interested in. No SW basic figures, the same ML and SMC figures for the past 6 months, no DC figures (or pegs for them anymore), no JLU figures, etc. Plenty of Power Rangers and Turtles, but the primary collector lines seem to have disappeared for the time being. Also, this may just be at our store, but the action figure "section/aisle" in general has been much smaller since the reset at the first of the year. Lots more space dedicated to cars, die cast, etc.
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I went to 14 stores on Sunday - 3 of them had ZERO figures on the pegs, only about 3 of them had any substantial amount. Most were bare or near bare.
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My 4 WM look like this....
24 hour super- has 38 geo/hoth pegwarmers(mostly yoda,poggle,derlin). This total after receiving 10 cases(120) of geo on 25 FEB(they sell good here). a week before this they got 5 cases of geo/hoth-only derlin survived until the 10 case shipment.
24 hour 'ghetto'- Has 6 derlins
Ave S-has 2 bibs
Ave J- has 4 poggles
Targets have nothing but 1 or 2 bibs per store ::)
TRU has 5 bibs/1 barada/3 derlins/1 snowtrooper/1 reiken
Kmart-?(havn't gone there in awhile)
I can attest that all WM's/Targets have got the Geo wave shipped twice already. Since they've 'flew' off the shelves more or less the first couple of shipments I dread the upcoming case revisions.......pegwarming central on it's way ::)
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I can attest that all WM's/Targets have got the Geo wave shipped twice already. Since they've 'flew' off the shelves more or less the first couple of shipments I dread the upcoming case revisions.......pegwarming central on it's way ::)
I know our local Targets and Wallys have had more than 2 shipments, and the TRU's got 1 shipment with about 10 cases (so equal to what Wally and Target have put out.
I have to agree that I sometime in the near future people will complain of "pegwarmers" that are clogging up the pegs and stopping new product from being put out when the case revisions start to arrive.
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I usually like bare pegs because that means they will be filled up with something soon. Stores hate bare pegs I learned as a stockboy many years ago. The managers would have a spaz attack about it where I worked at that time. I am not saying it was full of the same product but it was filled with something rather quickly.
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What I like to do is when I find one figure on each peg, I combine all the figures they have onto one peg. That way the section looks really empty. I've heard stock boys get in trouble for pegs that are empty and told to fill them prono.
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Most stores around here (as of the past 3 days) have mainly a Yoda, Poggle, or Sun Fac amidst my route of 5 walmarts, 2 targets and one TRU (which has 1 Boush and 7 Bib Fortunas)
I actually returned a Veers, Poggle, both C3Pos and a Sun Fac to Target yesterday.
But at a Walmart today, I spoke to the manager who claimed to recieve an email that said Hasbro is having problems making the figures, and that the pegs would be bare for a while.
I dunno what that is about as Uleashed minis and titaniums are now full everywher. I was able to finally grab 2 Republic Star Destroyers, a CW gunship and a Death Star.
As for other lines, I am up to date on Transformers, except the latest Beast Wars (first report today). I found a ML Scarlet Witch, Mystique, and 2x Hulkbuster Ironmans.
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Actually, I think it is GREAT news if Hasbro is really having problems making figures right now! I am ready for a break! Waves were hitting fast and hard, which kept the hunt going and though fun, the hunt is tiring at times. Now I hope I can breath before the next wave!
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What I like to do is when I find one figure on each peg, I combine all the figures they have onto one peg. That way the section looks really empty. I've heard stock boys get in trouble for pegs that are empty and told to fill them prono.
i just take the peg warmers and bring them to the backpack section (Target) and stuff them ;D
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That doesn't get you new figures. They just think they are stolen when they do inventory every quarter.
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I think someone in one of my local Target does this (the one next to the university). Sometimes months after a given wave (during non-movie years) has come and gone suddenly 3 or 4 of the peg warmers will re-appear.
I have seen collectors (or not) hiding figures in the past. I always help myself. ;D
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But at a Walmart today, I spoke to the manager who claimed to recieve an email that said Hasbro is having problems making the figures, and that the pegs would be bare for a while.
If this were true it would explain the recent ridiculous price increases at WM. Since the manufacturers can't keep up with current demand due to manufacturing problems the price is increased to counter this problem. Makes sense to me(why oil usually goes up in price around the independance day holiday). The problem here is that many walmarts all but sold out of many Saga figures prior to the price increase-which helps little :(
Paul! I've been doing that for several years...! It' s kind of hard for a manager to argue about stocking more figs when the pegs are empty!! Especially when you ask someone to stock a case off a pallet and you've already 'stacked' the pegs. Your argument becomes stronger this way! It's worked several times for me!
Will have to disagree with Spud on the hiding of the figs. I found out from some inside retail folks years ago that stores auto order everything-meaning they order depending on how much the store has sold. If you're hiding the figs it may help temporarily but in the long run your store will get shipped less figs the more you hide them. If a store clerk tells you that they get they're product only by whatever gets sent to them-then they're partially/kinda lying. Occasionally stores do get end cap sets and new mods that weren't auto ordered but for the most part product is auto ordered.
In the end though pegwarmers really don't sell very well so it may not matter-but they'll definately sell better/have a better chance of selling if they're in the section ;)
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My local Target has filled the empty basic pegs with Matchbox trucks. That seems a little dumb to me when there's so much other SW crap that doesn't have enough peg space for as much product that's there.
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I've heard a number of rumors on why the bare pegs exist... including this is Hasbro & Retail testing the waters to see what happens with shortened supply... I wouldn't put it past them actually.
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That tactic just turned me back to New Force.
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Regardless of the cause, I also am turning to online etailers for cases. 15 trips in the last 7 days has netted me 1 Ut clone, and nothing else (although I could have scored Sora, but I passed). The pegs have a poggle, Bib, or Reiken (sp?).
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This is interesting. I've had the most luck at finding figs at Target and KMart, and most of you are saying this is vice-versa. I've only found about 4 figures, 3 at KMart, and one at Target. I haven't been to TRU in a while, so I can't testify for that store, but my WalMart is constantly bare.
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This is absolutly rediculus... Basic figures i finally saw a Fett, although someone else was holding it.... *(#&@*(#&$ Pegs are more bare then i think ive seen ever including as far back as the '94 or 95 or whenever it was waves
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But at a Walmart today, I spoke to the manager who claimed to recieve an email that said Hasbro is having problems making the figures, and that the pegs would be bare for a while.
Bogus.
That's right up there with a random store manager declaring, "Walmart has discontinued carrying the Star Wars line!" Yeah right. I've heard that once a year since the 90's. ::)
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But at a Walmart today, I spoke to the manager who claimed to recieve an email that said Hasbro is having problems making the figures, and that the pegs would be bare for a while.
Bogus.
That's right up there with a random store manager declaring, "Walmart has discontinued carrying the Star Wars line!" Yeah right. I've heard that once a year since the 90's. ::)
Heard that one a few times myself from WM Managers. Question is...how else do you explain the long delay between shipments? I think it's plausible that there's a manufacturing problem....it could be more likely that the retailers weren't prepared for the type of demand they're facing on the TSC. Hence Hasro would not be ready as their orders amounts to be filled were small as per requested by retail. Now that retail is screaming at Hasbro to kick these out, Hasbro isn't ready(doesn't have it produced yet).
There's gotta be some reason for this....