Friday 1 June 2007

What Movie Stuff Did You Buy?

Its June 2nd, so retail locations around the country should have some freshly stocked shelves of Transformers toys and related merchandise. When swung by Target yesterday they already had the space cleared for them, just not stocked. I am still trying to figure out what want to buy. Have a budget afterall so can't get it all.

If you went and hit up a store, what did you get and what do you think of it?

Update: If interested in getting some movie toys, hit Target instead of Wal-Mart first. I swung by Target after work Friday and they already pre-prepped the store with an 8 foot section and two end caps.

Around 3am Saturday, hit up two Super Wal-Marts and neither had much of anything available. They had items but scattered throughout the toy section with no rhym or reason. Both stores had about a 2 foot section for Transformers...but was filled with previous line's shelf warmers. Bascially what few gaps they had they used to fill with the movie toys. If no gap they just didn't stock it. So I found Leader version of Optimus Prime but not much else. Speaking of, did notice that the Target exclusive version of Optimus had a $45 tag while the regular retail version is only $40.

Another update: Went out today and hit up Target (bought Voyager Ironhide) and Toys R Us (bought Blackout). Target had a good selection of items. The Robo-Vision version of Optimus is nice but not sure if worth the extra $5. Toys R Us is turning out to to be the play to Transformers shop. They had a huge selection at the front of the store of almost every toy available. Probably a new first stop location. Also discovered that for the Voice Changer Optimus Prime helmet, there are two version. If check the front left side of the box will see a lavel that says "Featuring the Real Movie Voice" or says "Press Buttons for Battle Phrases". Get the first version, its Peter Cullen as Optimus voice. Pick the latter is unknown dude as Optimus voice. Target didn't have the Cullen version, Toys R Us did...but was charging $35 instead of $30 for the toy. Toys R was also charging $35 instead of $30 for the Big Blaster. The rest of the stuff seemed to be at regular MSRP. So the lesson of the day is hit Toys R Us, then Target and skip Wal-Mart all together for TF toys.

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