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Originally Posted by TZX123
My local walmart continues to be a wasteland for transformers.
Are they trying to force people to buy online?
Or are they abandoning the TF toyline for good?
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Their online stock has been garbage too.
I don't think they're abandoning TFs. My local store had a healthy stock of brand new Earthspark before Christmas. I think they're just not terribly observant/concerned with what they have beyond just "they have Transformers". They don't see the difference between the stuff we're waiting for that hasn't appeared on shelves and that we really want to buy and the scads of Night Prowlers, Skids, Overrides, and Sweeps that have been sitting on shelves since the middle of last year that nobody has touched since like August. And when sales drop off they probably don't think "people don't want to buy the old stuff, we have to get some newer product." they likely just see it and go "I guess nobody wants Transformers right now."
Maybe the surge of earthspark sales pushes things, but it's also just as likely that it ends up in the same place Cyberverse did over the last couple of years, moving a bunch and then stagnating while the CHUG lines sort of limp along with strong wave 1 debuts and then gradually diminishing returns since.
There may also just be general supply issues that are more Hasbro's fault too because TRU, Gamestop, and Amazon have also had severely unreliable stock levels over the last year or two. It started with Earthrise and then Kingdom was worse and Legacy has been the worst yet. Maybe some of that is Covid related, but I doubt all of it is.