Remember when new SW toys would come out and you'd line up at midnight outside of Toys-r-Us/Target/Walmart on the release day to get your hands on the newest collectibles along with a good sized group of other collectors?
I did that once in 1999 with the EP1 stuff but I haven't since. With the internet/ebay it's too easy now to get whatever you want and not have to stand in line, fight anyone for the last action figure, or be disappointed if you didn't get what you wanted.
So I was not at a store last night at midnight, but I do leave for work early in the morning so I thought I'd swing by Walmart early (like 5am) and see what was available and if there was anything I wanted I'd go ahead and grab it before all the stuff I might want got bought up and was gone.
Walmart #1 had ZERO new SW toys out. Nothing on the shelves, no display, nothing. I asked a few different crew members who were stocking (including one person who was stocking toys in the toy dept) and they had not heard anything about 'Triple-Force-Friday' or anything about new SW toys. There was a huge 'Loin King' toys display still set up outside the toy isles. I checked all over toys, electronics/collectibles, and walked down all the wide isles and at the front of the store on both sides and no Hasbro TFF display. One of the employees said they only stock the shelves, if it's a special/separate display an outside promotion company comes in and set those displays up, said they would probably be in to set it up later in the morning.
So I left, and there is another Walmart on my way to work so I tried that one too. Walmart #2 was the same story. Big fat nothing.
Kinda disappointed that Walmart, who has special WM exclusive SW merchandise, didn't have their displays set-up by midnight on the release date, especially for new SW toys ahead of the new movie coming out in just a few months.
Did anyone else go out and buy stuff last night or today? Did your stores have stuff when you went in?
I did that once in 1999 with the EP1 stuff but I haven't since. With the internet/ebay it's too easy now to get whatever you want and not have to stand in line, fight anyone for the last action figure, or be disappointed if you didn't get what you wanted.
So I was not at a store last night at midnight, but I do leave for work early in the morning so I thought I'd swing by Walmart early (like 5am) and see what was available and if there was anything I wanted I'd go ahead and grab it before all the stuff I might want got bought up and was gone.
Walmart #1 had ZERO new SW toys out. Nothing on the shelves, no display, nothing. I asked a few different crew members who were stocking (including one person who was stocking toys in the toy dept) and they had not heard anything about 'Triple-Force-Friday' or anything about new SW toys. There was a huge 'Loin King' toys display still set up outside the toy isles. I checked all over toys, electronics/collectibles, and walked down all the wide isles and at the front of the store on both sides and no Hasbro TFF display. One of the employees said they only stock the shelves, if it's a special/separate display an outside promotion company comes in and set those displays up, said they would probably be in to set it up later in the morning.
So I left, and there is another Walmart on my way to work so I tried that one too. Walmart #2 was the same story. Big fat nothing.
Kinda disappointed that Walmart, who has special WM exclusive SW merchandise, didn't have their displays set-up by midnight on the release date, especially for new SW toys ahead of the new movie coming out in just a few months.
Did anyone else go out and buy stuff last night or today? Did your stores have stuff when you went in?