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ponycorn wrote:Posted per instructions here and in my California Sightings thread.

San Jose, CA Walmart on Story Road - TF: Animated

I bought one of every one they had this morning but there was more left when I left. No endcaps or fancy displays, just tucked in among the movie-formers.

Today I went to 5 other Walmarts in the east Bay Area, no others had a trace of animated, just the Story Road location.

The score:
Cybertron Megs
Starscream
Grimlock
Bulkhead
Lugnut
Blackarachnia
Rachet
Bumblebee

Daaaaaaang. That's a haul.

I loves me some Animated. I'm absolutely addicted to the figures I have.

If you guys can find him, Lockdown is excellent. Prowl's another good one. Heck, the entire line is full of win.

Nice haul Ponycorn congratulations.

I can't wait for these guys to reach the east coast

So does anyone think that by June 22nd most stores around the nation will have these?

Not seeing anything in Columbus, GA so far. It'll be nice to see something new. I'm not going to get many of these, but I'll pick up a couple of them.

Update: I went back to the same Walmart at San Jose, CA Story Road later 06/01/08 at around 9:30 Pacific time. I figured there might be something else out due to re-stocking or store recovery.

I found Prowl:



When I left it was pretty picked over. There were 3 Bulkheads and 1 Starscream left. I searched the other toy sections for mis-placed items, but nothing. I will check again at that location tomorrow.

Autobot032 wrote:I loves me some Animated. I'm absolutely addicted to the figures I have.

If you guys can find him, Lockdown is excellent. Prowl's another good one. Heck, the entire line is full of win.

I was searching everywhere for Lockdown. Nothing yet. I'll post when/if I find him.

I found everyone mentioned at the sightings in Nevada and California. I also found Premium Jazz, Barricade, Optimus Prime and Megatron at Wal-Mart. Here is my proof:

Wal-Mart Supercenter

Signal Butte Road
Mesa, AZ

Note: They were still in their boxes and they had them on the floor. I noticed the Hasbro boxes saying "TFA Animated Deluxe, Voyager or Battle Pak" on their sides.

dabattousai wrote:I found everyone mentioned at the sightings in Nevada and California. I also found Premium Jazz, Barricade, Optimus Prime and Megatron at Wal-Mart. Here is my proof:

Wal-Mart Supercenter

Signal Butte Road
Mesa, AZ

Note: They were still in their boxes and they had them on the floor. I noticed the Hasbro boxes saying "TFA Animated Deluxe, Voyager or Battle Pak" on their sides.

Wow, sweet haul!

Makes me wonder about Missouri!

I would go check for myself, but I am afraid they would have them...I am currently quite broke! Staring at shelves full of goodies I want badly would just upset me!


Lemme know if someone finds them here, so I know what I can ask for for my birthday next week and where to score em!

I doubt that they would be in my current region, which is small population wise. So, I will wait until I complete my move before I start hunting again.

yawn

looks like wave 1 and 2 are being released simultaneously from the start.

thats very cool, grimmers and lugnut amongst my favourite animated toys.

Must.... resist.... urge... to stop at every Walmart. Must stay... at .... work.

--deep breath---deep breath--

So unfair, I think you're all using Game genie/gameshark/action replay and activating the 'release early' code

Stopping at Target on the way home once I get my car back a lil later this morning and see how disappointed I'll be.

Oky, then... no Florida *crosses fingers* [size=85]please hasbro?[/size]

I'm in Florida. I went to two Wal-Marts yesterday after hearing the news....no evidence whatsoever of Animated toys at all. Just Movie repaints all over the place. Then I remembered that I'm in Florida.

So glad I've pre-ordered most of these guys anyways. I have a very strong feeling I won't see any of these toys in my local stores until mid-July at the earliest.

That's usually how it goes.

For all the doubters, it is true that WalMart has begun to put out TFA toys. After reading the sightings page last night (1AM) I figured, what the hell I'll roll over right now and check for myself. I got to WalMart and true enough, they had the new TFA toys...just not unpackaged. I asked the person in the toy section if she knew if I could just pick which one's I wanted out of the box (she said no, but she did say she would put them out right now because I asked politely). So I waited patiently and ended up getting:
Grimlock
Prowl
Bumblebee
Ratchet
& Lockdown
I plan on going back this morning and getting Lugnut and Starscream. I'll try to post a pic of my receipt and loot once I figure out how. This is my very first post, but I have been visiting this site off and on for a few years now.
Oh, I'm in Reno, NV.

Went to a different WalMart (Sacramento, CA) this morning and picked up:

Deluxe Prowl
Deluxe Bumblebee
Deluxe Prime
Deluxe Lockdown
Deluxe Black Arachnia (after passing on her yesterday, decided to be a completist I guess)

The only Voyagers out at this WalMart were Bulkhead and Starscream. I just need Grimlock and I'm all done.

it is possile they have released early at wal mart,after all i did find bulkhead at kmart in feburary and bought him(check out tfw2005 for my proof or ill post the recipt and pic)

i have yet to check mine out yet but plan to today

tamo536 wrote:it is possile they have released early at wal mart,after all i did find bulkhead at kmart in feburary and bought him(check out tfw2005 for my proof or ill post the recipt and pic)

i have yet to check mine out yet but plan to today

I remember that. Was there alot of Bulkheads out or was it just that figure? I remember going to Kmarts to see if I'd get lucky.

First Gen wrote:

tamo536 wrote:it is possile they have released early at wal mart,after all i did find bulkhead at kmart in feburary and bought him(check out tfw2005 for my proof or ill post the recipt and pic)

i have yet to check mine out yet but plan to today

I remember that. Was there alot of Bulkheads out or was it just that figure? I remember going to Kmarts to see if I'd get lucky.

just the one and nothing since,must have been a mispick with movie voyagers

Went to a different Wal-Mart in Natomas, CA (sacramento) and the pegs were flowing with deluxe! Tons of voyagers too but the only one I was looking for to complete the first couple waves was Grimlock and sure enough they had him. I'm all done til the next wave! (and Classics 2.0)

for those who have found animated in walmart, are they alongside or have they replaced the movie toys??

microclone wrote:for those who have found animated in walmart, are they alongside or have they replaced the movie toys??

From reports I've seen, some of them (like the Nevada sightings) have an endcap or action alley (lane) display on a four sided shelf unit.

Others mention that they're mixed in with Movie toys on the shelves and pegs.

So it's going to take a little extra looking to find them, but they are in that general area, if, your store is stocking them right now. I'd say we'll see full saturation in a month, but reports of sightings nationwide within the next two weeks.

I already posted this in the sightings thread but might as well post it here.

Hey guys my dad just hit a Walmart in Livermore on his way to work and needed to stop and get so guess what he saw! Animated! I asked him to pick up a Ratchet which he currently has in his possesion but they also had Grimlock, Lugnut, Cybertron Prime, Lockdown, Prowl, Blackarachnia, and a few others... They were mixed in with the movie toys. My dad kept saying Salvage and Stockade looked similar to Ratchet over the phone.

So yeah if you're in the Livermore are that's where they are!