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Collectibles => Past Hasbro 3.75" Lines => Saga Collection '06 => Topic started by: Darth_Anton on December 22, 2006, 11:50 AM
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I was wondering what the current state of the SW shelves were around the country/continent/world. The holiday season is always an interesting time of year and I wonder what's happing in your neck of the woods.
Although I'm caught up with my collection, I've still been finding myself in the stores picking up odds and ends for Monday and stop in the toy section for curiosity. One weird thing I noticed that is in one day, about 10 Mid-sized vehicles that had been sitting for weeks were gone along with half of the SW figures. At another store, the only figure on the shelf was about 6 Boushh's and there's been no sign of re-stocking anywhere. Seems SW is getting pretty low.
What's it like for you?
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I was wondering what the current state of the SW shelves were around the country/continent/world. The holiday season is always an interesting time of year and I wonder what's happing in your neck of the woods.
Although I'm caught up with my collection, I've still been finding myself in the stores picking up odds and ends for Monday and stop in the toy section for curiosity. One weird thing I noticed that is in one day, about 10 Mid-sized vehicles that had been sitting for weeks were gone along with half of the SW figures. At another store, the only figure on the shelf was about 6 Boushh's and there's been no sign of re-stocking anywhere. Seems SW is getting pretty low.
What's it like for you?
Same over here every toy store i go to just has the new endor c3-PO and they haven't restocked in over 2 weeks! So it seems that star wars is getting low every where right now :P
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there is nothing anywhere i go. like literally nothing. maybe a titanium every now and then but figures havent been retsocked at the mall near my house. and all the TRU has is the naboo wave. and i think they HAD the new vehicles but they were gone when i went.
not much around here anymore :(
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I went today for last minute shopping at the crappy WM, the pegs were full of GB, besides alone Boussh Chewie,GNK & Jerjerrod,GHs & Transformers in new 30th A packaging. ::)
I bet most kids who like SW will found atleast 1 SW transformer under the tree this year & some of us too. :-\
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Non-ROTS-based vehicles are sold out pretty much everywhere, and even then it's only TRU that still has Obi-Wan and Anakin JSFs. The Hailfire Droids, AATs, Sith Starfighter, and Vader's TIE don't last too long on the shelves at all. The tins (all seven, counting the Bith) are really sitting much more than I would have expected given the holiday season. These are probably going to wind up being 3 bucks at Target by the end of January, I'd think, although WM and TRU will hold on to them at full price until next Christmas. ::)
Basic figures are, as expected, starting to thin as it gets closer to crunch time, although Jerjerrod and Endor Threepio are quickly overtaking Lushros Dofine and Poggle the Lesser for the 2006 Pegwarmer of the Year crown. Wal-Mart's so jammed full of Jerjerrods and Threepios in one location that they don't have any room to stock any basic figures, and the other WM is clogged full of GB figures and has been for the last month. Target cut back their peg space and since then it's been a lot of Padmes, GB Threepios, and Hem Dazons on their three basic figure pegs.
Unleashed Battle Packs are selling so-so (at least steadily), as are the Galactic Heroes, especially the 10-figure sets for each. The GH 10 packs are selling very quickly around me with (surprise surprise) the Vader's Bounty Hunters set going quickest. SW Transformers are, strangely enough, not moving AT ALL at either Wal-Mart, TRU, or Target, so I see a quick trip to the clearance aisle for those come January. The same 400 Bossks/Sandtroopers/Vaders/Fetts from the Titanium figure line are still sitting on the shelf with their inch of dust, and Titanium vehicles are nonexistent due to the gobs of Transformer Titaniums hogging the peg space.
The big non-surprise is that SW Legos are the biggest selling item in the SW line around me. I have not seen an actual SW Lego set make it more than a day around here, and it seems as soon as they're restocked, they're gone again. Several of the 2007 sets have hit and have disappeared almost immediately.
So yeah, it's a typical Christmas season for Hasbro SW stuff: Some of it sells, some of it doesn't, but nothing gets restocked in a timely manner.
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I walked into TRU late last night. In addition to the place in general looking ransacked, I could count the number of SW items in the SW section on my fingers. I can't remember the shelves being this bare during the holidays ever.
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Yeah, I haven't seen any SW lego since last month.
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endor 3PO, power droids, and utapua clones are warming, the first has been going on for a while, but the latter two are relatively surprising and new...
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HORRIBLE. The occasional store will have some Endor 2/Nabbo sporadically, but other than that the pegs are few and far between, clogged with Endor 1 and Greatest Battles, packages ripped open everywhere, and flung all over the place. It's a mess. I haven't seen Endor Luke or any of Wave 7.
What's funny, though, is that the KMarts around me don't even have a single figure on the pegs. :)
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I have found the Final 22 waves at both Target and TRU stocked heavily on the pegs. It's been an atypical Christmas for sure, normally it looks like the locusts came through the star wars section.
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went to target this morning, they had stocked the shelves to the roof on the 23rd, but now it looks as if an AT-AT walked through the toy sections. The employees were out stocking the shelves. The fig section didn't look too bad the GH figs were down to $4.62, snagged an Obi for custom fodder. But basically all that's left is the pegwarmers that everybody else is seeing.
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HORRIBLE. The occasional store will have some Endor 2/Nabbo sporadically, but other than that the pegs are few and far between, clogged with Endor 1 and Greatest Battles, packages ripped open everywhere, and flung all over the place. It's a mess.
This mirrors the situation at TRU/Walmart/KB in Hawaii. KB also had some supply of the Endboo wave. Up here we're clogged to overflowing with Endboo and the usual assortment of kiddy crap.
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Everything is cleared out here too. I went looking today since I've only found TWO of these 'last' Saga figures.
I did manage to score a Lego Star Destroyer for $50 though - $28 after my giftcard was applied!
Now if I can just find a Sail Barge for the same discount...
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i went to Square 1 (huge mall in mississauga) all of the stores had that Moff jerjerode dude and the naboo wave..nothing else. well besides 2 greedo's. but the Zellers there was a wasteland...no hotwheels no star wars no nothing left on the shelfs..that they were suposed to be in. they had some stuff but it was mixed in with the lego cause they are changing the set up of the toys i believe. boxing day was a dark time for star wars figures.
the hobby shop at the mall though had 20% off all star wars figures. all of them from the 96 collection. all of them selling at 20-40 a piece >:(
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I would say Minnesota stores look like they were ravaged by locust as well. Empty pegs, resets, clearances- the stuff was gone almost instantly.
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One of my local Targets has reduced it's number of pegs from 16-24 down to 6-8. Now, it's packed with figures that nobody in my area really wants.
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same here. when i went yesterday, ben 10 toys were frickin' everywhere, and as for SW there was a GB Padme, 2 Moffs, 4 3POs, and a Leia in Boushh Disguise.
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Target pegs are mostly cleaned out, Walmart is full with Utapau Clone, Hammerheads, TRU are nearly cleaned out has well.
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At least GB is being clearanced out at Target. they are now gone from the shelves. However, still lots of Neumodians. Sounds like the end of '05 all over again. :P
Surprisingly, my TRU's seem to be devoid of all SW product.
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Things are pretty cleared out around here as well. There are a few figures at each store (I think WM is the only one with Greatest Battles anymore), but the majority of them are Naboo Soldiers, Gragra, Jerjerrods, and the usual pegwarmers. A few other repacked figures here and there, but not many overall. Also of note, I don't think there is a single vehicle available in our entire town, at any store. They really flew off the shelves for Christmas, at least around here. There are tin sets at all three stores now though, and sales on those seemed to have slowed down a bit. Target did its reset (and had the comic packs), and Wal-Mart is in the process of resetting right now. It looks like there might be a bit of a drought now, but I'm hoping not. It would be nice to have a good chance of finding some of these Final 22 figures before the 30AC stuff starts hitting.
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Surprisingly, my TRU's seem to be devoid of all SW product.
Same here except for a few tins and lightsbers. Just a big empty hole.
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Surprisingly, my TRU's seem to be devoid of all SW product.
Same here except for a few tins and lightsbers. Just a big empty hole.
Same at my TRU's. Walmart has been the only store to get anything this week.
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i was shockeds. the GOOD TRU in my area had zilch, save two Moffs. its usually so much more...abundant!
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They re-set the toy aisle at my local Target and shoved SW all the way to the end of the aisle. There are 4 pegs for basic figures (with Pregme's and Naboo soldiers), a few collector's tins, basic lightsabers, spring action lightsabers and a sprinkling of Titanium vehicles and SW Transformers. However TRU and Wal-Mart are packed to the gills with Hoth, Endor, GB, and Naboo.
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yeah, lightsabers in my area take up almost as much space as figs. that's pretty sad.
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The resets here have come and gone, and with them a lot of the old stuff was cleared out. I wasn't really surprised at what was cleared out, but more by what was left behind.
TRU, as everyone knows, never clears out anything, so they're still sitting on the same ROTS Obi-Wan and Anakin JSFs they had last Christmas, along with some Titanium Bossks at full price. They did, however, stock this morning with two more cases of Wave 7 (repaint wave 1) alongside the army of Carkoon Chewies, Endor Threepios, and Jerjerrods. Absolutely no Unleashed 2" Battle Packs left, although they had one each of the 10-packs today. Still a ton of the before Christmas glut (GH 10 packs, SW TFs, PT tins, and Battle Packs).
WM reset and kept space for basic figures, Unleashed 2" figures, SW TFs, lightsabers, tins, BPs, and for some unknown reason, GH 10-packs. The sad thing is, though, that WM did not send the GB/H&V figures to the clearance aisle, so we still have a ton of Padmes and Threepios mixed in amongst the 8 pegs of Jerjerrods and Threepios. Seriously. I counted 31 Jerjerrods this morning. Oh, and they also had the EU 2-packs there as well.
Target has four figures on all eight of its pegs (1 Han Carbonite, 1 Chewie Carkoon, and 2 Power Droids), and enough lightsabers to kill a horse. They also had about 10 Vader/RFT EU 2 packs on the pegs, so here's to hoping Hasbro continues to ship those at a higher case pack-out. ::)
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Target was half filled. GBs Padmes,both 3POs, Jerjerods,a lone Naboo & Endor soldiers, Boussh Leia & ANH Luke & Han.
TRU only had both 3POs,Padmes, Dofines, Gonks, Leias & a lone Cody. They all had ANH/ROTJ tins,etc...
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There is nothing on the shelves in 2 Walmarts, 2 Targets, a KB and a TRU in my area. It's been a real dead couple of weeks. I assume Wave 9 with the Appo and Kashyyyk clone will be populating the shelves in February before 30 AC rolls up on us.
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I'm happy to report that my Targets and, yes Wal-Marts have reset/restocked. There's no new 3 3/4" product, but everything else has been clearanced out and it's set for the new year. A little pissed that Targets have reduced there number of 3 3/4 pegs from 12-16 down to 8 or so.
I think this is one of my first positive comments about WM.
TRU is still a major ****hole though
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I still haven't found **** in weeks and weeks. Part of me likes it, so long as I manage to get caught up on all these repacks and repaints before they're gone.
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My stores all have about the same amount of stuff. There's only a few figures on the pegs, with all of them being any figure from the Naboo/Endor wave that isn't Luke or an Endor Soldier. There are also a few random older figures mixed in, mostly Derlins and Poggles. However, there are plenty of vehicles (Jedi Starfighters mostly) and Tin sets to be found.
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Brutal around here. TRU is LOADED with Naboo soldiers (yellow as far as the eye can see) plus Endor soldiers, Gragra and that damn Gungan (no, the other one).
Walmart has precisely zero pegs alotted in the reset to SW action figures :'(
Our other two retailers are pretty dismal; Superstore stops toys other than leftovers until September >:( and Zellers is perpetually hit and miss with nary an indication of what's coming or when.
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Things are pretty bleak around here now too, same as everywhere else. I guess there isn't much to be out there right now anyways, but I've only seen the first part of the "Final 22" one time - at TRU. Wal-Mart was getting close to bare pegs last week, but today they are stocked full of Naboo figures, and a few Endor ones and GB left overs. Target is much the same, but not nearly as many figures there overall. Less pegs, and only a few figures - again the same culprits.