I dropped by Target myself this morning and they had freshly stocked the huge blank space allotted after the aisle reset yesterday. The only thing that kind of irritated me was that there was three times as much space given to those Fast Action Battlers things as to the actual deluxe class toys (12 pegs for the former, only 4 for the latter, which were, of course, stocked full of Preview Protoforms). Tons of the Optimus Prime and Starscream arm cannon things, and gobs upon gobs of those Scout Class repaints exclusive to Target. They had about seven Leader Class Primes and only one Leader Class Megatron (the latter of which I picked up; I didn't see it again at any other stores today, so I'm glad I did). Two endcaps devoted to TF stuff, with Voyager Starscreams and Ironhides, and wave one Deluxe class hanging out alongside the exclusive "Robo-Vision" Optimus Primes and the Unleashed Bumblebee. Target was, for all intents and purposes, the best stocked of the three stores I hit this morning, both in terms of amount and variety.
Wal-Mart, after vowing that nobody would touch their toys until June 2nd, decided to only stock those two cases of Voyagers (SS, Ratchet, Blackout, and Ironhide) in addition to their exclusive Bumblebee vs. Barricade two pack on an endcap. Other than the wave two Deluxe remanants from earlier this week (Swindle, Bonecrusher, and Jazz), they put NOTHING else out. I did find a rather beaten-up 30AC Stormtrooper though, so it wasn't a total loss.
TRU got rid of about 75% of their SM3 stuff in the feature area and proceeded to stock the pegs full of nothing but the movie preview protoforms. No deluxe class stuff other than that. They didn't stock their exclusive Blackout/Scorponok pack either. They did have the four Voyagers as well as the Leader Primes (for five bucks less than Target; no Megatrons though), and gobs of the arm cannons, Potato Heads, Robot Heroes, and those FAB things. What was interesting was that TRU devoted about 2/3 of their Voyager stock space to the Classics Jetfire, Prime, and Megatron, leading me to wonder if they were shorted some of their stock they were supposed to get on the movie stuff.
So, between three stores, I wound up with the two Leader Class toys, two deluxes (Wreckage and Scorponok), and three Voyagers (Starscream, who is incredibly cool, Ratchet, and Blackout), after finding the wave two Deluxes (Bumblebee, Brawl, Barricade, Bonecrusher, and Jazz) earlier in the week. So, my TF movie collecting is taken care of for a little while.
