We have a report that Wal-Mart stores are now stocking Transformers Generation 1 themed dog tags. These tags come in Optimus Prime and Bumblebee versions, and are also accompanied by an Autobot bracelet. We’ve got two separate reports of sightings including one lot in Tennessee, so these seem to be getting out there – check the end caps in the jewelry section.
MartyFeeb
What's the point of this? The entire reason you wear dog tags is GRISLY and GRIM. It's to identify your charred, broken, shattered, shredded CORPSE. Am I missing the truer meaning? I get it if you are in the military and put some sort of higher faith/meaning behind them, but… they're literally used to find your corpse.
How did this turn into a trendy thing?
Who wants a coroner to incorrectly identify them as BB or Optimus?
Turakonin Prime
Lol I do the same thing when I make certain sightings. Dog tags look pretty sick. I'd like to get em. Not military but then again when I wasn't married , I still wore a ring, so I think it'll be okay.
Fallout
dogtags are so 2000 and late
moreprimeland
Around $7
Updated info: The Optimus tag has "Roll Out" on the backside… the Bumblebee tag has "Bumble Bee"
Poor Bee, he just doesn't ever get to have a 'Catchphrase' lol
Smokescreen72
How much are these going for?
deaculpa
"man, found this dead guy… looks like he was an autobot. "
Galvatross
Yeah, it's also helpful for us News Staff to know where it is. We don't post it if we don't have a store location.
moreprimeland
No, it was to get an idea of where the WALMART is located, not you… so it would be possible to determine if the same distribution whse would be shipping these soon in the same area.
Checked yesterday, found 2 sets… they had Optimus and Bumblebee tags as well as an Autobot insignia bracelet… black with some steel pcs.
Optimus4EVER
Yeah, but just for safety!
SouthtownKid
lol Unless you live in a town of population 4, I don't get the purpose of secrecy, but okay. You realize no one even knows your real name, right?
Optimus4EVER
Location in Walmart
I found these dog taggs in Walmart's jewelry section on an end cap. They also had Star Wars (Boba Fett – really cool, Darth Vader, and a Storm Trooper), Marvel (Punisher, Captain America, and Spidey), and Bumble Bee G1. They also had bracelets for all of the above. That is only from what I remember from a trip about a week ago. Sorry, prefer not to say where I am located. That might tip the Decepticons off and then…well, Blackout is already nosing around so….
Smokescreen72
In what section of Walmart do you find these?
Slingshot
Very interesting. Maybe I'll pick these up.
moreprimeland
Where are you located? Usually that stuff never makes it to my Walmarts……but it won't stop me from looking.
Dolza_Khyron
i have a feeling these have been out for a decade.
smkspy
Nothing like pretending you're in the military. Though very hypocritical for me to say cause I wear fake dog tags of my passed grandfathers with their birth days on them in their honor.
Optimus4EVER
Cool!!!!!