Thanks to 2005 Boards user vbjjune we can report that Titans Return Deluxe Wave 6 Slugslinger & Caliburst has been found at US retail.
The figure was found at Walmart in Conroe, Texas for $14.90. We hope this means that it will show up in other stores soon.
Happy hunting for all fans. Keep sharing you sightings at the 2005 Boards!
Fenrys
View attachment 27819951 My slugslinger came in today from amazon!
Jason Blue Boost
Found mine at Walmart yesterday.
W-P38
I just received my Slugslinger (who, after just receiving TR Arcee, completes the TR collection), and I got him from Amazon for only $19.99
The difference lies in whether a third party is selling it through Amazon, in which case the price will often be higher, or if it's being sold and fulfilled by Amazon, in which case there is usually no price hike.
Omegax80
It's one thing when BBTS or other online retailers do it, you'll see $16 for some deluxes and then $18 or $20 for others because of demand or number of figures per case.
But Amazon is like TRU or Target. They get a larger inventory, more than say BBTS or others, but you don't see Walmart or TRU changing prices depending on the character.
Seeing Amazon do it, is sending a message that price changing because of a name of the character is now OK.
It isn't and it shouldn't ever be.
Not a typo, but a joke. The Walmarts in my neck of NJ are either empty shelved or old figures which just sit forever.
However, the joke is based on reality where at one point a Walmart near me had stocked ROTF figures when DOTM hit theatres.
TheSuperion
I'm assuming this is a typo. Do you mead RiD? or are your local Wal-Marts actually sitting on toys all the way back from the Revenge of the Fallen line?
ZapRowsdower
I hate how TF toys are treated like a stock market game. There's no rhyme or reason for the bizarre prices you see, and when Amazon (and other big box stores) get in on this speculative/demand/supply-based pricing? I feel that something has gone wrong.
I suspect the terrible retail predictions by Hasbro are to blame – they just can't get it right. They keep sending out waves with the incorrect number of figures and superficially create rarities. If only they could gauge demand (somewhat) using some kind of forum software where people chatter about which toys they find most appealing…
ZapRowsdower
My kids are curious, but the price tag wards me away!
Every time I see them, though, I shake my fist in rage. #HasFail
Fenrys
Another thing to consider is it's $20 with free shipping, all the other places will charge you shipping
Omegax80
On Amazon it's $20, while at Target, Walmart, and TRU, likely will be $15-$17.
However, it's a fair price to save people the hassle of hunting. I bought.
NeilJam
Got my order in, was checking right about the time you posted that.
Now it's already back up to $38.95
Fenrys
Slugslinger has been $20 anytime it's been up through amazon, I got an order in for one a day or two ago, and it will likely continue to be $20 from amazon because it's part of a case of repacks or until it actually hits saturation and is easy enough to find that amazon has to lower the price to move them
Omegax80
$20? Seems like Amazon is getting in on the inflation.
Beetle
$19.99 from Amazon right now.
worldsgreatest
I do.
But only if they're like $5.
[Wing_Saber-X]
Noice find, but I am patient enough to wait for Takara's Legends version in January 2018..
Thundercracker Blue
Ugh, those Allsparks. Nobody wants those. Nobody.
Omegax80
I can't bother with my local Walmarts. Either still selling ROTF figures or nothing on the pegs.
If someone can snag me two, it would make my day.
fury413
Meijer stores Transformers buy one get one 50% off sale!! The Mishawaka,View attachment 27815107 View attachment 27815109 View attachment 27815110 Indiana Grape Rd. store has two Slugslingers on the shelf.
denebian
Who would've thought that right after I purchase Slugslinger from a fellow boardmember that I would walk into my local Walmart, which hadn't restocked since wave 2, and see this?
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(Thats the whole wave 6 case on the pegs there!)
They also had a full case of Megatron and Broadside (but no leaders, legends, or titanmasters).
EDIT: I'm in Mississippi.
triggerscold
but where are the wave 5 deluxe >_<